The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-11-13

of political supremacy. The struggle for good
administration, if it is worth awning, must he
carried on through success and failure alike.
The higher and better work OF the community is
never over. Crime exists for all the courts sin
In spite of all the churches and the seeds of
ruption for all the zeal of ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
Press.
THE railroads are a royal class, free from allie
glance to the plebeian laws Of trade that govern
the business world in other departments. Con-
siderlng that they hold public franchises and in
this case were built with gifts OF public lands
and money, and that they control the only land
highways open for travel, their claim that they
are not subject to the jurisdiction of the COM
merclal laws of competition is decidedly inter-
esting to those who must use them. Public opin-
ion is not likely to require long time to make
up Its mind that II the extortions of these cor
poratiOns cannot be controlled In any other way
they must be regulated by the power of the ma
tiOnal government Chicago Tribune.
WHEN the war upon that Ananias of the cur
reney, the trade dollar was inaugurated last
summer and it passed out of local circulation, it
was generally understood that lobby would be
formed to induce Congress to redeem at par the
coin that had been bought at a heavy discount
from workingmen, to WHOM it had been paid at
its face value for wages. Already the pool seems
to be at work, and from various interested
quarters are heard cunningly worded arguments
in favor of the debased coins redemption. Per-
maps, merely perhaps, it should be redeemed;
but let there be no sentimental gush about "the
worktngman's' interest i'll any such move. The
worklnRman hasn't got any trade dollars. He
sold them to the pool last summer at loss.-New
York Herald.
SO OF the vicious system of plural wives. Ma
ture coucurs III The laws prohibiting it; for she
furnishes to the world as many men as women,
ana SO the Utah mOnopolist peaches on the
rights OF some other man. There are laws
against Ii, buJtressed by many amendments 1t
ls the shame of the nation that these laws are
not enforced by some means If there is
practicable way to strengthen the hands of the
Governor and cleanse the courts and Legislature
let them be superseded by the army, the terri
tory placed under martial law. and the Latter
day Saints" compelled to conform to the lmltar
tlons Of ordinary sinners, and get, along Win
one wife apiece. Why should this deadly cancer
be allowed to grow from generation to genera
tlon?-FranB Lesl1es Weekly.
BESIDES the odious figure of solid South,
which the Democratic party will now present
TO overshadow all small issues, it has the peril
OF large ma orlty in the House of Representa-
tives, without a policy or leader, having no
principle of cohesion save the common principle
OF hostility to all the measures for defending the
national Union and for keeping the national
faith, and with boundess possibilities for de-
structlon in the vast finances of the government
and in their relation to the business Of the oOun-
try. The undOings of this perilous Democratic
House will be before the people during seven or
eight months before the party presents itself
armed for the presidential conflict, with the
solid South, like John Browns knapsack, strap
ped upon his back.-Cincinnati Commercial Ga
zette.
MALONE was defeated to great extent per-
haps to a decisive extent, by the intimidation of
the negro voters. The spirit of his opponents
largely the arrogant spirit of the Ku-klux
and the White League. The tone of the regular
Democratic press and the meetings which were
held after the Danville disturbance shows plain
ly enough the same intolerant aud unjust atti-
tude towards the blacks, the same undemoCratio
prejudice against the race citizens and
voters, the same moral twist to their rights
and obligations which were to be seen for ten
years after the war. And though this sentiment
is not so strong or so general as it then was, 1t
still exists in degree sufficient to seriously
menance the integrity of the suffrage ana to ue-
morallze many political communities. New
York Times.