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LET THE LAW PREVAIL

1t is to be sincerely hoped for the credit of
all concerned that lynching will not take
place in Benton county. 1t would be the
first ever to take place there, and would
leave blot that would not be wiped out in
years. The shame and humiliation would
fall upon ALL The better class of citizens
those who want full justice done and who
would uphold the dignity of law and order
should rally to the support of the officials in
charge of the criminal. A few words spoken
in season and with determination will suf-
flee to restrain the drunken and irresponsi-
BILE mob from committing crime only sur
passed in ferocity and shame by that of their
intended victim. 1t would appear
that the same elements of blood
thirstiness were present in the breasts
of the mob as those that actuated
Melting when he slaughtered the unoffend-
ing girl, and that all that was needed to de-
velop them was an initial crime in order to
spread the contagion. What is there in per-
verted human nature that in peaceful COM
munity of presumably law-abiding people
one crime should prompt another? The
people of Benton county have right to
hang Melting until he is dead, beyond a
doubt. But there is a way prescribed by
law for this most serious business. The
courts of justice are there, with
doors wide open. The judges of
this mans guilt may be chosen
from among the people of Benton county.
What more can be asked? Everything is in
the hands of the people, and way has been
prepared for the disposal of this fiend, even
to the extremity of taking his life. In any
and all of these methods that conform to the
law the people of Benton county will be
backed by the moral support of all good
people throughout the world. Outside of
legal means they will be universally con-
demned.
1t may already be plain that Melting de-
serves death, but it is not yet plain that
others do not deserve the same for the same
crime. 1t would be folly and would defeat
justice to put this man beyond the power
of confessing more Let him be kept to tell
the whole story. 1t will come out in time,
and it is by no means certain that all is yet
known. But aside from the policy of delay
in order to get at all the facts of the case, it
is better to stand by the law at all times No
community can afford to tear down this
means of common defense. The people of
Benton county owe it to justice to try this
man impartially and hang him according to
law. They owe it to themselves not to re-
sort to unreasoning mob violence.
They would never cease to regret
such folly and would never
escape the condemnation of law-abiding citi-
zens the world over The sheriff and other
officials deserve credit for keeping back the
rabble that threatened violence to the pris-
oner and, now that he has been removed to
the Lafayette Jail, it may be confidently ex-
pected that no lynching will take place.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-10-18
The Classification of Clerks.
Philadelphia Record.

Philadelphia Record.
Some trouble has arisen in regard to the
promotion of messengers to clerkships in the
Washington departments, and the fuss made
over the matter illustrates the difficulty of
dividing people of this country into classes.
There ought to be no objection to the apoiut-
ment of any person to clerkship, if he or
she be competent to do the work, whether the
applicant be messenger or laborer The
Civil-service Commission cannot learn this
fact any too soon.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-10-18
Not a Competent Judge.
Cleveland Leader.

This Is a question upon which Catholic
priest is poor authority. He has no wife of
his own. 1t is not supposed that his heart
ever beat in sympathy with a pure beautiful
woman. He is shut off from the divine reia-
tons of marriage, condemned to life of
celibacy, to crawl from the cradle to the
grave Uncontrolled and unconsoled by the
angel presence of true wife Such being
has no more business to express an opinion
of women than the blind man has to dis
course upon the varied tints of the rainbow.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-10-18

1T seems Incredible, but the cable reports
fifty deaths daily in Saxony from trichini-
ayis. It is to be hoped that this is not true;
bat, if So it would seem to prove that the
German hogs are far more subject to that
occurrence as the above has been known
west of the Atlantic.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-10-18

the speed that is in him, and if he be made
to come under the wire even neck ahead,
the unimportant result in itself may result
in the requirement of thousands Of un-
earned dollars 1t is absurd to say that a
horse is worth the sum above named, For
any legitimate use he is not worth the
hundredth part of it.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-10-18

A THEATRICAL manager in Atlanta is de-
PENDANT in a civil-rights case similar to the
ones on which the recent Supreme Court de-
cision was based a negro having brought
suit on account of forcible ejectment from
the opera-house. News of the decision
reached Atlanta during the evening, and in
formation was at once conveyed to the man
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-10-18

The good people of this country will no,
satisfied until every man beneath the flag
without the slightest respect to his COM
plexion, stands on a perfect equality before
the law with every other. Any government
that makes distinction on account of color
is disgrace to the age in which we live. The
idea that man like Fred. Douglass can be
denied entrance to a car; that the doors of a
hotel can be shut in his face; that he may be
prevented from entering theater; the idea
that there shall be some ignominious corner
into which such man can be thrown by the
decision of the Supreme Court-this idea is
simply absurd"
What remains to be done now, and who is
going to do it?'
"For good while people have been say
ing that the Republican party had outlived
its usefulness; that there was very little diff
ference now between the parties; that there
was hardly enough left to talk about This
decision opens the whole question. This de-
cision says to the Republican party, Your
mission is not ended This is not free coun-
try. Our flag does not yet protect the rights
of human being.
This decision is the tap of drum. The
old veterans will fall into line. This decision
gives the issue for the next campaign, and it
may be that the Supreme Court has builded
wiser than it knew This is a greater ques-
ton than tariff or free trade. 1t is a question
of freedom, of human rights, of the sacred
ness of humanity. The real American. the
real believer i'll liberty, will give three cheers
for Judge Harlan"
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-10-18

INDIC ATOMS are that unless a change comes
soon the name of Paul Vandervoort will be
added to the already too long list of cranks.
His clustering attitude after his removal on
account of palpable neglect of duty is very
msoldier-lil1e, and will excite condemnation
Tsther than sympathy.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-10-18

Mr.. BEEcHER says of Ben. Butler that he
lis an apocalyptic vision, with ten horns
and as many eyes" That's what "Brick"
Pomeroy said during the war, but no re-
spectacle man believed him. Great minds,
Il seems, still run in the same channels.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-10-18

WHEN Helyn Leonard was taken from the
tombs to Blackwelps island she bore up
stoically and made no sign OF distress, but
when she was obliged to don bed-ticking
dress 10 broke her heart and she sobbed
aloud. This suggests an idea. Don't con-
fine women to reformatories, but turn 'em
loose in society clad in linsey- woolsey gowns.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-10-18
Mournful HumOrists.

We hope the newspaper humorists won't
fly at us when we say that Peoks Bad Boy
represents some of the tendencies that are
found in too much of the humorous writing
nowadays. We recall nothing else so strange
" vulgar as this, unless it is Mr.. Mark
Twan's" own delicate humorous account of
the misunderstanding occasioned by box
containing Limburger cheese being placed
in the same car with corpse on its way TO
the grave
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-10-18

Two sisters, sixty years old, are living the life
of hermits in the mountains near Lebanon, Pa.
For forty years they have lived in log hut in an
almost inaccessible place, and hold aloof from
all human beings. They speak to each other,
but never to others; are hard working, and can
fell trees as handily as the best backwoo6sman.
They are afraid of nothing, and as they are
known TO keep axes by their bedside, no one
goes foolng around the premises. AS matter
of course the reason assigned by the neighbors
for this eccentric conduct is that the two women
were crossed in love in their early days
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-10-18

GEORGE AUGUSTUS SALA has very kindly given
Henry Irving his own ''simple plan" in meeting
the American interviewer, at the same time ad-
vising him to give that gentleman "the fullest
scope possible" The Sala plan is to ask his first
interviewer all the questions he can think of
touching meu and affairs. and thereafter ode
canter" the statements thus obtained to other
interviewers. Some one could play an awful
joke on Henry by "loading up" for him as a
first interviewer, that is If Henry likes the Sala
plan,
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cOTnplacency

IT is safe to say that the colored race will
not long suffer, if suffer at all, on account of
the overthrow of the ciyil-rights act If in
justice results, the people will see that a
remedy is found that shall be efficient.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-10-18
Setting Up as Tycoon.

Atlanta Constitution
The fact that Mr.. Langtry has detailed his
mother-in-law to accompany Mrs Langtry
to this country shows that he has lost confis
dence in a republican form of government
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-10-18

AND so Massachusetts women are not even
"persons." After all they did for Ben. Butler.
tool The Governor may try to pacify them by
calling each one parsonage, but this will be
adding age, and insult, and will never do. BEN
iamn has gone utterly too far.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-10-18

WITH trousers at a dime or two mack
erel for nickel and water free, indianapolis
views the advent of winter with degree OF
coTnplacencY.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-10-18
Hard to Suit,


Philadelphia Press.
The Free-will Baptists of Minnesota frank,
" admit that they feel alarmed at President
Arthurs drinking habits, which is pretty
bad. However, it's a hard thing to take
enough water to please Free-will BaptsE.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-10-18

A LYNcHING would save court expenses,
but it would entail disgrace that million
of money could not oblterate.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-10-18

EASTERN anglers are in competition for a
number of prizes awarded for the longest and
best throws or casts of flies. The winner scored
eighty feet three inches. Wonder If he could
throw a load of wood into the cellar. That
would be practical and fully as healthfuI as
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-10-18
Glories in Its Shame.
Atlanta Constitution.

Atlanta UOnstltutIon
The indianapolis Journal has discovered
grammatical error in these columns. We
glory in this sort of thing. 1t shows that
culture has not turned our heads.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-10-18
Not Unlikely.
Philadelphia Record.

Philadelphia Record.
Mr.. p. II. Armour of Chicago says "bots
tom prices have been reached" Mr.. Armour
probably intends to build corner ON this
foundation.
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wading around in brooks and coming home wet
and hungry with a string of fish bought from a
country boy who couldn't tell a patent "hy"
from liver pad.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-10-18

BEw YoRK-Tifth Avenue and windsor HOtels,
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Chance for the South to Be Magnanimous,
Atlanta Constitution.
1t now behooves the South to show to the
world that she is capable of doing the negro
fullest and amplest justice without the fear
of any impending statute. The place set
apart for him in the theater and in the rail-
road cars should be in every way as good as
those occupied by the white men who pay
the same money. They should be just as Sc
cure from the intrusion of boisterous per-
sons and kept in as clearly and as neat 81
manner In short, the grand opportunity
is now afforded the South to show that she
is as magnanimous as she proved herself to
be courageous. She will demonstrate, we
have no doubt, that while she could never
have been driven by duress into doing what
was clearly wrong that she will not be
tempted by the removal of all restraint into
doing anything that is less than right.
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THE INDIANAPOLIS JOURNAL

Can be found at the following places:
loNDON-American Exchaugein Europe, 4is Strand
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WASHINGTON. D. o.-BreutanO's LOIS Pennsylva-
ia
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RARIS-American Exchange in Paris, IS Boulevard
des Capucines.
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Political Bearing of the Decision.

Washington Special.
The suggestion that certain Republicans
would be likely to use the civil rights de-
cision as the basis of new political issue,
will be verified. There are several Repub-
lican congressman in the city. The subject
most discussed by them to-day hes been the
decision. Every one of them who has been
called upon says that unquestionably an at
tempt will be made to commit the Repub-
licans, as party to movement in favor of
a constitutional amendment which shall en-
body in it the principles of the void civil
rights act.
Some of these congressman regret the de-
cision of the court. One of them says that
Senator Edmunds, of Vermont, is as able
lawyer as there is on the Supreme Bench,
and he throughout the debate, found the law
constitutional.
Others are pleased with the decision for
the reason that. as they put it, it will infuse
new life into politics; will awaken some old
enthusiasts; will make the Republican
party once more the party of moral ideas,
will arouse sentiment and, if in less degree
will revive the spirit of the old anti-slavery
movement
If the congressman who are here fairly
represent the average Republican opinion,
unquestionably the Democrats will be COM
PEELED to decide whether or not they will
favor a constitutional amendment, embody-
ing the features of the civil rights law. This
probably would not be an issue which the
Democrats would welcome for, unless Re
publican opinion is much deceived the
Democratic party would be compelled to
place itself in antagonism to such a move
nent.
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CINClNNATI-J. c. Hawley & Co., l54 Vine street
LOUISvILLE-C. 7. bearing. northwest corner
Third and jefferson streets.
ST. LOUIs-Union News Company, Union Depot.
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CHICAGO-Palmer House.
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THURSDAY, OCTOBER IS. 1888.

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The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1883-03-03
American Criticism of Mrs. Langtry

Languishing and lovely is the language of
art criticism nowadays, and the trick oft has
spread from our shores into all the English
speaking lands. Superfne IN England. it is
yet more so in America. where indeed it
seems to nave inspired all manner of critics
in the art world. None of our dramatic
c~rictics write like this, for instance Mrs.
Langtry's success wa far more a conquest
through personality than through d. dramatic
art, but not the less was it a success. As
an actress Mrs. Langtry IS uneven, frigId,
and in technicalities sometimes crude. She
was dubious in the simplicity, fragile IN the
passion, slight in the misery, but fine in the
pride, and superb in the nOnchdLance. Her
performance lacked depth. 1t lacked the i'm
pressiveness which should result from af1uent
feeling firmly directed and fully conveyed.
Its chief worth, therefore. was its disclosure
of the woman. Time will develop her and
furnish her with all the equipment that now
she lacks; and there is every reason to believe
that she will reach the first rank as dramatic
~executant in joyous. glittering, trenchant
eomedy. She has nothing to do with sorrow.
Her a~finities are all with mirth and pleasure.
Nature has made her a delightful creature,
whether to see or TO hear" This is Mr..
William Winters verdict delivered through
the Neac York Tribune.
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Licenses Expiring in March, 1883.

RETAIL-OAHU.
/ Lame 4 Co. Esplanade, Honolulu.
/ Jno. A. Palmer & Co., cor. Fort and Merchant streets
d. W. Clark. Fort street, Honolulu.
VIM. Turner, King street, Honolulu.
I; J: AgRew, Fling street Honolulu,
Ho YIck Kee, Punehbowl street. Honolulu.
y Xit 0 wo, s Nuua anu street + Get R HGnol Iq1set. Ho,o,u,u.
Is A.W. richardson & Co., cor. Fort and Merchant SITS.
Is w. 2. Akau, Nuuanu street, Honolulu.
10 g. West, Queen street, Honolulu.
21 Hew Yet, cor. Punchbowl and King streets, Honolulu
% Shun Shing, Queen street, Honolulu.
IS C.. T. Wolfe, King street, Honolulu.
RETAIL-HAWAII.
2 G. W. C. Jones. Keauhou, Kau.
8 +. Spencer, Waimea.
. Akana 4 Akoi, Keaqhou' Nor. kona.
Is Ming Fut, Maulili, Hilo.
% Tai Chong, Kahalii, HiIo.
30 L. Akamu, Hilo.
RETAIL-MAUi.
Z C. Kim Ting, Makawao.
8 &. w. Norton & Co. Makawao.
8 IIson Tai. Lahaina.
II Chung Hoon. wailuEu.
Il See Sing Kee. Kahului.
2s Sal Hong & Tong Hong. Halawa, Hamakualoa.
RETAIL-KAUAI.
Is o. schoIz, Lihue-
81 KOka, Hanalei.
1 wo Hop Kee, Honapepe, Kauai.
Z Wong Nau, cor. King and Liliha streets, Honolulu.
" hAlAuuAtlts D. Auhdl q nlOCDDuOS ulhh SIIGcls
IL Chung Moon. wailuku. Maui.
II Alo, Lahaina, Maui.
Is Alma, Hotel street, Honolulu
Is N Miranda, Smith street, Honolulu.
Il See Sing Kee, Kahului, Maui.
II Hart Bros, Hotel street, Honolulu.
WHOLESALE.
81 c. Brewer & Co., Queen street, Honolulu.
BUTCHER.
1 Chas. KoelIing, Hanalei, Kauai.
3 G. b. Makee, Wailuku, Maui.
- Chas. Buchanan, Lahaina. Maui.
p J. ". Wright. Koloa, Kauai.
PORK BUTCHER.
Is Apana, North Kohala, Hawaii.
% All FoOk, Lihue, Kauai
P~EDDLING.
10 A. s. Cleghorn & Co.
CAKE PEDDLING.
"a Wal Lum, Hanalei, Kauai.
II Amung-
SPIRIT.
Q r. A. sehaefer & Co, Merchant street, Honolulu.
IS Ed HOnschlaeger & Co., Merchant street, Honolulu.
BOAT.
II Thos. Spencer, HiIo, Hawaii (2i.
"a VIM. Babcock, Honolulu.
- ID. Dayton, Honolulu.
BILLIARD.
10 Gore Espinda, Lanaina. Maui.
IA Hart Bros, Hotel street, Honolulu.
1 C. W. P. Kaeo, Kons, Hawaii.
DRUG.
IS Jno. A. Palmer l. Co., cor. Fort and Merchant streets,
LIVERY.
Is Hong ChOng. MaunAkea street, Honolulu. feb2I W
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week of sunshiny days. The mills are all at
work, and / hear that results are considered sat
isfactory. the juice generally standing at an
unusually high figure.
We all read with interest whatever you print
about the Treaty prospects-of course that Is the
first thing We look for in the papers, and you do
well to print everything, pro and con. Ger
tainly- va have read the accounts of the Corona
ton with a good deal OF interest, regretting that
the demands of business prevented our being
present. And here let us say, that we have noted
with a feeling little short Of disgust, the tone of
some of the Honolulu press in regard to this
Coronation business. If the writer's did not like
the proceedings, let them say so once for all and
in gentlenanly terms but they are vastly mis-
taken if they think to gain anything by indulg-
ing in blackguardism, personalities and Billings
gate. The writer who does that, you know, ex-
poses the character of the animal lurking under
the lions skin.
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Our Foreign Correspondence.
lrRoM Z OWN CORRESPONDENT

LNAOA ~ 7"
PARIS. JAN. "a.
The Princes scare continues, and is as virulent
as the 1870 Prussian spy malady. The Republic
cannot support the defendants of once-reigning
families, even when such are ridiculous, as
Napoiean correct, like the Orieanists, or fossil
Ized as the permanently absent, but ever-threat-
enIng visit of Compile de Cbambord. Gambetta
having disappeared, the extreme Republicans
have no longer a Turks head on which to ope-
rate. hence the craze to ostracize princes for the
present, and later their partizans.
Having. according to the opinion of the best
jurist-, violated no article of the Code, explains
the mess and muddle in which Ministers find
themselves by arresting Prince Napoleon.
Neither the Senate nor q Cour; could convict
him TO liberlte him. acquit him, or expel him
will. in any case, be damaging for the Cabinet,
years Prince Napoleon has been killed by ridi-
Guile, he himself afording the pretexts, and the
satirical journals in furnishing up the old arms
to attack him-only STAY the slain.
The gravamen of the Napoleon incident con-
sists in its serving as q pretext for the expulsion
of the Orleanist Princes. They gre viewed as a
possible danger for the Republic, and such is the
reason why Floquet desires to prescribe all royal
scions at once, and Lockroy to expel them from
the army and navy. This summary process would
be more merciful than the Ministerial cure of
holding the sword of Democrats over their heads,
Nv investing ". OACfJ w II ppNGl "
anyone playing pretender to quit France. Belle
vile would have voted the application of the
measure with both hands to Gambetta.
Ministers propose to limit the liberty of the
Press to the display of seditious emblems, and
the printing and placarding Of attacks against
the Constitution. Having conceded the liberty
to be attacked, the Republic, hitherto viewed as
inyulnerable, must be allowed to defend its heel.
The white flag, the red banner, the Phrygian cap,
the Carmagnole, and the Henri Nv. march-all
these fetiches which were believed to be ~relegated
to the Cluny Museum-will henceforth become
Star-chamber matters,
Thus our boosted liberty, equality, and frater-
nifty comes back to the old DEGREES of proscrip-
tiun, and the law Of suspects-OHe a measure Of
supreme injustice, and the other a proposition Of
extreme inPrudence. So long as their partisans
arc free to indulge in propagandism, the banish-
ment OF princes can only serve their cause. At
Chantilly and Eu the OrleanIsts will be less dan
gerOus Tor France than at Twickenham, or = ~
at the fusion residence of Frohsdorf. y
public is on the eve to quit the road of ~
and liberalism. to practice intolerance, and to
snap the uniformity Of the law by acknowledging
categories Of citizens. The era of press persecu-
tions is to return, with its agitations and in
justices. And the country never was more tran
gull the electors plump still for the Republic !;