The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-12-28
SPIRIT OF THE PRESS.

SPIRIT OF THE PRESS.
WE believe in legal forms where they can be-
of That they can sometimes be ignored,
and the cause of law and order be thereby great
lV advanced, is abuudantly proved by the early
history of nearly all the pioneer settlements
west of the Mlssissippi.-San Francisco Chronl-
Gle.
THE Republican masses never had the choice
of delegates to the national convention so COM
pletely in their own hands as now, and if their
sentiments and wishes are not properly repre-
sented in the selection of a presidential candts
date they will have themselves to blame. There
Is no reason why the next national convention
should not be the most fairly representative ever
assembled in the history OF the party.-Pittsburg
Commercial Gazette
THE idea OF the anti-protectionists seems to
be, if anything, that without protection manu-
featured articles could be purchased more cheap
y by those who are not manufacturers. Their
discussions would be more Ineligible II they
would designate certain protected articles and
show at what prices they could be sold without
protection Only such practical arguments rs
this should influence the change of a system in-
VOlV1ng so many interests as does the tariff.
Louisville Commercial.
THE time must come when every citizen of
this country cast his vote peaceably, with
out moestatiOn, for whomsoever it pleases him,
anywhere under the shelter of the national
arms, and so long as that condition of things
does not exist there will be no peace A repub-
| lican government is only travesty and mocRa
| cry when these rights are denied. The solid
| South is once more menace to the freedom OF
| the citizen. 1t must cease to be that before the
work begun years ago will have been completed
Chicago News.
A CORPORATION has no more right to make
money out of the free use of public property as
regular business than it has out of the free use
of private property; and all franchises and Con-
| tracts permitting these undue profits are simply
| giving free use of q certain amount of public
| property. These matters are being regarded in
| a tOlerable clear light nowadays. The era of ex-
elusive rights and of gratuitous privileges, with
respect to public property, ought to be over, II
it is not and municipal legislatures will do we'll
! to bear the facb i'll mindrst. Louis Globe-DenO-
| crat. ss ?.
| IT is not in the editorial profession alone that
the nalf-educated men have made record they
need not be ashamed of. If we were to take out
of the history of our country's growth and prog
ress the sum total of what has been done by the
! half-educated men of the world, it would leave
but a small residuum to the half-educated men OF
the colleges who are disposed to think that there
is no education except college education. The
| haf-educated men who edit the newspapers
have nothing to fear from a comparison with
| the half-edueated men who represent he col
| leges.-St. Louis Post Dispatch.
THE gathering up Of the ignorant aaa dlthy
/ bordes 10 be found IN Europe az and
y y I'm 5ess4 % 55TfTz5 Is ct S0rs
| with our own labcrers, under eonsrsot or
through peeuniary Inducements of any A8ad is
| a growing evil which ought to be suppressed,
not only in the interest OF nome labor. but in be-
| half of good morals as we'll. There are difficult
ties and dangers enough arising from unrestrict-
| ed voluntary Immigration but when to that ara
added assisted pauper" and contract" immi-
| grafton, it is time to draw the line somewhere.
-Pittsburg CommercialGazette.
Mr.. TILDEN has not put himself forward: he
has written no injudiciOus letters, and has made
no speeches. The persons who have been to
see him differ widely his hysical condition,
bat all agree to the fact that he is not can
| didate. Meanwhile his barrel is still full All
| these things combine to keep the old man wei;
| before the public and make him available for
| 1884. The mass of the party who know ittld
about Holman orMo Donald find TildeD's name
pleasanter to their ears and apt to think that
| the man who came near success once would
be good person to try again. Mil waukee Sem
| tlnel. 49, . .~-e-f
| THERE is in the near future retrograde
movement from the Republican standards fixed
| by Lincoln and Sumner, or quick dash forward
| to position that VIII make sure of what they
battled for IL is the old question of the rights
of the citizen, and on this Republicans can face
only to the front. II there is any doubt as to
| the rights of colored man, there are doubts as
| to the rights of white men. The principle is TO
| be defended without reference TO color. In the
face of the decision of the Supreme Court, the
Republican party cannot stand still, for to stand
still is to make backward movement 1t must
go forward. -Chicago Inter Ocean.
THE Southern States have quite as many rights
as the Northern States. white man in South
Carolina is entitled to the same weight in the
electoral college as white man in Ohio or New
York or Vermont but he is not entitled to dou-
BILE that weight, and if he demands equal rights
he musts do equity. He must obey the con"
stituti0n and the laws, and recognize the equal
rights OF all citizens, regardless of race, color,
nationality, or condition before the laws. This
is the question that is now looming up before
the American people, and it is to be tried at the
bar of public opinion and decided by free bal
lots in November. 1SS4.-Cincinnati Commercial
Gazette.
THE Speaker has made up the committees
which have to do with the industrial and tinau-
cial interests of the country hostile thereto. In
so doing he has doubtless acted in harmony
with the controlling sentiment of his party. but
that fact does not mend the matter. 1t simply
shows that the aDlest men OF the party are in
sympathy with the element that is a menace to
the general prosperity. 1t is fitting that Mr..
Bland who threateningly predicted bloodshed
in 1878 if the coinage of silver not made
free and the resumption act repealed, should
now be put at the head of a committee which
will insist that the coming and plling up of
silver dollars shall go on at the ever-increasing
risk of financial revusion.-BostOn Journal
THE richest prizes for personal endeavor,
speaking in the way of averages, will be for
many generations to come in engineering ana
the industrial arts. The arlstOoracy of the fu-
ture will be furnished by those pursuits No
where else has nature yielded up to man so
small proportion of her treasures, and much of
our future rate ofprogress will depend upon the
proper cultivation of the tastes and fac ultes OF
the young in these directions by means Of me-
chanical and chronological institutions of edu-
BILE institutions of this character, but elsewhere
they attract but little public attention. In the
principal nations of Europe there appears TO be
a sort of general awakening to their Importance.
and important consequences will result to the
rising generation. Our own Indifference to the
matter is exceedingly UNDERSTANDABLE
Courier-Jo Journal.
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