The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-06-09
SPIRIT OF THE PRESS.

EX-GOVERNOR HENDRICKS has learned valu-
able lesson, and will be more particular here
after as to the words that fall from his lips.
However, as the interview has made a general
stir throughout the country and disturbed the
equanimty of other candidates for place on
the 1884 ticket, che Ex-Governor does not feel
particularly bad on the whole.-Nashville Ban
ner.
THE position the party has taken on the liquor
question is one that may be main tained 1t is
equally removed from the two extremes which
in the political history of the State have been SO
embarrassing and so msehieyous. 1t is our
opinion that the Scott law, which Is the full ex-
preston OF the brief resolution In the platform,
will be declared constitutional and become pop
ular and that 1t will stand.-Cincinnati CONNER
otal Gazette
WE are drawing on the European boards in
payment for our wheat, cotton and petroleum.
We keep our product and add to it no incOnsder-
able amount of foreign coin and bullion. With
this healthy condition of trade and good pros
| poet of maintaining our seventy or eighty mil
| lions OF annual production for Indefinite
period, this great country seems to be in a good
condition to snap its fingers in the face of pancs
and hard times.-Philade pha Times.
WHEN small dealers mere dabbers, through
out the country cease to feed the great gambling
centers by "blOwing in" their small contribu-
tions these dealings In futures" will shrink into
| iusigni1cance. Let the small 'producers"-tO
use gamblers phrase-stop the folly of squan-
derng their one hundreds, their one thousands,
and so on, and the evil of speculation in stocks
and futures Will be speedily oiroumscribed wlths
| In very narrow limits.-St. Louis Republican.
THERE has been good deal of smart and
| empty railing at "the party OF great moral
| ideas" and the Republicans have been duped by
| some Adventures who have been at once scamps
and hynocrites; but the solid fact remains that
| they have for nearly the average life OF gener-
| alton stanchly and honestly sustained the prin-
| clples which the conscience of the people has APP
| proved, while the Democracy as party has
been opposed to those principies.-New York
| Times.
THE ease with which divorces may be OBJ.
| tanned, so far the requirements of residence,
service of summons, extent of proof. etc, ara
/ non a IA m n Axgft
| than the fact that they may be obtained oheapiy.
| In the cases where the worst abuses prac
| ticed the question of cost is of minor considera-
ton to the divorce seeker. To reform the evil.
it is necessary to make it difficult, if not impOs
sible, to get an illegal divorce at any COST
] New York Herald.
drawing too great share of attention to those
| who can form themselves into procession. The
| silent crowd and disentegrated masses who can
not be helped by special LEGISLATION, but only by
stern application of the broadcast principles of
equal rights and fair play in general legislation,
| are almost utterly neglected in our legislative
| bodies We cannot think ourselves very highly
developed in political principle nor in real intel
| ligence so long as this may be truly said Least
of all should there be any privileged class in re-
| form.-Chicago Tribune.
| THE little swindlers are sure to he nabbed. It
| ia rare that big fish like Langley gets caught,
| but there Others equally large swimming
| about in perfect freedom and taking in shoals of
victims. Why are they not caught2 Why does
Justice not cast her net into Wall street, into
| the mining exchanges, and into all the avenues
| of speculation where men and women are falling
victims by thousands to the gamblers and
| swindlers of the Langley type? She would
| make "a rich haul, and an examination of their
| methods of business would show that they had
as little foundation as Langley's company.
| Chicago Tribune.
We want revolt against prevailing ideas of
| law and Justice We want party and a press
| which will not lie. We want a mercantile COM
| munity which will not cheat. We want an edu-
| cation which will teach the rising generation to
value Alright, but to value none too highly the
| pOwer of wealth. We want to teach ourselves
| and to teach others that to-day the evils which
threaten us, and confront us and corrupt us
| spring from too prevalent materialisln, which
! iudges a man more for what he has than for
what ne ls, which tells the worth of "a man by
| dollars and cents rather than by character and
moral and mental attributes.-Louisville Cour-
| ier-JOurnal.