The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-06-02
THE SPIRIT OF THE PRESS.

1T Ia too early to assume that either party has
had its position defined on this great question.
The true public opinion will not be outlined un.
til after the discussion in Congress, and whether
the tariff is to be the national issue awaits the
result of the debates in the next session of Con,
gress.-Cincinnau News-Journal.
If the next Democratic national convention
does not succeed in bringing the discOrdanJ aud
Earring elemeuts of the party together the Re-
We believe IL possible by searching our Demo
cratic exchanges to find at least four, If not six,
decided opinions all disagreeing as to the tariff
Observation-Disclosures IN. c. Star Dem.)
UNLESS the people Of our great cities are able
to secure better police, the young roughs will
make existence in these cities a very uncOm-
Portable and risky thing, and the only means OF
getting better police Is to bring the system un.
der more responsible management, So that the
voters can get ut it directly. without the inter
vention of the professional politicians.-New
York Times.
THE Scott law. while 1t taxes the traffic, also
legalizes it, and this is "a condition or conoes'
sion that lquOr-dealers should not lightly reject.
The law may not be fair equal in all its fea-
lures but it is better than dead-letter laws, and
better than free-trade, and better than mere sen
timent, AMI if sustained and enforced, It Will be
popular. large proportion OF the liquordeai-
ers are wise enough to see this, ana are ready. II
left alone, to accept the law and live under Is,
Cincinnati Commercial Gazette.
The point we desire to emphasize is, that the
dead soldiers of the Union army, receiving Their
annual baptism OF fresh flowers. were never
more hOnOred in memory than in the entire ap-
sence OF all resentment to their Anniversaries.
The world of men has witnessed no act more
akin to the highest order of manhood than the
brOnZed, gray-bearded soldiers of the Stars AMI
Stripes scattering garlands about the graves u
the heroes of the Stars and Bars as was done all
over the North where these were buried.-ChS
cago Inter Ocean.
IT Is hard to see how France can escape tie
snare which is laid for her. Her old strengths
gone. Her neighbors distrust her, Even with.
out the bribes which the Figaro suggests they
would refuse her their support. While pursuinf
her gunbnat policy in TOnquin and Madagascar
the enemy would surprise her at home. Will
Spain standing ready to repel her on the Pyre
nees, with Germany mounting gnard on tho
Rhine, what resistance cuold She make TO tho
hosts who would swarm the Alps with th,
strength of united Europe at their backl-NeN
York Herald.
There are two ways of adjusting the relationl
of men and employers to these shifting tides
variations in wagesl. One way is by strikes
war, waste of time, money ana labor, and per
haps life. Another is by discussion. argument
Cancellation, splitting the difference, arbitratiOt
One carries the working classes back into tie
region OF conflict, where they are always TIN
greatest sufferers. The other carries them for
ward toward plane nearer that of their EN-
ployers, gives them more capital, more KNOW
edge, more manhood ana brings them nearer "
the position of partners in industry,-Chicag)
Tribune.
If the church authorities would take til,
proper view, there is need in America TAT
greater than any the Vatican can be suffering,
The creditors of Archbishop Purcell remain uD
paid. Peters pence turned in their direction
would probably accomplish more good for the
church than If paid into the treasury OF the sue
cessor of Peter, but Rome does not keenly feel
the disgrace the scanda al, and the misery of this
failure, or 1t would have parted long siuce with
few of the Vatican's Cupids and AppOllos to
have discharged the obligation contracted by a
son of the church bearing high commission from
Rome.-ChicagU Times.