The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-03-07
THE SPIRIT OF THE PRESS.

ON review of the whole situation. from
business standpoint, it appears that the adjourn
ment of Congress may be hailed as marking the
dawn OF new era of activity and prosperity
for the country ut large.-New YORK World.
WITHOUT doubt the tariff bill has defects,
though it merits. on the whole, much praise. IL
1t n most desirable revision respects simplifi-
cation and the avoidance of antiquities, and it
secures large reduction of revenue.-New York
Tribune.
THE time is at hand when Democratic Journals
and leaders Will have to come out from the
Know-nothing manner and speak out Oh affairs.
Then the public will have some means of finding
out whether the party is alive, according TO a
rule referred to by Macbeth, which made brains
a part of llfe.-Cncnnatl Commercial Gazette
THIS whole business of arresting people who
have local hal'irations and who can he readily
surd as well as veXatlous-as absurd and veXa-
tious as tile suit itself of stowuway against a
captain for deraining hun long enough to make
inquiries as 10 his surreptiOus flight from his
own country.-New York World.
THE spirit within the party at large which has
secured the results Obtained in Congress is much
more powerful ana active than it has been in
Congress itself. Many impedimenis have beea
removed; much has been gained. There is every
reason for confidence that the party, holding
fast 10 what it has has achieved, will 20 on to a
greater or more honorable career in the future.
New York Times.
THE Democrats will find that their obstruc-
tion tactics in the closing hours of Congress
will come back to plague them in TIE next cam
paign not only on account Of the unworthy pur-
pose which prompted them, hut also on account
OF the resulting failure OF urgent legislation
Thinking people viii naturally ask themselves
whether such a party may he safely intrusted
with the administration of national affairs.-Chi-
cagO Tribune.
CRASHING mnnopolies are bad institutions, it
is admitted for tho sake Of being fashionable
aud keeping peace, hnG we must insist that so
long as they keep transportation rates and the
prices of manufactured articles down 10 SO low
n notch that other grasping mOnopoles can't
get Il chance to gouge in, the people should re-
frain from weeping. Willing and gnnshing teeth.
Much this sntject hat is delivered in ora tions
by able statesmen is pure demagogy.-Ci
natl journal.
WHERE the high license system has been adopt
ed il has met with success, as the hest m ode of
raising revenue from the liquor traffic and OF Sc
curing a better class Of men in the business and
more orderly houses. 1t is certainly the most
legitimate mode of raising revenue; IL is II tax
upon Injuries; the man who drinks the liquor
pays the tax after all, and he ought to pay it,,
because il il not n necessity-he can do without
II; hnt If he wants 1t let him pay for IT. and the
community is benefited by high taX.-St. Louis
Republican.
WE want manufactures in Alabama, but we
can never have them if foreign manufactures
arc admitted at such low rates as to prevent our
people from emharliing in these new pursuits
which are to raise the price of labor and bring
comfort and prosperity 10 the laborer, whatever
may he his field of operation. Prosperity to the
laborer means prosperity to the employer. In