The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-03-14
CURRENT PRESS COMMENT.

To protect the legal voter from the Illegal Is prac.
ticaoe. Ii any think the franchise not worth any
care 70 project IT. they are unfit to have it. They
those who sell their votes at small price If any are
unwilling to use any form separate and pro-
tect them from the rascals who vote Illegally they
ought to be ruled outw with them, where they belong
lie who is fit to have vote Is anxiorA TO DO what
Just laws may require to verify his right to vote
that when he goes to the polls he may 90 az an honest
man among honest men, any not be mixed mn with
thieves If not enough honest men of the two parties
will support such law of yerifcation and projection
OF the franchise then it may be said that the
nifty chooses to be governed by crime.-Cincnnaii
Commercial Gazette.
BY the Indiana gerrymander the Seventh, Eighth
Ninth and Tenth congressional districts have only the
conditions absolutely necessary of their component
counties legal Every other essential has been neg
lected. The Seventh district is eighty miles long
rict stretches the central portion of the State
for ore hundred miles, and at place in the middle
is but eighteen miles and at another place but six
miles wide from north to south, The Eighth is one
hundred mics long from north to south and in most
OF its length Is about twenty five miles broad-a
veritabe Shoestring." The Current followed the
debate on this reapportionment without comment
being somewhat familiar with the denuncations ac-
companying all such measures; but it must be ad
united that the issue disgracefu and will only tend
to future reprisas equally partisan. -Chicago Cur
rent.
THE ''misdnmeanor" of which Mackin and Galls-
CHER found guilty goes beyond the character Of
treason against the State itself 1t is needless Go re-
peat this Oft told tale of wrong and outrage Beyond
all questlon Mackin and Gallagher proven guilty
OF conspiracy to plumber the ballot. box and their
conspiracy direct and personal wrong to each Of
the go citizens whose ballots they sought destroy
1t was blow aimed at the fundamental doctrine of
popular government and treason to the only sover-
eighty recognized in this country. This sentence SO
exactly suited to the requirements of the case renews
the confidence Of the people in the courts and in the
faithful administration of law Under tie law and the
facts Judge Blodgett has performed his duty neither
more nor less. He deserves the gratitude of every
good citizen.--Chicago Tribune
WHEN the great strike of 1877 was over, the law
makers of the States should have proceeded promptly
to do all that in the power of legislation to cor
rect the manifest evils from which grew out the
troubles of that year. The greater of those evil
were plainly observable and removable but they re-
main and have increased with the flight of time The
railroads of three States which in the throea
of a strike lockout cost for construction and
equipment, according to the best authority $685..
5000. But the stock and bond issues account
of the same amount to 1913, 100000 More than
20 per cent of water The difference between G
per cent interest the honest value and per cent
on The dishonest issue is So 480 600. THAT'S to say
the shippers must be annually charged and the EN-
ployes must be cut in wages that large figure make
up the swinde of watered stocks and bonds Ii is a
question whether if the railroads of those States had
been honest basis they could not have paid the
wages the reduction of which has brought the exist
ing trouble. The overissues of this description in
the whole country amount to a thousand millions OF
dollars This should be taxed out Of existence In the
interests of peace and justice.-Pittsburg Times.