The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-02-28
THE SPIRIT OF THE PRESS.

ONE would think that the members of the
Catholic church, after few more experiences
like that of Archbishop Purceli and the AmgEss
tinians, might learn to Gi5trust this peculiar
kind of repository for their money which their
prlesty guardians offer them.-Chicago Tribune.
LIT it once be known that money subscribed
for agitation in ireland means that it be
employed to foster CRIME and outrage, and the
subscriptions will dry up with the sympathy,
which has been so generously bestowed upon the
sad condition of the beautiful isle.-Chicago Her
aid.
IT is the nature of our political arrangements
that government can do nothing, at least will
do nothing, that is not dominated by political
and partisan motive. So long as this is the case,
no guarantee can be given that any public OIL
Ger will serve efficiently any purpose outside OF
poltics.-Chicago Times.
IT is regarded by many matter of en-
enlargement that the heavy failures in iron
have not led to others, and the only commercial
reverses reported during the past week have
been of minor Importance. The prevailing hope
that better business will follow congressional
adjournment has a sustaining lnhuence.-New
York Tribune. ~:
SOCIALISM is raising its ugly head in Europe in
a way to alarm the thoughtful who recognize the
evils in the existing political and social system,
and stand aghast at remedial agency which
has nothing better to propose than destruction
and chaos, and no other means to employ in its
surgery than the destructive agents developed
by modern science.-Cincinnati News.
If casual bystander had volunteered the
same testimony as Carey, there Is every reason
to believe that he would have been regarded by a
large proportion of the Irish people as traitor
to ireland for giving it, and saying that is as
much as saying that very large proportion of
the Irish people sympathlZe with the murdeIers
of the Phoenix Park,-New York World.
SHERIDAN is confessed inciter to murder, as
his writings in the Irish World prove, and no
man accused of such heinous crime as that as
crined to him is ever credible witness when
swearing to keep his neck from the rope. In
fact, before any application was made for Sheri-
dams extraditl0b, he had forfeited all claim
upon American sympathy-Chicago Herald.
IT would be a manifest injustice to require
railroad company TO carry freight a few miles at
a rate which would not pay for loading aud I'M
loading when the same rate on haul of thou
sand miles would be remunerative, Equitable
adjustment of these matters is what just men
want, and no other control of railroad cOmpa-
MES is likely ever to be made effective in any
part of the country.-st. Louis Republican.
THE old reckless spirit has broken out again,
and in circumstances which impose upon the
decent friends of Ireland the duty of scrutniz-
ing Mr.. Parnels record during the first three
years of his public life. He can blame no one
but himself if the dark suspicious directed
against him are deepened by the recollection of
his innumerable violent speeches and lawess
bearing in 1879, 1880 and 1891.-New York
Times.
HE who drinks knows that he alone Is respons
ible, and that the sentiment which excuses HIM
and accuses the seller is false. When he becomes
degraded with sOttishness he makes this false
sentiment an excuse for his abandonment. The
logical tendency of the placing of the stress of
the temperance mission on prohibition, Is tc de-
bitate the conscences of men las to their own
habits and moral responsibilities Thus Its in
fuence Is immoral.-Cincinnati Commercial
Gazette.
THE poverty of the South is very largely due
TO the credit system. Cotton is a cash crop, and
farmers who cannot get rich producing cash
crops can never get rich at all. me remedy, OF
habits, under which the farmers can save enough
to have cash to pay for what they buy. Not
few are making heroic efforts to escape from
the slough but it will be long, wearisome task.
For the improvident blacks the outlook is pecu.
Iiarly discouraging.-St. Louis Globe Democrat