The Indianapolis journal., 1883-11-05
SPIRIT OF THE PRESS.

|
THE people who are trying to do something g
| Tor the cause of land reform and home rule in
| Ireland are exasDerated by the idiocy display ed
In the explosion of nitro-glycerine bombs In Lon
don. There never was a more malignant form
of foolishness than that displayed in these out
rages.-Cncinnau Commercial Gazette.
| IF the colored people will demand of every
Southern State textbooks and seat in q school
| room during three or SIX months of the year for
their children, and will ask their jealous North
ern friends to try and secure some national aid
| for colored schools in the South, they will have
little occasion to regret that the Supreme Court
| found the eivi-rights bill unconstitutional.
| New York Times.
| WISE housewife would as leave "a cat
In charge OF her cream as the American neople
would intrust so old an offender as the Demo-
| cratic party with the custody of its treasurebOX
| or the preservation of the public race Changes
are desirable III many respects, but not such
| changes as the Democratic party would bring.
! Those VINO sell the Republican lions skin while
| yet he is alive may be killed in hunting him.
| National Republican.
| TIE predicament of professed free traders who
may take part in the free-sugar movement, will
not be unlike that of the late Fernando Wood
and other professed free traders, who helped the
| prOtectiOnists abolish the tea and coffee duties
| eleven years ago 1t Will be only a little better,
because the sugar duties are in a moderate de-
gree protective, while the tea and coffee duties
were wholly for revenue, and not protective at
all,-ChlcagO Times.
| AS the Fenians are known to have organized
| all those explosions in London of the history of
which there is any precise knowledge, they are
naturally accused as the cOntriyers of all eXplo-
| sions which cannot be otherwise accounted for.
| They alone have any motive for such course
and their motive is palpaOle. They simply con-
| Sinue those savage tactics to which Mr.. Glad
stont himself paid the tribute of saying that
| they affected the course of Parliament.-New
| York Herald.
| To an age a century or two hence Shermans
| letters-very nearly the best of this generation,
| and by far the best of any American-will do
| more for his fame than his battles, while Wash
| ington wrote with pains and reached at best a
A N.
| and as citizens, IN peace and in war, the two
men stand wide apart in admirable qualities,
and 1t Is no small proof of a nations youth that
| a century after Washington it brought forth
| Sherman, man still young at sixty.-Philadel-
| phia Press.
| THE law of Congress, made during the recon
| structiOn controversy, fOrhidding the of
| United States troops a posse, makes the
| United States garrison at Salt Lake idle specta-
| tors of Mormon cOntumacy and contempt for
| law. And all this comes about because tine gov
ernment OF the United States provides for and
| best talent In devlsing ways to nuflify United
States laws and hamper the action of United
States officers. The simplest dictate of common
sense would seem to be to get rid of this Legisla-
| tuFe.-LOuisvile Commercial. q ....
! CITIZENS who believe that laws ought TO be
! enforced, and who think that the United States
| government is sufficiently powerful to protect
| its property and punish those who steal it, may
! ask why the thieves who have defeated the pur-
pose Of the presumption laws and forced, the
| commissioner TO ask for the repeal of these laws
| have not been prosecuted and punished Oo-
casiOnalIv hear of d prosecution. it is true,
| but Dinety-nlne hundreths OF the land thieves
| escape punishment, and nine-tenths of them re-
| tain their plunder. Are they stronger than the
| United States governmentf-New York Times
| IT surely ought not to be difficult for our legis-
| lators and prison superintendents to lind way
of recOnciling all the conflicting interests in
| which the problem Of prison labor has unfortun-
| ateiy become involved. In this State, the ques-
tion is TO be submitted to a vote OF the people in
the election next week. Let the proposition to
be voted upon be carefully weighed. If it means
|
be kept in idleness, it ought to be rejected. If it
is only intended TO strike deadly blow at the
contract system as at present practlced, and
| thus prepare the way for some juster and wiser
| arrangements, all good citizens should vote for
| it.-Frank Lese's Weekly.
| GENTLE population and influence depends
| upon the Acknowledgement of the MormOns and
! their elimination from political and civil power,
which can be achieved only by the abolition of
suffrage in the Territory. Loss of suffrage will
mean gain of influence to the gentiles; to the
| MormOns it will mean the ultimate extinction of
poly gamy under an honest and efficient admins
| tration OF civilized laws. II corruption III poll
tics a sufficient reason for placing tho Dis
| triot OF Columbia uuder commission government,
| certainly the corruption of morals. which threat
ems TO extend over several Territories, and as
pires TO the control of many States i'll course
| OF time, is II warrant for adopting the same form
of governmental Utah-Chleago Tribune.
| THE country begins wake up whenever the
| yell of the gray-backs draws near the window
! of the White House. Then there come flashes
! of memory. Sumter and AppOmattoX; the
dear ones who went from us southward and
what they went for; massacres, and rifie-clubs,
and klans for asSassnatiOn; raids on public cred
| it and blows at public nonor; long struggles to
make fraudulent elections still possible; pas
sionate efforts to break down the tariff, and vim
| dlctlve thrusts at the banks because they
helped to save the nation-all these things come
back on the instant. When the country wakes
| UP enough to remember what the Democratic
| party has been, and to think what IL really is
the prospects change as II by magic-New
| York Tribune
| Counterfeiters and counterfeit plates multiply
| faster than secret-service detectives, and even
| when the former are caught, the issue of false
notes has been Sown broadcast Through lgnO-
rance dishonesty the fase Issue is kept i'll cir
| culatiOp from hand to hand by the general pub
| lie. There is only one way to stop this, and that
is to compel every bank, State and national, to
brand every counterfeit that comes under its
notice. We're tina: law in existence from to-day
there would practically be no counterfeits in eX-
| istence this day twelvemonth. The Secretary
of the Treasury should take action III this mat
ter and Congress and the State Legislatures
! out the enormous number OF counterfeit notes
now in eXistence.-New York Herald.
THE writer lin the Commercial Gazette at
| tributes the Republican defeat in Ohio primarily
| to the Republican refOrmers throughout the
country, But this Is the old error of attributDg
/ tine civil war to the AbotiOnists Il is true that
| if the Sons OF Liberty had heidi their tongues,
America might still he an English province. If
| the alti-savery men had been SILENT there
might have been no civil war. so, II the sun hatl
| not risen, there might have been no day. E&cepI
| for Republican reformers the democrats woulo
have carried the country three yeaSs ago. as they
have carried OHIO now. "NOus vCrrons, says
| the wrlter-we shall see. We ceftai My shai!:
! But If the Republican ship should sink, ~ 'wouiI
J not be the retOrmtrS who have scuttled h6i: lt
is not the thermometer hat Is responsible for tie
weather,-HarPer'S Weekly.