The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-08-16
SPIRIT OF THE PRESS,

THE ballot in Utah simply enables the church
to put on the livery of democracy to serve des-
this, SO long would 1t be proper for the national
government to rule Utah on it's own responsible
ity.-St. Louis GlObe-Democrat,
If our regular army is TO retain its hold upon
the confidence and respect of The country some
thing has got to be done, and that speedily, to
check the progress of that decentralization which
mas recently manifested itself in many ways
ana on so .extenslveI a scale-MinneapOlis Trib-
une.
NEVER before did the business community so
Iully realize the necessity of a federal bankrupt
law as 1t does at the present time. Indeed ever
since the repeal of the last act, which was de-
feotive. there has been growing sentiment that
the business OF the country is of a nature that
the subject OF bankruptcy should be in the hands
OF the federal gOvernment.-Boet0n Journal.
SO far as individual success is concerned, a
labor strike benefits only those engaged i'll it
whose abilities are below the average. There
lsno service, corporate or private, in which
marked ability and APPLICATION will not secure
advancement. The leading men in the Western
Union Telegraph Company and in railroad and
manufacturing pursuits are, almost, without an
exception. those who have been promoted from
the ranks.-Beston Herald.
We have IN use more currency than can possi-
bly, be employed in healthy and legitimate bust
ness, and part of it has, therefore, been en-
ployed in speculation. The consequences of OK
cessive speculation may be read in the daily re-
ports of failures. Meanwhile the distrust as to
the future may be seen in the abundance of
money to loan on call, and in the scarcity of
oial loans-New York Tribune.
IT is time that determined effort should be
made against the expenditure of money in cleo
lions, before the faith Of the people IN their
ability to make an unbOught choice Is entirely
destroyed. There must be restraint exercised
by the good men in both parties ON the unscrup-
ulOaa zeal OF party managers, or the very high
est election of the country Will become q ques-
tiun not OF votes or of principles, but OF dollars
and campaign fund-Springtield Republican.
THE same work reform of the civil servicel
which has enlisted the sympathy and active CO.
operation Of so many of the best men of the
nation needs also to be done for most States and
municipalities. The evils attendant upon the
distribution of the State patronage are less than
those against which the power of Congress has
been invoked only in as far as they affect a
smaller number of persons and have less pow.
erful effect upoE parties and politics.-St. Paul
Ploneer-Press
CAPITAL, of course, is interested in protect
i've tariff hut there is no class deeply con-
cerned the workingmen Under free trade
many things would be cheaper in this country
than they are. The people would have cheaper
clothes Farmers could buy iron at lower rates
But where would the workingmen find money to
driven out, where would the farmers find a home
market for their prUduoe2-Cineinnati CONNER
cial Gazette.
IT is high time for the telegraph operators as
q class to ascertain whether they have been hon =
estly dealt with by their own leaders. II they
have been persuaded to throw up employ
and undergo distress in the vain hope of aohiev-
ing by this means what the companies would
have conceded to them in fair time and upon
proper represen tation and consultation, then
they have suffered much greater grievance at
the hands of the little clique of men who run the
brotherhood in New York than they have at the
hands of the telegraph companies. = Chicago
Trihuna.