The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-07-15
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No system of license high or low, or Of prohibition
be made effective except in localities where
moral sentiment in favor of license prohibition
stands behind the law and to its enforcement In
other words prohibition must be the work. not of the
law, but the general sentiment of the people This is
the that heretofore prohibition has been made
effective only in neighborhoods where the public sent
men overwhelmingly against the of alcoholic
drinks that really law necessary, while in large
cities the effort to enforce prohlbive aw has In
variably failed.-St. Louis Globe Democrat.
THE old idea that the Indians are incapable of
civilization longer be held ntelligently. Even
the most malignant hater of the red man must see IN
the success attained by Indian schools and by the
Cherokees and others in Indian Territory that they
are already sharing in civilization. The time has
come for radical adjustment of the relations of the
United States government to them. Instead OF as
Stunning that they of paupers, and must be
supported in dleness that the game supply has
oeen cut Off, the assumption should be that they
should become self-supporting and that at day not
Tar dlstant.-Chicago Inter Ocean.
THE causes for depression which may be called the
most substantal-those connected with the enormous
overbullding of railways and like enterprses-show
signs OF having exhausted themselves. There remain
now mainly those connected with the want of con-
fdence in the public mind, and Of these the silver
question is the most important There begins to be
considerable hope that this question may be favorably
settled at the coming session of Congress. If it
be- the immediate future is in all ways encouraging
and may be fattering. Whether it can be not de-
ponds entirely upon the vigor and determination with
which safe and honest settlement of the question is
| demanded-New York Times.
TN Pail Mall Gazette may justly plead that the
only way to effect reform of the reekng rottenness
of London life in exposing it in all its loathsome
nastness and hdeousness. The English editors, and
clergymen and phanthropists may agree that the
al atmosphere of London needed to be exposed and
stirred up until the stencil of its founess polluted the
nostrs of the world in order that the whole body of
the city, life should not become hopeessy diseased.
But American editors, and clergymen and philan-
throplsts and public opinion should unite in condemn
ing the circulation of the debasing revelations in this
country If similar moral ulcer is eating the life
ma her 1I1fy
OF America to expose it. but there should be place in
American newspapers for the recital of the nfamy of
England byways and brothels.-Chcago News
TODAY, in this Republican land among people
who won political justice from those for whom NAL
thus wrote, and people whose happy history has
led them to love God for His goodness rather than to
fear Him for His power, and who worship Him as
father rather than crouch before Him tyrant,
men are preaching Malthusanism as an excuse for
what is wrong in the world and repeating arguments
with which Nautilus hoped to bolster the claims of
kings and arstocrats. No grosser nonsense
printed than that that population is always imping.
ing the limits of production and that hunger and
wretchedness result 1t is an instructive fact and
is an influential fact that the legislative body of one
of the first nations of Europe should by formal act
show the contempt which every intelligent ought
to feel toward so execrable humbug that which
bears the name of Misunderstanding Chronicle.
SMALL landhoders who are accustomed to garner
crops hundred days from planting have a natural
shrinking from seed which may not mature crop in
| hundred years. But let it be shown that growing
wood waste land enhances the value of the remain
der of the the farm by than the planting and
care have cost, that the first instament of forest
crop is not so remote as is generally believed that the
tree growth enriches rather than mpo veIishes the
ground and that the best varieties of wood can be
grown as easily the poorest while the demand for
forest products is to be urgent and grove
of timber will beautify every farm and between
woodland and ploughand will be restored that balance
which must be preserved to insure the most equabe
distribution of moisture and climatic conditions most
favorable to the productveness of the soil and the
better health of the people-New York Tribune
The story comes now that public inquiry into the
truth of the Pail Mall Gazetes revelations is to be
prevented by the intervention Of the highest author
tiles in the land because the exposures would imme
diaely mphcate prominent representatives of royalty
and the aristocracy. This indeed, is astounding
revelation-or would be 80 to a people who had not
been made, by centuries of experience caous to the
crimnality of what called and considered the
upper classes" This seville submission by the
people, even to the sensuality of their supposed
superiors dates from the days when the daughter Of
the cottager sacrificed to the lord of the soil
before she could wed with of her class. This
sort of submission is naturally hereditary in nation
where the people put their hands their mouths
and their mouths in the dust, and silent to the
crimes and sensuality Of their superors.-New York
Sun.