The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-08-31
SPIRIT OF THE PRESS.

THE prevalence of lynch law is the OutgrOwth
of our cumbersome and uncertain system of
criminal practice. Give us simpler methods
and swifter justice, and law ana order will re-
sumo their dominiou.-Kansas City Journal.
To guard against tue monopolizing of lands
by foreigners, the Western States might with ad-
vantage copy law now In force in this State,
which allows only citizens to own real estate,
and they may usefully tax the lands owned by
railroad corporations so as to force them to SELL
and thus break up these large holdings. These
remedies are simple, and when strictly enforced
will easily prevent ahuses-New York Herald.
IT is a shame that the cOlored race cannot find
peace, safety, and a reasonable degree of pros
perity in the land where iJ has been so long
domieiled, and whose development owes so
much to its lll-requited labor. But the policy of
the white man has too often been to keep the
negro poor and degraded, and then to point to
his shiftlessness and ignorance conclusive of
bis inability TO govern hllnself.-New York
Times.
IT is much less important to have colored
members of school boards than to have eolored
people anxious for knowledge A great deal ha 8
been said of late about the blacks as a burden
upon the South, about the propriety of colonial
ton, about everything, In fact, save making the
best of things as they are But so long as the
negroes want to learn there is no occasion to de-
spair OF the South or Of the repubic.-St. Louis
Glohe-Democrat.
AFTER private capital has occupied field, the
whole power of the nation must not be used TO
drive it out. II the government lines telegraph
were less economically administered than those
of the companies there would he no excuse for
building them; and il they are to be more So,
then the result would be the forced sale of the
other lines to the State, which is equivalent to
cOnfsc9tiOn OF prOperty.-St. Paul Pioneer Press.
THERE is no constrant placed in this free coun-
try upon men so long as they do not by overt
acts work detrlniont to the republic. 1t is to be
admitted, moreover, that the great mass of the
Southern people are honest in their support of
the present order of things But the fact re-
mains that the occasions Confederate reunionsl
In question go against the grain OF the Ameri-
can people as a people.-St. Louis Globe-Demo-
GRAFT
THERE is no reason why the world should be
compelled to listen TO all the foolish or vicious
thinking that is done. When such thinking in
terferes with public policy or the good of sOcie-
ty. the State justly claims the right to limit or
repress the expression of it, 1t may be IA man s
inherent right to think the vilest oDscenites;
but it is Just as clearly the right of the State 70
say that he shall not utter those thoughts to his
| feows.-New York Times.
| so long as the people of this country behold
the South solidly Democratic, solidly mourning
over the "ost cause" and solidly ready TO sun
port any man that the Democrats of the North
may nominate for the presidency, just SO long
| there will be much suspicion displayed. and the
| whole region will be remanded to back seat
| The people of the South ought to undo lesdid
this matter They onght to know piIit it is
the fault OF their leaders that they thus con.
stantly regarded with SUSPICION. - Cleveland
Leader.
ALL that r. sablicans ask in Ohio, In this
State, in tne lzHntry, is that voters will compare
the two Ertles-platform over against platform,
record with record. Two witnesses go on the
stand. The bearing of the two men, as well as
their words, count for much. Frankness, deos.
ion, dire itness tells the story The two parties
go Sefore the people The one talks plainly: the
other IN riddles. The one is telling the truth,
because it is living the truth; the other is falsi-
flying. because its political life is lie.-Boston
Advertiser
WHOLLY unjustifiable as is the betrayal Of
trust the part of s. W. Dorsey in the puplica-
ton of campaign correspondence, It can hardly
| fail TO exercise a wholesome influence upon the
conduct of the next presidential campaign. 1t
is evident that undue reliance WAS placed upon
money, and 1t seemed TO be assumed that the