The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-05-23
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THE Edmurds law is the most powerful weapon
that has yet been used against the Mormons and its
enforcement is the first signal victory that has been
gained the Saints" One two of their bish-
more win be tried with good chance for conviction
and some have fed. Following these events comes
this Protest, which is really appeal 1t is the
first Mormon flag of truce and there seems, for
The first time, to be good for hope that
polygamy will speedily be suppressed.-Frank Les
lies Weekly.
moved for having given ofense by remark about
looking well to his pocketbook while at Democratic
meeting Perhaps he ought to be turned out for
Miss, be filed by the chairman of the Democratic
committee that Endorsed and justified the murder of
Print Matthews, for no other offense than that he
not to do 500 Is this the feast of reform
to which the Democrats and their mugwump allies
have invited the country2-Pittsburg Commercial Ga
zette.
stock exchanges and boards Of trade for the rich and
the circulars and agents of those whose business it is
to make broad and easy the path to rnn go wherever
victims may be found Prosperity allures them, and
hopeless poverty is communitys only protection
against their visits. Some day, perhaps the world
will be too wise and too concientous to tolerate spec
ulation but at present it ineradicable evil
All that be done is mitigate its horrors far
as possible and strive to check its ravages through
the courts and the warnings of the press and pulpit
Cleveland Leader.
rich the simple ritual of Presbyteranism, he would
find himself in difficulties. An ornate and elaborate
Presbyterian service is contradiction in terms Mr..
Muir to have felt this for he used his priesty
robes and his crucifx only in the photographers
ROOM Had he tried to wear his robes in the pulpit
every woman in the congregation would have been
Jennie Gedd S. The prospects OF ritualism in the
Free Kirk certainly not good, for the Presbyte-
ran ritualist must perform his religious ceremonies
in strict privacy and keep his Catholic doctrines to
himself.-New York Times.
morals of its members or to mete out judgment upon
their lapses from rectitude but it and must insist
for its own protection that those who publicly as
relation of husband and wife shall be held to ha
responsibility which that relation implies Whether
the law should recognize unlawful relation of this
kind constituting valid marriage is not in ques
tion it is the great law of human responsibility that
brings its inevitable punishment, in way or
another to all who selshly seek to eyade it. This i
enforce. Philadelphia Times.
1T is said that when Congress meets the whisky
ring will ask that body for three years extension
that to say, the whisky spectators will ask Com
peoples money for three years. There is not the
slightest hope of securing such an extension,
weeks extension and the spesuators know it. Their
istration, and those who like the Constitution, have
serious and absorbing interest in the Of
that administration rest in the hope that the whisky
ringsters and spectators will be given understand
that they have no more rights than other taxpayers
ATLANTA Constitution.
THE subject of mcrobic incubation is one that de-
the earnest attention of medical scien
fists We not free from the fear that the dreaded
Asatic visitor may, later, reach shores.
and if it comes ought t, be prepared to meet and
learning the efficacy of DIR. Ferrans system of inocu
laton would indeed be almost criminal negligence
our part Would it not be wise thing, therefore.
under the circumstances for the government to take
this subject into special consideration and to send out
at once. capable medical experts to Valencia to
anime the epidemic prevailing there and to inquire
o. -
York Herald
HUNDREDS of express messengers are every day
and every night travelling our railroads all through
the land, and are exposed to the hazard which met
the two unfortunates in Indiana Any action by any
magistrate which exposes these custodans of the val
tables of others to greater risks cannot be justified
this case will have that effect. Other desperadoes.
seeing the chances OF escaping punishment, even
detected to be so many will not hesitate to enter
upon such enterprises. and it would not be strange
to have many repititons of this crime in the
future. What wanted in this case, as in all
crimes of violence, sure swift. severe punish
ment. 1t was required not SO much &C compensar
ton for the past as deterrent for the futureWash
ngton Post
LOGAN is not so liberalrninded, SO scholarly, so
well Informed or favorably disposed to the reform
policies which have lately become urgent as might be
wished but he is patriotic, brave, honest and hare
worker. Upon some questions OF present Importance
his judgment is, we think, sadly astray but he has
qualities of character and has done public service
which entitle him to favorable regard and he is not
incapable of abandoning wrong position when ne
discovers that he has made mistake. He is practi-
cal politician, not theorst, thoroughgoing partisan
in all matters, ambitious and exacting leader in
tolerant of opposition and of independence that doea
rot recognize the duty of submission to the decision
of the majority in all questions of party policy and
he fights hard for the cause he espouses never weak
ening compromising. There is not more intense
Republican in the land, who more thoroughly
dstrusts the Democratic party and all its members
Boston Advertiser tMugwump).
A LAUNDERING politician from the whppingpost
State heads the Cabinet A machine politician leads
and manpulates it. Ex-confederates, unpardoned,
unrepenant rebels and virulent copperheads are Sc
lected for important foreign missions. The policies
of government that's new, administration might oe
expected to enter upon ana advocate are still In the
dim future. The impress of the President on the
country is wholly and solely connected with the dis
princinles or poces or public views of the President
or his administration meets with blank response.
There no PRINCIPLES, no policies no pubic views
only spells. The Office of President is degraded be-
You'd comparison, the public business is weakly adj
nnistered and Is falling away from the great princi
Piles which were followed under Republican rule with
honor, ability and integrity The spectacle Is not
pleasant But when the people understand whittier
the country is drifting they be trusted to apply
the remedy York Tribune.
PARTY spirit in England is very furious, and Mr..
Gladstone is assailed with bitterness which POI
tical contentious do not surpass and which, may
observe parenthetically shows that reformed and
nonpartsan civil service does not necessarily destroy
parties But amid all the controversy It is evident
that the Prime Minister is by far the ablest political
leader IN the country The conviction II ~ strong and
universal that despite tho hostility to him. his contin
uance at the head Of affairs is thought to be desirable
1t is conceded by some OF his opponents, with
the remark that he led the country into the scsape
and he ought to be left lead il out again. Indeed,
quality could have wthstood the tremendous pressure
for war and in the face of the Egyptian failure have
carried without division the credit that he asked.
AS write the series Of assaults upon his govern
ment IN Parliament continues. Some one OF them
may succeed, and his government fall But change
of ministry at this junctnre the disappearance OF MR.
the rise of the Jingo spirit. and war wish kussls
under Tory management, would he seyerer str an
than the British empire has encountered since vac