The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-08-10
SPIRIT OF THE PRESS.

| REFORM Ecivil servcel is no longer in the air.
| 1t has come down to the ground 1t walks with
| ers an occasional hint. 1t finds rich harvest
| field. The days of ignominy are over. 1t is now
| reekoned not political tramp but Il recognized
| labOrer.-BOsten Advertiser.
| JUDGE HoADLY has not only digged his polt-
ical grave, but he has so divided the last party
with which he has identified himself that 1t will
not recover and reerganize in time to make a re-
| spectacle showing at the polls in the national
| contest of 1884. The Republican party is under
negative obligations to Judge Hoady.-NatiOnal
| Republican.
| THE plumbers made by these organizations
TRADES untOnsl, this year will cost the laborn g
| people very large sum. What ia worse, they
| will subject important branches of business to
! serious and prolonged embarrassment, and foster
| an antagonism of feeling between employers and
employed; which can hardly fail to do much harm
hereatter.-New York Tribune.
THE whole system of primary elections regu-
| lated by the voluntary and irresponsible action
of parties is failure, because it does not secure
the free and full expression OF the will of veters
in the parties. There is but one way OF securin &
| such expression, and that is through primary
elections for all voters held under the sanctions
and according to the prescribed forms Of law.
| New York Times
| THE Eastern failures, following as they do the
enormous failures in the iron trade of last spring,
| and attended as they are by the strike of the
telegraph operators, the steady decline in prices
of nearly all the staple products OF the country,
and general falling off of business in the East
| indicate clearly that all business is dropping
| down TO a lower and perhaps safer plane, ana
that in the subsistence much arrangement must
| take place.-St. Louis Republican.
| THE thrd-rate demagogues are hard at work
though unaccustomed to labor-to get up q
| general war bstween capital and labor. The
strike against the Western Union Telegraph
Company is their opportunity If they succeed,
| they will waste the time and earnings or the
people. and do a mischief equal to the destrnc-
| ton of a city; and, after all, the relations of
| capital and labor will not be changed in the
least.-Cincinnat Commercial Gazette.
| INDIFFERENTIsM and dilettanteisn should be
| discouraged as beftting dandies, not mon; and
| whatever will induce young men to enter into
| politics with purpose TO elevate and purify
| them should be brought to bear upon them. OF
expressions OF discomfort, superciliousness and
| cy niesm we have had enough. Let the young
| men who are just enteFiHg active life go down
into the arena and fght the battle of the city,
| State and nation for pure and honest govern.
ment.-Boston Journal.
A STRIKE is public inconvenience: but laws
prohibiting strikes would be a far greater public
| Inconvenience. A strike is q rough way OF set
| Ting a dispute between wOrkmen and employers
| But election is, as every man sees. also a
| rough way of deciding what policies shall pre-
| them out. There are people who would like to
| get without elections, we'll as without
strikes, but such people ought to go to Germany
| or Russia to liye-New York Herald.
AS the years go by and the historian surveys
the record of the contest he will wonder most of
| all that Jefferson Davis was not either shot as
the military or hanged as the political leader OF
| the Shareholders insurreotion. What few days
are left him on earth he should devote TO strict
retirement from the gaze OF public that has no
| sympathy with him and whose Getestation of
| him is only reawakened every time he intrud es
| himself before II. The best thing he can do is To
| remember that this cruel war is over and be
thankful he wasn't hanged ION a-sourappe
tree."-Chicago Tribune
IN this country the general sentiment Is not
favorable to the Interference of the government
in strictly business matters; consequently, If
the Geographic business could be managed wisely
and efficiently by private enterprise, and make
the cost of Geographic service just and resason-
able, the general sentiment would favor u pri-
vate rather than a government telegraph. If
there comes to be general demand for postal
telegraph it will he due to tho conviction of the
country it is impossible to secure fair service
otherwise. 1t is. therefore, In the power of the
present companies to settle the question Of y
postal te.egraph.-B Journal