The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-11-23
SPIRIT OF THE PRESS.

IT is unfortunate that all jury cases in which
the national government is party, and which
in vOlve questions Of national Importance, can
not be tried before juries that fairly represent
the people of the country. For reasons that
have been set forth many times since the end of
the second star route trial Washington juries
are not juries of that kind.-New York Times.
THEmost of people nowadays take newspa-
per account OF its enterprise and excellence
as a newspaper more than on account of its par
tisan character. This makes it hard shedding for
the "organs," of course, but If they want to
keep up with the procession they must make
papers that are worth buying and reading by
people of all paftles.-St. Louis Globe-Demo-
crat
WHEN men, through fear that their daughters
nay share tine fate of Ada Atkinson, take the
punishment Of criminals III their own hands,
there is in their hearts a latent distrust of the
enginery of the law that is as dangerous i'll its
Tendencies as armed insurrection. 1t ia the more
dangerous because the disrrust is born of the
fear that homes are not projected against the
onslaughts or outlawed brutality. There is a
warning in the Oxford lynchins not only for
murderers, but for the courts AS well.--Chcago
Inter Ocean.
TIE papal nuncio could not he recognized bv
the President without congressional acrion. We
think that it is more han likely that Pope Leo
will not send a nuuclO TO Washington. He
would represent no secular power, for the P0pe
has been deprived of the States of the Church.
and has civil functions. He is simply an
eccleiastic of distinguished position, Win GER
tain rights guaranteed by the Italian Govern
ment, such rs personal InvOlahlIfy and the
Tree exercise of his spiritual functions. Louis
Vile Courier-Journal.
THE prospect is that there will he a surpius of
fully S120,0O0,000 during the current fiscal
wear This surplus is at least twice as large az
it ought To be- President Arthur and Secretary
Folgrr are not going TO ignore that fact. They
are going TO recommend some measure for The
reduction of the surplus to reasonable figure
From their off ial utterance of last
wear the Inference is that they Will
not recommend The removal Of the taxas from
che means of indulgence" The only thing left
for them TO do is to recommend II reduction of
tariff taxes on 'necessaries." And this they
may lie confidently expected TO do.-Chicago
Times.
THE Readjusters have cut down the yearly
cost of maintaining the government from 81 =
O94 O6A as it was under Bourbon rule, to an
average of $500, 23i. have freed suffrage from
the cauiiatiOn tax. and still have finely devcl-
oned The SCHOOL system. These are facts winch
uuuuestioAahiy justify the claim that the recap
n re- of line State by she Bourbons is IN no re-
spect calculated be b6nefielil TO lis citizens.
"A to the debt question, tAe Bourbons have
shown themselves at least as far in the wrong
as the Readjusters Genera, Malone has some
reason for the claim that, whatever others ma :
saw, the Buurbons cannot criticise the course of
the ReadustFrs in regard TO the debt, because
they have fully ind0rsed it.-New York Tribune.
WHENEVER the negroes are willing to sacrifice
their right or suffrage, their opportunities for
schooling, their protection in contracts, and all
the other things which make life worth living.
there is no reason why they should not he per-
cd to exist excellent terms with the
whites and do all the labor necessary for the
support of both races The negroes will he all o.
gether unreasonable ifthey fail to recognize the
justice and generosity of this arrangeInenJ,
whereby the whites agree not to XII oil their