The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-05-28

must go, not because you unfit unfaithful, or
rascals or offensive partisans. admit you are good
sna honest Ekepuocans but your places are ed
in accordance with his pledges to remove no official
except for cause but it would be frank and manly,
and these qualities which the country admire.
Philadelphia Press.
WE regret to see the President abdicating his con-
stutona functions and letting his subordnates run
him. and perform acts for which after all he should
remember that not they but he himself will be held
responsible by the people. The people chose him
President not that he should do the Attorney
any other Cabinet officers bidding; not that he
should appoint to Office the personal favortes of
of his subordnates but that he should take care of
the general welfare. IF he imagines that he put
responsibility for bad and injudicious appointments
upon the backs of his Cabinet officers he is very much
mistaken.-New York Herald
THE Commune continues to be nucleus around
which gather all the elements of anarchy; and while
it might not be of serious apprehension in
another country the history of France shows plainly
the mprudence of trusting too much to the restrain
ing influence of popular common sense in times of
excitement Here we should say, "Let the Commun-
lists and buster much as they please long
they keep the laws" But in Paris this principle
does not appear to work we'll If they let alone the
Communists there proceed from buster to overt
acts of violence, and when riot is begun nobody
tell at what rate it will grow, that the only course
to pursue is to suppress the beg innings of all such
disturbances with strong hand.-New York Tribune.
1T has been thoroughly demonstrated that the Indian
can be made to work for his living in the same man
white man is compelled to do. Excellent results
nave been reached eQucatlng ana clvluZlng young
Indians but the trouble is that when the pupils
sent from the government schools back to the res
ervations they often lapse into the vagrant life of
hunting and roaming and the only result of their ed
ucation is that they have been fitted to become good
interpreters. Nevertheless, it has been proved that
indians OF the most savage tribes be taught to
of life contentedy if they are kept away from the
reservations When they go back to the tribes where
there is nothing but hunting and roaming they fall
into the old ways again and forget all they have
been taught.-Chlcago Tribune
1T is weak point in prohibitory legislation that it
requires for its enforcement other means than the
ordinary process of law. In Kansas special legal
chinery erected for the purpose but it has broken
down on the first trial The district attorneys were
empowered to organize special courts for investiga
tion and to bring persons before these to testify
under penalty of commitment for contempt The
very first witness called before such court refused
to testify and the State courts have sustained him in
the refusal They decide that under the State con-
sttution such investigations be held. and the
prohibitory law must be enforced by the ordinary
means for the administration of justice. But other
laws have for their support overwhelming public
opinion which prohibitory law has There
fore, it cannot be enforced by the ordinary means.
Philadelphia American.
To say nothing of the outrageous violation of every
principle of civservce reform involved in the placing
of the appointing power entirely in the hands of Dem
ocratlc members of Congress. the administration
has, in this course, compelled every member to become
party boss This provides for the overthrow of the
Democratic majority in the House, which has been
obtained because Democratic congressman have not
which has given small Democratic majority, the Re-
pubicans will elect next year. No member of Con-
gress can be a boss and at the time hold his
place in Congress- unless his party has large major
ity in his district This manufacture of party bosses
out of members of Congress by the administration,
mutipes the number of selfinterested opponents of
civservice reforma charming result of the election
of civilservice reformer.- Milwaukee Sentinel
THERE not too many railroads in this country;
there not enough There is business enough for
all of them, and at rates that under honest and in
tellgent management, will prove remuneratve. Some
roads have been unwisely located and the managers
must expect to pay the penalty of their folly but the
great mai ority of roads in this country be made
to pay, if the who robbed them punished and
the men who have mismanaged them are retired Hon
esty and intelligence the needs of the railroads,
and not egslation for from the time of Moses to the
present legislation has created honest man.
The danger is not from the peoples it not from the
Communists; it is from the Shylocks who band them
selves together to black-mail corporations who
conspire against others to destroy their credit and
them getting them into corner, to rob them. Every
man who has had anything to do with railroads dur
ing recent years knows how this has been DONE
Louisville Courier-J Journal.