The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-07-05
SPIRIT OF THE PRESS.

IF M Ferry's cabinet preserves a policy OF
strict moderation the death of the Count OF
Chain6ord will do nothing to change tie politi-
cal situation The most powerful dynasty which
ever ruled in France will have lost its last direct
representative, and there will be merely enc
Frenchman the less.-New York Herald.
"IRELAND for the Irish" is IA good cry, and it
may be that only by dynamite and assassination
can the English be driven out: about that We
Will not dispute, though the best cause can only
pc ndlrtled by assassination. But the English
VIII never leave Ireland because of threatening
sPeecnes made or assassination resolutions
Herald.
AN opposition party asking to be placed in
coutrOl OF tne government should have settled
poIiey, when II invites the people to try. Is
snoulu put forward men to represent it whOs9
ability and fidelity are well attested It should
present clear alternative instead of a blind
chance When the Democratic party does this,
1t will lind the people prepared for a change
Boston Herald.
RECENT developments in the army and navy
give ground for the belief that little military
and naval service reform as well as civil-service
reform is needed. There have been more scan
dals Involving dishonest and dshonorable trans
actions in both of the first-named arms of the
government recently than in the civil service
Tor several years, although the latter branch is
ten times more numerous-Chicago Int. Ocean,
WHAT these men [Beirne and Elaml nave ac-
tually done is easily stated. They Undertook
an argument, got mad, became Dlaekguards,
committed felony one, a olear-sIghted ,nas:, ssss
the satisfaction of knowing that he shot a near.
sighted man whom he had at disadvantage and
the near-sighted man has got pistol-ball in hii
MP: All this to NO purpose, not a letter of any
OF the questions in dispute having been affected
Dy it--New York Tribune.
THE government is not specially in fault In
THIS trade-dollar matter. II, however, without
cost TO itself, can save to the holders of this
money the 3 per cent. loss they are threatened
with by accepting trade dollars in exchange for
stapdard dollars. The latter cost the govern
ment nut elghty-tve cents each, while the trade
dollars are worth one-and-a-half cents more As
tne trade dollar appears on its face as United
states coin, 1t would be both equitable and poll
TIC Tor the government to save 1t from discredit,
Philadelphia Press.
WE need not trouble ourselves, therefore, to
fire orstorical bullets at Great Britain; under
take to review the causes of the struggle that
made this country independent We not
nenaced by outside powers. Our dangers, il
dangers they are, lie inside of our own borders,
and that scrutiny which used to be directed to
the outside Is now needed at home, and each
citizen should turn the glass upon himself If
we faii to transmit unimpaired the heritage of
free government, the failure will come fro
within and not from Observation-Disclosures Co
mercial Gazette.
THERE is every reason to expect that cholei
will follow the course pursued in the past, reach
ing Europe first by the direct route, and the
United States from Europe But it is to be remem-
bered that even Asia has escaped the widespread
and terrible cholera epidemics OF past times, and
that all prophecies of general epldemics have
come TO naught. In any event we may expect
the disease to pursue its usual course, which will
relieve the United States for this season, while
the absence OF any general epidemic in Asia in
spires hope that may escape altogether.
Cincinnati News Journal.
THERE is limit to arabic land in the Wesr.
When that limit is reached and values rise, and
the labor market Is found to be clicked, there
Will be no lnducemeut offered for such lmmigra-
uOn OF the poorer WORKING classes now pours
every year upon orr shores. After the incoming
Hood has Stacked off the enghtening and mold
ing influences of the public schools and The all
pervading press will work wonders in educating
and Americanizing the children of those trouble
some European millions aud shaping them into
well-behaved temperate and patriotic citizens.
Let us never despair of the American republic.
Chicago Tribune.
In many ways the commerce as well rs the
travel OF the world will be changed by the an
pearance of the cholera in Egypt, which can
probably he traced back to India Itself, usua,
for its origin. That 1t will not make its usual
deadly ravages, however, may he fairly hoped
from tine advancements made in sanitary
science, and the better knowledge of the disease
itself and lis treatment. At the same time the
announc cement of more than a hundred deaths %
day in Damietta city of not more than 25,0O0
Inhabitants, is not encouraging as Indicating
medical triumph over the dreaded seourge-Cin-
clnnati Commercial Gazette.