The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-10-29
SPIRIT OF THE PRESS,

WHEN the country Is divided into TWO great
political camps, defined by some issue which
overrldes all the rest, business men eau feel
pretty sure that their interests will receive con-
sistent treatment because the pressure of events
Keeps each party In line, and its members are
bound to go ogether.-Philadelphi Press.
THE negroes in the United States enjoy an ex-
tent of liberty, equality, and political, civil and
social rights which they do not command, as
race, anywhere else on the face of the globe
Caste and slavery are the ruling conditions of
the countries which they occupy for them selves
They owe to the Republican party o. this coun-
try the ouly fair opportunity they have ever
had for lf-goyernment.-Chicago Tribune.
TO-DAY the negro stands upon the same foot
ing before the law as the white man; the late de-
clsion Of the supreme Court fortlfies him in
that position. But if he desert the Republican
party in his Ignorance and ingratitude, and If
the Republican party abandon him 10 the Demo-
cratic wolf in return for his folly, the black
sheep will have slim chance to vindicate his
individual rights in the fiock.-Chicago Tribune.
IT is true that the surroundings of the negro
do not always encourage his entrance iuto either
department of life on an independent basis, but
this fact will make him all the more respected
whenever and wherever ne makes an honest
effort to succeed. The negro as an independent
farmer, as a small manufacturer and as rival
of the white tradesman must precede any real
success of the negroi in poitics.-Louisvile Com
merclal.
WHEREVER may lie the preponderating bal
ance of true American ideas and the largest
practical realization of these, we do not think it
Wise or truly American for any to boast OF an
exclusive possession of the genuine American
sentiment or to insist that another part has been
entirely, radically, and outrageOusly uu-Ameri-
can. 1t is not true; nor will history so write it,
history IS not now so writing the recOrd.-Cln.
natl News Journal
THE greatest educator of this country, though
its influence is uneOnsciously operative, is the
daily newspaper. 1t is through this medium
that an almost universal knowledge is dissem-
mated, informing and refining, practical and pO-
lite, scientific and artistic. Whatever may be
said of the hurtful effects of much that finds it's
way into the columns of news, the hane Is not
IF
poisOns are sometimes the suresJ curatives of
disease.-Chlcago Inter Ocean.
IT cannot be doubted that if the clergymen of
America will resolve not to Join in marriage any
TWO persons without first satisfying their own
cOnsciences that such marriage is not morally
Objectionable the result will be to lessen the
number of women and men in the land with two
or more living husbands or wives. But while
a clergyman is willing, for a patry fee, to sane
ton blgamOus marriages, 1t cannot be wondered
at if the standard of morality in bis coDgrega-
ton is on the decllne-LouisvileC Commercial.
WHEN we see that other countries Nave Diff
Guilty IN the very same BRANCHES of, business
that are embarrassed here; and that their en-
barrassmen5 Is greater than our own, what are
we to infer2 The tariffs of these nations are al
together dissimar; their monetary systems
absolutely antagonistic: their customs and their
institutions are as different as their forms of
government. II any Of these thugs make Irou-
bic here why do we fad the same trouble where
all these things are different4-New York Trib-
une. -
THE greenback was never fiat currency.
ii
psr and i
redemption Of the bank notes which We're based
private capital for 10 per cent. more than
their face. Thus like a rail in a pair of bars
they were held up at both ends by gold and by
practical utilities. MOhammeu's coffin is the
only thing that ever hung suspended between
heaven and earth by mere tiat-Chicago Inter
Ocean. aiad
WHILE the special subject OF this last decision
has in a great measure lost its interest in the
adjustments which time has quietly brought
about, the which involve the scope and
meaning of these amendments are full of inter
est, in view OF their Importance as notifications
of our original system, and as the foundation
upon which our institutions must hereafter be
built. The line of decision is now pretty well
marked out. but the discussion Is not closed
The questions sure to reappear in other
torms.-Frank Leslies Weekly.
Now that the colored people are thrown back
upon the States for whatever further law they
need, they are in vastly better position for
pressing their demands than they could have
been had not the Republican party persisted so
long in the enforcement policy. We believe that
soon as the present excitement dies away he
equal rights of which they still in some
places deprived will be quietly conceded them.
But il State legislation should he necessary
there is only one party from which they can
pect TO get 1t. To sustain the Republican State
tickets everywhere Is their only hOpe.-New
York Tribune.
If any other GLASS of citizens in the country
lay under the kind or ostracism that rests upon
the colored people, they would naturally and
justly urge that their demand for equal con-
sideration in appointment to public office was a
sign of proper self-respect and not OF venal
desire of place. The fact of the meeting of the
convention, and it's dignified and serious protest
and appeal. will be of undouhted service to the
cOlored citizens. Those citizens heed NOT re-
greet the fate of the clvi-rlghts bill. The wrongs
under which they suffer are not To be remedled
by Iaw.-Harper's Weekly
MALONE is probably not n saint, and some of
his ways are open TO objection on the score of
mere political morality perhaps, hut he is a bet
ter man than the average of those who are lead
ing on the other side, and we cannot know at
this distance what excuse he may have of o local
to us not always justitiabe. He is boss IN
a sense, 1t must be admitted, but he is boss
with a mission, and thai mission is not of a char
acter that BODIES any advantage TO the Demo-
cratic party on the one hand. or threatens any
harm, on tie other hand, to The cause of Repub-
lcanisn.- ST. Louis Globe-Democrat.