The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-01-07
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No official or employee in position of trust should
be allowed to speculate on margins, even with his own
money. In all such speculation on the part of
thus situated is just cause of suspicion and the
management of corporations should regard it as q
duty to their customers to eliminate even the risk of
injury by dismissing any employees addicted to such
practices-Louisville Courer-J ournal.
IF there is one man in Ohio for whom the small
army of sofhceseekers has no conceivable use it is
Pendleton who proposed and pushed the eivlservice
law. An oficeseeker has no ovations for HIM
What they in politics for is the Offices, and the
who set going the system under which the Offices
to be given out to the men who are fit for them
instead of going according to the glorious old Demo-
cratic rule to the workers Of the party need not ex-
peet to be ovaed in Ohio Thati is not the Ohio idea
HAS refined and cultured journalism no other rem
edy for such barbsts in government by the people
than the sneerng suggestion that the negro must fight
his battles against awesS Bourbon brutality So
did not advise the Tribune in 1868 when the Demo-
cratic antrat rioters threatened the life of Horace
Greeley in the CITY of New York If every man is to
be law unto himself and is to enjoy only such rights
and privileges he preserve to himself with the
strong arm, the deadly weapon torch, then chaos
is come again.-National Republican.
THERE is mighty little satisfaction for the public in
the Withdrawal from the bench of able federal
Judge after another merely because money is to
be made at the bar Our courts are none too strong
when the best talent is engaged in their service If,
it has happened il the of Judge McCrary and
of others before him, the salary of judge of the
United States Circuit Court plus the glory does not
equal probable earnings in practice, it may be worth
while to inquire whether the compensation of the jul
dietary ought not to be increased-St Louis Globe
Democrat.
PRINCIPAL cause of Industrial disorder has been
the refusal of working people to bear share of the
sacrifices which the fall in prices involved. With
cheaper food aud clothing the inevitable reduction in
wages which they have resisted unwisey and in vain
will leave them at least well off they were in
1881 1892 The profits of manufacturers and
dealers and the dividends of corporations have been
seriously reduced but there is wide difference be-
tween slender profits and ruin The country has to
wait with some some endurance and patience for the
readjusment of industries and branches of trade to
changed conditions, but there is nothing TO indicate
that a recovery of business health need long be de-
layed.-New York Tribune.
SOCIETY invites its own ruin when it commits that
important trust sragel to persons not qualified to
discharge it for the common good There is such
qualification in citizenship in residence nor in
manhood, nor in womanhood, nor in age, nor in
schooling, nor in the ownership of things that dis
honest rogue may carry away in his pocket on his
back There is such qualification in the ownership
of an estate in land however small because such own
ership establishes the citizen in fixed relation of in
by public act injure the estates of others without
iniuring his estate may be safely trusted las u
rule to discharge the Office of eector The society
that properly guards its welbeng will trust the
discharge of that office to no other.-Chcago Times.
Whatever is most necessary to make com
Portable the laborers life should be made cheaper by
removing from it. and hence from him. the burdens of
taxation The next step in the direction of true tar
if reform is to remove reduce the duties I'M
posed on raw materials If the cost of the prod
ucts that enter into the manufacture of whatever
make in this country is diminished just much will
the cost of the article mani featured be essened and
consequently its consumption increased. Increased
consumption involves enlarged manufactures with in
creasing numbers of mechanical laborers This is the
kind of legitimate aud healthy protection that is to be
favored because it affords increased employment to
American labor still more than to American capital
and gives the skilled mechanic paying employment at
home.-Frank Leslie Weekly