The Indianapolis journal., 1883-01-27
THE SPIRIT OF THE PRESS,

THE temperance movement is to be directed
@ along more conservative course, and when
be held.-Chicago Inter Ocean.
OUR laws must be vigorously enforced,
punishment must be more certain and more
swift II is time now for revival an awaken
ing. Jurles have been much too placid, good
natured and ic.-COurier-JOurnal.
If experience shows that Legislature elected
Dy Mormons, with polygamists excluded oOn-N
tnues as in the past to use its powers to neutral
iZe United States laws, the Legislature should be
dispensed with and its powers entrusted to an
appOirted council. as in the of our first Ter
rltOry.-Lolisville Commercial.
THE regulation of the liquor traffic is necessa.
~ All intelligent and responsible men engaged
In II admit the fact. There is no civilized coun-
Try where there has been such unrestricted use
of liquor OF all sorts In Ohio during thirty
years and the public demand that something
shall be done Is fully warranted.-CinoinnatI
Commercial.
1T is well to remember that Republican sue
cess depends, NOT upon the manner in which
delegates are elected important as shat question
Is, but upon what the country believes TO be the
spirit and purpose of the Republican, marty. It
is Congress- and not the national .issiifteo,
winch can do most for Republican triumph in
18S4.-Harper's Weekly.
1T ie repeatedly the case that from third to a.
half Of the senators ami tho same proportion OF
representatives fail to answer when their names
are called on important questions. 1t is evident
that the practice Of deserving their posts pairing
off and lodging votes has grown into fragrant
abuse on the part of both senators and re,sre-
sentatives.-New York Herald.
ALL the most Jealous and able adj dvocates of bl-
metallism maintain that the continued coinage
OF silver in this country Ia the greatest obstacle
now existing to a concord of nations. II we ara
ever to reach a desirable agreement of the lead
ing powers in favor of an increased use Of SILVER
1t can be reached only. Its strongest advocates
believe. through suspension of coinage In tho
United States.-New York Tribune
IF there is anything that needs Investigation
or legislative remedy 1t is not the prison con-
tract system itself, but the conditions and terms
on which contracts let. If these are what
ha IA iG hAn aGaial TN all
concerned and injurious to one. Any other
conclusion is based upon the theory that labor
would gain by having more thieves and iders in
stead OF by having everybody employed in some
of the processes of production.-New York
Times.
MINE disasters and steam boiler explosions are
almost invariably the result of gross careless
ness. IL is, perhaps, more difficult to reach this
class OF accidents than any other, since the cul-
prits rarely left alive after an explosion, to
explain how it occurred or to be punished for it.
There can he a rigid system of governmental
oversight in the case of mines, however; aud
the damage done by boilers can be miniuized by
Jbe of safety plugs and other similar devices.
Philadelphia Record.
THERE has been no measure before Congress
this session of such vital Importance TO q large
section of the business interests of the country
ms the Sherman b0nded spirits extension bill
that has passed the Senate, and is being trfed
with in the House 1t is not an act for the reiief
of distillers as some pretend to believe, but n
simple business proposition, the adoption OF
which will not cost the government one cent,
will injure no one, but will avert what appears
to many we'll Informed in the laws of traffic aud
finance monetary disasters than may mean o
panlc.-Cncinnati Journal.
AS compared to England, France is to day
medieval monarchy. Its laws are the laws
framed under divine right rulers. Its centraza-
tiOn is as odous as Germany's. The individual
has no rights, hardly recognition. All this has
lOosencd the substratum of the republican
fabric, If 1t has not loOsened the cohesion of its
eutire superstructure. Neither the Radical
Democracy nor the bourgeoisie are loyally at
tached to the republic as 1t is. 1t is upon the
knowledge of this that the BOnapartists are
now working in the opportune moiuent of GAM
betta's disappearance.-Philade Press.