The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-07-02
SPIRIT OF THE PRESS.

THE true remedy for Irish poverty, pauperism
and famine is not emigration, but amelioration
at home. This is the stand taken by the Ma
tiOna League, and in this 1t Is unQuestiOnably
right.-Brooklyn Eagle.
1T ia the Door man who has the greatest inter-
est in the preservation OF the Old-time sanotity
of the first day of the week II he be awake to
his true position with regard to it he will be the
foremost to protect and defend it, regardless If
need be, of any considerations of q sacred char
acter but on grounds of policy alone.-Oho
State Journal.
THE principle that the liquor traffic is dan ger
GUS to the public welfare, and hence illegitimate
| except as it is authorized and regulated by law
is recognized universally that 1t is folly cry
out against special burdens as unjust which are
| imposed for the express purpose of restricting
the liquor traffic. and depressing, far posi-
BILE, the evils necessarily incident thereto.-Chi-
cago Tribune.
THERE would be no manufacturers or vendors
of intoxicating liquors il there were no consum-
| ers and experience ought to convince observing
| people that a universal demand for any article,
| whether the article be good or bad, insures
universal supply. Movements, therefore, look
ing to the suppression of the gigantic evil of in
| temperance that do not begin with the consum
ers, usually fai.-Cncnnati Commercial Ga
zette.
TIE right way, the only right way, in which
the civil service can be used to strengthen tho
Republican party IN the South is by scrupulOus
care in the appointment of fit men to the princi-
pal offices, and by rigid prohibition of political
interference on the part of all federal employees.
Such a course would inculcate genuine respect
for the national government III the South, which
is the first condition OF Republican progress
there-New York Times.
No Democratic convention held this year has
indorsed the principles and method of the PEN
dleton bill, though, before it was passed, they
were very free with resolutions in its favor.
The intoxication OF unexpected successes has
not left them with wit decency enough to
conceal their purposes. They are going in with
a whoop for a "cean sweep" All right. Let
them keep it up. and they viii be swept clean
into their last dirty ditch.-Boston Herald.
MANY of the imported paupers come from Ire
lana, with thelr respect Tor law ana ability to
become self-sustaining destroyed by long-cOn-
tinued resistance to legal authority and oppres-
sion. This familiarity with the darkest crimes
has weakened their ability to distinguish be-
tween right and wrong. The danger TO all that
Americans hold most dear is great that
American citizens Of foreign birth have been
among the first to demand remedy. Stop the
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. Press.
THE great need is to open the doors of the
universities wider and to amplify and extend
the resources within. Those who desire to be-
come classical scholars should have the oppor-
tunity, but those who desire to devote their
college years to a wholly different line of studies
should have an equal chance. There should be
no lowering of the standard of admission or
graduation. 1t should rather be higher, but
under it there should be such a variation of
quirements as to adapt it to the manifold needs
Of the modern time.-New York Times
Mr.. HoADLY was nominated on this issue
alone, and nominated solely TO catch the Ger
man Republican brewers. He Will have to dis
cuss 1t, and to show where he stands The Re-
publcans want it discussed. They have planted
And while they do not claim for the Scott law
perfection, 1t is the expression of this principle,
and 1t is the law, and 1t will stand and they
stand by 1t, and challenge the painest discussion
of this and OF any proposed taxing or license
scheme, or of any scheme of exemption from all
taxation.-Cincinnati Commercial Gazette.
FOR sixty years America has been receiving
vast horde from every natlon in Europe-a great
mass of Ignorant, impoverished and discomfort
ed exiles-and it has trained them in workaday
habits and the duties and responsibilities of cit
izenship. 1t offers to-day to the Irish immi-
grants whom England finds it impossible either
to govern, reconcile or feed. home, a living and
and women who can work. and 1t provides them
with living, which, as the Spectator has con-
fessed, "as regards food, clothing, lodging and
education, Is distintly better than that of any
large population in the Old World."-New York
Tribune.
IN Chicago, it is well known, the provision
made for instruction in these dead languages,
together with the money required in pursuing
anything but common school curriculum,
damnabe injustice, for 1t robs some portion of
the city youth of their only chance of learning
the simple elements of their own language and
the ordinary rules OF arithmetic. In the name
of the higher, the lower education ia neglected,
and, that boys and girls of varying degrees of
quired some useless knowledge at the public
cost, thousands Of children denied the chance
of learning necessary elements.-Chicago Times.
THE moment the time shall come wher -hr-
treasury cannot redeem its obligations "
but must pay out silver. we drop at on
the gold to the silver basis and the |
everything we have to buy goes up accot