The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-02-22
THE SPIRIT OF THE PRESS.

THE real obstructionists are not the members
who have been stubhornly fighting for tax re-
duction, bur the Democrats who have united
with the extreme prOtectionists among the Re
publicaDs IN opposing any substantial reform
of the present tariff OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES Rec
4 ord.
WE should teach drawing In the same way that
we teach reading, writing and arithmetic, not as
an end but as a means, and IN doing so should
try to incite the ambition of youth, not TO be
President of the United States, but to be an in
dustrious and useful Observation-Disclosures
Times.
If tho Bureau of Education, the only visible
result of a yearning on the part of the Federal
authorities to educate the people" is a sample
of what is likely to be achieved by further med
dure a pOstponement of any fresh experiment in
the way of national aid to State schools.-New
York Tribune. e.
ALL the amendments that could be framed
would not help us. All the whisky now in bond,
transferred to the stomachs of candidates. would
not save us. We want a plain. straightforward
law taxing the liquor traffic for business pur-
poses. Without that is done 1t is all the same
whether anything is Observation-Disclosures
Commercial Gazette.
THE gulf between the Liberals and the Parnell-
ties will be widened; the hope OF healthy Irish
legislation will be destroyed; the sternest forms
OF coercion will be put into force, and, in spite
of outward calm in Ireland and the usual com
placency in England, the international hatred
will go on growing in bitterness and intensity
until every Irish peasant is at heart a murderer.
New York Herald.
u Is pIuDGtl OI II VI OhO ASNhtO
and for the legislative committee of another
State to put convicts civilly dead upon an appar-
ent level with fIeemen and respectable witness
es. and allow them to indict wardens, ciaplains
and physicians of untarnished character, why
ought not men under sentence OF capital punish
ment TO be allowed to review the decision OF the
| court2-New York World.
BEYOND all doubt, Number Ones" money
was sent to him from America. Those who sub
scribed it and those who sent IL and those who
exhorted others to subscribe and send money
knew very well that the funds were used for
purposes of unlawful agitation, II they still
cherish the hostile and revengeful feelings which
have so often found expression here, they may
have the grim satisfaction of feeling reasonably
sure that their money helped to arm the murder
ers of Lord Frederick Cavendlsh and MI. Bnrke.
New York Times.
SECRETARY LINCOLN has shown excellent judg-
ment in dealing with General Hazen, the
nYeung InIprohabilities' at the head of the sig
| nal service. He has met Hazen's asiulne inpOr-
t~unities for a Senate investigation with the lnti'
nation that a court of inquiry may be appointed
by the President to investigate the adininistra'
ton of the department over which Hazen pre-
sides. This will be the proper mode OF pro
cedure, and such a court may not develop the
leniency which Hazen evidently hoped from q
senate Observation-Disclosures Tribune.
In Europe the oath is not required of members
of Parliament in France, Germany and some OF
the minor countries. Quakers and Moravians
every where regard oath-taking in any FORM I'M
lawful. If the British government can dispense
with oaths in India, because their moral sane
ton does not enhance me value OF naive a tes ha
HOUSE of Commons. 1t would minimize the
crime of perjury, both in England ana TINS ooun-
try. TO abolish oaths, for there is no doubt per
Jury IN our courts and at the polls is q very COM
mon Observation-Disclosures.
LET the business men Immediately organize:
Let them make themselves felt In both halls oil
Congress. Let them pour in their dispatches
and letters and show Congress the real state OF
public feeling. Let the newspapers appreciate
the gravity of the question and cell the pubic
representatives what is the precise truth; that
the call for financial reform does not mean the
overthrow of projections; that the demand tor
less revenue does not mean more 1mportatlOn5.
and that the desire for peace does not mean the
peace of the graveyard. II the people Will speak
the word of command, Congress- must obey
PHILADELPHIA Pres. e.. ts.t