The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-10-25

zine puzzle to the endorsements of the future
Such array of capital and ahiiGy-fOr the
railroad men are undoubtedly the ablest BUSH
ness men in the country-would be very difficult
to hold within strict lines of social duty-Chicag0
Tribune.
IF our government should adopt a policy
which would result in the purchase of foreign
government bonds by our bankers, the interest
on these bonds would flow from other counties
into this. But is there not more profitable use
for capital in this new country than in employ
ing it to purchase the evidences of the debts of
the governments of European countres2 Would
1t not be good thing to unloose the capital now
tied up In our own government bonds, so that it
would be diverted to productive Enterprises
Brooklyn Eagle.
THE Indifferent voter does not change his ma
lure. Mere partisan considerations Will not III
tluence him a whit more next year than they did
last He must be appealed to by something else
than the machine. The party machinery must
be carefully managed, but it must be fed with
something more substantial than the desires of
individual men to get into Office. IL must give
promise OF doing something to project or ad-
vance the welfare of the voter who wields or
withholds his ballot with perfect indifference as
to men so long as they mean nothing to him.
ST. Louis Globe Democrat.
THE evils of intemperance all come from drink
Ing, but prohibition treats the seller as the only
ofender 70 be just 1t should make IL at least
as much of an otfense to drink to sall drink.
But an act prohibiting the drinking OF ardenG
Spirits, 1t Is SAID, would be an interference with
individual liberty, Yet the sole object of prohibI
ton is to prevent drinking by making it difficult
to obtain liquors. IL is, therefore, open to the
charge of lndirectiOn. and the Drawer and more
honest method, If men are to be made temperate
by legislative enactmen5a, would be TO prohibit
and punish both selling and Grinking.-Milwau-
kee Sentinel.
LET it not be forgotten that when the millions
OF black voters in the South have endeavored to
vote conscientously they have been met by the
bludgeons, bull-whips and shotguns Of negro
hating Democracy. Their votes, conscienii0usly
cast, have been made nugatory by DaotbOx
stutfing and false counting. and their rights
taken away by the CHECKLIST of Democratic
frauds, Democratic talk is cheap, and the ne
groes want none of ii. They well understand
that If ever they rise to plane of perfect polit-
1cal equality, and attain to any sort of position
i'll the social and moral scale, they must rely
upon God, themselves and the Republican party.
Cleveland Leader.
WHILE the nation has been paving its honest
debts with such rapidity it has remembered its
sions, carrying upon its rolls 100000 disabled
heroes. In view OF such facts, the men who
would inaugurate change OF SYSTEM and place
in power the men and the party which principal
ly caused the great debt and the threatened dis"
aster, will assume a large RESPONSE ollty. Ii any
man of sense will Offer a single and good reason
why Democrats should be placed in power and
sweeping changes made in all the affairs of the
nation. let it he done in the light of these facts
which cannot be successfully denied or set aside
Chicago Inter Ocean,
GOVERNMENT has appropriated the postal
service upon the plea of promoting the general
welfare, and public opinion upholds the appr0-
priation, not because the letter of "a law has
sanctioned it, but because the public believe
that the general welfare is thereby promoted.
When public opinion shall come to be that the
public welfare requires like appropriation of
the telegraph service, the railway service, the
warehouse service, the fouring-mill service, the
bake-shOp service, the housekeeping serY ce,
the newspaper service, any other mode or
found in any words of paper constr ution an
obstacle to the observation-disclosures Times.