The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-03-26
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Soon there will be no legal or social or moral dis.
tnction between murderers and other citizens. Why
should there be any between murderers and ures of
their peers who find that to deliberately kill for
the money in his pocket is little more than assault and
battery The incompetence criminal sympathy of
juries at the bottom end of the trialof murderer
has its counterpart at the top in the technical refine
ments of the Supreme Court. which abandon all CON
sideration that the object of LAWS
Commercial Gazette.
If Blaine is forced upon the party at Chicago his
defeat is certain What would his election mean to
the conservative business of the countryl If his
brief reign at the head of the State Department is
any criterion should have four years of sensation
asm designed to make party capital for another term.
Dlsquet and uncertainty as to the next move In the
meodrama that might easily develop into great
tional tragedy would follow than which nothing could
be injurious to the business interests of the
country.-Boston Transcript Rep.).
THE taxing of credits is vicious in principle and
shortsighted in policy. 1t is bound to deprive the
community of the benefits incident to the liberal
of money, and to withhold from government the
which would be derived from the products of lib
eral Investment. The attempt at collecting double
taxation will always result in smaller yield than the
actual collection of single tax levied upon tangible
property and the community which pursues the for
mer policy will always lag behind the community
which follows the latter-Chicago Tribune.
THE liquor business tells the people that it has
great political power that it is organized and that it
will fight reform and temperance with the votes of the
unfortunates it has imbruted This. then is what the
community has to face. 1t must either submit the
political supremacy of the rumsellers it must either
accept their government it must either bow to their
standard of morals and declare them to be entitled
protection and respect, or it must make up its mind
to a conflict the aim and end of which shall be the
overthrow of this abominable abuse and the prctec-
ton of the against the worst foe of civilization.
New York Tribune.
THE whole of this sudden rruption of Juvenile de-
pravity traceable to ooseness of discipline and that
license of thought and conduct which are permitted
nowhere else in the world If parents and guardians
cannot instruct children that they will avoid be-
coming outlaws before their bones hard something
ought to be done by society to prevent the vendors of
poisonous literature from misinstructing them. As
society has to pay penalty in the crop of after
bonds and adventures it might turn its attention TO
this noxous field with advantage and burn it over as
the Western farmers do when they threatened with
the Colorado beetle.-New York World
WHAT the freedman most needs is born leader of
his color. He needs the help of an economic
John Wesleyan apostle TO teach him how to use his
earnings to the best advantage, and how to combine
and cooperate Every workngman expends energy
enough to him a comfortable home and enjoy.
able living if only his labor wisely applied and
the product of it well husbauded This is true in the
North, and it is equally true of the South What the
freedman loses in unhandy working he makes up out
of the less exaeting climate. But too large proper
ton of his working goes for naught because he does
not know how to economic it-Chicago News.
ENGLAND still has possession of the vast navigation
interests which she swept from under the American
flag and brought under her flag by conniving with
piracy The American people detest dynamiting but
called upon by those who hold the accumulated profits
of four years of piracy still in their possession to pro-
teot England from any of the natural, though vexa-
ous consequences of the disaection of her subjects
on the ground that this is "evident international
duty" Those who desire the performance OF 'evl.
dent international duties" must not bend too heavily
under the weight of the plumber derived from their
violation.-Chicago Inter Ocean.
THAT administration of justice which turns it to the
protection of murder is entitled to respect
than the murder The people feel that this mockery
of law and Justice which takes away from society its
lawful protection They feel that it is degradation
of law TO protection of crime which degrades the
whole community They feel that it makes the courts
accessory murder and deprives them of all enttle
ment to the respect of law-abding In this
the 1nockery of justice is the jury in the face of
upright Judge. In another notorious murder case,
which has had three verdicts of murder, the mocery
of Justice and law in the housing technical qub
bling of the Supreme Court.-Cincnnati Commercial
Gazette.
THERE is no difficulty in imprisoning a man on a
charge of fraud but it has been and is the
practice to clap debtors in jail when no ground for a
charge Of fraud exists when the failure to pay debts
is due to sheer inability. There can be excuse or
justification for this There be for i'm
prsoning any civil process. II is barbarous.
1t against the spirit if not the letter of the Consti
tuition. 1t is under the existing political conditions.
net only abuse, but outrage since it puts help
less and Innocent citizens into the power of venal and
unprincipled politicians who plumber them without
copunction and do not hesitate to subject them to
worse treatment than the vest criminal receives in
The penitentiaries Laws which permit such things to
be do,,s should not be tolerated for moment after
the truth Is made known.--New York Tribune.