The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-07-14
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THE strike is proving itself terribly costly and
dangerous weapon It imp0yerishes worlinen, diSor-
ganizes business and leads to disorder Not al strikes
are open to this sweeping condemnation but in all
there is danger of bad results Some peaceful SUB;
sttute-rrobably that of arbitration-nust be found
for the costly inefficient and dangerous Sttlke-Drook-
Ign Times.
TIE only safety for the community is in the i'm
partial execution of the laws against all offenders OF
them and any official, whether judge or constable
prosecuting attorney juror who interposes to pre-
vent the law from having free course should be
compelled to step down and out of place, to I'LL
which he is manfesly incompetent by reasoh OF dis
honesty or tmidity .-Pittsburg Dispatch.
THE readiness Of q coed many journalists to do
the scavenger work Of modern society. to live IN
its sewers and make fortunes by describing its
feu!ness and indeceney' seems to nave no hnllt
q sorry calling for young men with high aims
ami would make Anthony Constock valuable
professor in one of those schools OF journalism
which we hear every and then some puny
college is thinking OF setting up-New ! DIRK Evening
Post.
THE organization of labor is better in the United
States than ever before. 4 few years ago even the
right of working to organize into unions was al
most denieG-postively denied in many instances
But that time is past 1t is recognized that the
wages which workingmen are to receive shall not de-
pend upon the arbtrament of the employer who pays
In other words the employer is row but one factor IN
termining the wage problem, the organized men he
employs is another and the condition OF the market
third These three arbitrate the questions and decide
the wages. And labor richly deserves the advanced
position it has won-lIouisNile Commercial
THE exposure by the Pail Mall Gazette of the terri.
bic lengths to which the British arstocracy have been
encouraged by ipunity to 60 is perhaps the begin
ming of the end. Unless the omens of history ere
worthless we are possibly witnessing the dawn of an
English analogue the French revolution. The priv
ieges vested in the House of Peers will be endured no
longer, if such be the shameful ends TO which they
are verified And certainly should lie be proved to
be the founder chief patron of the foul organza-
brutal ha II s Albert saff4 to the
Wales will never be permitted to reign over the
heaTths and homes of England.-New York SUM-
SLAVERY no longer existing. the brains that de-
voted themselves boste1ing it up by argument and
sophisry by plausible excuse artful device and
satisfactory compromise, released for other en-
ployment, and the mer of the South can turn
their attention to improving their farms their fences
and the drainage of their lands; to the rotation of
crops and the problem of making two bales of cotton
CROW on land where their fathers had raised but
This is the real question Of Importance before the peo-
pile of the South and if they succeed in wering it
in satisfactory way it matters very little to them
who is Governor or what party holds the reigns of
power in Westinghouse Louis Globe Democrat.
NOT many more enthror ements Of mob government
under the noses and forbearauce of demagogue city
executives are needed to make plain to all that have
anything to lose that the hest most effective police
service in great cities would be furnished by max
ing it part of the national military service. The
nation maintains standing army, employing it now
police Of places the frontier where civilization
is menaced by barbarism. by and by, however, the
barbarians of the frontier will be either domesticated
departed to the happy hunting ground. How,
then shall be employed in peaceful time our standing
army! Obviously police force in the great cities
where even that civilization is menaced by
q dangerous barbarism than is found anywhere
on the frontier.-Chicago Times.
If the ruling classes wise they will not endeavor
to suppress belitte the investigation which the Pail
Mall Gazette demands but viii initiate earnest and
vigorous efforts to bring the panders to punishment
and teach the eunesse dOree and the old rales that
they cannot with mpunity defy the laws of God and
decency If the heroic treatment be adopted in this
case, aristocracy in England may respite from
the attacks with which it is threatened if not there
will be favorable occasion for the agita-
tors to urge the adjustment of primogentrre entail
and the various privileges which maintain the arsto.
Gratis in wealth and indulgence. 1t is only question
whether the growing impulse of reform and progress
can triumph over the long habit of subservency to
title and birth which has fastened upon tho English
people.-Chicago Tribune.
IF civilservice reformers desire stability in the
service, it they want to that evil which makes
the administrative force political machine il they
seek to relieve the official from dependence the Ca
price the demands Of the member of Congress who
may have secured his appointment they will not OBJ
ject to the principle of fixed tenure and removal
except for The evil of the civil service is not
want of capacity or honesty, but its organization into
political machine The official is not merely the in
cumbent Of public trust but the agent of a political
power. lie is so not simply because he is appointed
through political forces but because he is dependent
upon the same influences for keeping his place Give
him fixed tenure and guarantee him against removal
during his term so long as he does his public duty
and you make him independents Philadelphia Press
THo;E who advocate the disayming Of the Chey
enneS can scarcely nave much experience. The pro-
posed remedy has been tried with various Indian
tribes several times, aud it has always had of two
results When the tribe has though resistance posi-
bic it has fought When it has perceived fighting to
be useless has surrendered lot of rubbish
in the shape of weapons, carefully collected for that
purposes and at the same time it has buried other
wised concealed its real arms No disarmament ever
put in force has prevented the disarmed tribe from
going on the warpath few months afterward fully
armed and equipped with good weapons. The pro-
posed remedy therefore, is really mockely delusion
and snare and even if the disarming could be made
complete it would amount to nothing, for the simple
reason that the Indians can always obtain all the
weapons they able to pay for from the post
New York Tribune.