The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-05-30
THE SPIRIT OF THE PRESS.

WHEN the markets are overstocked with man.
fractured goods of almost ali descriptions 1t looks
lngmen to talk about strikes. more sure way
TO break up their organizations could not be we'll
devised.-Cincinnati Commercial Gazette.
WHAT concerns American workingmen most
deeply Is that the barriers shall not be removed
prematurely or unwisely and their own labor
reduced to level with the impoVershment aud
degradation of European labor, wherever and
under whatsoever conditions social and eco
nomic, it may be found.-New York Tribune.
HIS 1.-THE Czar'sI immense prerogatve is capa-
bic Of acts from which Parliament would
shrink. His father set millions free with word.
and he with stroke of the pen may make that
freedom something more than name. He has
Deen saved from great peril and will be blind
indeed II he cannot read the lesson Of his escape.
New York Herald.
THE public are not concerned with the differ
ences real or imaginary, that may exist between
the mine-owners and the mine operatives but
the public are deeply concerned to see that the
peace is preserved and the laws obeyed. The
military are not called out to deprive any man
OF MS rights, but to protect property and pre-
vent violence. They will hurt nobody who is
peaceably engaged They will, however, do
their duty, If they are worthy of their calling,
and II there are evil consequences the blame will
not be theirs,-St. Louis Globe Democrat
If they 1.-THE rioGous strikersl pretend that
they are acting in obedience to the demands of
trades union they bring into Gisrepute those or
ganlzations which, rightly used, may give
strenth and dignity to the movements Of labor.
Ihey are the enemies of all honest worRmen.
Their hand is against every man, and every
honest mans hand should be against them.
They have no more respect for the law than they
have for their fellOw-men, and the law which
they have broken ought to De promptly vlndi-
Gated by their arrest and punishment.-New
York Times.
THERE something grand and terrible and
impressive, and hopeful too, about the acclaim
of the vast mob as 1t rolled from center to cir
cumrerence OF the ancient capital, but 1t spoke
ominously of a growing power, sure to be
erted for that evil out of which good grows in
time. 1t will some day acclaim as loudly the
deposition, decapitation perhaps, or exile of the
man 1t hailed That will not be until 1t has
melted and fraternized with that great silent
army which is the power of ezarism. To-day
that mob shouts as 1t must, or as it can; to-mor.
row ii will be able to shout IL will, and then IL
will be found that the army has melted into the
mOb-Cincinnati News journal.
The newspaper standard of morality may not
be that of Christianity. IL more nearly resem-
bes that of the Mosaic law, which demands an
eye for an eye. 1t demands that no guilty man
be allowed to escape. 1t has no sickly sentiment
tality to waste on public offenders. Where they
break the law, 1t demands that they perish by
the law. 1t rakes into the oesspools of crime; 1t
tears the mask from the face of hypocritical vir-
tue IL lays bare all that is base corrupt and de-
grading in public and private life, In order that
law may punish or the sun of righteousness re-
handed in it's treatment of daily news. 1t has
to hold 1.-THE mirror up to nature; TO show virtue
her own feature, scorn her own image, and the
very age and body of the time his form and pres
sure" And it does It, And it will continue to
do it, despite the vain regrets of the pulpit,
which the scepter of leadership snatohed
from its hand.-ChcagO Herald.