The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-10-24
SPIRIT OF THE PRESS.

HANGING is q failure the way the laws are ut
present enforced, and so is Imprisonment for
life. Where one murderer is banged for his
crime, twenty are let off with Imprisonment.
The trouble is that there Is no certainty that any
murderer will be punished in any manner. II Is
all lottery and Chance work, Not more than
half the killers OF men and women throughouG
the country receive anything Ike adequate pun
ishment. A very large. number OF them are
either not caught or not onvlcted.-Chlcago In
ter Ocean.
ENGLAND will see that the peace of Egypt is
not disturbed by foes without or foes within:
that the natural resources of a fruitful land are
developed, its revenue wisely and economically
administered, and its people relieved OF many
grievous burdens hitherto borne in hopeless pa
thence. But for good or for IN, the ancient king
dom of the Pharaohs and Ptolem1es has passed
into the strongest and ablesG h21ds that have
moulded its destinies since the Roman eagles
vanished from tine banks of the Nile.-St. Louis
Republican.
more effective for the State than the public ao-
count system 1T only remains to ascertain
whether it is properly regulated 80 that the cou-
tractor pays to the State all that the labor is
worth and derives no advantage from
it in competition with those employ.
ing free labor, so that the effect
bears unduly OH the current rate of wages in
any employment. 1t is to this question Of regula-
ton that legislative attention should be directed.
New York Fines.
WITH the prohibition issue before the public,
all the thinkers make common cause with the
saloon-keepers, and this is WHAT gives the latter
their power at the polls; but under the high-li-
cense system the moderate drinkers act with the
temperance men IN support OF tax and regBla-
ton, which leaves the soloonists in a hopeless
minority. whereupon the offce-seeking Demo-
cratic politicians have no more interest In the
performance of the dOggeries, and cease 10
curry favor with them or TO make free rum q
Democratic is~sue.-Chicago Tribune.
THE real motive which brings party politicians
in the legislative chambers and in the executive
offices into relations of commercial dickering,
bargaining and trading il public offices, III APP
pointnents and in promotions is not the small
one of a bureau appropriation, but the great
nnp nf the n0lIIpal InVnp which resides IN tho
party patronage" and actuates alike the partl-
san in the bureau and the partisan in the legiS-
lative chamber. There is no atom OF virtue in
any scheme or mode of competitive examinations
to take away or restrain the action of that mo-
J~ive.-Chicago Times.
THERE is no desire on the part of the United
States to refrain from doing whatever Is Just
and reasonable in the matter of pensions. This
| ought TO be sufficiently proved by the fact thar
! never did a nation before SO reward It's soldiers
There is no case that can even approximate the
practical gratitude of this country toward it's
| preseryers. But this thing of leveling every
bounty up TO the highest notch at which the ma
ton in its direst need felt called upon to place
Inducements 10 enlist, is going rather too far.
Probably II will be found that public sentiment
will not sustain any such proposition.-St. Louis
Globe-Democrat.