The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-07-05
STILL HnNTINI4 THE SHARK.

boo of Capitalization, and proceeds to wall
like bowling dervish, and to rend its gar
ments in very distressing way over the dan
gers that beset the complacent people of this
careless but tyrannical government of ours. 1t
expresses a lively fear that somehow. the
government at Washington, which is a Great
IRE of the people and having an existence of but
four years, will resolve itself into an autocracyr
or oligarchy or some other kind Of green
hacker boojum, that will proceed to eat up all
the people, and have things all its own way.
The Louisville paper very properly and patri-
otically objects to this kind of thing and ad
vises the people to consent to no such thing.
In summing up the situation, which is direful
to degree that few would suspect, the CD.
concludes that there is nothing left now but
paternal government" That means that we
must choose between a government represent
ing the United States as unit and the the
DRY of State sovereignty, which latter, as
interpreted by the Charleston confrere of the
Louisville. paper, means that the right of
secession was constitutional, and could not be
held against the South, which tried SO desper-
ately to assert it. 1t is difficult to understand
how the Louisville organ is going to reconcile
itself to the present order of things. The
logical outcome Of its reasoning is, that if a
State does not like the goings-on Of the CEN
trail government it vii. be at liberty to with
draw to itself, and set up a little republic Of
its own, in which the law will not have to be
respected by any one who may choose to deny
its authority.
Unless we have forgotten just how il was,
that was the issue fought over in the war Of
the Rebellion. Thu States that believed their
rights were superior to the authority Of the
general government attempted to withdraw
from the Union and set up a kind Of govern
ment that would closely tit their idea Of what
they thought government should be. 1t
would doubtless have been flexible and lib
eral one, to accommodate it to the beliefs of
the men who were careless enough to attemf t
the responsibility of setting up another popu-
lar institution without asking the consent of
the tylapnical central government. of which
the Louisville Courier-J Journal and very few
other papers continue to complain as intoler-
able. The State sovereignty South was pretty
thoroughly basted for this verv thing not so
very long ago, yet it now processes to be uu.
satisfied with the result, and would like to
convey the impression that the issue was not
settled some years ago at considerable eS.
pense Suppose for instance, the central
government, as these papers are pleased to
speak CT the only national government the
American people have, should prove hateful
to these very patriotic gentlemen. and that
they could control the action in their respect
i've States. Would they presume to test The
issue in wa1? In other words, what are you
going to do about it when the general govern
ment does not exactly su;t you, aud fails to
respect that fetch of State sovereignty that
you see fit 70 perpetuate2 Has the expert
ment Of rebellion been settled, or is
there to be another rebellion some
time? And if not rebellion, what is the use
OF TALKING about centralzationY There will
be no hateful Capitalization without the
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the people choose to have it that way, what is
there to do but to consent to it, unless you want
fight of size on your hands? tits about time
this rot OF contradiction be thrown out 1t is
on a par with that other Democratic standby,
''sumptuary laws, which is trotted out on
every occasion it is thought it will have effect
on that class Of people that are so fearful Of
dispeasing the ghosts of those eminent moss
back Democrats who would not think of being
Democrats as now understood. There will be
no hateful Capitalization Of power without the
peoples consent. hence it will not be hateful
to the people.
Further on in its article the GU. be.rays The
object Of its anxiety, in that itfears that the
central government will continue to stand up
for American interests as opposed to those OF
other countries. That paper hates the Amer
lean tariff with bitterness that finds no par
allel outside the South in its hatred of every
thing that the North thinks is loyal and OF
good report. 1t says so in so many words; and
because the majority Of The people have de
cided in favor of protecting American in
dustries, the Courier-Journal raises the cry of
Capitalization, and pretends to be alarmed over
the situation. There are good many things
in the economy of this great republic Of ours
that do not please the louisville Courier.
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