The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-10-20
SPIRIT OF THE PRESS.

IHE logic or our American IDEAS OF the eQuall-
ty OF the sexes is gradually working out its
natural results And 1t must be admitted no
harm has come of the freedom allowed women
under the public sentiment of oar day and land.
On the contrary, no country can compare with
America from the standpoint of domestic life
Chicago Inter Ocean.
WITH an abundant supply of all the great
staples, this country ought presently to free
itself from the embarrassments which attend
business The chief impediment TO rapid re-
covery ia the excessive speculation in products
which constantly interferes with their natural
distribution and makes industry too dependent
upon the result of gambling operations in a few
chief cities.-New York Tribune
THE only way for the individual to get real
enjoyment and permanent reputation from the
possession of great wealth is TO use the power it
gives to confer permanent benefits on the pub
lie. We have and have had good many very
rich IL on who haven't found this out; but now
and then one in advance of the crowd has recOg-
nized the truth, and will have his reward, be-
sides the special distinction that comes from
being among the first in any course of worthy
aetion.-Louisville Commercial.
THE South has been freer from the embeZzling
mania than the North, because she has hereto
fore been almost exclusively an agricultural
section. Within the last ten years the number
of banks and other corporations handling large
amounts OF money has greatly increased, and so
has embezbement. It is 10 be hoped that, whether
in murder or enbeZzement cases. iU may soon
be said OF North and South that the bsSering
stigma, zone law for the poor man and another
for the rich man." is grossly misapplied.-Louis-
vile Courler-Journal.
THE distrust of prohl0itory legislation remaius
as strong ever, and will nor be dimlnis ned by
the unrestricted flow of rum. Thousands upon
thousands of sincere temperance men verify be-
lieve that the liquor traffic no more than pro-
fame swearing can be stopped by constitutional
amendments and statutes and that the attempt
TO accomplish the object by such means Will
that nothing can be more Gsmoralizing than the
presence upon the statute books of laws which
pubic sentiment does not enforce.-Frank Les
lies Weekly.
TILL.
the national canvass with whatever of prestige
comes from carrying a number of doubtful
States the present year. This fact renders it
additionally important that those common
we alths which are unquestionably Republican
should hold their own and thus contribute
strength instead of weakness to the Republic
an side in the general engagement. Republic
ans should stand by their party this year, not
only on account of what the party has done, but
because OF what it has yet to do as the c1eanest
most progressive and most hopeful political
force on the American continent-MinneapOlis
Tribune. Di
THE faro banks, roulette-tables. and keno-rooms
alone will be safe from their manpulatons, but
the sooner public gambling facilities be
reduced TO that class of tenn tations the bet
ter it will be for tue community, for the news
boys, bootblacks and the large number of
those who mere pittances will find 1t
more difficult to crafty their gambling propen-
sites than now, and personal sense of degra-
dation will save many Young men from corrup-
ton and dshonOr who do not regard the bucket
shops and pool-rooms in the same light as the
stantial difference between tbem.-ChicdgO
Tribune.
THE Canadians generally pride themselves
upon their loyalty to the occupant OF the En-
gilsh throne. They are proud 10 say that they
are not a nation a all, and have no desire to be
q nation, or even to become part of the great
American nation, but most devoted subjects of
her royal majesty, tie Queen of Great Britain
and Ireland Empress OF India and so forth.
What such people want of national policy,
or what right they have to any such thing, is
what nobody knows Nevertheless, they claim
to have exactly that thing and probably we
must infer that they have right to it from the
fact that they have not been arraigned for trea-
son. Chicago Times.
WHILE the law has, in one sense, been in OPP
erative, in another it has been of great In
fluoDce, and that mischievous. it has kept alive
a prejudice against the negroes and against the
Republican party in the South, which without
It would have gradually died out. 1t has fur
nished demagogues like Butler with the means
of misleading the colored race, arousng HOSTILE
ty among the Southern whites, and rendering
the Republican party ridiculous. Unhappily,
the decision which kills the law comes too late
to remedy the ills which it produced. The
principle which it involves is no longer an issue
in national politics and can never again be
made one. The judgment of the court is but
final chapter in history full of wretched blum
ders, made possible by the sineerest and nobest
sentiment of humanity, but in which the cum
ming and cOnscieDceleSs scbemers of the Butler
school have played the larger port.-New York
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