The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-06-03
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To say must tolerate polygamy because some of
the States have lax laws of divorce is to exhibit
strange mental incapacity to grasp the painest prop
ostion connected with legislation. 1t would be just
as wise just logical to say because defalcations
occur IN Vail street. no attempt should be made to
prevent highway robbery in Georgia.-Louisville
Courier-J ournal.
OUR people are gradually waking up to the fact
that the work done by political parties in primary
meetings, caucuses and conventions is just
tial and just as important part of the work of
choosing our officials the voting done at the polls
opened according to statutes made and provided.
Sometimes, in fact, it is approximations
isville Commercial.
THE greatest good that will come out of Butler
many nominations will be his eternal and everlasting
political death and TO make this last great and good
thing doubly sure let the good work of nominating
him, by the rag tag and bobtai political social and
religious organizations of the country go without
hndrance for the greater the number of nomina-
tions put upon him, the certainly and completely
will his ambition for political preferment be squelched
Cincinnati News-Journal.
THE power to sell unlimited quantities of property
that belongs TO somebody else is one that no man
ought to possess. 1t makes difference how large
his means how great his credit may be. Every
such sale makes the market deceptive and fraudulent
1t adds to the proper influence of those who really
hold and want to SELL the improper influence of those
who bold nothing and only want to bet. The encour
ageinent of this kind of gambling has caused rotten
ness in many corporations and transformed many
respected citizens into criminals.-New York Herald
DIVORCE in this country like the fraud in our banks
or corruption in politics out of the general
play A woman marries mau for his wealth
prompted by precisely the same ambition that makes
banker steal from his depositors or gentleman who
wants Office truckle to the boys the whisky ring
Are clergymen and churches free from this madness of
money -gettingl As long it corrupts American
and women protests against divorce will be of
use than the laws which punish theft and bribery.
Philadelphia Press.
THE divergence of opinion among the Indianapolis
delegates and their confessed incapacity to deal with
any question that lay beyond the domain of sentiment
fortunately make it unnecessary to take any of their
deliverances with much seriousness; but with how
much greater intelligence and clearness of thought will
these questions be met by either the Republican
or the Democratic delegatesl As between the two,
the ignorance that apparent and that all reasonable
men laugh at is much less to be feared than that
which coaks itself in conventional phrases and makes
politics more than struggle for success.-Phila
delphia Times.
IL we might control the present spasm of financial
fraud and general depravy at the seat of the
original outbreak, could very well manage it, no
doubt but there to be tendency to the cropping
Of it out all the country. The moral is that upon
those who assume to become the custodians of the
peoples money, whether rs government agents or in
private ducary capacity there rests the responsible
ity which they place in the hands of subordinates
And just at this time if it is desired that dishonesty
shall not become epidemic it will be well for those in
authority to have general balancing of their books
New York Herald.
THE ineffciency of dynamite in the hands Of clurn
sy ignorant and cowardly desperadoes is most
surfing fact 1t tends dspe the feeling of insecurity
in England and in other communities menaced with the
plots of dsaected classes It deprives these despic
able conspirators of the chief end of their miserable
exisience-the power of producing panic and fright
ening the English people London can arm itself most
effectuay against such plots by fegning indifference
to them and maintaining its present admirable de-
meanor of composure. The absence of panic and ex-
citement will convince the organizing spirits among
the Irish miscreants that they cannot succeed in nt
idating Englishmen.-New York Tribune.
THE Objectionable circumstances attending execu-
tons could hardly be worse if they were i'll sight of
the public. Nothing in the sight could be worse in
morals than these descriptions. The most democrat
izing part of these is their account of the happy
gous state of the murderer just before hanging and
of the pous exercises which kept up him to
sure his happy dispatch. If this religious ed
fcation TO the public, it ought to have it ALL What
be finer religious influence than the scene of
brutal murderer announcing that heis going stra Iht
to the mansions of bliss through the hangman moose
and kindly inviting all the crowd to meet him there9
Cincinnati Commercial Gazette.
THE whole theory of pensioning for the act of en-
listing and wearing the uniform rests upon an exata
ton of the art of above the arts of peace and
Difference to military above civil duty The provisions
Justly made for the widows, the children and the
other dependent relatives of soldiers who die the
battlefield in the hospital and for the survivors
who through being MANNED or broken in health must
presumably compete at disadvantage for lveli-
hood rest totally different grounds. Exceptional
gallantry peculiar fidelity producing memorable
suits may also justify special gratuites. But where
all such considerations wanting to make the mere
fact Of taking part in campaign claim for con.
tinuous support out of the earnings of the people
puts the national patronage of such in a
Questionable lght.-New York Sun.