The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-04-01

pursuits or respectable mechanics and laborers
60 on from day to day in the ordinary routine of
life, and are regarded as model citizens. Get
them together in a mob, give them an exciting
cause to stir their feelings and arouse their pas
sons, and a single inhammatory speech may
turn them into an army of yelling, crazy ruff
ans, ready to defy the authorities and to bring
ruin and death on innocent people
THE DUTY OF GOOD CITIZENS.
New York Tribune.
constant and steady vigilance Civilization
only be maintained by patient and continual
eXertion. The supervision of governmental af
fairs, from the highest to the lowest is the duty
OF good citizens at all times; and that is not good
citizenship. however cultured and intelligent,
which disdains this work, and leaves it to the ig
norant, the vicious, and the venal Had Cincin-
natl seen to 1t that her criminal practice
officials were kept well under the the criticism
of public opinion it would not have been neces-
sary TO call an indignation meeting over the
Berner verdict, nor would that meeting have
been the Indictment to riot
THE BEST MEN SHOULD SERVE ON JURIEs.
Cleveland Leader.
What is needed is the enforcement of the laws
and to this end the best men in the community
should be compelled to serve on juries. The
laws allowing them to be exempted from jury
service should be repealed, and then cases would
be submitted to the judgment Of men who could
nOU DE hoodwinked by cunning lawyers. Inc
riot which has disgraced Cincinnati and de
stroyed vast amount Of property is without any
possible justification but the series of outrage
GUS verdicts lately rendered in that city, and the
open immunity to murder furnished an excuse
for it. The remedy will be found in a full and
impartial application of the law, and this is in
the hands of the people.
LESSONS THAT MUST NOT BE NEGLECTED.
Louisville Commercial.
The commonplace of mob repression should
not lead the public interested in good govern
ment to neglect the lessons taught by the origi
nal outburst of popular fury in Cincinnati. As
long as the American people allow criminals 50
much influence in organizing their courts, and
bummers so much power in selecting their
niclpal officers we may expect occasions for
mobs and inefficiency in putting them down.
When an American city, nowadays, has good
courts and good municipal governments, it is
either due to the main strength and awkward
ness of the good people or to happy chance
THE CORRUPT JURY SYSTEM
Chicago Tribune.
The wretch Berner, who is safely in the peni-
tertiary, the corrupt jury which tried him, his
any scoundrel, have brought terrible disaster
upon Cincinnati. Had it not been for the cor
rupt jury system this riot would not have oc-
Cured So far as the riot was in the nature of
protest it has done its work, and it would have
been better had the protest stopped with the
ton of the Music Hall meeting; but some allow
ance must be made for the feelings of people
driven to desperation by the failure of the courts
to protect them.
HOPELESS FOR REDRESS OF WRONG.
Chicago Inter Ocean.
The mob at Cincinnati is not so much an evil
dence of the awlessness of the people as it is the
maddened condition of the community in the
hopelessness for redress of wrong by heenforce-
ment of law 1t is not the time for
elimination but certainly it ought to suggest to
thOl1Obffu1 hat
wrongs in the execution of our laws which
should be righted and urge them to make earn
est efforts for reforms which shall make such
exhibitions as unpopular as they are unwise and
criminal.
THE LAW MUST BE RESPECTED
New York Dial.
There was cause, however, for some demon
stration and it is only to be regretted that the
people should have overstepped the limit of
moderation. The law must be respected If
amended. Mobs are not made up from the best
citizens. Not only are criminals and evii-doers
to be found in mobs, plying their vocation. but
they are frequently the most active members.
with the intention of aggravating public disorder
and profiting by the opportunity for plumber or
worse.
TWO POINTS OF VIEW.
Detroit Times
Viewed in one aspect the mad outburst of in
di gnation is indicative of the fact that men
but devils under temporary restraint, and that
they will recognize no law when their laws are
not enforced against offenders of whose guilt
there can be no question. From another phase
of the terrible situation we may gather that the
people are merely making ors final, desperate
protest against the packing of jures by corrupt
officials and the general laxity with which their
municipality is governed
LYNCHING WILL NOT DO IN CITIES
New York Evening Post.
4 revival of lynching will not do in large
h., 10.
tive rural communities, where there is no we'll
oranized police or militia whose duty it is to fire
upon any mob, no matter how good its motives.
The only way in civilized communities to stop
murder is TO provide legal machinery which will
strike terror into the hearts of the murderers.
CIVIL DUTIES MUST BE DISCHARGED.
St. Louis Republican.
We can see but one possible good to result
from the appalling crime of the Cincinnati riot:
1t may quicken other communities to the per-
Torrance of the constant duties of civil life,
rather than to wait till the social fabric is dis
turbed as to call for indignant extrajudicial
ton, which is always dangerous and may at any
time result as it has in that city.
REAL AND REPRESENTATIVE EVIL.
st. Louis Globe Democrat.
The provocation which gave rise to the Gin
cinnati mob was real and representative one
That the mob has lost its head and is unreason-
ing cannot hide this truth. The circumstance
ought to produce profound impression upon
thinking people. 1t is a matter for statesmen to
deal with well as the soldiery and police
LAw-AB1DING CITIZENS MUST DO THEIR DUTY
Lafayette journal.
The aw-abiding citizens of this country must
see to it that crime is adequately punished and
that mohs shall not be tolerated. They must
make justice terrible to crime in every form.
CHILDREN MUST BE PROPERLY BROUGHT UP.
Archbishop Elders Sunday Sermon.
There is or can be no excuse for violence, for
it is against the laws of God and man And
now you, my dearly belo we'd, as Catholics should
discountenance ali such acts, and use your in
fuence with your neighbors, who may be under
the impression that violence in such cases as the
present can be justified; but my friends, it is
positively not justifable, and you must not in
any way side with those who are committing
these unlawful acts Those people who go to
see the battle must expect to the risk of