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The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-02-12
THE METROPOLITAN POLICE BILL,

The metropolitan police bill is a measure
conceived in sin and brought forth in in
iquity There is not a reputable motive upon
which it can be defended, and its parentage
and advocacy are both such as to compel the
opposition of all fair-minded, self-respecting
men. 1t is fitting that it should be in the
hands and committed to the care of Lieuten-
ant-general Heffren, man of thoroughly de-
PRAYED political instincts, with nature and
habit which constitute him proper guar
dian of a bill Matched in conspiracy against
the rights of .ho people. On its face the
bill is meanly disreputable. If the idea
upon which it is based is good one for city
government, there are number of cities to
which it should apply. But by its terms it
applies only to indianapolis and to Evans
vile, and is compulsory only as to Indian
apolis. The people of Evansville need not
seek protection from supposed evils under
its provisions unless majority of the voters
of that city determine to do so by election.
A metropolitan police is false in principle,
NlClOuo III dppllCdtlOHj dllQ Ouu
and inefficient in practice. We intend the
statement to be as broad and unexceptional
as it is possible for words to make it. If
there is anything in which each municipal
ity should be allowed absolute freedom it is
in the control of the revenues raised from its
people by taxation, and in the enforcement
of the laws upon which the safety of them
selves and their property depends. We hear
a great deal, especially from Democratic
sources, of the right of local self-govern-
ment and there is, and has been, much de-
communities without their consent. But if
metropolitan police is not an imposition of
the most important function of government
from an outside and irresponsible authority,
what is it, or what can it be called
If the State can impose upon
city or cities a foreign police power,
over which its people can have no authority
or control whatever, what limit to the dis
reimbursement can there be? Why not let
the State elect or appoint the Common Coun-
Gil, all the local offices of every kind, and
take away from the municipality every func-
ton of selfgovernment? Why not turn the
cities over, bound completely hand and foot
to the tender merces of the conspirators and
freebooters whose only idea of legislation is
to provide places for party workers and bum
mers? If the police power is to be taken
from cities, upon what principle will the
right to elect mayor or Council or treas
urer or a clerk, or any other officer, be con-
tinued? There is no excuse nor suggestion
of excuse for the metropolitan police bill
other than the simple one of party appetite.
that it will provide places for few party
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-02-12

notes, without books without opportunity
to get at the real facts dependent alone
upon unskilled memories. The consequence
is divided jury, or a compromise verdict
in which one party or the other suffers,
The same case submitted TO a court would
have occupied but half the time, and more
nearly substantial Justice have been DONE
1t is true that judges, like jurors are hui
man, but they better understand the tricks
of litigation and the devices of lawyers than
jurors do. So to "marshaling assets" to
adjusting equities of membranes of the
divers classes, the administration of trusts,
and various other matters of equitable juris-
diction, the same remarks will apply.
We venture the statement that in equity
cases determined in our Supreme Court since
the adoption of the practice act of 1852 there
have been more than twice the number of
appeals after jury than after court trials. In
proportion to the whole number of cases de-
termined in the lower courts, the proportion
not appealed from would be very much more
in favor of trials by the court Defeated
parties and defeated counsel are ordinarily
better satisfied with the finding of court
than the verdict of jury,
The matter of court expenses is a subject
of serious considerations every community.
The judge is paid an annual salary, which is
almost without exception in our State well
earned; but add to this the pay of jury
and the bill becomes big one to the public.
The costs of litigation to the parties are also
largely enhanced. A jury trial ordinarily
requires a much longer time than trial by
the court and the pay of lawyers and wit
nesses is proportionately increased. So that,
upon the mere question of economy, there
ought to be no change in the law as it now
stands
There is no doubt that every lawyer, in
Guiding those in the Legislature, has some
cases which he would prefer to have submit
ted to jury, because he thinks his chances of
has some which he knows jury could not
intelligently try, and therefore prefers the
court. But we trust none of these influences
will affect the minds OF Legislators in regard
to the pending bill. There has been too
much legislation in this State already having
for its origin some private grievance or per-
sonal object. We hope members will bring
to the consideration of this matter only zeal
for the general good, and not personal inter
ests one way or another
While we are not among those who be-
lieve in the abolition of the jury system, it
must be admitted that the tendency of opin-
ion among the more enlightened thinkers
and students of social science is rather to the
Limitation than the enlargement of the lines
of jury trial. We see no reason for any step
backward in our State. and hope that while
the right of trial by jury will remain invio
late, it will not be extended to that large
class of cases which require the careful,
painstaking investigation of judge, and in
which jury, in the nature OF things cannot
be enabled to do substantial Justice.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-02-12

The Cleveland Leader says: "One thing
which we all know, however, is that the sale
of liquor in Ohio is now absolutely free, in
spite of the restrictive laws on the subject;
that the vilest and lowest doggeries are doing
all the mischief they can, and that any un-
scrupulous fellow who can raise SIS or $40,
and get trusted for few weeks rent, can
open saloon" And vet Ohio has for thirty
years had a constitution made by temperance
men in opposition to any idea of license,
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-02-12
STATE EXCHANGE TABLE.
An Interesting Collection of Views
from the County Press.
Practical Unanimity for High License = A
Constitutional Convention Indorsed-
General Work of the Legislature
An idea that Must Down.

New Castle Courier.
The indianapolis Times may draw deal
of comfort from its suggestion that the votes
of the Republican senators saved the State to
the whisky-sellers' league, and it is welcome
to pull chat string with its German friends
for all it is worth, but the Republicans of
Indiana do not seek and will not accept the
credit and odum of having contrived to
thwart the will of the people. The Times
cannot thrust that idea down the threats of
the ''fanatical element in the rural districts"
The Democratic party killed the amend
ments and it alone must bear the response
bility.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-02-12
Prohibition Not Dead.
Martinsville Republican.

Martinsville Republican.
Papers like the indianapolis Times and
Herald which do not dare to breathe with
out the consent of the whisky league, may
delude themselves with the belief that prohi-
bition is dead, but good many people
throughout the State, who do not sit in the
shadows of the indianapolis liquorites, know
better. Prohibition is not dead. 1t will live
good while yet to trouble the dreams of
the personal liberty fellows who are piling
up fortunes by selling bust-head whisky.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-02-12
The Farmer and the Business Community.


Because some farmers choose to be gulled
by every slck-tongued rascal that comes
along is no reason that we should pass laws
in violation of the law merchant, take away
the value of commercial paper, and disturb
the business of the State. The bill should be
very promptly voted down, or amended so as
to take from Tits worst features. 1t is all right
to protect the farmer, but no sensible farmer
wants protection to the destruction of COM
mercial interests
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-02-12
Promises to Take the Chrome.


1t is common to complain at Legislatures,
promises to take the chrome for general
ong-headedness, 1t is mainly engaged in
working up selfish party measures, such as
the metropolitan police bill, and bill for
the benevolent institutions. These short
sighted men, blinded by party, do not see
that all their selfish projects will come back
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-02-12
The Best Temporary Expedient.

As prohibition is not possible under from
three to ten years, if, indeed, within that
time, it is important that every possible re-
striction be thrown around the liquor traf-
fic Perhaps high license" law is the. best
temporary remedy, but constitutional pro-
hibition should be the aim with all temper
ance people,
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-02-12

Not Paper for the Republican Fireside.
Bloomington Telephone.
The Gazette part of the Commercial Ga
zette is about as hard to find as needle in
havstack. When the consolidation was first
suggested and made, readers of both papers
had reason to hope that the result would be
an improvement in both; but instead the
Gazette has been entirely swallowed up and
the Commercial is the same cid paper. 1t is
not paper for the Republican Preside, nor
is it reliable and of that high moral tone that
should be expected. Republicans can find
only the simon pure in the reliable Indian
apolis Journal
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-02-12
The People Must Vote.
New Castle Courier.

New CastIe Courier.
Public sentiment is strongly in favor of
permitting the people to vote on this ques-
ton, and it is developing every day. Poll
ticians may conniye, contrive to avert, dodge
squirm and kick, but they will finally reach
the end of their halten, and the voice of the,
people will be heard
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-02-12

TO the Editor OF the Indianapolis Journal
What was the amount of the public debt at the
close of the rebellion, and what at the present
timer GEORGE CALDWELL.
RUsHvILLE, Ind.
The highest point the debt reached was ON Jnly
l., 1865, whom 1t amounted to 81, 773, 236, 1850
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-02-12

On the LIST of February, 1888, the amount was
81, sos, 9o6,792. On the LIST of July, 1865, the
nearest date TO "the close OF the rebellion" the
amount was 50, $50, GA, S69.74.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-02-12

Bloomington Paragraph.
The general opinion is that sleet is pro-
lection rather than an injury to fruit buds,
unless the mercury falls twenty degrees be-
low zero. and then injury is not liable if the
ground is sufficiently moist to give vitality
to the roots. ..- -.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-02-12
In Favor of Constitutional Convention.

The constitution as it is IS full of dead pro-
visions that ought to be removed and live
ones inserted 1t seems impossible under
this old constitution to secure much impor-
tant and needed legislation, and every at
tempt to patch it up to make it useful in
strument has failed.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-02-12
The Desperate Straits of Free Traders.


The assertion so frequently made in the
indianapolis News that the wages of labor
ers are no higher in this country than in
Europe is discreditable to it, and shows to
what desperate straits the free-traders are
driven to maintain their position. Every
immigrant from Europe lisa witness against it.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-02-12

dens, directors and other small-fry officials,
and they are whiskyed to such an extent that
they couldn't see anything crooked-not
even if it was as crooked as a a rams horn.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-02-12
Work of Constituencies Demagogues.

Muncle NeWs.
A few constituencies demagogues in the
Indiana Senate forced great party to aban-
don its standing at the dictation of the liquor
league and take a position antagonistic to
the Democratic doctrine that was based on
the rights of the people.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-02-12
On the Whole Good for the Country.


By 1884 the people will know more than
they did in November 1882 and that wisdom
will prevent second experiment. On the
whole it was better for the Republican party
and better for the country that the change in
power was made at time when the risk was
not so great as it will be two years later.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-02-12
Democratic ThimbIe-Rigging.

NOW VHbIIb HBTCUTy.
Thus is developed one of the most villain
Gus schemes to swindle people out of their
inalinable rights ever concocted by the Thin
ble-rigging Democracy. If the House had
reached the same conclusion as the Senate,
other amendments would have been at once
proposed; as it is they are conveniently sus-
pended in mid air at the bidding of the
liquor dealers league. There is a day of
reckoning at hand.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-02-12
What Is Needed Is Public Sentiment.

MunCle
Virtue will not come to our people by leg
islation. The men who enact our laws are
human, and the laws themselves have no
magic with which to influence society. What
we need most upon the temperance question
is healthy public sentiment. ..l
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-02-12
The Bonded-whisky Period.

Fort Wayne Gazette.
Congress should put its foot down and
keep it down firmly The proposition SIM
ply means that these distillers propose to get
out of paying the tax at all. The law, as it
stands, is all right for the treasury, and
should be left unchanged.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-02-12
MONDAY, FEBRUARY 70, 1888.

THE dry goods imported at New York the
past week were valued ct SO, 900.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-02-12

THE lease of the Mutual Union Telegraph
Company's lines by the Western Union Com
pany for term OF 800 years was completed
on Saturday last.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-02-12
The Prison Contract Labor system.

Loga nsport Journal
There few more important subjects pend
ing before the Legislature than the reform
of the prison-labor contract system, which
in its present condition is a fraud upon the
State and an outrage upon free labor. Let
the knife of reform go deep and cut freely
until all the existing corruptness and abomi-
nations of the contract system are removed.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-02-12

THE Birmingham Gazette states that, on
account of i'll health Lord Randolph
Churchill contemplates retiring entirely for
a time from public life.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-02-12

REV. DIR. PERSON pastor of the Second
Presbyterian Church, of this city, declares
himself Inundated by being the successor of
Henry Ward Beecher.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-02-12
Better Begin Anew.

The action of both the past and present
Legislatures renders it morally certain the
Supreme Court will not sustain them if
agreed to and ratified. 1t is the part of wis
dom then, we think, on the part of their
friends to allow them to die of their wounds
and begin anew, and see that the work is
properly done the next time.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-02-12
A Sentiment We Indorse.
indianapolis Daily Sentinel.

indianapolis Daily Sentlnel.
The members of the Legislature from Ma
rion county will make aSgreat mistake if they
allow any bill to pass this session that will
authorize any increase of the rate of taxa
tion as now limited by law, either as to Ma
rion county or the city of Indianapolis.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-02-12
License Only Tampering.

Warren Republican.
High license is no better than low license,
and all license laws are little better than free
whisky as far as results are concerned.
License is another name for tampering.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-02-12
They VIII Answer at the Next Election.

hendaIIvlIIe Standard.
Heffren impudently inquiries from his seat
in the Legislature, "What are you going
to do about it?' If the people will show any
reasonable sense of justice they win let the
party know that honors such men what they
will do about it at the next election.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-02-12

THE liquor league of indianapolis is prose-
cutting druggists who sell liquor without
license.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-02-12

LAST weeks business fallures-256-though
twenty less than for the week ended Feb 3,
exceeded the record for the corresponding
period in 1882 by ninety -seven.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-02-12

THE late William e. Dodge is supposed to
have left an estate valued al $6OOO,OOO.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-02-12
A New idea as to the Amendments.

FrAnkfOrt BANNER
The simplest statute law will fail unless it
receives the affirmative vote of fifty-one
members of the House and twenty-six in the
Senate but it is proposed to put away and
kill pending amendment by a vote of
twenty five senators. The Banner does not
believe it can be legally killed by vote of
less than twenty-six senators.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-02-12
Democratic Obstruction of the Tariff.

With the pig-headed Bourbon obstruction
lists must rest the blame for the failure of the
passage OF any law on the subject now pend
ing in Congress. The entire responsibility
will be upon them, and the country will so
declare when the opportunity arrives. If the
Democracy do not propose to deal honestly
with the people they will find that their hold
on power will be of brief duration.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-02-12
viii Except Nothing but Prohibition.

Frankf0rt Banner.
The temperance men of Indiana will not
accept anything less than chance to vote
upon prohibition. That is what they want
and will have.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-02-12

GENERAL SHERMAN, in answer to question,
guesses that the Oklahoma adventnrers will
be taken to Fort Smith and handed over to
the civil authorities, who will set them at
liberty
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-02-12

]. NJ. W., Pine Village, Ind: We will name any
particular Governor you want, but cannot pub
lish political almanac.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-02-12

THE story of the informer Kavanagh gives
the details of the murder of Cavendish and
Burke. The prisoners in the dock are not
so hilarious as they were when the trial be-
gan. tits evident the government has broken
into the heart of the murderous conspiracy.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-02-12
New Albany Wants Something

New Albany KepubIlcan.
New Albany should have the preference in
the Republican nomination for Governor
next year. We have some good gubernato-
rial timber, and it ought to be given
chance
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-02-12
The Legislature Doing First Rate.
Oxford Tribune.


The Legislature is doing first rate. We
have not heard of a law they have passed as
yet Let them adjourn now while they have
got their rep up.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-02-12
Mr.. Heffren's Certificate of Loyalty.

Upton Advocate.
Confederate Horace Heffren, member of
the Indiana State Legislature, presents his
certificate of generaship under Jeff Davis IS
his best recommendation for Dyalty to his
country.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-02-12
There Must Be No Increase of Taxation.

Saturday Herald.
Any act of the Legislature which will in.
crease the rate of taxation in this city
would be unfortunate for the party favoring
the act.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-02-12

LOT WRIGHT, the nominee for United
States marshal for the Cincinnati district, is
a resident of Lebanon, Warren county, and
now holds the Office of clerk of that county
for the third term. The appointments of
Judge Wright ana Marshal Wright are both
well received
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-02-12
Better Pass 1t Quick.


The very best thing this Legislature could
do would be to pass a just fee and salary
bill, and pass it quick, for fear it may die a
bornin'.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-02-12
Call a Halt in Silver Coinage.

Fort Wayne Gazette. ff
The interest of good financiering de-
mands that halt be called in the silver coin-
age matter, and nothing short of that will
answer.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-02-12
Try the High License System.



We have tried the low license system, and
the result has been disgraceful to the State
and ruinous to the moral and material in
terests of thousands and thousands of its in
habitants, Suppose we try the high license
system for a while.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-02-12

THE Longfellow Memorial Association
announces that on the 9th of February the
anniversary of the poets birthday. a gen.
eral subscription will be made throughout
the United States for the monument which it
is proposed to erect in Cambridge, Mass.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-02-12
Disregarding Its Pr uciples.

Union City Eagle.
The party in power, upon the most insig-
nificant technical excuse, has disregarded
and repudiated the principles and represen-
tations formally declared by its State con-
yention.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-02-12
In Favor of the Constitutional Convention.

The constitution needs revision and amend
ing as much as an old leaky ship could need
caulking and pitch. The Legislature will
by providing for constitutional convention.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-02-12
The Democracy Seems to Have Done So.

TIC DeIhUCTHcy SeeHIs 10 HaVo I1UHe oO'
shelbyville Volunteer, (Dem.)
The people of Indiana have not yet suffi.
GENTLY forgiven the Sons of Liberty to fol-
low complacently after the leadership OF the
hippopotamian statesman from Salem.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-02-12
What to Do with Legal Printing.

Attica Ledger.
The only just way to dispose of legal print
ing is to allow the parties who pay the costs
to say where it shall be done.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-02-12
The Republicans Have Done Their Duty.

Plymouth Republican.
The Republicans are conscious of having
performed their duty in voting to allow the
people the right to decide the liquor ques-
ton for themselves, and the Democrats will
soon wake up to the fact that they made
fatal mistake in forcing the regulation of the
liquor traffic into partisan politics instead of
leaving it to the people, irrespective of party.