The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-11-27
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AS Mr.. BLAINE wouldn't be senator from Pennsyl
vanio if he could, and couldn't if he would, regard
1t entirely safe to say that all discussion of him
candidate is improbable, for the generally
idle organs.-Philadelphia Times.
THERE is no promising field for investment in the
South no hope for permanent prosperity there till it
is ready to deal properly with its laborng class as
voters not because they negroes but because they
citizens to correctly count their votes when freely
to do ia to do right and to execute justice.-St
Louis Globe Democrat.
THE loyal forces have again sustained a repulse
They have lost the presidency but they lose nothing
else. They gain in the Senate and they gain in the
House. They united compact and de
termined than ever with more men in line than ever
before, and clearer purpose. Their leader, too like
General Grant docs not retreat but the next day de
liberately moves forward into the enemys country.
No. friend; AppOmattox is yet to come. The chances
that it will not be reversed.-New York Tribune.
HAVING failed to interdict these polygamousl
marriages, the government is embarrassed by the
results of its negligence The most that be done
apparently is to prevent by penalties and pun
ishments, the contraction of further polygamous
unions to require license publicity, and record OF
all marriages; to confirm and extend the disqualified
tions of polygamists, deterrent force with the
young men; and to prohibit the immigration of law
breakers recruited by the Mormon missionaries
abroad 1t is too late to cut the upas tree by the
roots but it be girdled and left to die.-Boston
Herald.
THE greatest question regarding the negro race TO-
day is how its education may be advanced Thore are
not wanting numerous writers and speakers who con
tend that the negros place lS In the workshop and
the field instead of the schoolroom, and recently
published a.ch charge to jury by circuit judge in
South Carolina embracing the opinion that the negro
is injured by education and that schools ruin him for
all useful purposes. 1t is to be- hoped that the negro
will not lack for friends But what is to be looked
for in his behalf from the Southern people whose
pressons of the class outlined above2Louisville
Commercial.
In most parts of the South the colored people are
secure in their rights they can be made by any
national action 1t only needs that the white citizens
d. I....l and r1ola unfa
general settle the issue there for the present
leaving to education and other civiziug influences
dspensable element. The Republican principles and
policy with respect to the conduct of the govern
ment will commend themselves to the judgment and
the self-interest of Southern people, the same as
they do to corresponding classes at the North when
once the old preudices and fears have been removed
And it is In the work of alaying these that the Re-
publican party will tnd the most practical results.
Boston Advertiser
THAT the negroes are not without warrant for their
fears is by the recorded uterances of the lead
ing members of the Democratic party well as by
their long sustained attitude of hostility to the
both as a and citizen. The men who resisted
the emancipation and the Acknowledgement of the ne
gro and every act which has since been introduced
for his benefit have not been suddenly converted into
his friend by the acquisition of authority in the Ma
ton They threatened long ago that the advent Of
the Democratic party to power would DO the signal for
the disappearance Of the political power of the negro
and now that they have secured the power which they
have long been reaching after is not the negro justified
him of political Observation-Disclosures Press,
ONE great source of danger is in private and lodg-
ing-houses. There should be immediate and
thorough official inspection of the traps and plumbing
of every dwelling and of every manufacturing and
business house in the city Wherever there is
gas o. foul odors the plague turks. Not stone
should be left unturned anywhere if there is posi-
bility that it may conceal filth. Because we on
the threshold of the winter is certain barrier
against cholera. 1t is raging in Paris 1t made
it's first visit to London in 1881, in mdwinter, and
prevailed in Paris the year before the spring had
set in. Only extreme cold can check it. With ex-
IRENE cold never lasts long enough to be looked TO
q barrier We must look to ourselves and own
preparations to prevent the coming of the plague.
New York Truth.
THE time is fast passing when the idlotic shotgun
policy of white mans government" and keeping
the niger in his place" can remain seated on the
safetyvalve. The only way out of this threatening
complication of caste and ignorance is Washing
toms way emphasized In his farewell address, PRO
mote, as an obiect of prime Importance institutions
for the general diffusion of knowledge" and Jefer-
sons way-"F nation expects to be ignorant and
free in state of civilization it expects what never
was and will be-" Let the appeal be made
ceasngly to Cesar till the legislators and the
tive Of the American people hear it from the people,