The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-02-07
THE SPIRIT OF THE PRESS,

WE suspect that the more the President looks
at the situation the more ne will feel impeled by
his sense of duty to call an extra sesslon.-New
York Herald.
CONGRESS should answer the silverjobbing
resolutions OF the Coinage committee by prompt
ly repeating the existing law requiring mini
mum coinage of two million dollars monthly
Louisville Commercial.
UNDER the circumstances the presumption is
that we had better hold on TO our parties and
keep one of them, at least, big and whole all the
time Some party government may DO had, but
it is not so bad as no-party goyernment.-Su.
Louis Globe Democrat
IT would he gross outrage If Congress should
reclllessly yield to the urgency of interested
advocates and stain the national honor, run
the risk OF staining it, by adopting or even con
sdering the mad proposition OF the coinage COM
mittee.-New York Times.
The most dangerous gambling is that which is
the most respectable, wherefore it is not from
tho professional blackleg that community
which permits all sorts OF facilities for gambling
contracts from the SIS bet in the bucket-shop to
the cotton future of 100000 bales the New
York Exchange, has most to fear Chicago
Times.
A HEALTHY check has been given to railroad
building ana the balance of exports is unprece-
IDENTIFY large. This continued repression must
result In au accumulation of force which Will
give an impetus to trade, and, have little
doubt, change very much the tenor of the tale
that we shall have to tell month hence. --Phila-
delpha Press.
1T may look to the Irish people that there ia no
silver lining to the black cloud hanging over Ire
land, but there is and il will yet appear if little
more patience and reason govern the counsels of
these who earnestly desire the betterment of
that country, which needs more compassionate
sympathy now than IL ever did before.-Terre
Haute Express.
The silver coinage becomes day by day a
stronger guarantee of financial stability Iu-
stead of becoming II cause OF alarm, tine silver
coin has become more pODular-sO popular that
the necessity for any bank-note currency dimin-
ishes as rapidly as the silver certificates supply
the country with a paper currency redeemable in
coin.-ChlDago Tribune.
High license has been tried iii Nebraska and
found to work admirably. In the cities IT
duces the number OF saloons, and in the country
IL does away entirely with what are known
"cross-roaG doggeries" There is every reason to
believe that the system would work equally
we'll in Illinois. and there is every lnducement to
give IL a fair trial.-ChicagO Inter Ocean
IT is au open secret that those who reflect
upon the proper domain and the necessary limi-
tatiOns of legislation deny the right OF the State
to invade private liberty by the enactment of
prohibitorv law, But with certain class of
politicians it ought to he stil more effective To
learn that every victory purchased by n political
party at the price OF alliance with the
prOhibitionlste means decisive defeat within
a few succeeding years.-St. Paul P0neer-Press.
THERE are some thousands of citizens who
have thrown away their votes as often AS they
could make the opportunity, out of what we re-
gard as an exaggerated devotion to the cause of
temperance reform, as they see it, We have no
doubt these people will go on in this mistaken
way, and that they will do great mischief in the
future as in the past, with the best intentions.
we slall seek 10 reason TdtHet tntu cOureul bO
quarrel with them.-Cincinnati Commercial
Gazette.
CITY government is everywhere the worst gov
eminent in this country, and all that is con-
nected with it, directly indirectly, will mt
some time share in its nismanagement. AS
general rule private enterprise is better than
public enterprise. The matter is two-sided and
open for thorough discussion. 1t lies between
the possible perils incident to extravagant slip-
shod, corrupt public mismana cement, to which
all government of public enterprise is lia6io, and
those incident to what must be monopoly, from
the very nature of the oase. -Cincinnati News.