The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-08-24
SPIRIT OF THE PRESS.

AS a matter of fact, the country is unable TO
accept all that the telegraph operators, the iron
and steel workers. ana the shoemakerS can pro-
duce Hence their wages are low.-Boston Ad-
vertlser.
1T is to be lamented that the silver certificates
were ever issued. They furnish disguise
through which the silver has been and is being
insidiously forced on the community. They nave
served TO aid in storing up wrath against the
day of financial judgment-St. Louis Globe
Democrat.
not yet reached a solid basis, but there is much
reason in recent events to hope that 1t has. At
| all events, we are working steadily toward Q
settlement in all departments OF trade, even If
in some it has not yet been reached. When that
settlement has been completed, a revival of
prosperity Is to be eXpected.-NeW York
Tribune.
WE are law-abiGing people but the increase
| of this diabolical crime loutrage womenl adj
monshes lis that the laws intended for its pun
shment should he made more stringent. I'm
pris0nment for "a short term OF years is not suf
ficIent. Men committing such brutal outrages
should he rendered incapable of repeating them,
by the aid of surgery, and then be shut up be-
hind prison walls for life.-Cleveland Leader.
ENGLAND has done all she intends TO do for
Ireland In the way of redressing grievances, and
| Ireland insists that what has been done amounts
to nothing, and that she must and will try more
! compulsinn This of course will bring retaia.
ton, ana English retaliation means misery for
the Irish people. The outlook is certainly in the
highest degree discOuraging, ami wholesale emf
| grafton is apparently the only remaining
| cuanCe.-oI LOUIS hepuDucdu
THE colored people have suffered enough al
| ready through the Vaccinations of selfish poll
ucians, and if they wish TO improve their cOndi-
ton they should hold studiousy aloof from all
| movements intended 10 identify them as a
with any political party or orga nization what
| ever. Taking everything into consideration,
! they have made amazing progress since the war,
and displayed remarkable aud unsupported
capacity for observation-disclosures Times.
WHEN amendments to the act tho Chinese
| lawl are proposed to extend IT'S application to
| Chinese SUBJECTS of the Queen IL Will probably
occur to Congress that special negotiations must
| be had with Great Britain before the adoption
of legislation directed against any class of Brit
| ish suhecIs. And then, among other changes
| and amendments, IL may be possible to remuve
| some of the more glarlng ahsurdities of piece
| OF legislation upon which, to say the least, no
| American can look with pride.-Boston Journal
| WE are in agreement win the New York
| Herald that the people of the United States are
| wearied and disguised with the assaults upon
| Garfeld--with the writing up by backbiers,
| slanderers, thieves, and scoundreliy professors
| Of sensa tons, of the history of 1880, with the
| purpose of giving II a false coorihg, that the
| liberal Republicans who nominated Garfield,
| and elected him, may be discredted for the con-
test upon which we are about 10 enter. The eff
fort TO patch history with lies VIII be failure.
Cincinnati Commercial Gazette.
/ UE have only 10 say now what the Irish crit
! In ohser1@d awe saw IN the beginning that this
| would he the 1nd OF it, and we see thatAy are
right, for It is not as4i anponsn S .,ii,s
troubles will occur till ns-theF ana hetter ADJUST
ment of capital ana labor Is i~st-t'; - " "i''h
more. aud In more serious vein, hereafter. For
the sufferers, who seemed compelled to sttnIe
| by their relations to Organiz atoms, We have
| nothing but sympathy. The companies are TOO
intangible to move the heart. Corporations
have no souls" and though they Sliced they
cannot feel.-New York Advocate.
PLANTING capital in banks, receiving deposits
ana lending them out, and buying and selling
exchange, and dlscOunting notes arc essential
parts of banking, but coming money Is not.
| II for my reasons that sovereign power of the
emission of currency is delegated To private
| of the most careful kind, and tribute for the
! privilege should be eXacted in sufficient amount
| TO remind the corporations that what they are
| doing is in no sense whatever an appanage of
the banking business, something which could