The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-06-28
SPIRIT OF THE PRESS.

No doubt those officers internal revenue col
lectorsl who are retired 10 private life by these
changes Will grumble a little, but they will have
the satisfaction of knowing that what incunVe.
niences them is a benefit TO the public.--New
York Herald.
THE history of past republics ia strewn with
the wrecks that have been pied up in the strug-
gle of the crowd for office and ratiOns from the
public treasury. The demagOgue who proposes
to retrace the first steps that nave been taken
with so much pain and difficulty TO free the
country from this grave political peril is q pub
lie enemy.-Chicag0 Tribune.
SUCH are the necessities of workingmen gener.
ally that even when currency which, like the
trade dollar, Is not legal tender is offered them,
they feel compelled TO accept, because they can
not afford to wait for their pay, much less to in-
cur the cost of collecting it by legal process.
Workingmen ought, therefore,, to be the most
uncOmpromising enemies OF cheap money OF
every ripti Chicago Times,
W can afford to be very liberal in the matter
OF immigrants; but we cannot afford to allow
Great Britain 10 transfer TO the shoulders of our
taxpayers the burden of pauperlsm, or worse,
which properly belongs to her own. Such con-
duct is so distinctly contrary to the obligations
that it should be not only pointed out but re-
sented aud its recurrence guarded against.
New York Times.
THE safe way is to put the r%eformatory force
of law to a full test. This much, certainly. 10
assured, mere party considerations do not and
should not deter the Republican party from fol-
lowing the course dictated by the better judg-
ment Of the people. The enemies of reform need
not hope To stop the wheels of progress by APP
peals to the cowardice of professional politt-
clans, especially upon the temperance question.
Chicago Inter Ocean.
THE few physicians who have had the courage
to speak boldly, assert that in many Christian
homes mothers destroy their infants with less
apparent feeling tnan Is shown by the heather
women who cast their young into the Ganges.
1t cannot be that this practice would be so gen.
eral if our women were all taught TO consider lts
enormity. Doubtless very many intelligent
women to-day do not know that f6ticide is as
truly murder as ii children born alive were
tr.nula ~ hrnup nod i OniaVill1 COmmprpial
THE success of the Democratic party at the
next presidential election would involve not
only the most sweeping changes in rhe public
service, in which all ideas of efficiency would
give placo TO considerations of personal and po-
ltical advantage, but it would carry with it The
defeat Of the civil-servIce The CIVIL
service law and all the machinery of boards, ex-
aminers, regulations and competitive tests
would he swept away by the grand rush of Demo-
cratic Office seekers like II weak brldge before %
freshet-Boston Journal.
1T is one of the cheapest and most foolish
tricks of the cheap ~delmagogue to be continually
canting about the corruption and profligacy Of
the opposite party when II is in power. mas
much az the Democrats are much in lack of
more decent or effective campaign material this
year, one can hardly be surprised that the
cheapest demagogues among them run riot in
their platforms. But the man who i~nlagines
thar this mud-slinging does him any good or
strengthens his party only shows that he is "a
callOw politician. York Tribune.
THE Democratic party holds within it the most
corrupt political organization in the history OF
American politics. ldlnulhnA WITH IT'S lWccu
record and unsavory reputation of the present;
it has, within tine past few months, added two
TO it's LIST of defaulting State Treasurers, and
produced a Legislature in the State of New York
eighty OF whose bills had to be vetoed, and
whose Senate subjected itself to an accusation
from the Governor of being ruled by unworthy
motives; and it includes the bulk of the ignorant
and vicious classes i'll the Northern States.-St.
Louis Globe-Democrat.
AFTER all, the honest masses like candor and
manlInesS more than %trlckery. Ii is too late to
make the country believe that the Democratic
party has departed from the position which 1t
has held for half a century, ana which this very
year nine tenths of its members of Congress oc.
cupled throughout a prolonged struggle. Had
that party declared plainly aud uneduivOcally
for the maintenance OF protective duties, even
then no one would have put faith in professions
so contrary TO its couduc;. But still less can 10
be trusted when It resorts TO tricky and shuffling
phrases, which may mean anything or nothing.
The people, those who favor and those who OPP
pose protective duties, will Judge OF the party
Ivy its aets, ana will treat with thorough con-
| tempt It's disin gennous and evasive professions.
--New York Tribune.