The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-04-18
THE SPIRIT OF THE PRESS.

TO push Harrison aside mere local politi-
clan VIII not dispose of the dilemma which lie
was frank enough to point out. Harrison may
oe repuked for his impertlnence and his indiscre-
erection, but the situation he described will re-
main just tho same.-Chicago Tribune.
THERE is no doubt that Brady and all those
very ilkely that the murders i'll Phoenix Park
anu Ine explosion in Whitehall may have the
sun OF making life safer from violence in Ireland
ana property in England than they were before
World.
CARRIERS speech showed that it was the horse
sense utterance or a man who had experience i'll
getting votes and getting them counted He Is
not much on principle, but he is a great deal on
counting the votes, and il the Iroquois Club will
smoke his dynamite few months, the next
democratic campaign will be the healthier for
H'-Loulsville Commercial.
WHEN the press and the pulpit of a great city
make common cause with the better class of citi-
zens and are defeated, there is need for most
careful inquiry as to causes. 1t is a matter of
TOO much Importance TO be passed lightly, and
IL ought TO serve a better purpose than that of
mar Drained scribbler interested only in spe-
clous argument.-Chcago Inter Ocean.
WE cannot have the feuds of the Old World in
Jected into the politics of the new. Every year
we have more emigrants come bither from the
other divisions of the British Isles than from
quota of citizens to this growing Nation They
do not demand that the United States take up
the feuds from which they have fled. Neither
must the Irish.-Chcago Herald.
MR.. HARRISON had fixed his mouth for a pro-
tectionist speech, and this he delivered with
gusto and flowing tongue, while Bayard and
other lights OF the Democratic party famed
with rage and Indignation. The love-feast seems
to have broken up in most admired disorder, but
We shall continue to be told by the bland organs
OF the Democracy that the organization Is unit
on the tariff question.-New York Times.
If government goes on grinding out these
coins [silver dollarsl az the rate of twenty
millions year, the time must come when they
Will drop to their bullion value contracting the
circulation to the full amount of gold afioat in
the country, and dragging all the representative
money down to it's level. Then we shall
witness REIMBURSEMENT" of the Virginia sort on
a gigantic SCALE No government fiat can prevent
it.-Chcago Times.
For the sake of general culture, of which
young country has none too much, the duty on
works of art should by all means be abolished.
Nothing is so necessary TO the encouragement
OF the fine arts in America, and the spreading of
good taste, the establishment of art galleries.
1t Is important that these galleries, which
sprlnglng up every where, should have few
good pictures. Will not the tariff recognize this
fact.-Cincinnatl Journal.
THE general course of our foreign trade con-
tinues healthy. We are selling more than we
are buying, and for the week past investment
securities have stood higher in New York than
In LOndOn-a sufficient proof as to which point
has the Reenest competition for their purchase.
The bank statement shows return TO normal
conditions, and money is again easy. The small
specie imports and slight internal movement of
currency which has accomplished this is, how
ever, "a serious proof of the limited character Of
current transactions.-Ph Philadelphia Press.