The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-02-04

solid South has nothing to say. The Democratic party
has taken refuge in sinister silence. Is the party COM
mended to the country by this style of confessioni
We venture to think it is not. Sherman's point is
made.-Cincinnat Commercial Gazette.
As long as the people remain under control of the
party managers, who look upon questions only
President will continue to be exhibitions of irrational
excitement. There are signs everywhere that this
dOm1R nat OF party is breaking DOWN and when it
end. Political questions Will then be determined by
the public interests, without regard to the selfish
hopes or fears of Observation-Disclosures Record.
THERE is undeniable warrant for federable @legisin
ton Whlch Shall impose restrictions upon the railroads
as to Their charges and the general conduct Of their
business, without regard to the provisions of their
charters which may have been granted them by a par
ticular State or States. The congressional RIGHT 10
regulate commerce between the States is original. alb
solute, and unlimited, and its applicability to the ope-
rations of the railroads is not to be questioned either
in a logical or a legal sense.-St. Louis ~Globe Demo-
GRAFT.
in practically %resenting the European discrimination
against our hog productsl2 Why should Congress
await any further confirmation of a state of facts al
ready established! And why should the Secretary Of
State advise a further postponement of action in the
very face of convincing evidence which he himself of
fers that the hygienic considerations set up by Francs
and Germany are entirely groundlessl Mr.. Freling-
huysen advice is so cowardly and so inconsistent
est attention to it.-Chicago Tribune.
IT is monstrous to pretend that the State may not
regulate, to any point to which public opinion viii
sustain It, a business in which the proportion of posi-.
1--WE utility Is lnhnitesimal and the portion of positive
mischief enormous. The question should be settled
on grounds of public policy without reference to the
interest of the individuals engaged in the traffic, in
5erests which are contemplate in comparison with
the public interest. But if lquor-dealers elsewhere
emulate the aggressive impudence of the lquor-deal
ers of Buffalo, the question is likely to be settled in q
spirit of actual hostility to the Equor-dealers.-New
York Times.
IT is to be a remarkably intelligent and independent
campaign, and votes quite enough to decide it will be
cast upon the deliberate conviction that the natural,
wise, orderly, patriotic and progressive course of the
government will be more probably secured nv one
party than by the other. In forming this conclusion
the character and significance of the candidate will be,
of course, a very important consideration. But as the
Republican party will not hurrah for the spoils, it cam
not wisely hurrah for the war. Its hurrah must be fox
the reform which it has auspiciously begun, and for
the progress to which, by its general intelligence and
traditions, it is d~evoted.-Harpers Weekly.
THE hardness of your hearts was the reason as
signed by the Master for the relaxation at a very
early day of the higher and purer law of marriage.
this relaxation that it shall not become dangerous TO
society. There is more than one way in which the
marriage covenant may be subverted and made a
covert Tor the most odious tyranny. 1t is for our leg
islators to consider and determine what are the Just
and rightful grounds of divorce, and to frame such
laws as will protect the married from oppression, in
justice and cruelty, on the one hand, and conserve the
best interests of society on the other.-Frank Leslies
Weekly.
known principle, and the m~ajorities given for it were
honest and fair, we could not complain. but the peo-
pie who are d1stranch1sed by the murderOus shotgun
in all national affairs are precisely those who were the
friends of the nation when its life was put in peril by
the rebellion. From Pennsylvania to Mexico no coll
ored man will be allowed to cast a vote that puts in
doubt one electoral vote for the next President and
Vice-president of the United States. Was this the,
basis of reconstruction Is submission to this, and
its confirmation and support in the North, the states.
manship to which the New York Times invites usf
cincinnati Commercial Gazette.
THE markets have lost their proper character. They
no longer serve to fix an honest priceby the balaucingo Of
actual buyers against'actual sellers. On the contrary,
they generally set up afalsea and fictitious price. because,
in addition to the people who are able to own a prop
erty and have really got it to sell, there are also in the
market as sellers a great many other people who own
none. Prices no longer reflect facts, therefore, but
gambling expectations. A few bold desperadoes, who
own no property except money in bank, can sell the
property of any other man, and Jump on" it when
there happen to be no buyers. and then lie about it
until real holders are frightened, and so can plumber
the people who put their earnings into public enter
prises.--New York Tribune.