The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1888-01-21

| yilest schemes for public plunder There is no
crime dark that leading members OF the bar
will not accept a fee to defend those who con-
spire against the welfare of the people-Louis-
Vile Courier Journal
If we are to secure the talent demanded for
the adequate filing of judicial seats we must
offer such compensation as the services will
command IN private employment Hod-earriers
EMPLOYED in building public court-houses re-
ceive as much as those hired 70 build private
of public servants receive less than their work
would bring at private sale or in the open mar
ketl-Boston Advertiser
Mr.. RANDALL has been knocked out on
| merous occasions in the past He has been po-
liticaly killed ane buried several times. but he
turns up smiling whenever he Is needed ihas
is Randall peculiarly. There is no reason TO
suppose he will dsappont his friends this year
by staying dead The foot of the resurrection
horn will bring him forth. AS a matter of fact,
Mr.. Randall has only been put TO sleep He
has not been ext;nguished- Chicago Mail.
THE public schools ought TO be the State purs-
cries for the training of good citizens They
ought in every grade, from the lowest TO the
highest. TO teach those things which tend to
make good men and women and good citizens.
They ought especially to indoctrinate tho
children with clear and sound ideas of the re-
latlons of men, that when the children come to
maturity they shall be in danger of being
mised by the sophistres Of socialism and kin
dred heresies New York Commercial Adver.
tiser.
lF donated lands are not yet granted to thess
lPacific railroadl companies, and If their viola
ton of contracts and of duty are such as, il
Justice and morals, forfeit their rights to such
lands congressional action should intervene TO
prevent further consummation. This suggestion
Will be approved by the public generally, and
ought to be needed by Congress. If the govern
Elent cannot get back what it is due the old
accounts 1t can at least keep the companies
down to their obligations in the future.-Detroit
Tribune.
THE chief objection. and well-founded OBJ
lection. to hanging is that it does not insure in
slant death; that il often amounts to slow
ngulaton, and that it furnishes very revolt
ing spectacle What is wanted is a method OF
execution simple sure and instantaneous. and
that is afforded by electricity, which the com
mission recommended. Seat the condemned in
o chair with metal head and footrests and pass
a powerful electric current through him No
bloodshed, no Disagreement, no unpleasant
scene. no pain. 1t is a highly-civized method
of dlsposing of murderers.-kansasC City Journal.
THE mugwumps will have to support what
ever Democrat receives the nomination, for
there is place role in nature for the mug
wumps except that of Democratic tender
The reasons why they prefer Mr.. Cleveland
as plain the fact that they must support who
is named by the Democrats is obvious.
They would better forward their own desire for
Mr.. Cleveland if they abated their disagree
able, unjust and happily Ineffective pretension
that, while Mr.. Cleveland is pre-eminently fl
to be President, by some process or hocus pocus
of paradox, Mr. Cleveland's party is a bad lot.
Brooklyn Eagle tDem.)