The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-01-11

a new trial This may be another years delay The
lawabiding public this and regards the courts
juggle. The brutal classes that the law makes
the murderer its dearest object and that in all this
proceeding he becomesa kind of hero.--Cineinnati
Commercial Gazette.
The position of neither party is all that the earnest
supporter of reform could wish for But there is this
difference, that the Republican party recognizes to
some extent the demand for divorcing the offices and
politics, while the Democratic party antagonizes it.
While this difference in their respective positions
nues it will not take long for Independent voters to
make selection between them.-Pittsburg Dispatch.
AS it is the Chinese immigration prohibition act
fuls neither the unworthy object of its enactment
the worthy object that the legislative power ought
to have had in view. Further legislation upon the
subject is demanded But no remedial measure viii
be defensibe than the original enactment unless
its object shall be changed from the exclusion of
particular class OF Mongolians called laborers to tho
exclusion OF an Asiatic that American society
cannot assimilate-Chicago Times.
The four per cents, which will far into the
future as the national bank system extends into the
past must be the future basis of circulation and they
are of sufficient volume to provide it abundanty In
the meanwhile let no one be deceived into believing
that the bank system is tax or charge upon the
treasury or taxpayers The per cent bonds Will be
irTedeemable for wentythree years to come The in
terest must be paid of course whether the bonds are
owned by national banks others. 1t costs the peo
pie nothing to permit them to be used in the mean
while to create basis of bank circuation.-Lousyle
Courier-J ourna.
THE provision of ample means of egress from all
public buildings including churches, ought to be made
compulsory everywhere and really fre-proof stair.
case, not mere iron ladder nailed against the wall
ought to be provided for every hotel school, nsti
ton of any kind in which people lodged for the
night far from the ground as to make eapng from
the windows mmnently dangerous to life Churches
should set example in these things as in Others
and not wait to be dragooned by law into taking pre-
cautions obviously necessary for the safety of those
who commit themselves to churches or to church in
sttutions.-New York Times.
NEITHER Congressman Barlsdale nor any of the
apologists of the Copiah county murder to real
ze that the evidence record against them is of their
own making. The resolutions passed by the citizens
meeting, from the warning to Matthewss relatives to
keep quiet down to the final offering of thanks the
Hazehurst brass band for their services on this
sion, make complete picture of the political bar
barty of this people which amount of protestaton
and denial wipe out. Every American citizen
who believes in free ballot thanks to these
who thus unconsciously drew their own portraits in
true hp2s-New York Tribune.
The stupid charlatanism of saying that our exports
are checked when the whole outside world is in state
OF constipation. much moro severe than
will probably like the rinderpest in cattle and the
footrot in sheep itself out in the of tine
year: 1t Is much like saying that Vanderbts shares
are falling in value because the penitentiaries and
prisons closed against all his efforts to borrow
The privilege of selling all manufactured goods to the
super-inpo outside world is of about as much
value to American producers the privilege to Van
derblt of borrowing money from the criminal and
pauper classes would be toward preventing a decline
in his stoeks.-Chicago Inter Ocean.
THE selection of Payne is appeal for the dispace
ment of all noble motives in politics and the substu-
ton for them of the lowest passions of the ntrguer
for Office. 1t is move to make elections every
year more and more feverish fights for the pos
session of the public revenues instead OF contests
of principle. The Ohio Democrats sent Thur
man to the rear because he had offended a great cor
poraton which had solid reasons to distribute among
the Democracy. Their sacrifice of Pendleton is. as
plainly as that of Thurman surrender of the Ohio
Democracy the guidance of its mostdegraded forces
As Republicans. We grieve that not to meet
better antagonist on higher platform lineage