The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-11-19
SPIRIT OF THE PRESS.

1T is obviously right that the trade dollar
should be retired by exchange for standards at
par, ana that no increase OF the coinage of the
standards should follow We are now coming
millions of standard dollars more than we need
or can use, and it should be diminished rather
than increased Times.
THERE now remains but one course: to appeal
TO the South precisely as to the North on living
issues, addressing men of both races and all
parties, candidly, openly, without fear or favor.
That such an appeal would produce a satisfac-
tory result we have little doubt, but whatever
its result, there would be one supreme satisfac-
tion in it-no one would need to be ashamed of
it.-New York Times.
THERE is a law against polygamy already.
What Is wanted is an amendment to the consti-
ton ana course of human nature, SO that when
jury gets together it will decide according to the
facts and such laws as we have. If the Cleve-
land anti-pOly gamists can fix that business they
will prove themselves worthy of medals as re-
formers of the first water. But to get an amend
ment into the United States constitution won't
stop men frrm living with more wives than one
or Christianize them an any other way.-Phia-
delphia Times.
THE comparison between emancipation and
prohibition is palpaby absurd; and it is not
through absurdites, nor through theories, nor
by politics, nor in agitation OF coercive laws
which cannot be enforced that temperance re-
form is TO be worked out. The liquor question
IS emnently practical, and the practical way of
treating 1t is TO limit the number of saloons and
represS the excuses incident to the traffic by
high license ana proper regulation, and for the
rest moral suasion alone can finish the work.
Chicago Tribune.
MORMON emf grants pour in more rapidly than
Christians and as this immigration is mostly
foreign it takes the mould of the Latter Day
Church, and does not become Americanized
There seems. therefore, no way of safety for the
republic but for the government to enforce the
decency of Christian morality, and stamp out
polygamy by repressive measures that cannot
he evaded or resisted. If the government has
not the power TO do it now, 1t will never have,
for the difficulty increases year by year as Nor
moniSm Is allowed to strengthen and entrench
ltseif.-Hartford COurant.
THE Democrats will try more less directly
to overthrow the reform of the civil service.
They may do so by refusing an appropriation to
carry out the law, or they may seek TO emaseu-
late the law nv hostile amendments. 1t will be
the plain duty of the Republicans to resist all
such attempts, not because the reform is Re-
publican, or, in any sense, a partisan system;
on the contrary, because it is a just, impartial
and thoroughly beneticent system which can
hurt no party that has honest aims, and can be
assailed only by party desiring to revive or
continue the countless abuses of the spoils sys-
tem,-New York Times.
SAYING runs that they that take up the
sword shall perish by the sword They that
raise the race issue a mere party expedient,
may find 1t troubling them. The negroes are
teachable; they may in time be taught by the
practice OF rhe whites Race murders and ter
rOrs cannot always go on without teaching the
affect race these methods of defense The
practice depends wholly on the belief that the
negroes are meek, lowly, submissive, unreVenge-
fnl; III short, that they have none of the savage
nature of the whites. But it cannot be reasona-
Div supposed that they will continue thus meek
under snch W bite teaching. The white plotters
of murder and terror as mere party expedent
may he laying up for themselves a day of wrath
Cincinnati Commercial Gazette.
At this semi-annual conference to which Mr..
Fox alluded the mistaken purpose of the Nor
mons 10 uphold polygamy was emphahcally
asserted by all the leaders who were heard
from, while the government was given to under
stand that the laws that had heeD passed with a
view to Graduating the giant evil had been
measurably overruled FOR the good of the
church, since they were regarded as so many
attempts TO persecute, and as such had resulted
In solldlfyiug the MOrmOns III the deternina-
non tt resist them. The address of the National
League will do good The scheme which is pro-
posed in 1t strikes at the root of the evil, and
hence Will occasion wide discussion. And the
more MonnOnism Is discussed the worse for it
and the sooner il & downfall New York Tribune