The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-04-17
THE SPIRIT OF THE PRESS.

IN the interests of good government and hu.
manity, let us have the plain truth about the
dynamite agitation. The wild takers are not
only working their own ruin. but putting many
good cause In observation-disclosures Inter Ocean.
On the Continent the more just and wise prin-
ciple generally prevails that children born be-
fore marriage become legitimate by the wedlock
of their parents, and this law has been adopted
by many of our own States. II ought to be the
law of every State.-New York Herald.
1T is a misfortune for a party when it has to
live on the gories of a remote past. 1t is still
more serious one for an ambitious politician
when his eulogy ON the leaders and founders OF
his party only suggests the striking contrast be-
tween their greatness and his littleness.-New
York Times.
THE country press will not aid the cause of
popul ar education so much by discussing ma
tonal aid and tho great principles" of educa-
ton as it will by investigating the reason why
the children OF each district and each eommu-
nltv do not attend the schools and by discover
ing what inducement will cause them to attend.
Louisville Commercial.
It is wholesome state of affairs when public
thought is turned more to politics than to men.
TO factions or TO mere party aside from politics.
In each party there are divisions of opinion, and
1t Is not yet definitely determined which opinion
or which element OF either party will shape it's
destinies; hence IL Cannot be determined who
shall lead--Ciucinnati News.
THERE is a tremendous latent power in the
masses of the American people which, once
called to action, could brush aside monopoly
abuses like cObwebs, though corporations prac-
tlclng them had ten times the power they have.
The courts are steadily taking firm ground on
the popular side, as anyone running over the
decisions in railway cases of late years
readily ascertain. Then again the whole gen.
eral movement of civilization is in the direction
of anti-mOuOpoy.-St. Louis Globe-DemOcrat.
The Indians must help themselves: but they
must also be helped. They must be given means
of self-eevaton. They must he educated, In
order that they may be intelligent enough to
know that idleness is vice and not merit.
They must also be compelled to make themselves
self-suppOrting The government has thus far
supported them in idleness. by giving them
allowances of clothing and provisions. IL should
hencefOrth obige them to work for their own
support. If this is done, and the Indian yOuth
are given the advantages of education, our civ
ilization will gain new element, which will he
at once a benefit TO the Indians and credit to
ourselves.-Cincinnati Journal.
IT would be foolish to ignore the real dill
Guilty of the question, which is that women do
not ordinarily enter upon callings with the
same views which animate men. man studies
business fully intending to live and to rise by
it. woman studies business expecting 70
live by IL ''if anything happens to her"-shat is
to say, if she does not marry. But marriage is
really the calling to which she looks forward 1t
is useless to expect woman 10 carry the
business of managing household and to add TO
it any other business. The women who can
will OF ought to do this are few as not to be-
worth reckoning. Only those women who do not
marry are required to choose calling, and this
condition is exceptional, whereas the necessity
OF choosing calling is all but universal among
meu.-New York World.