The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-04-07
THE SPIRIT OF THE PRESS.

THE Journal de Rome maintains that France
has enemies every where in Europe. We believe
that this Is true. There is a oommunistic ele-
ment in the present form of government which
arrays all the conservative nations against It,
New York Herald.
TIL thought to be a grand thing for this
country to have foreigners buy our stocks and
bonds. In the case of ships, however, the the
DRY on which our laws are based seems to be
this: that our liberties would be imperiled by
European investmeAts.-St. Lo1is Globe-Dem0-
crat.
THE Democratic party has long been under the
imputation that 1t is the natural ally of all the
In our population, and that impression need only
be strengthened a little more to render tho
struggle of the Democrats for the possession OF
the national government hopeless once more
New York Evening Post.
THERE is no doubt that Socialists, Nihilists,
and representatives of the gospel of assassina.
pean country, but SO far they have done very
little damage, and people in this country will be
very apt to scruiinize closely the stories emanat-
ing from the governing classes in England, Ire
land, France and Chicago Tribune.
IF Mexico pursues her policy of encourage
ment to foreigners who are Interested in the I'M
provement of her material resources, she will
soon find that active life has been infused into
her system, all her interests will be benefited
and her regenerated national life will testify to
the saving power of the progress of the nine
teenth century Commercial Gazette.
IF it were possible for strikes TO be used as a
remedy without the application to them of In
~ iult luitH " hlCh hbthl III VIC II " III
concentration and monopoly, there could be lit
tie said against the resort to them in a largo
number of cases. This Is one or the prODlema
which wOrkingmen have no doubt considered,
but which it is not easy to sOlve.-St. Louis Re.
publican.
IT is founded In the nature of things that men
struggle and strive, that the trees never grow
into the clouds, and that what is igaoble or de.
graded goes to the bottom. The anarchists OF
our time are not so much aa indication of q near
collapse, as they are the natural result of a
brisk social movement. When men make iron or
steel, some dross is among the by-products'-Bos-
ton Advertiser.
true note for Ireland. In n letter to the Young
Ireland Society he denounces the dynamite poll
CIV. and declares that IL would be better 10 work
ana wait twenty years longer rather than play
into the hands of Ireland's enemies by commit
ting CRIME, This deserves n better reception
shonld be applauded for his letter.-New York
Tribune.
REPUBLICAN success in 1884 can be assured
only by making the party the active agent of
the measures which the country has shown that
it desires. The proof that it is such an agey
must be offered from this time forth. 1t calf i
be done by fine phrases in IA platform. 1t CO ~
accomplished only by the votes and the ac4 ~
Republican executive and legislative o69 a.
ana by the tone of the Republican press.-f \
per's Weekly. I
INDIVIDUALS sometimes make fools OF ~
selves In their youth ANA grow old and o.
their folly, but when the conduct Of any CO.
cradle number of men is 10 be consilere,
may always count on u saving average of
sense. Revolutionary attempts of the VII
KIND live on success and hope. When they
neither to feed on they die, and that is the
ent condition of the dynamite anarchists
FeDians. New York Times.