The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-06-05
THE JOURNAL AND THE SOUTH.


South, the Indianapolis Journal referring to
Decoration Day, says:
| Decoration Day shonld be perpetuated until such
time soft headed people give the attempt to
confound things which are as different as right and
wrong-patriotism and treason. 1t IS good thing TO
keep the dividing line ever in view. There is dvld-
ing lire that all loyal men may ard it must never
be obhterated to please sentimentalsts
But what are you going to do with the SEN
timental people of the North and Soath who
march together on Decoration Day and strew
| flowers on the graves of the Union and the
confederate dead alike? Of course, it will be
necessary to have some legislation to inhibit
such brotherly performances.-New York
World.
This is thoroughly dishonest and, therefore,
despcable. The New York World knows
enough about the indianapolis Journal to
know very well that it is anything but the
'implacable and unrelenting foe Of the
South" If there be any doubt Of this, we
challenge the World to reproduce single ut
terance Of the Journal that can even be tor
tured into hostility toward the South. On
the contrary, the Indianapolis Journal has re-
peatedly and heartily congratulated the
South on every evidence OF pros
perity. This is not the way Of the
enemy of the South. The Journal has never
lost an opportunity to publicly rejoice with the
South over the acquisition of new industries,
and over the fact, as it developed, that the
South was beginning to compete with the
North in such branches of manufacture that
before the war were wholly in the hands of
the North We have felicitated the South
over the immense progress made in the line
of iron manufactures, which, from the earli-
est times, had been almost exclusively in the
control of the North. Certainly we would
kindliest interest in the material prosperity
of the South We claim that this same In
dianapolis Journal has said ten times as many
kind words to the South and Of the South
than the papers of the South have said OF the
North. On one point only have we been dis
posed to take exception to the course Of the
South, and that has been in the way of ex-
pressing regret that its people could not let
90 of the heresy of State sovereignty, that
error that has done SO much to impover!sh
the people of all sections and to perpetuate
hard feelings. We have repeatedly expressed
the liveliest satisfaction that the iron mills at
/ Birmingham and at Chattanooga, and the
| cotton mills at Atlanta and other Southern
| points, were beginning to he able to compete
with those of Indiana, and Pennsyl-
vania, and Massachusetts,. We submit
that this is not the way an
''implacable foe" would have acted. There
need be no mistake about the attitude of the
indianapolis Journal 1t has now, as it has
ever had, the kindliest feelings for the South
as part of common country The papers
that are mean enough to attempt to convey
the contrary impression are contemptibly dis
honest, and know they are. They have been
called upon times without number to point
out a single utterauce that could be possibly
construed as hostile to the South, and have
never been able to do so. We repeat the
challenge. The worst, or best that can be
said of the Journal is that it has steadfastly
opposed the canonization of the "lost cause"
and the perpetuation of those sentiments that
did so much to tear down the prosperity of
the country. The Journal has never failed
to express the heartiest condemnation of all
attempts to galvanize treason back into life,
and will never cease to do so. This is the
sum of its offending, and if this is offensive
to the 'loyal" South, we can never
hope to please it nor its apologists
If so be the South cannot bear to give
up the hope that some day the immortal
principles" it so desperately fought for may
prevail, and the Union be divided there is no
prospect of the Indianapolis Journal being
able to please it. But if it is ready to accept
the results of the conflict in good faith, and
to give up the promulgation of those doctrines
that so nearly crushed the South out of ex-
istence then will it find in the Indianapolis
Journal steadfast friend, ever ready and
willing to do all it can for the Advancement of
the South in every honorable enterprise. 1t
is shame that the press of the South, and
that portion of the North that is more anxious
to please the South than to be honest, should so
persistently misrepresent the Journal on this
point. The man who says that the Indian
apolis Journal is the implacable foe of any
thing in the South but those things that are
aligned against the best interests of the Ma
ton, knows that he lies There is 10 other
way to speak of such infamous dishonesty.
And, by the way, what is the matter with the
paragraph quoted from the Journal as to