The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-04-08
CURRENT PRESS COMMENT.

THERE is not much use in reasoning with anybody
who is either writing or talking in a frenzy, but when
the editors OF the Commercial Gazette recover their
senses, we trust they will explain what their plan is
for keeping mob law in great cities in the hands of the
best people. New York Evening Post.
THIS may be a very good time for stirring up the
Cubans, as the young man said when he iabbed a PEN
knife into the side of a sleeping lion, but history does
not record what was done with the few remaining
fragments of the disturbing force. 1t will be a very
good thing for Aguero and his party if heis headed off.
Chicago Inter Ocean.
CITIZENS who forget to vote, rich men always at the
club and never at the primary, the great mass of edu-
Gated. intelligent, enlightened, comfortloving profit
making men, this is the real mob, these are our "dan-
gerous classes On such men rests, in the last re-
sort. the sharp responsibility for a riot like that which
has desolated Cincinnati Press.
No State can prosper so long as any considerable
body of its citizens neglect their public duties. Let
every qualified elector attend the caucus and primary
meetings of his party, vote at all elections, and duly
perform his part in the administration of justice by
serving as a juryman, and we shall have less frequent
occasion for the political reform movements which
have been so common of late years.-New York Sun.
THE Cincinnati riot was put down by the combined
efforts of the municipal and State authorities. The
Southern rioters have never been molested by author
ity of any kind, and their object has always met with
local and State sympathy. Where they have COM
mitted murder no arrests have been made; no penalty
inflicted. The murderers have been Endorsed by the
Bourbon party, and in some instances rewarded with
Office for executing the wishes of the p~arty--ChicagO
Tribune.
THERE should never be another riot like the one az
Cincinnati. There will, however, be many of them.
The Judiciary is the greatest tyrant this country has.
The criminal lawyer is the most dangerous of all
scoundrels, for the reason that the Judiciary recog-
nizes his vilainy as right. There must be reform in
the places whose chief business it used to be to punish
crime, or there will be an uprising that will bring ter
ror and injury to every section of the country.-New
York Graphic.
OUR failure to deal with murderers eompetently is
of u piece with our failure in dealing with other Grim
inals. All of which most surely comes back to the in
difference of the decent element in society. BY and
by the business men will discover that it is both
cheaper and easier to carry an election than a
riot. Society must purify itself, or else Tester and de.
cay. The poison which fails to pass out by the natu.
raj channels must come out through the skin, and this
is what happened il Cincinnati last ~week.-Chicago
News.
This is an American Congress- Democratic Com
gress, let us hasten to observe. For the Senate,
though nominally Republican by a bare majority, has
been compelled to wait by the inaction of the House,
and the few measures it has passed are sleeping I'M
noticed in the committees or on the calendar Of that
congregation of incapables. If a man wanted con.
vincing proof of the absolute inability of the people 10
govern themselves, might he not take the 2, 600 pages
of congressional proceedingsY The very word, pro.
ceedings,' makes one laugh. For four months Con.
gress has been proceeding nowhither. There has been
nothing halt so tiresome since the last w~alking-match.
Network Tribune.
THE candidate who is surest OF election is the one
who makes himself hail fellow well met with the
classes who thrive by doing precisely the things that
governments are instituted to check and prevent.
Men put in Office by such influences must bend to
their requirements, and pay for their support by
shielding them in their crooked and pernicious opera
tions. As the fountain is, so must the stream be; the
men who choose the officers decide the quality of the
government. The remedy is to be found in an awaken
ing of the reputable, law-abiding, tax-paying classes to
the necessity Of redeeming local politics from the
domination of those whose chief concern it is to
weaken respect for law and order and make wicked
ness safe and pro6table.-St. Louis Globe-Demoerat.
Isit to be understood that the foreign policy of the
present administration is one with which the country
IS not satisfied On was the successful policy of Grants
administration in dealing with difficult foreign ques-
lions such as to inspire among the people any feeling
but That of pride in the government According TO
H. Js.uaaa R1a;natS IN oh y "a fopaiut, noliaV And If