The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1900-03-26
Political storm Signals.

To the Editor of the indianapolis Journal:
The planted seed still continues to bear
fruit after his kind, it appears, just as 1t
did when man made his first record of his
observations upon the earth. We were all
formerly given over to a policy of injustice
on a racial basis. and were all taxed
heavily in good red blood to pay the bill
which was run up against us for it. But
we paid it all, like men, in blood and
money, and then went at it to heal the
ounds That proved to be a difficult task,
was long drawn out and puzzling, and we
grew tired. Certain questions were local
iE their bearing. We plainly saw, and
should be left to the various States. Their
solution of them-so-called solution-affect-
ed the constitution of our national
Congress and the character of our national
executive, and consequently the treatment
by them Of questions affecting us all, to
the detriment of right and justice, we also
plainly saw, but We were tired, so tired
of it all, and We let them go on as they
would.
Then. in Mississippi, and Louisiana, and
South Carolina, and Alabama, and North
Carolina-and maybe, other States-they
rugged up infamies in a frazzled garb of
law on the old racial basis. Now, in Ken
lucky, they are doing a like job on a parti-
san basis, and in Missouri on a sectional.
And now, not to be outdone by these
peSttlent communities nave come our Pres
ident and Congress, both Republican, fol-
lowing in the footsteps of Missouri, with
a measure adverse TO the interests of the
youngest and weakest section of our COM
mon country, which, in contempt of the
will of the people expressed in every pos
sible way, they seem determined to make
lawi Our President, we know. knows bet
ter than to do this, for he has told us SO.
The campaign of education" which was
TO show us that his change of view was
right, has thus far shown only that he
lacks nerve and judgment. The Congress
is more autocratic. 1t is lit the en-
tirety; none may question IL. Witness the
| attitude of the lowe delegation toward
the action of one OF the houses of their
State Legislature yesterday.
These roadwayS into which state and
national legislation is turning converge
and finally meet at the mouth of the pit of
destruction. The people must retire 10 pri-
vate life their weak and unworthy servants
who do wrong knowingly or defiantly, as
they retired the salary grabbers" a quar-
ter of a century ago, and look carefully at
those who aspire TO take their places, and
see 10 ii that they do not themselves fall
| short either in purpose or in execution, or
| some day they will have another heavy bill
! to pay. For we are none of us blameless
thus far, any more than we were In the
| ante-civil-war days, and there are evil
| counselors abroad-as our local clergyman
| who. from his pulpit. the other day, ex-
| pressed the opinion that a man should pay
his party for leave 10 hold an office in the
| service of the people, and the politician
| who thinks he deserves the goyernorship-
ices rendered his party. Such views are
! ominous Of the generalization OF the pub
1 &c conscience. The people should look out
for them and for those who teach them:
indianapolis. March "a.