The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-01-06

making felony ground for divorce; but then 1t do
prives the wife Of means of support. and this tends 70
deter many victims from seeking rzdress. 1t Is IN
deed a very difficult problem, ard thus far no state
or nation has succeeded in solving it satisfactorily.
though certainly it is q question that onght to be set-
tied, since the existing state of things is a disgrace 70
civihzation-New York Tribune.
1T is miserably petty business ~quibbling about
Grants having this or that little driblet of income
left. A man who has rendered the country such
services as he rendered should be munificently re-
warded-as England rewarded Wellington, as France
rewarded Napoleon. 1t is humiliating to think OK
this great man being reduced to write magazine
articles for a living in his old age. He has testified .
Willingness to be restored to the rank in the army
which he surrendered in order TO take tho presidency
at a time when he was perhaps the only man in whom
the country had confidence. Is there any reason why
Congress should hesitate to restore hint We know
OF none.-San Francisco Chronicle.
If the negroes are so anxious TO be by themselves,
MT; Gable may write till doomsday in favor sof equal
rights and privileges and it will do no good. We have
our doubts about the truth of this assumption, how.
ever, We should like to see the experiment. tried.
Let the South give the negro a half a chance to be q
man, q educate himself, to travel in a different style
rom cattle. to show his ability on juries, to fairly
compete In fields oflabor, and to go to the polls and
vote as freely as a white man can. Let it offer him
Cne same chances to rise and improve himself that the
whltes nave and then, if he fails to avail himself OF
them ana IS content to occupy the position of a pariahs
we may admit that the Constitution is right and Mr.
Gable is wrong.-Chicago Tribune.
WHILE we believe the economic condition of the
country and the good sense of its population have
Occu lhSlruIuSuIdl III keeping on DOUn SOclaIlSm 6nW
communism, much remains to be done for the cause
of labor, and the greatest share of that must be done
by labor itself. But it is not by seeking to obtain
more political power, and so by invoking the inter
ference of the State-ideas which underlie all socialism
that these reforms are to be secured, and we see no
reasons for suspecting a concerted agitation for this
object. The good sense of the people has rem aimed
proof against the TRADES of those who see only evil in
the existing society, and who eccommen a resort to
force as a remedy. There is no cause for believing
that the people have parted with this good sense, or
have accepted socialism as an article of faith.-New
York Times.
No public man was ever placed in a more unhappy
position than Judge Folger in that lamentable cam
paign, and no man can be held to account because he
recognized what was patent to every observer. The
attempt was made to charge Mr.. Blaine with being res
sposible for the popular outbreak, but he had no moro
to do with it than julius Caesar. He could not have
stopped it any more than he could have stopped the
Spanish earthquake. A popular feeling which leads
two hundred Thousand voters in a single State to re-
volt against their party action is something which no
man can control. Such an uprising springs from pow.
erful impulses which surge and sweep over all per-
sonal considerations. Judge Folger was himself the
innocent victim; the people were not striking at him,
but at the tricksters who misused his name; and
neither Mr.. Evarts nor Mr.. Blaine nor anybody else
could stem the ide.-Philadelphia Press.