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


political assessment, however indirect, and no
officer will dare to injure him, so long as this
law Is in existence. At the same time, it is to
be expected that government employees, like
other citizens who take an interest IN politics,
will give money voluntarily for legitimate cam
uaign nses when they feel able to do so.-New
York Tribune.
II threatens to kill his neiehbor at
sight and is known TO he what is called a "dan-
gerous man." there is substantial Justification in
the proper arming of the party threatened, but
Iii 80 per cent. of the cases of threatened MUIR
der the threat means nothing whatever, and in
the majority of cases, when the threatener has
been Shot, it has been found that lie
armed.-Lousville COurier-J ournal.
EVERY nation jealousy protects its exclusive
right Of criminal jurisdiction within its own
borders. Citizenship in one country does not
confer immunity from responsibility for crime
committed within the jurisdiction of another
state. O'DOnnell's responsibility for tine muir
der of James Carey is NOT affected in the slight
est respect by his claims American citizen
ship, whether valid or otherwise.-New York
Tribune.
THE coming newspaper will not be a blanket
sheet nor volume in form. small sheet,
brightly printed and ably edited, containing
nothing superfluous hut everything important,
is the newspaper for the majority of readers.
Such paper will be read more carefully and
more completely, will be distributed more gem
orally, and Its influence viii be more widely
felt than that of the bulky issues of the presses
of to-day.-LouisvilIe Commercial.
IF the increase of property from surplus earn
ings be conceded, ii follows that the public has
contributed the surplus in the shape OF exOrbl-
tant charges and, having done this, 1t must be
made to pay still more exorbttant rates to main :
tain dividends on che increased stock which
represents previous extOruon. If such con-
struction of the law be correct, "that merely
proves" the New York Times concludes,
'that the law is wholly inadequate to provide
agains the abuses OF corporate pOwer."-ChlcagO
Tribune,
ABOUT So, 100000 per month of the peoples
capital is extended in buying silver, in order to
manufacture coin which does not itself circu-
lnt IN an oh hx- finDf IN
which represents il. This So, 000, 900 per month
might be used by the taxpayers In productive
industry, but 1t Is uselessly taken from them and
uselessly invested in silver bullion. The luss
that arises from this procedure can hardly be
measured, and 1t Is only TO a very small degree
made up by the actual circulation of the silver
and of the certificates. New York Herald.
IF Congress shall persistently refnss to extend
the pension list so as to include every Mexican
veteran, rich or poor. confederate OF loyal, and
every man who served htS Time in "A confederate
prison pen. whether he now be healthy or dis
abled, it will not take this course because the
nation has forgotten the service of Its brave
soldiers, but because the list is sufficiently
large and costly to satisfy she demands of graft
tude, and has become great financial burden,
cheerfully borne, perhaps, but still SO enormous
that no prudent law-mRker is willing to make it
heavier.-New York Times.
Mr.. HoUGHToN ia in the way to find out that
there are ways and means OF filling a church
which are prohibited by statute. repugnant as
the statute may he to his private code OF ethics
He had better omit murder cases hereafter from
his list of topics ana work his boom by sermons
safer and equally sensational. We commend to
him "The0 Jay Eye-See and st. Julien race" or a
review of the base ball season in thrilling dis
course on "The Christian short-stop" He will
not get himself into trouble with these, and he
will be III no danger of competition from the
blear-eyed owls that sit on the raiLers OF the
temple of Zion. New York Times.
WHAT has been the average experience of
Northern men who have tried living in the South
during all these wears since :he war; The story
is almost an unbroken record of annoyance dis
mn md lnafia
in cases where it WAS thought well to have their
money n'the community, ana therefore TO recog-
nIZe them i'll business matters, they have been
socially avoided and spurned, Shey and their
families, and told but too plainly that while they
might be tolerated for commercial purposes,
they must not presume that Southern chivalry
could ever consent to stultify and bemean itself
by opening it's homes Offering its friendship
"tOOk our niggerS st. Louis Globe Democrat