The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-04-27
THE SPIRIT OF THE PRESS,

THERE is no excuse for denying fair trial to
any and all who are accused of crime. If our
courts are not reliable, the remedy ia IN the
peoples hands. This government in all its de-
partments, is what the people make It, The
argument that w0uld justify lynching would
cut loose all the bonds of social order.-Wash-
ington Post
If it should appear that the leaders are afraid
of the criminal element among the Irish agitat-
ors. they will not change, indeed, the wisdom
anu prOpriety OF certain reforms In Ireland, but
they will have greatly obscured the nope of see
ing those reforms accomplished. For dynamite
cannot brighten, although 1tmay easily exa5per-
etc. En- gand.-Harpers' Weekly.
THE ballot has been cheapened too mueh al
ready. II any reform ia called for In connection
with the elective franchise which saYors at all
of finance 1t Is an inverted p0-tax, fine for
failure to vote. Like the Fundamental law laid
down by that modern sOlOn, Pole, the only ex-
cuse for non-compliance should be death or sud
den sickness. Inter Ocean.
THE Iroquois all talked good deal about free
trade, but they know how necessary it is to
have n candidate WHO'S able to talk profoundly
about the tariff and yet say nothing. Mr.. TIden
has no equal in that line, and that fact may yet
prove his strongest point. At all events he is In
the field again, aud IL the party does not nomi-
nase him IL will be tine partys fault.-Cineinnati
Commercial Gazette.
THE devilish plot to burn New York with
Greek fire during the OWL war and to spread
yellow fever among our soldiers ny the distribti
tion of infected cOthing was by common con-
sent put outside the pale of civilized warfare.
Yet this specimen OF barbarian and the assassi-
the secret use of dynamite as agent OF de-
stru ction.-New York Herald.
Discomfort with existing arran sements is the
frat incentive to Improvement and progress. The
America an people havsnO reverence for h0ary md
apparently respectable abuses. but have boldly
cnalien ged them aud have swept them away.
This ia what has led them to greatness. A peO-
nile that started it's career with the Declaration
OF Independence and sticks TO its doctrines will
never degenerate into Observation-Disclosures
phia Record.
EXPERIENCE has already shown that there is
no safety in n tornado's path for those who re-
signs which will invariably serve warnings,
those Who are in danger Will devise subterranean
places Of shelter and fiee to theni 1t Is practi-
cal In Information of this kind that ia needed. and
tine progress of meteorological science III the
last ten wears encourages belief that 1t Will bs
fOund.-New York Times. ., ...,... ,.-,., a..
POLITICAL economists may repeat until the
crack of duom their formulas about every ua-
TONS making its cheapest products, but human
nature will remain what IL is Protection has
afforded that dversihoation OF employment
which II composite population has instinctively
demanded, and 1t has caused a symmetriCa, de-
veiupment of the energies, capacities and re-
sources of An industrious. peace-iOving and
prosperous nation.-Eew York Tribune.
To BUM up on advices from three fourths of
our wheat supply IL must bo concluded that one
fourth OF our total (not winter wheatI acreag &c
will be q fifth and may be q third short, another
fourth will equal last year. aud third fourth
be 10 per cent. short. Before basing any predic-
mons On these ta0s, 1t must be remembered
first, that good weather may recover all this de-
ticieucy; second, that spring wheat will make mp
II part of the shortage: but an increase on last
years crop seems no longer possible. A deficiency
is now probabie.-Philadeiphi Press.
THE prospect for industrial depression and
hard times IS unfortunately neither dim nor re-
mote, and III the American people are to be
charged with the support of II quarter or half IA
million penniiess aud helpless Irish Immigrants
including the aged, inhrm aud young children,