The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-09-05
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WHEN Mrs. Jarrett was arraigned for her connec-
ton with the abduction of girls for criminal purposes,
charged on the ground that public virtue would suffer
from disclosures affecting many great personages. in
Guiding the King of Belgium. But when the same
woman is arrested for abducting a ri merely to help
Mr.. Stead to show the world that such things can be
done, the prosecution is inappeas bic, and she is com.
mitted without bail. The proceedings against her and
the editor of the Pail Mall Gazette, for being technic-
ally guilty of a crime in exposing crime, look very
much like a deliberate attempt to protect crime in
high places, and to prosecute those who dare to assail
it.-St. Louis Post-Dispatch.
THE tariff reformers are no doubt very enthusiastic
and very impressionable statesmen. They feel com
PEELED to do good to the country even if it injure the
country very seriously to do it. They are not very
clear about the matter-like the awful Mikado, they
have an impression that there may be something like
boiling oil or melted lead in it, but it is something
humorous. But unlike the benevolent Mikado, they are
not willing to wait until after lunch for the sport.
They will give Mr.. Randall and his friends the boiling
oil CT molten lead first an take lunch afterward Mr.
Carlisle, Mr.. Morrison and their confreres have a con.
siderable responsibility upon them in the question of
prudence alone. They may be willing to sacrifice even
know, but somebody should head them ff.-Louis
vile Commercial.
THE fact is that ~pugilists are animals upon whom
blows fall without permanent effect. They may be
knocked out by being stunned. or temporarily dis.
abled by an untoward accident, but the effects of the
fight are not considerable, and it is all gush and hum.
bug to make a noise about them. There are a hundred
other things over which the moralists might air their
virtue to much better advantage. A Hudson river
picnic is a thousand times more fatal to virtue or to
life than a prize-hght. According to hundreds of
witnesses the average skating-rink is an infinitely
greater evil. In the slums of our great cities there
prevail such vice and degradation as the prize-ighter
would scorn to touch. And yet, periodically, we have
an outburst of warning and remonstrance as to prize
fights far greater than one ever hears about all the
rest combined. Washington Post.
THE tactics of the Democratic enemies of the re-
form now appear to be to arouse and solidify the
partv's hostility, and bring it to bear with so much
force upon the President that he will be compelled to
abandon his half-hearted efforts in favor of the law.
One method to this end is to goad the Democrats into
anger by asserting that the civil-service regulations
put a stigma upon every Democrat, and by pointing to
the Republicans holding Offices which by right belong
| to their opponents. Another method is to bring the
civil-service examinations into contempt by ridicule
and by caricaturing the commission. These are
shrewd means to accomplish the purpose in view, and
so successful have they been that the s~agacity of those
who predicted that the President would be compelled
TO abandon the reform or antagoniZe his party has
been proved already.-Philadelphia Press.
THE Sunday lsborers, as a rule, prefer not to work
on the Sabbath. Colonel Wright says the tendency of
| Sunday work is to break down the rate of pay. and
ultimately there will be no greater reward for seven
days labor than there is now for six. Continuous
! everyday labor also breaks down health. Neither
men nor horses can stand it. The losses being more
than equivalent for the gain, there is no motive for
wealth. 1t is only justified as subscribing the per-
sonal convenience of the many at the minimum of in
convenience for the few. Thus it turns out happily
that the Ten Commandments do not run couater to a
satisfying human investigation, and the Massachusetts
Legislature will find no reasonable excuse for repeal.
ing them. The more Sabbath we can crowd into our
! Sundays the better We are of.-Philadelphia Record.