The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-03-23
THE SPIRIT OF THE PRESS.

LET a compulsory law be passed and the pa
rents who have never before sent their children
to school will be obliged to take an in crest in
the matter; their care for their children will
cause them to aid in the building OF better
school-houses and the greater need for good
teachers will cause an increase in The SUPPLY
Louisville Commercial,
THERE is due to the Southern States for edu-
cational purposes the proceeds of the sales of
the public lands, of which the Northern school
funds have been almost the sole beneficiaries
heretofore. Several times effort has been
made to get bill providing for such dispose
ton of that money passed by Congress, but the
excellent plan has observation-disclosures.
SMALL politicians are naturally opposed to re-
form, because the moment this reform lets all
people in to equal chance al the offices, the
day of the small politician is gone: He can no
longer come with his voting strength as his only
qualification, and succeed because the politicians
above him dare not reject him. But that will be
the day Of the. peoples government and no
class has a greater interest in this than the
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. News.
IT is useless to conjecture as to the shane
events would take were the Queen to die now.
While the succession is duly provided for, and
the Prince OF Wales would ascend the throne
without delay or dispute, still there is not that
trust in the repose of his character that is every
where felt in the Queens. and it would give TO
affairs element of uncertainty which would
at the least he disquieting, If not seriously dis
turbing.-Cincinnati Commercial Gazette.
THERE is no telling where this agitation of
Boston The farmers in that vicinity have also
struck. The popular sympathy will be with
them Three cents and half is not large
price TO be paid for q quart of milk by man
who sells it at ten cents. The milk supply OF
New York is at present wholly insufficient. The
farmers thereabOuts are giving the milk away
even emptying it into the gutters-rather than
yield their point-Cincinnati Journal.
Now that the Canadians have broken away
from the English system of free trade and adOp-
ted the American plan of promoting home fn-
dustries they should be encouraged TO perse-
we're in their new policy. They should not be
enabled to enjoy the privilege of an unrestricted
ol,o,,r Of NOT xrif no
long as they remain n dependency of a foreign
power. Let them build up their industries as
Americans have built up theirs, and let reciprOe-
lty come when they are prepared to enter upon
their obvious destiny.-New York Tribune
II the convicts produce anything useful their
product must necessarily compete with the pro-
duct OF free labor This competition does not
necessarily constitute "a grievance. 1t becomes n
grievance only when it is shown of any trade
competition of convict labor If tho labor of the
prisoners IL not to compete with free labor, then
the labor of the prisoners must be unproductive,
and the talk of allowing the prisoner, for his
family or for his future, some portion OF his earn
ings is sheer nonsense, since the prisoner will
earn nOthing.-New York World
SPRAGUEs nomination is an apotheoss of the
ephemeral popularity which he enjoyed more
than twenty years ago Young rich, gifted with
charming personal presence, and fired by
romantic patriotism, he raised and eouipoed n
regiment when the civil war broke out. He took
the field, made q few bright and crisp speeches,
wrote many brave letters and messages and
posed for brief periOd as war Governor. AS sena-
tor he failed disastrousy and ignoby. His social
habits brought him to dis grace and domestic mis-
fortunes, for which he Fas largely responsible,
involved his name in cloud of scandal. The
Rhode Island DemocrJts are in such desperate
case that they hope ~ win in 1888 with the bat,
tered wreck of the gallant chevaicr Of 1851
New York Times.