The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-11-15
SPIRIT OF THE PRESS.

IHE man VINO 0ollOer2tely enters upon the
performance of an act that may imperil a hui
man life has all the primal elements of a muir
derer and if it chances that the Interfering life
is sacrificed the service of the law should never
he slight ed by executive clemency. 1t is be-
cause the officers of the law treat the mandates
OF the law with such indifferent respect that
lawless classes hold a contempt for the law.
Chicago Inter Ocean.
THERE are several obstacles to Democratic
success next year. But the thickest and highest
ana hardest is the want OF a man, Where is the
candidate who can be named by the Democrats
with a reasonable hope of SUGGEST OF course,
any Insignificant dummy would poll large
vote; that Is a virtue of the Democratic party,
But it il going to take something more than
stone-blind party vote to elect Democratic
President next year-New York Tribune.
1T is sad a terrible thing. this guilty con-
science OF the South which acts without regard
Ing law or justice, and trembles at every effort
OF an outraged race TO claim its rights. In time
it may pass away with the coming of new and
innocent generation, but at present 1t battles
political skill and m0cks at efforts TO destroy its
force 1t is the sphinx of American politics and
the malnstay OF the Democratic party, and Will
be Tor years TO come.-Cleveland Leader.
THERE is reason 10 hope that education at the
pubic expense will at no distant day be limited
to the branches which necessary to intelli-
gent eltlzenshln, and which may be mastered by
every boy and girl who may enter the schools,
and that the opportunity to enter will. be afford
ed to every one in this broad land. The teach
ings of experience and the common sense of the
people will guide legislation rather than the So
phistries of the small and selfish class of inter-
demagOgues-St. Louis Republican.
THE people of the North have been notified
that the acknowledgements of the cOlOred people
is subject to the pleasure of the Democratic
party, and under the shadow of the shotgun.
The question simply is whether the Southern
shotgun IS sovereign over the United States,
and that is to be decided by the next presidential
election. The Democratic papers-the orators
and editors of the party, naturally not
pleased TO see the bloody shirt again in the pollt-
1cal breeze. Then they should not commit muir
der for political pUrposes.-Cincinnati Com
mercal Gazette.
THE Influence for good of our public schools
OF which we hear so mueh, cannot he compared
with the influence for evil exerted by dime nov
els. Formerly boys were Taught that honesty
and uprightness we're praiseworthv, Now they
learn that murder and robbery are heroic. What
is the next generation of Americans, educated
in this way, to beQ Few of our bows Will prac-
tice actual high way robbery, but il they retain
any love for honesty, morality and decency, it
will not be the fault of the sconndrels who write
dime novels and the wretches who sell them
New York Times
PROVISIONS for determining the rights of the
redskins, if they have any, and of preserving
those rights, and for civiizing these people as
fast ana as far AS possible. ought to have been
created long ago "Ought TO have been Gre
ated," We say, but not merely in ethical
sense. 1t is cheaper as a mere matter of money
cost, TO make the Indians gathered on reserva-
tions self-support1ng, wholly or partly, and even
to support them in idleness, than to fight them
For any outbreak hereafter the government
that is TO say the superior race" VIII have itself
to blame.-Su, Louis Globe Democrat.
IF the Democrats should have the sagacity
and the courage 20 in this winter for such a
revision of taxation would reduce the revenue
to the required amount-not by taking the taxes
from whisky and tobacco, but from mate
rials and Overprotected manufactures-they
might lose in some localities but they would
gam in others, and they wonld have live party
with something behind it beside a great appe-
tlte. The government of the United States has
no right to lay taxes except Tor the revenue that
it requires, and the party taking that ground
would have an impregnabe pOsition.-Boston
Herald.
THERE was just one sentiment among the ''rul-
ing class.s' I'm Virginia. and that a de-
termination not to permit the State to pass into
the hands Of n majority of the people by the aid
of negro votes. 1t was the same sentiment
which led to the adoption of tissue ballots in
South Carolina and the massacres of Mississippi
II is the sentiment of the "solid South"-sOlid
for "white government" and against the exer-
else of political rights by the blacks. The South
ern BOurhOns are going into the next presiden-
tial election upon this basis. IL is the fOunda-
ton of the universal confidence that the cleo
toral vote of every Southern State will be cast
for the Democratic candidate for President 1t
means corruption, fraud, intimidation, and
"nigger-kilIing," and all these methods will be
employed to any degree which may be necessary
to suppress the negro vote. If the "biOody
shirt" snail be Haunted in the approaching ma
tional contest, it will be because the Southern
Bourbous have raised it as their standard
Chicago Tribune.