The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-08-23

To the Editor of the indianapolis Journal
The prime mission of the Republican party
ought to lie in the direction of Matchmaking
matters of general interest to all the people.
Since it's advent in 1856, State currency has
been, by partisan action, supplanted by national
currency. All the Ipeople say amen. A few
ultras stand on the very outposts, and have or
ganized faction to push this currency reform
beyond the limits of omnipotence. Abstract
freedom now has home in the national char
ter. This was the work of our party The
fruits of liberty cannot be harvested in many
localities, owing to Democratic prohibition. Here
again we find faction clamoring for legislative
cure for the slavery OF personal habit. hope
that some day every human being can walk into
the liberty of realized hope and glad obedience
to the laws of selfcontrol and cast off every
shackle of mind and conscience. These ultras
are struggling toward the door Of the ali-good
and powerful Forgetting that there is at pres
emit around each human being cycle of personal
freedom within which God himself aceords
free agency to the man himself The Repub-
liean party has advocated temperance, enforced
regulations of the LIQUOR traffic and recommended
personal abstinence On the summit OF these
promontories of good stand few grand old
Republican patriarchs who seeing no other
worlds to conquer by the Republican party, want
to have that party die and be buried from
Pisgah's holy mountain They divided
into two bands. one demanding fiat money to
buy induleences and the other fat abstinence
from indulgences From the heights each In
ssts or issuing the deuteronomic address. but
wants the other fellow to die and be buried. /
have high admiration of band of pilgrims
whose eyes are fixed on citizenship
free from labor but fed with fat
money, and free from all shackles Of personal
slavery Their ideal is. however, so far above
the earth that practical man cannot catch the
inspiration they claim, nor the abiding faith in
the omnipotence of political action so far beyond
the usual limit The only way to call these ad-
vance pickets back into line of battle against a
common enemy is to devise a work for them to
do No citizen desires to return to State cur
rency In this respect the Republican position
is we'll rounded up in the minds and hearts of the
people The ultra Republicans seem to be wait
ing for a chance to join our ranks No citizen
desires to take away the liberty of any one on
account of his color, nationality or condition of
birth. A new party is liable to spring up for the
prohibition of any branch of the devil. Thus
far mans duty to his Creator is taught by
religion. Mans duty to himself is taught
in the public schools and societies, while mans
duty to his fellowman is taken care of by legis-
lators, courts and judges. The Republican
party abolished slavery as an overt crime of
man against man. from which the slave could
not escape by any personal discretion No man
is now prevented by law from passing life's
journey as total abstainer from intoxicants.
Now, If the Greenbackers and Prohibitionists
will look down from their inaccessible political
positions, will point out few of the incom-
plete missions of tho Republican party There
is room for century of work. in devising wise
national laws for commerce, education, trans
portation. elections, marriages and other bene-
factions.
National election law-Resolved that the Con-
gress should enact q national election law under
the provisions of Art. /, Sec of the national
Constitution. defining uniformly the time and