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

WHAT labor needs is a steady, withdrawing
cal change in the industrial system wrought by
q reckless REFORM Cincinnati News.
THE telegraph and other wires must come
down. The forests of masts and network of
iron wires must disappear And tile companies
vino mine the streets must pay fnr their priv-
leges aud he taxed to meet the expenses which
they entail upon the city.-New York Times
WHEN the census is published it will he stale
and It's information of very little value, although
Is true that number of understanding per-
SONS will have been supported by it during rhs
interval h-tween the date when it should have
been published and the date when it is published.
New York World.
HOWEVER much n sparring exhibition may he
deprecated and condemned by respectable
part of the community, IL is not prize fight
within the meaning of the existing law, aud If
peaceanle and orderly conducted it can he pre-
vented only by the exercise of Illegal authority.
New York Herald
HENCEFoRTH no Republican member can be
considered as the right man in the right place
unless he is in his seat in the House every day
so long as this i'm pOrra ant tariff matter is unde-
cided. The Democratic fibustering which the
abse nee of seventy Republicans made possible
yesterday, toward the close Of the session, ought
not to lie allowed to happen aga1n.-New York
Tribune.
THE resolution of the suffrage association will
give encouragement 10 the pnlvgamists, and
they will no doubt make an effort to identify
their struggle for plural marriages with the
struggle for woman suffrage. They will use this
resolution to give their fight for polygany u
new claim IOf SNlDphInNt anu however, well IL
may have heen intended It is plain that on this
one point the woman Suffrage Association blum
dered.-Cincnnati Gazette.
THE whole country is one III spite of itself-the
same human nature pPrvading every State--nOt
outstanding the hiDgs yet made by some news
papers, both North and South, ut the opposite
section. The slsterhoOd of the States has been
ceIneu ted in every other way possible, and now
that they suff,r In common the disgrace of dis
honesty in official life let there never again be a
word about one section being better than an
other.-LOulsville Commercial
THERE Is abundant evidence all through the
country mat reform is needed in State and mu-
vice reform cannot evade the wide application of
their principle. There are municipal "bOsses"
and State "bOsses;" incompetency and dishonesty
are found in abundance i'll the ranks of State and
matters Is To effrctuate just such a bin as has
been introduced INFO the New York Legislature.
Courier Journal
WHERE IA the good man who will devote
mouth TO the drying of orphans tears-an or
phan a dav for thirty days2 Il there petist
who will visit thirty churches for thirty consec-
utIye days, II he can mud them open, or commit
20 memory a sermon day for thirty days3 ANY
clutton may gorge himself. There Ia nothing in
the sight that lis not repulsive. The beast that
lacks discourse of reason stops short of surftit.
n we have competition, let 1t take q ra-
.tf0nal turn Chicago Times
THEY who think that a great gain would not
he made in every way in this city by collecting
100000 from this trade by low and fairly
graduated tax, and that instead of this We had
hetter take the chance Of an amendment, under
which we may have prohibition with limited
conditional permission, are too good for this
world. and ought 10 he translated 10 sphere
where they can practice the harp, and can hide
the growing height of their fOrehaads under o
crown. -CIpcinuati Commercial Gazette.