The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-11-20
SPIRIT OF THE PRESS,

THE fact cannot be disguised that the recent
bloodshed in Virginia, for the purpose of insur-
ing Deinocratc victory, mas Unnamed race ana
sectional prejudices and hatreds. and that there
can be no peace or personal safety Ill the solid
South except by abject submission to the Demo-
cratic party, which is again before the country,
its garments rolled in blood. "-Cincinnati Com
merclal Gazette.
GEORGIAS leadership in Southern progress is
often referred to. Her progress is due to atten-
ton to little things, and only little things, as
rule concern the masses. just now three live
issues in Georgia are whisky, fences and dogs.
1t seems that all of these must go, so far the
rural districts are concerned, ana the absence of
each will advance the prosperity of the State.
We want some of the Georgia politics in Ken
tuckY.-Loulsville Commercial.
FREEDOM and the rights of freemen were
given to the negro at a fearful cost, cost so
great that no State or community ehOnd be al
lowed to lightly throw away the purchased
boon. The negroes we're given the right OF suf-
frdge, the right of school privileges, the right of
education. They were given potential right
TO rule and an imperative right to be ruled just
ly. 1t was no part of the compact of peace that
the State of Virginia was to be permitted to dis
regard any of these rights.-Cleve Herald.
WHAT General Malone says of Virginia is Eli
doubIedy true of all the old Confederate States,
W Ould be if the parties were closely balanced.
The same state of things which he describes in
his own State will prevail in Mississippi, Ala
bama Tennessee, or any of the old slave States.
soon as any party attains sufficient strength
to threaten the domination of the Bourbon De-
mOcracy. General MahOne's address is destined
TO be a subject of general political discussion,
and Its perusal cannot fail to excite respect for
him and sympathy for his party by intelligent
people all over the country.-Cleveland Leader.
THE inauguration of the new time standard in
the United States will have indirect but far
reaching effect in fastening the adoption by all
nations OF a common zero of longitude and a
system of universal time. Such result Is TO be
greatly desired in the Interest OF cartoOgy,
science, navigation, 'transooeanicn telegraphy
and all international commerce. The fact ia that
the adoption of the system now to be iDaugnr-
ated, which Is the practical outcome of the long
continued agitation for cosmopolitan time, is
Americas approving response to the action of
the late worlds geOdetic conference at Rome
fixing one initial meridian and one time stand
ard for all nations New York Herald.
WHILE the advocates of prohibition have been
making remarkable progress in Georgia, they
have wisely refused to make temperance or pro-
hibition a political Issue either In coun-
ty or in the State. They carefully sep
and Prohibitionlsts elsewhere should profit
by their example Holding that the Ques-
tion is one that ought to be decided in
towns and counties upon its own merits. they
place it before the people in these subdivisions
of the State for action, and have not adopted the
rule or ruin policy in politics that has been
chosen elsewhere by persons fanaticallv in
clined, to the injury of their cause.--New York
Times.
TAKING the word of the English ntterateurs
for it, the common people of England to-day are
in as sullen and desperate mood as were the
peasantry of France on the eve of the rcvOu-
tion: The similarity not only in their condition.
but in their reasoning is striking. The oppres-
sion under which they suffer is much the same.
They have not to omplain of 80 corrupt and
profligate a social organization, perhaps, but it
is fully as heartless, stubborn and unprogressive
1t hears the cry OF despair and answers it with
literature. It understands the misery which
jostles it everywhere, and, to make the matter
right, 1t seizes its pen and PUSHES into print.
This cannot last forever. If the signs OF the
times are not all wrong England will soon have
on its hands much more difficult problem at
home than any yet presented for solution by the
Irish peasants.-Chicago Herald.