The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-02-12

10 take from ltltS WORST features. IL Is all rgnt
to protect the farmer, but no sensible farmer
wants protection to the destruction of COM
mercial interests
Prohibition Not Dead.
Martnsve Republican.
Papers like the Indianapolis Times and
Herald, which do not dare to breathe with
out the consent of the whisky league, may
delude themselves with the belief that prohi-
bition is dead, but good many people
throughout the State, who do not sit in the
shadows of the indianapolis liquorites, know
better. Prohibition is not dead. 1t will live
good while yet to trouble the dreams of
the personal liberty" fellows who are piling
up fortunes by selling bust-head whisky.
Promises to Take the Chrome.
Saturday Herald
1t is common to complain at Legislatures,
but this one in Indiana, now in session.
promises to take the chrome for general
wrong-headedness 1t is mainly engaged in
working up selfish party measures, such as
the metropolitan police BILL and a bill for
the benevolent institutions. These short
sighted men, blinded by party, do not see
that all their selfish projects will come back
to plague the party that matches them out.
Democratic ThimbIe- Rigging.
New Castle Mercury.
Thus is developed one of the most villain
Gus schemes to swindle a people out of their
inalinable rights ever concocted by the Thin
ble-rigging Democracy. If the House had
reached the same conclusion as the Senate,
other amendments would have been at once
proposed as it is they are conveniently sus-
pended in mid air at the bidding of the
liquor dealers league. There is a day of
reckoning at hand.
Democratic Obstruction of the Tariff.
Lafayette Journal
With the pig-headed Bourbon obstruction
lists must rest the blame for the failure of the
passage of any law on the subject now pend
ing in Congress. The entire responsibility
will be upon them and the country will SO
declare when the opportunity arrives. If the
Democracy do not propose to deal honestly
with the people they will find that their hold
on power will be of brief duration.
The Session Ought to Be Shortened.
Saturday Herald.
We presume the Journal announces on au-
thority that there will be no extra session of
the Legislature. If Governor Porter has de-
cided not to call an extra session, he has
counselled wisely with himself The Legis-
lature ought to be shortened, not extended
1t is busy, but to no purpose. Its chief
object appears to be to create political CAPT
tai.
The Republicans Have Done Their Duty.
Plymouth Republican.
The Republicans are conscious of having
performed their duty in voting to allow the
people the right to decide the liquor ques-
ton for themselves, and the Democrats will
soon wake up to the fact that they made
fatal mistake in forcing the regulation of the
liquor traffic into partisan politics instead of
leaving it to the people, irrespective of party
The Prison Contract Labor System.
Loga nsport Journal.
There few more important subjects pend
ing before the Legislature than the reform
of the prison-l labor contract system. which
in it's present condition is a fraud upon the
State and an outrage upon free labor. Let
the knife of reform go deep and cut freely
until all the existing corruptness and abomi-
nations of the contract system are removed
A New idea as to the Amendments.
Frankfort Banner
The simplest statute law will fail unless it
receives the affirmative vote of fifty-one
members of the House and twenty-six in the
Senate, but it is proposed to put away and
kill pending amendment by vote of
twenty-five senators. The Banner does not
believe it can be legally killed by a vote of
less than twenty-six senator's
Better Begin Anew.
Richmond Palladium.
Inc dCllOu VI DOIn buc pdSI anu pTcSeHb
Legislatures renders it morally certain the
Supreme Court will not sustain them if
agreed to and ratified. 1t is the part of wis
dom then, we think, on the part of their
friends to allow them to die of their wounds
and begin anew and see that the work is
properly done the next time.
The Best Temporary Expedient
Liberty Herald.
As prohibition is not possible under from
three to ten years, it, indeed, within that
time, it is important that every possible re-
strction be thrown around the liquor traf-
fic. Perhaps thigh license" law is the best
temporary remedy, but constitutional pro-
hibition should be the aim with all temper
ance people.
The Desperate Straits of Free Traders.
Greencastle Banner.
The assertion so frequently made in the
indianapolis News that the wages of labor
ers are no higher in this country than in
Europe is discreditable to it, and shows to
what desperate straits the free-traders are
driven to maintain their position. Every
immigrant from Europe isa witness againstit it.
On the Whole Good for the Country.
Terre Haute Express.
By 1884 the people will know more than
they did in November. 1882, and that wisdom
will prevent second experiment. On the
whole it was better for the Republican party
and better for the country that the change in
power was made at time when the risk was
not so great as it will be two years later.
License Only Tampering.
Warren Republican.
High license is no better than low license,
and all license laws are little better than free
whisky as far as results are concerned.
License is another name for tampering.
The Prison Investigating Committees.
Saturday People,