The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1888-01-05

and stop the aggressive hypocrisies organized for
the benefit of the Democratic party only.
Cincinnati Commercial Gazette.
THE attention of the tariff smashers is gently,
but firmly, directed to the fact that Mr. Randall
is there in his old place on the appropriations
committed The free-trade hope that Mr.
Randall would go out with the old year does
not seem to have been realized.-Philadelphia
Press.
.wHo ever heard anything or said anything
about the possibility of a financial crisis. a
before the free trade pronunciamento from the
White House. concerning which Mr.. Cleveland
and Il (H. W. had talked it over freely and
fullyP '-Birmingham Ala Age, Dem.
THIS is no time for idle clatter and brainless
hair-splitting. We are in the presence of the
enemy; the fight is on; and he is not good
Democrat who seeks to quibble about terms or
trifies The President has blazed the way
The Speaker will. himself. take the floor The
boys in the trenches are unit aud ready Tor
the fray. What are the file leaders in and out
of Congress going to do about It'll As we nave
said before the way to harmonic is to harmon
ize.-Louisville Courier journal
AS things are now, all the legal and technical
advantages are the side of the violators OF
law. They provide themselves with expert
lawyers, for whom the patrolman who makes
the arrest is often no match, and there IS no
doubt that in hundreds of cases. especially those
of violation of the LIQUOR laws. justice is baked
simply because the officer who prosecutes the
case lacks the legal skill to prepare and present
it. 1t seems waste of resources to provide all
the machinery for detecting crime and arresting
criminals, only to let matters go virtually py
default when the cases are brought to trial
Boston Journal.
NOTHING concerning human relations ever
works exactly as expected, and that is why leg,
1siatorS in their efforts to do specific good
thing, cause collateral evils they never dream
OF. Neither the protection policy nor the free
trade policy works according to preconce1ved
notions. That is why arguments which ignore
facts are mostly worthless. The theory of free
trade seems on many accounts more reasonable
than that of protection. But in practicable OPP
GRAFTON there incidental effects that COM
pletely nullify all previous ideas. Most theori-
attracted by free trade arguments;
most practical men, who observe the facts, take
the other view.-Denver Republican
RECENT events have pointed out what should
have been obvious at the time, namely. that the
figures of population had been manipulated in
order to give the South an increased population
and greater congressional representation. In
the cities where checks on census figures were
not easily applied. the apparent increase IN the
colored population was not so marked; but In
the country where the census marshal had mo-
body to modest him. he doctored the census re-
turns to suit the exigencies of the occasion. AS
consequence. the whole South. which had not
flowed into the North and West. was credited
with an amazing increase in population, which,
as a matter of fact existed princi pally on the
books of the census InarShals. The need Tor
such naneuvers has passed away. The South
is solid, and its representation Is fixed for the
order to account for the decrease in the negro
population which the census in 1890 will show.
The trick has worked once, but it will not work
again. and the next census will be more
reliable in its figures of Southern population
than was the last-San Francisco Chronicle