The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-10-03
SPIRIT OF THE PRESS,

THAT Mr.. Carlisle Is an able man there is 70
doubt, and that he would fill the Speakers chair
with grace and dignity will be acknowledged by
all who know him, but the fates have ordained
differently, and Mr.. Tlden will take his little
sponge and wipe out Mr.. WattersOn's predictions
whenever he finds it convenient and agreeable
to do sO.-Chicago Inter Ocean,
THE iron trade continues in good condition.
Ru1nors about a drop In price of Southern pig
irons are not corrObOrated by Tennessee or Ala
hama furnace owners. All makes of pig-irons,
Eastern as well as Southern, are in reality sell
ing about fifty cents less than one month ago.
But this is no new thing. Business then remains
healthfuI, and the prospect NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.
oinnati Enquirer.
A GOOD monarch the Spanish people will not
respect. Hence they must not wonder that their
monarch is not much respected by an unthink-
ing rabble at Paris. If Alfonso were a worthy
King, and the king of q worthy people, the
tritiing and proper act of receiving q little NOM
inal compliment from the Prussian Emperor
would not have provoked popular rudeness. The
affair at Paris is not without signifeance.-St.
Louis Globe-Democrat.
THE result will undoubtedly prove the wisdom
of this step. The service performed by the post.
offices is essentially a trading service, and it
forms an exception to the general rule that such
operations should be left to individual enter
prise. But as the government should never
work for a profit it is but right that when the
income from this branch exceeds the expenditure
the excess should be remitted in favor of the
peOple.-New York Herald.
THE relative jurisdiction and rights of nations
are 80 well established that 1t is difficult to con-
ceive of any action on the part of Great Britain
which will drag tho American government into
either diplomatic or warlike demonstration over
the Irish question, and certainly the selfish and
reckless course of IRISH agitators living in
America and claiming citizenship in the United
States should not be permitted to bring about 80
deplorable an event.-Chioago Tribune.
AND now the point OF voting has been reached.
There are few electors who have not decided
upon the ballot they will cast, and only one duty
remains, and that is to resolve to 90 to the polls.
The Republican party has been beaten at times
not by Democrats, but by stay-at-hOme Repub,
licans. The same danger contronts the parry
this year. 1t may result from over-confidence,
but whatever the cause 1t should be guarded
against and overcome. Every Republican shonld
arrange his business in advance in order that he
may vote himself ana find time in addition TO
prevail upon dilatory neighbOrs to do the same.
Cincinnati Commercial Gazette.
AS Mr.. Blaine looks over the political field and
sees it strewn with the carcases of Robson and
Window; as he reflects that their fate was the
direct result of owning fine houses in Washing
ton, and that he owns a finer house than either,
II Is not wonderful That he should mediate the
Spanish prOverb which. sets forth that ''when
the house is finished the hearse is at the door,"
and hasten to make out a lease to a casual chi
cage man, to run until after the next Repub-
lican convention. When that body meets we
may expect to learn that among the Blaine
"eXhibits" is a transparency of great size, repre-
senting IA story-aDd-a-half frame outage, with q
well-sweep, a tumble-down chimney, and an old
hat in the window, labeled, Residence of James
G. Blaine, the peoples candidate. "-New York
Times.
THE help for the temperance cause is to come,
if Mt all, from the Republican party. The masses
VI thht paw NV ~ 9 Pow I W. uh0 W AACi
ever they see a chance to do anything practical
they do it. At this moment they are supporting
a prohibitory movement in Iowa; and IN Ohio,
where public sentiment would not sustain pro-
hibition, they are supporting the Scott law,
which restricts the sale of liquors and makes.
the dealers bear the principal burdens of taxa
ton. The way to strengthen the temperance
cause here Is to strengthen the Republican
party. The way TO make temperance reform
impossible is TO put the Democrat party in
power. And one efficient agency to this latter
end is the running of prohibitoTy tickets, draw
ing their sole support from the Republican
ranks.-New York Tribune.
JUSTICE to the orking-class and their en-
ployers demande that towns, cities, States, and
TO some extent the nation, ST.. nroVlqe scnooAs
in which special instruction in technology ssaay
he Obtained. 1t is idiotic to speak Of such
schools as experimental or of doubtful value
when the experience OF all the great manufac-
turing nations of Europe long ago proved them
practicable and valuable. The mass of all com,
mon school instruction that is not merely Gle
mentary goes for nothing, but it is impossible
that special education for the life work that a
boy expects to do can be of little or no effect.
An elementary course IN mechanical drawing
consumes but a few weeks, yet for the lack of
such knowledge or fEcilities for obtaining 1T q
million mechanics are each losing hundreds OF
dollars yearly ard must continue to do 50 while
thaV Iiva - NaU York Herald.