The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-04-02


no innocent bystanders.' Legally and morally
there is no one present but rioters, and citizens
and troops suppressins rioters. Any man who
puts himself in the streets at such a time aids a
riot, unless he is aiding in suppresslng it, and
matter of fact enormous fraction of
every mob is made of men who propose to be
innocent bystanders7 if the mob is dispersed
and to join its work if it succeeds.
N1URDERERs MUST BE PUNISHED
Terre Haute Courier.
This rising against the NAL administration of
justice speaks to the entire country IN language
that cannot be MISUNDERSTANDING the people
have grown weary of the little value the courts
and iuries of our country place on human life
1t says that the day is passed for red-handed
murdererS to be let loose upon the community,
and that our courts in the administration of jus
| tice shall return once more to the old Mosaic
law, IAN eye for an eye, tooth for tooth, and
| whatsoever sheddeth mans blood, by man shall
his blood be shed"
WHY NOT MAKE THE EXPERIMENTS
Ohio State Journal
The saloons were closed in Cincinnati last Sun
| day because they were recognized as feeding the
angry passions of the mob But these passions
| have been fed at the same places for many pre-
| vious Sundays, until the elimination which has
| startled the whole country. Would it not be
! well to close them every Sunday for q while as
| an experiment. If that works well, as it
! tainly will then push the matter further by clos
| ing them every night at 10 o'clock. After that,
| it would not be such terrible thing to close
| them altogether
| REFORM IN THE ADMINISTRATION OF LAW.
Cincinnati Commercial Gazette.
! If we are to have order without the bayonet,
outside the reach of the menacing edge of the
sword, the authorities must do justice-nOt
| alone in hanging the murderers, but in the re-
forms that will insure speedy and marked bet
| terment of the administration Of the law. 1t is
well known what the Legislature should do. If
! criminal trials are game we do not want the
nI,t u o1- NV
way we have been going here the criminal
classes and criminal lawyers were becoming
ruling class.
THE CRIMINAL LAWYER.
Lafayette Journal
A man accused of crime is entitled to all attor
ney and just Defense but no one, whether
called lawyer or not, is justified, in turning
thieves and murdererS loose on society, Ill order,
| as Tom Campbell boosted, to keep his record
| of clearing clients unbroken. Public sentiment
should visit such attorneys with such intense
| Indignation to cause such men to be parlahS
in society, and to utterly fail to earn a living at
| the bar. They are enemies to morality, civiliza-
| ton, and the public peace
A DAY OF RECKONING AT HAND.
Muncie News
1t is to be hoped that the frightful lesson of
Cincinnati will cause the curtain to be rung
down and so shut out from the view of the ap-
palled spectators the carnival of crime that has
been enacted throughout the country for years.
| Inc udy Oh reckoning appears 10 DC al manu-
when the people, inpatient at the tardy or i'm
potent administration of justice, will defend
| themselves in summary manner and render
punishment where it is deserved.
THE LAW MUST BE STRENGTHENED
| Cincinnati News Journal.
We need a radical strengthening of the arm of
| the law, that neither money may buy, influence
| procure, standing secure nor corrupt juries, I'M
due weight of defensive challenges, delays, or
technicalites provide the possibility, of i'm
munity from the retribution that should, as di-
rect and sure as the lightnings bolt, follow crime
| and blast the guilty.
MOB SPIRIT MUST NOT BE ENCOURAGED.
Madison Courier.
The mob is a serpent which, if we take to our
bosoms, will sting to death everything we hold
dear, either in the state or in the home Let the
mob spirit find no encouragement, but let every
good citizen aid in stamping out its baneful
spirit, that life may be safe. property be unmo-
Tested, and law and order be maintained.
THE FAULT NOT WITH THE MILITIA
Philadelphia Press.
The Ohio militia will be howled at from one
end of the country to the other. as the militia of
! Pennsylvania were after the riots of 1877 but
the fault in these cases is never with the men in
| line, but with the miserable organization which
brings them into the streets unfit for their work.
MORAL OF THE TRAGEDY.
Columbus Republican.
| If there was not so much winking at small of
IenSeS by JnOSe IN duUnOflJy. ana so many
escapes from large ones through technicalities
and corruption, there would be no excuse for
mobs, and this is the moral to be drawn from
this great tragedy
THE NEXT MAN WILL BE HANGED.
Milwaukee Sentinel.
| Of course their action does not reform the ad
ministration of justice Its effect will be to cause
| the execution of innocent men. The next man
who is tried for murder in Cincinnati will be
hanged-guilty or innocent. No juror will vote
for acquittal now
| ONE BENEFICIAL RESULT.
sheIbyvilIe Democrat
The dreadful work will not be without its ben
efcial results, not only to Cincinnati but to the
| whole country, if it shall teach the lesson OF
| greater respect for the laws in the courts and
| jury rooms of the land.
GOOD CITIZENS AND JURIEs.
| st. Louis Post Dispatch.
The "best citizens" of Cincinnati shirk jury
| duty, and then grow indignant because hummer
| iuries render hummer verdicts. This weakness
| is not confined exclusively to Cincinnati
THE FRUIT OF DISSIPATION AND DEBAUcHERY.
Sermon of Rev. A. L, Hobbs, at Louisville.
The riots in Cincinnati are the legitimate fruits
| of leaving the tiger in human nature unclaimed
| For years things have been going to the bad
| Dissipation and debauchery have a long time
been unchecked. The Lords day. properly OBJ
served has been despised Hilltop resorts have
| been made fountains of moral corruption, the
streams flowing down upon the city fuller on the
Lords day than any other. Saloons in the city,
vile theaters, gambling hells, bawdy houses,
cooking mains, base ball parks. and other sports
unchecked by law even on the Lords day, have
drawn the mass of the Cincinnati population
away from the house of God, even its boys and
| girls away from moral and religious influence.
Yet the authorities have stood by in terror Of
rabble votes and allowed it all to 60 until the
| streets are stained with blood.
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