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The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-10-22
SPIRIT OF THE PRESS.

WHO profits in any way by the score more of
iron failures brought on by the free trade legis-
lation of last winter2 Who is made any richer by
the failures yesterday of Charles d. Rhodes, or
the Calumet Iron aud Steel Company, and the
Bangor Furnace Company of Negligent What
''relief" is there for anybody in reading a new
''irOn crash" every two weeks?-Chicago Inter
Ocean.
THE very foundation of the public schools is
on the inability of the laborng masses and of
the poor to pay for schooling their children. To
the a. parents the cost of books is a serious
ter. The school board, then, should take care
that the burden be made as light as possible, lest
it prove too heavy, and deprive some children
of the benefits of the free schools.-Louisville
Commercial.
The future of the negro must be determined
by himself. No act of Congress can make him
independent i'll this worlds goods, and no con-
stitutional amendment can. make him clearly
clad ard well behaved, honest and Industrious.
Those col0red men who have succeeded in life
since the owe their success to these quail
ties, and not to any laws Tor their Deneht.-Lou-
isville Commercial
If the Prohibitionists offer the Republican
party the alternatives of adopting their ideas or
submitting to defeat, they must at the same
time decide for themselves what would be the
consequences of a possible accession of the De-
mocracy to power. The Republicans can hon
orally and wisely go as far as the stringent reg
ulation of the liquor trades they cannot go fur
Their, and those who wish to do so Will have to
take the responsibility of their action. New
York Times.
WE boast of our civilization, and vet we de-
stroy our great indicators In the most brutal
and inhuman way. AS practised now, our sys-
TEN of executing criminals is but slight i'm
proyement upon the gIbbeJ and the cross. There
is but little odds between setting up a gallows
within the hearing of a victim, after torturing
him with the thought of death for month, and
the black-age system of suspendlng him in a
cage to howl and starve to death in the open
fields-New York World.
THE opinion held by very large majority of
the PeeH'S, we pelleVe, is that the taxes on
liquors and tobacco ought to be retained. They
fan on no one who does not voluntarily choose
to bear a part Of them. If they were repealed
the only effect would probably be that drinkers
would drink more, and smokers smoke more, so
that the expenses of the people for these luxu-
ries would be as great they now, while no
part of that expenditure would go into the
treasury.-New York Tribune.
THE continued coinage of the silver dollar in
wolves the greatest danger that is now impend-
ing. 1t will cause financial and commercial
evils which only currency that is uncertain
and fuctuating In value can cause. The coin
age ought, therefore. to be stopped. In the
event of crisis produced by the deprecated
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-10-22
ABOUT PEOPLE.

NEW YORK thief says that Gen. Grant never
carries any money to speak of and that his
watch isn't worth stealing.
"THE thought that my stories have brought
my own country little nearer to the European
public is the happiness of my life" said Turgeneff
just before his DEATH
SOME new and interesting letters of Carlyle to
Emerson have been discovered. They are in the
hands of Professor Norton, the editor of the Car
lyle-Emerson correspondence.
THE Crown Princess Of Germany is q "univer-
cal" woman. She writes political memoirs, talks
philosophy, carves statuary, composes sonatas,
dsbhles in architecture and paints.
DAVID DAVIS, Schuyler Colfax and Burton c.
Cook, says an "old timer" in Chicago, could tell
moro about the events which brought about Lin
coins nomination than any one now living
AN intimate personal friend Of Senator An
thony visited Washington recently. He said
that the Senator was looking forward with some
impatienee to the reassembling of Congress,
when he hopes to be able to again take his seat
in the Senate chamber, where for quarter OF
century no has. been familiar figure. II want
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-10-22

New YORK Oct 20-The United States
District Attorney has filed another "informa-
ton of forfeiture" the third within a week,
for the confscaton Of a quantity of laces,
silks, velvets, and other fine dress goods, all
ladies' apparel brought hither on the steam
ship Republic. 1t is alleged that Mrs. L.
Thornton, a miliner of this city, and other
persons yet unknown to the authorities, ,
Struggled the goods in September last, with
intent to defraud the customs: The first in
formation of forfeiture this week was against
Miss H. A. Wachman, fashionable milliner
of the West, and her goods are also in the
seizure-room. Then came an information of
forfeiture against about $4,000 worth of fine
goods seized by customs officers, the Misses
Partridge, of Boston. being claimants. Neatly
concealed in the hustle of one of these mil
liners was a quantity of extraordinarily fine
lace. The Misses Partridge came home on
the steamer Alaska, and with them came sew
eral other mlliners whose goods are at pres
ent in the customs seizure-rooms.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-10-22

twice At the time the act was
passed, the Republican party had
little need of the colored vote,
while at this time it is a necessary factor in
political estimates The intelligent colored
men of this country know only too well
that the only friends they had when friends
they needed were Republicans. They must
know, too that nobody regrets more than
Republicans that the civil-rights act has
been pronounced unconstitutional. 1t is by
no means certain that any harm will result
from the decision. But in event of colored
men suffering unjustly, it is morally GER
tain that the Republican party
will be first to come to their aid. As
the matter now stands, it is the plain duty
of colored citizens to show that they deserve
every right enjoyed by white men. They
still stand as equals before the law. If
prejudice and violence rob them of their po-
litical or civil rights remedy will be found,
and the Republican party will be active in
their aid, and it is the only party to which
they can look.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-10-22
OHIo's PROHIBITION VOTE.
Facts Shown by the Returns--DemOcratic
Votes for the Amendment.

COLUMBUS, O., Oct. 20.-Outsde of FIVE
counties in the State the prohibitory amend
ment had clear majority of all votes cast at
the late election. In the eighty-thre coun-
ties 2S2366 votes were cast for the amend
ment, while the number of votes cast for
State officers, but not in favor of the amend
ment-whether against it or blank-was
278051. But the five counties excepted cast
very heavy majority against prohibition.
They Hamilton, which includes Cincin-
natl, the official vote of which is 603S6, of
which the amendment received 8,402 Cuya-
hoga, which includes Cleveland, and gave
70, 954 votes for the amendment but 26,43S
against it or blank; franklin, which includes
Columbus and cast 6,2O3 for the
amendment. but 14.706 against it
or blank; Lucas, which includes Toledo,
and gave f. 14 votes for the amendment, but
$500 against it or blank; and Montgomery,
which includes Dayton, and gave 6,12S votes
for the amendment, but IA, 547 against it or
blank. The total vote in the State was
800, 967 for the amendment, and 39061S
against it or blank the total vote having been
I'll, 5S5.
The vote against the amendment came
mainly from three large blocks of counties.
One block of eighteen counties lies against
the western border of the State, reaching
from Cincinnati to Toledo. Attached to it,
wing of six opposing counties reaches down
to Sandusky and Mansfield. Another
block of seven counties reaches
south from Cleveland to Youngstown and be-
yond Alliance. A third OF ten counties in
cludes Licking and Muskingum, east of CO.
lunbus, and the line of counties between
Columbus and Portsmouth and Ironton.
Two other counties on the Ohio-Washing-
ton, which includes Marietta and Monroe, the
adjoining county-voted against the ameni-
ment But these are in all only fortythree
counties, in which the opposing and blank
votes outnumbered the affirmative votes,
majority of the counties in the State, viz.
forty-fve, gave for the amendment clear
majority OF all the votes cast by them for
State offices.
Among the counties voting for prohibi-~
ton, too, are eleven that gave majorities for
Hancock in 1880, while among those giving
majorities against prohibition are eighteen
that gave majorities for Garfield. Evidently,
the prohibitory vote was drawn in part from
both parties, and fully third OF it was cast
by Democrats
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-10-22

A SOUTHERN woman writes from New York to
the Constituencies of Augusta, Ga, that she
and other Southern women have found means
of earning honorable livelihood there, and
then she goes on to say; zone other thing has
surprised me-that, Notwithstanding the hard
ships they undergo and the longing for home
and friends, not one young lady who has come
here to do and dare desires to live in the South
again. And right here lies the cardinal differ
ence between the two parts of the country
Here you well paid for your work, and no
pne thinks less of you for earning your own bread
In the South the knowledge that woman works
for her own living puts her to some extent in a
circle aside"
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-10-22

THE Lafayette Courier denies that the wo-
men of Lafayette in any number are calling
on the murderer Melting, A special to the
Chicago Tribune of last Friday says: lover
400 persons visited the Jail during the earlier
part of the day, brought thither by morbid
curiosity, the great majority being young
women. Many of them shook hands with
the murderer" 1t is to be hoped that the
Courier is right and thai no considerable
number of the women of Lafayette have so
far forgotten their self-respect as to assist in
making lion of this human jackal. 1t is q
common failing in all parts of the country,
and it is time that it be denounced as it de-
serves, and absolutely repressed by the legal
custodians of criminals.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-10-22

CHANCELLOR RUNYoN, of New Jersey, in
the case of Mechanics National Bank of New
ark, has rendered decision that it is well
to make note Of That bank was ruined
through the frauds of its cashier which
could not have been committed had the
directors properly discharged their duties
The Chancellor holds that the directors are
personally liable for the losses, which re-
suited from their neglect and mismanage-
ment, and that when in such case a receiver
refuses to bring an action against them suit
may be brought by the injured stockhold-
ers. This is a point the Journal has con-
stantly insisted on. Directors, upon the
strength of whose names and supposed bust
ness ability the money of people is obtained
by bank, should be compelled to direct,
and if they do not, and the people lose their
deposits the negligent but respectable dunn
mics and fgure-heads, who have been used
by the bunko-no, bankers-as ''steerers. !"
should be made to suffer and to repay the
money wheedled out of the public through
false pretense. There would be fewer bank
failures with this system in practice,
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-10-22

vote than did the Republican members.
Probably some may be able to figure it out
just how a prohibitory law can be
much else than a dead letter in
the face of such opposition as
this reveals; but for the life of us, we can
see little but virtual triumph for what is
tantamount to free whisky in such "vic-
tory" While the remarkably heavy vote
cast for prohibition in Iowa and in Ohio
must provoke the deepest study of the en-
tire liquor problem, the vote cast against it,
and the steady advan ce of the Democratic
liquor alliance in States where any phase of
prohibition is thrust into partisan politics
at present, suggests the inquiry whether,
like the animal in the fable, there is not
danger of losing the substance in grasping
after the shadow.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-10-22

To emphasize what the Journal took occa-
sion to say, after the result in Ohio the
figures of the Iowa election are of value.
Iowa is a State where the agricultural popu-
lation is relatively very large, but under
the stimulus of protection its industries are
being rapidly increased, and its
urban population is making pro-
digous advances. In Iowa the Democratic
party has been practically a cipher, while
Republicanism has had everything its own
way. The plurality for Governor Sherman is
now less than 25 OOO and majority that for
merly went up to half a hundred thou
sand or more is whitfield down to beggar-
ly $500. Another congressional district has
been lost to the Republicans and there
has been gain of twenty seven Democratic
members of the Legislature, so that in the
lower house the Republicans have but two
majority over the combined opposition. And
the figures show that the opposition members
of the Legislature received larger aggregate
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-10-22

THE Charlottesville Review, edited by
Hon. Bayless w. Hanna, occupies very near
ly a column in the effort to show that the
Journal misstated the relation of Senator
Voorhees, toward the tariff question. The
CONTROVERSY is a very brief one. The Journal
alluded to Mr. Voorhees, as being protec-
ZIONIST, and the Review charged the Journal
with Misrepresentation. The Journal there
upon quoted from speech made by the
Senator in the Senate chamber Feb. 16, 1888.
in which he said: II stand here declaring
that am a protectionist for every interest
which 1 am sent here by my constituents to
protect" That would seem to settle the
question to anyone who understands the
English language.
But to make the matter palmer, if possible,
we quote selections from the Review itself,
taking the sentences from the first four
inches of the article alluded to. The Re-
view says:
'The indianapolis Journal, always subtle
and never fair, loses no opportunity to null
plying its skill to satisfy the public that
Senator VOORHEES, is protectionisr. If that
thing were true, he would be in harmony
with the Journal"
And the Review again says:
''The Journal quotes from speech of MIR.
Voorhees, in the Senate, Feb Is, 1883: 1
stand here declaring that 1 am protection
list for every interest which l am sent here
by my constituents to protect Of course
he is. That is just what has made him so
dear to the people of Indiana"
That is exactly what we said, Mr.. Hanna
'Of course he isl Ia protectionist] and chat
is just what makes him so dear" to the
Journal. On the tariff Mr.. Voorhees, is a
sweet boon, and his head is very level, fact
the free traders of Indiana, of which the
Charlottesville Review aspires to be an organ
should not fail to remember.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-10-22

GALL honor to Justice Bradley, who had
the courage to raise his voice against the
infamous decision of the Supreme Court"
-Colored World.
Justice Bradley delivered the judgment of
the court annulling the civil-rights bill. 1t
was Justice Harlan who raised his voice in
dissent. 1t is one of the strange things that
the only justice from former slave State
should be the one to stand for the law.
Justice Woods, it is true, was appointed
from Southern State but he is an Ohio
man, and has only lived in the South since
the close of the war
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-10-22

paper that sold for five cents before the war
is no more the paper of to-day than a five
cent mackerel is ten-pound trout Instead
of reducing the price of news
publishers have given more news
for the same price, until now our
publishers give ten times as much for the
same money as they did twenty years ago.
The daily press is better and more enterpris-
ing in every feature Increased facilities for
gathering the news, perfected presses for
printing ten copies to where one was struck
off before, have enabled publishers to vastly
increase the value of their productions.
Five-cent papers and three and two-cent
papers have their proper fields. A five-cent
paper undeniably is able to fill larger and
more important field than one for less money.
1t can afford a larger scope of news and
more fitting space for its proper presentment
and consideration. 1t can give more of de-
tail, which in many instances is of great
value to the purchaser. 1t is valuable to get
the bare skeleton of news, the figures of
markets, and the outlines of general and po-
litcal events but it is of greater value to
get the tone of the markets, the moving
causes of events and the secret of political
movements. low-priced paper gives an
epitCme of the days events, and is vastly
ing two or three cents more goes to greater
length and gives more for value received. In
any event the five-cent paper is one OF the
cheapest of luxuries and necessities. Com
pared with the ten thousand items of uni
versal expense and indulgence it is the
cheapest of all. The public does
not demand cheapness alone. There
must be excellence and merit, or the price,
however low, will be too high. A cigar may
be made to sell for less than a nickel, and it
may intrnsically be worth the price asked,
but few want to buy it and smoke it. A
cigar, to be enjoyable, must possess certain
elements. The articles that make these quail
tiles cost certain money. A cheap cigar,
with these desirable elements wanting, can
be sold Tor much less than can a genuine
article. 1t is so with newspapers.
A very large sheet may be
filled with undesirable matter, and
sold very cheap but tits not what is wanted.
That paper is best which economies its
space to the best advantage of its readers,
simplifying where needed, condensing where
possible and eliminating all Objectionable
matter. AS compared with other luxuries
and necessities, the newspaper of to-day is
ON the bedrock of cheapness, and by giving
more and better-prepared news is growing
cheaper year after year. What absurd talk
of economy and cheapness when applied
to a newspaper, the highest priced of which
cost only the price of a glass of beer or
''shine" from street bootblack. The well
conducted, well-arranged newspaper which
expends full proportion of its income in
the betterment of its pages, is not the place
where sensible man will first apply the
pruning-knife of economy, a.g
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-10-22

DETROIT, October 20.-Miss Anna Dickin-
son, on reaching tins city last night, found
that he manager, Wentworth, had left her in
the lurch without word of explanation.
She complains bitterly of his treatmsAt, and
is smartng under the serious diappointment
and confusion wrought in her plans. Me-
gotiations are now pending, which may or
may not be concluded, for a rearrangement
of her seasons business. She has been do
ing we'll the past month, considering the mis-
cradle manner her advance work has been
done, and is anxious to go on and carry out
her original programme.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-10-22

COLLEGE students should make memoran-
dun OF the fact that an English doctor has
added to the already long list of human ills
a disease that he is pleased to call "exam
fever" He says it is developed by the
severe strain which boys and girls undergo
IN competitive examinations. Students will
recall attacks of this fearful destroyer,
though they may have miraculously escaped
with their lives.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-10-22

AT Atlanta, Ca, the "widest enthusiasm"
prevailed when the decision became known.
About year ago colored man was elected
from performance given by Haverly's min
stels in that city, and a suit under the civil
rights bill was brought recently. By singular
coincidence the same minstrel troupe were play
ing in Atlanta on Monday evening. and one of the
emu men announced to the audience the decis-
ion of the court. The entire house rose and
gave three cheers. At Washington the hotel
keepers are in estate of mind" because the
decision does not apply to the District of Co.
lumbia.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-10-22

In the excitement and Indignation of some
on account of the decision of the Supreme
Court relative to the civil-rights act, it has
been wildly charged that the act was passed
originally by the Republican party as a
means to catch the votes of the colored race,
and that it is repealed now because the need
is no longerfelt. The inconsistency of such
charge will be apparent to all who think
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-10-22
An Impudent Enclishman.

New York, Oct DIV I. Silk, an En-
gish FISH culturist, said to be in the employ
OF the Marquis of Exeter, and two guides,
took over 10000 young black bass from
Greenwood Lake iE spite of the protests of
the Sporting Association, hotel-keepers and
others who have stocked the lake at a great
expense and sailed for England on board
the Atlantic early on Thursday. Silk
claimed that Commissioner Blackford
granted him permission to take the fish, but
Mr.. Blackboard says this is untrue.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-10-22
Great Damage by High Water.

LITTLE Rock Ark, Oct, 21.-The Gazette's
Batesville Ark, special says: White river.
at this point, has been rising four inches an
hour for the last forty-eight hours. inundat-
ing at least Il, 900 acres OF corn and cotton in
the White river valley. The damage to the
small farms on the river is almost irrepara-
BILE, and will leave a large number in a suf-
fering condition. This is an Unprecedented
higher now than for the last ten years, except
on the 9th of May, 1882.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-10-22
THE Louisville Commercial saws:

"The leading Southern newspapers are
filled with mentions of new manufactures
and new forms of industrial and other enter
prises in that section Such reading matter
will do much more good than the conven-
tional gushing over the new South More
cotton mills and iron furnaces and less poll
tics and sentiment, are the needs of to-day"
And all this under the policy OF the Re-
publican party. Turn the rascals out"
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-10-22

LORD CoLER1DGE is regarded as a more dis
eliminating critic of things American than
any foreigner who has visited u.s. By the
time he is through being dined and wined,
and has sampled fair article OF American
dyspepsia, he will be still better qualified to
eriticisa
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-10-22
A New Gold Field.

LISBON, D. T., Oct. 2O-Iatense Excitement
prevails here over the discovery of gold. H.
w, Griswold, OF Chicago, made the discov-
cry on his place, near here, two months ago.
He had 100 samples assayed, and the result
showed from $50 to $3.50 per ton. The mat.
ter was kept quiet until Griswold had secured
all the land in the vicinity. There is great
excitement in this part of the country, and
crowds are leaving for the scene of the dis
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-10-22

WHAT did Messrs. Hendricks, Mcdonald
and English do to bring about the enactment
of the civil-rights billP If they, or any of
them, are brazen enough to go into mourn
ing because of the Supreme Court decision,
an answer should be compelled to this ques-
zion