The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-05-03
THE SPIRIT OF THE PRESS.

PUBLIC men, like political organizations, must
stand upon the records they make by their &C
tual performances and utterances. These, II
tney be useful and good, will surely survive the
defamation of contemporary interests more po-
tent than mere malice, which is. in reality, pow
Courier-JouraaI.
THE United States is broad, but it is not broad
enough TO admit of but one Acknowledgment that
nationality is not Irish, or Irish-American, or
German, but American. The sooner the Irish in
America get rid Of the idea that the United
States can be cemented and welded as ga greater
ireland" the better 1t will be for all concerned.
Boston Journal.
PROTECTION is the settled policy of the United
states. On what ground, then, can we kick, to
use the expressive language of Scripture, when
foreign power sets up commercial policy
that hits US at u vital point Germany and
Greece surely have as much right to exclude
American products as we have to exclude Ger
man or Greek prOduots.-St. Louis GlObe-Demo-
GRAFT
PRESIDENT ARTHUR has made thoroughly
| clean, efficient and quiet administration; his
| party would be much stronger than it now is If
| 1t had taken the advice public policies which
| he gave IL in his two annual messages, and his
| appointments TO office have been, on the whole,
extremely creditable, and so managed as to do
| all that President to harmoniZe the party
| factiohs.-New York Herald.
| On the general question of excluding obiec-
tlonable matter from the papers, is but fair to
| state that the men who are laboring most earn
| estly to bring about such result are journal
| lists. They have accomplished much more than
eomplish still more. In this they should have
the sympathy of the ministers, well in
their work against vice and immortality Chica-
| go Inter Ocean.
GERMANY sends us many things we want, and
which 1t would be a sad arrangement Of our
trade to do without But we still bring the
junker statesmen to their senses and do our
| selves great commercial and social service by
peremptoriy and finally forbiddlng the importa-
| tion into this country of any aduIerated Ger
\ man wines and beers, or any German goods that
could be suspected of being infected with disease.
Chicago Tribune.
BUT kindness avails nothing with this perverse
| race 1.-THE Irishl They persist in Juggling their
petty private grievances, such as eviction, star
walton. robbery by rack-renting landlords, etc,
| into the domain of politics. This is in violation
OF good taste, and calls, of course for the strong
| hand of the law" We suppose the old Tory
remedy of lmmersing Ireland for twenty-four
| hours in the waters of the Will now be
| tried-New York Times
| A GREAT many wise and thoughtful men are
OF the opinion that universal suffrage Is danger
| GUS weapon where the voting population con-
! tains large element of persons uneducated,
| aud particularly among those unfamiliar with
the true doctrines of political economy and civil
| liberty But four thousand years of history
| have disclosed no method by which the ruling
| power should always be confided to the best and
ablest men.-St. Paul PiOneer-Press