The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-04-10
CURRENT PRESS COMMENT.

IT is very trying to our Democratic friends to have
to guide their when in power either by their
pledges made to get power the cold light of reason
They will have to struggle with the liquor ques-
ton In Ohio, they are struggling with the tariff
question in Congress, and it looks as if they would
come out, in both cases, wiser and sadder men-New
York Times.
BEFORE our national government places forty or
fifty million dollars at the disposal of the several
State governments of the South it will be well by some
legislative to make it certain that the terms of
this transcendently important bill to the effect that
equal opportunity for education be given all the
children Of the State shall be made more than gilt
tering generalities. Chicago Inter Ocean.
CITIZENS must give up Sinking jury duty as they
have been doing. During citizens may avoid
draft by hiring substitutes but there is no hiring sub
stitutes to do jury duty Every good citizen should
make up his mind to do his duty when called to act
as juryman. 1t may be, and doubtless is very
rious inconvenience to business men in the city and
to farmers in the country to sit for days in jury
box to the neglect of their private interests Other
wise they should not complain of the jury system
falling into contempt, and the public interests com
mitted to the care of professional jurors and the
manpulaGons of lawyers.-Cincinnati Enquirer.
THE Century writer does not make the point sharper
than the truth warrants when ne says: '"The only
classes of persons interested in maintaining the pres
eat state of things the criminals and the criminal
lawyers; and is not for their exclusive benefit that
society is organized Vigorous and radical reform of
criminal law and the administration thereof is i'm
perativey demanded by every consideration of public
honor and public safety and the longer such reform is
postponed the greater will be its difficulties and the
the public will suffer in purse and person-the
weaker the protection of life and property and the
deeper the damage to national reputaton.-St. Louis
Globe-Democrat.
THE disposition of the people to express their own
first choice by ballots at primary meetings is good
sign. 1t shows that the voters begin to realize
they sometimes have not hitherto their right to do
the thinking and judging for themselves 1t is
be expected that there will be unanimity of prefer
in different parts of the country but the action
of judicous in convention cannot fail to be inu-
enced in reasonable by what is shown to be
the wish of the voters in different localities. The
thinking for State. The change casts greater
sponsibiity upon individual Republicans, which they
ought to be willing to meet-New York Tribune.
IT is also mistake to suppose that the task of pro-
vidng the Democratic party with platform for the
national canvass of formulating its principles and
supplying the ideas which commonly known as
Issues belongs to the Democratic congressman. They
can, however take such to render ridicu-
lous any declaration by the convention in favor of
prompt business-hke economical and strictly honest
administration of public affairs For the next three
months there is plenty of work for the Democrats in
Congress to do but it is the countrys business that
they expected to look after not the business of
if everybody keeps this fact in mind.-New York Sun
THERE is generally welldefned purpose at the
beginning of riot but it inevitably falls into the
wanton wickedness of the commune. The good men
drop out, and their places filed by the bad ones
1t is the opportunity that thieves, murderers and
seoundres of every degree most like. Whatever its
purpose the end is always bad and neither the police
violence do much in behalf of peace under the
law, however bad the law may be. There ought
to be safety enough for the people, against even
criminal lawyers. at the ballotbox What Is the rea
son that the protection offered by that instrument is
SO frequently treated with contempt2-New York