The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-10-17

cation show any advance in spirituality under
MS exhortations, his people learn to adorn
thelr daily lives with simplicity, earnestness and
truth, or the poor and unhappy find succor and
comfort at his door, questions which trouble
me Ine applauding public very little.-New York
TREATY after treaty has been made from time
TO Time until nothing remains to the Indians OK
cept a rev patches here and there and the In
dian Territory, supposed at the time of its dedi-
caGlOn TO be practically worthless. Although
tnls country has treated the original occupants
peter than they are generally treated when
forced of, the record, standing by ITSELF is very
Tar from being credit To the government.
Chicago Inter Ocean.
WHAT could the temperance men have done
with prohibition in the constitution and none in
the lawsG Bow could they have secured a law
TO enforce the amendment az the hands of a
Legislature of tho free rum paFty9 The temper
ance cause has been butchered in the house of
Its friends The tax on saloons VIII soon he
abolished, and some of the most ultra temper
ance people have given the State over to tho
whisky interest. The Prohibitionists have
touched pitch and been defed.-National Re-
publican.
If the government can meet its expenses
under economical management without danger,
dispensing with the taxes collected under inter
nal revenue laws the latter should be abolished.
That would be far better policy than taxing the
people who borrow money at and per cent.
to anticipate a debt that can be carried at Gig
and per cent, not only without injury to the
country, but with very decided advantage.
The craftsmanship that will rise to this level
will be appreciated, and 1t is what seems to be
needed at this time.--Cincinnati Commercial Ga
zette.
THE period OF a presidential canvass has long
been recognized time when capital eau
tlouSIy awaits the decision of a contest which is
never free from doubt and promises next year
10 nave little of certainty but with the probable
course OF the Democratic majority, this season
of distrust VIII begin with the opening and end
only with the adjournment of the Forty-eighth
congress. While it is in session, men will anx-
louslv scan its daily record, not to observe the
partisan effect OF it's acts but to learn of danger
to the wages of labor and the profit of capital.
Philadelphia Press.
THE difficulties of finding out public opinion
and guiding its thinking will not he helped by
enlarging the area of the voting population. The
problems presented by universal suffrage
tremendous. They are seen in their puZ-
zllng aspect in the government of our great
cities The English reformers who are widening
ne circle of the suffrage may he obeying an ire
elstlble force in the mechanics of politics, but
they need not deceive themselves into the be-
lief that they are tightening their own burdens
or those of the English nation, taking step
that will tend to keep city governments pure or
purify corrupt Ones.-GhlcagO Tribune.
THE provision of the civil rights law Just de-
clded to be unconstitutional has been under.
stood very generally by the negroes, and whla
some of them, in the first enjoyment of their
freedom, have become disagreeable now and
then. they have not been more than many
white people unable to understand their proper
social position. The negroes in many States
are numerous enough to have caused great
trouble by insisting upon their rights under the
ages the belief that the proper relations between
the two races will adjust themselves from time
to time without Observation-Disclosures Conn
mercial.