The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-03-02
THE SPIRIT OF THE PRESS.

| CIvIL-SERvIcE reform is in its infancy. 1t
will be laughed at good deal by those needing
! information But it is an excellent institution,
and it will stick and will grow.-Cincinnatl
Journal.
! THERE is no doubt that the distribution of rail-
road passes has become so extensive as TO make
! travelling more costly for those who buy tickets
Justice to the public will not admit of few men
occupying free seats on train at the expense OF
| the paying travellers on the same traln.-Louis-
| vile Commercial.
/ find that we one of the family of nations
and cannot live alone and to ourselves, we shall
| learnthat "main strength and awkwardness'
will not enable us to hold our own, but thai the
considerations which rule in the life of the world
apply to us also indianapolis Daily News.
! THE highicense bill meets the wants of cities
and some portions of the country. There is not
town of any very considerable size in the State,
from Chicago down, which can Danish the liquor
traffic from its midst, either by local option, pro-
hibition, or any other aid from legislation, and
for all such localities high license is the thing
needful.-Chicago Inter Ocean.
| WHERE the two houses are at issue, it will gen.
| orally be found that the Tariff Commission
perhaps by reason OF its greater opportunities
for studying the subject and maturing its c0nclu-
sions-was more prudent, more careful of the in
terests OF industry, and at the same time more
regardful of public opinion, than the two houses
of Congress.-New York Tribune.
IF Parliament makes special laws for the
punishment of certain crimes in Ireland it is
questionable whether it does not by that act
convert those crimes into political offenses, and
| the persons charged with them into political
offenders, not to be surrendered in the ordinary
! course of criminal justice by foreign country,
| certainly not by this country.-New York
! World.
| IN the States where good common schools
most abound, the State contributed least to the
school money. The people tax themselves to
build schoO-hOuses and employ good teachers.
! When Kentuckans can be brought to realize the
real danger accompanying large IL
literate population, they will find il an impera-
tive duty to resort to district taxation.-LOuis-
| vile Courler-JOurnal.
| THE fact is that the speculative phase is an
element of our civilization. The farmer who
holds his grain or his hogs day after he is ready
| to market them does 80 from the speculative i'm
pulse to wait for higher prices. This is form of
speculation; but it is just as legitimate as is the
laying in of an extra load Of fuel in anticipation
of a hard winter or the advance hiring of extra
help for harvest-time. Chicago Tribune.
| PERU needs to make peace with Chile, and her
condition is not such that she can stand upon
terms AS to Chile, the war has cost her much,
and her best interests require that she should
stop it. Her duty to herself and to the general
interest of neutral nations is to evacuaue Lima,
draw line of troops across the new frontier
she proposes to establish, and leave the Peru
VANS TO arrange their own affairs.-New York
| Herald.
THE United States, in asking and obtaining
| the extradtion of John Surratt from the Papal
States, set for itself precedent which will estOp
the political cause effect of his crime. Ameri-
can courts will, therefore, make short york OF
| any appeals to their protection, on the ground
| of Shsrdans being an Irish agitatOr, who was
| accessory to a murder to further his political
| ends.-ChicagO Herald.