The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-05-11
THE SPIRIT OF THE PRESS.

THERE is something alien to our system of
government in the endeavor to mass voters, not
according to their views on pressing questions,
put by races, sects or narionalites; and they are
NOT wise counselOrs who recommend such q
policy to the negro.-Boston Journal
IF the politicians make their organizations too
exclusive they may find some day that the or
ganlzation is all they have left. They will have
The shell, but the long-suffering snail will have
departed. Some concession must be made to the
voters, and what is asked for in the way of pri-
mary reform is little enough.-Chicago Tribune.
TUE South is slowly learning that it must
give up either Democracy or modern civilization
and progress 1t Can stick to Bourbonisln and
barbarism if it chooses, or il can omen the way
Tor rapid development and Investigation of in
dustry by expelllng Bourbon politicians from
power. But BOurbonism and civilized progress
those two 1t cannot have.-New York Tribune.
1T is but fair to allow that England has treated
us rather shabbily in extradition matters, and
the temptation is great to pay her off in her own
com. But clearly we should not be guided alto
gether by England in our conduct and policy. A
right, not because the recipient OF the act is
worthy, but because the actor has respect for
himself and for justice.-Boston Advertiser.
IHE man. who placed the stock of the Credit
Mobllier Association where 1t would do the
most good is in his grave. How far his moral
sense was blunted by self-interest and by tho
corrupting influence Of a corrupt and money
making age we will not pOw inquire The evil
he did lives after him. II his memory is resusci-
tated and fumigated, who shall dlsinfect the
men who have courted private life ever since he
Times .,I ..[ -
| JULIAN has generally known how to profess
righteousness for the performance of malice,
and he has brought inconsistency to climax in
assa1ling Carl Schurz for his administration of
the Interior Department, with respect to the
public lands. The record of Sohurz Is not vul-
nerable, but he has not allowed gross imputa-
tlons to pass unnoticed On the third page of
this paper will he found letter from Schurz to
Julian that is sufficient for the whole subject
Cincinnati Commercial Gazette.
1T is absurd for English newspapers to howl
/ Ipic nlnfG aNnfu linda f1n0
circumstances our government must not deliver
up single man to England on any unfounded
charge OF murder. An indictment for murder
by paid Dublin jury is not worth the paper it
ls written on. Our government should utterly
Ignore 1t and require some real proof. The jury
machinery at Dublin works obediently to the
Castle. 1t is ready to indict any critic of the
acts OF the British government as a murderer
Louisville CO3rier-Journal
THE press should lend its influence to the
courts In establishing higher, safer and better
standard of justice in our criminal courts, espes
ciauy throughout the Commonwealth. The bets
Ter class of citizens are always tractable, and
ready to give their support to the right in any
good cause. The unpatriOtic and the ungOverna-
bic are disorganiZers and destroyers Of public
peace wherever they exist. They are dangerous
TO good government, and, because unworthy
themselves, have spite against the world at
large.-Louisville Commercial.
THERE is no concern of greater or more iinme.
diate Importance to our national welfare Than
| than that which has been raised by this proc
gramme of assisted emigration" 1t brings be-
fore us the direct question whether 1t is not SUI
dreme duty Of our national government to pro-
tect this land, not merely against an influx of
heather Asiatics, who do not become a charge
upon society, but also against the immeasurablY
greater evils that threatened in the use of it
by European States as a dumpng-9rsSnd for the
paupers, lazzaroni, rogues, dynamnards,. and
other social Otfscourings which they may wisk to
get rid of.-Chicago Times.
THE worshipers of mere novelty may as well
understand, once for all, that in the bad old
times of Judicial despOtism the jury system was
so very potent in protecting the innocent that
the Institution is sacred and even its outgrOwn
features are invested with certain sanctity,
We are accustomed to associate the right of trial
by jury, as of habeas corpus with magma charta,
and that grand bulwark of freedom did guaran-
tee this right but it was old then. What has
been gradually secured through centuries lie too
deeply rooted to be torn up and cast aside, in
whole or In part, however importunate certain
dOctrinaires may be.-Chicago Inter Ocean.
WE have ourselves felt too sharp an experience
OF the horrors of political assassination not to
feel the most intense indignation against its
perpetrators or abettors everywhere. The
deaths of Lincoln aud Garfield are so fresh In
our memories that we can readily appreciate the
feeling which reigns In England to-day. 1t is q
reasonable feeling, for it was precisely our own
when we lost by murder the heads of the state.
What must think of the late convention,
which, with notorious facts In it's knowledge,
with the men who boast of carrying q dyE.
amite war against England in attendance on its
sessions, dared not utter O word of censures
One thing is certain: political reform by the
process ,of murder is not going to be popular
lied in America.-New York Christian Advocate.