The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-01-11
THE SPIRIT OF THE PRESS.

AS a rule, school systems have been organized
and reorganized until they are getting topheavy.
Cincinnati Journal.
IRELAND must be rehabilitated ana restored,
and En- gland must do it; if not of her own notion,
then in Difference to the sentiment of nations
Chicago Herald
THE cost of the sanitary inspection of immi-
grants at few leading ports is of but little mo-
ment as compared with the infection of small
pox epidemic.-Louisville Commercial.
IF we are to have wholly unsectar!an schools
using the adjective in Its broadcast sense-we Can
have only primary ones. If we still maintain
higher institutions they must be kept up at the
risk OF lndoetrlnation In one direction or the
other.-Clnclnnati Commercial Gazette.
WHENEVER the people of the United States
have had chance to express an opinion they
have by large majority declared in favor Of
protection to home industries. II is not the poll
ticans, but thelabOring masses that are RESPONSE
BILE for the tariff.-Chicago Inter Ocean.
WE have got to have party; we have got to
put it on the highest plane; we have got to re-
lieve IL of machine rule; but we can't maintain a
party on the theory that we may strike down
man for the reason that he belongs to one side
the other, and for other reasOn.-Phila-
delphia Press.
1t certainly is true that the strongest believers
In the divine origin of the Bible seem to be those
who are its closest students. 1t should be en-
couraging to all who base their faith upon these
writings that Biblical commentators are begin
nirg to regard as genuine passages formerly con-
sidered of doubtful ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
Commercial.
HENRY B. PAYNE, of Cleveland, said the dec
laratlOn favorng tariff for revenue only lost the
Democrats several elections, for which utter
anee the Louisville Courer-J ournal says he Is
not a Democrat. The Democratic leaders will
find the tariff question one of their stumbling
blocks If we are not Observation-Disclosures Com
mercal Gazette
LET one of our representatives introduce a bill
imposing poll tax of five ten dollars upon
every citizen who neglects to vote, with proper
and carefully-drawn provisions TO protect those
who are unable by circumstances they cannot
control to reach the polls, and then we can see
what virtue there Is In Governor Buffers sug-
geston.-Chicago Inter Ocean.
Mr. BRAD1 aUGH, VINO is excluded from Parlia-
ment by reason of his lack of religious belief is
a competent witness in a court of lava privi-
lege which would be denied him in some of the
United States In Pennsylvania and other
States where an orthodox religious test is still
applied to witnesses, enthusiastic orators will
have TO be somewhat modest in their boasts of
religious liberty and eguality-New York
Herald
THE designation of the members of the cabinet
as the successors in order of the late President
is the best of all methods to cover with the least
possible disturbance the administration OF ma
tional affairs until the vacancy can be filled by
an election in the manner provided by law. The
Secretary of State ought to be the most appro-
pirate as well as competent officer temporarily
to administer the government until President
is elecIed.-ChicagO Tribune.
ABUSES should be corrected by placing the Sc
lection of iuries directly within the Jurisdiction
of the courts, which are resi- onsible to the peo-
pie for the administration of Justice. Commits
sioners appointed by the courts for this purpose,
with no political attachments and no axes to
grind, would be competent to furnish the State
with good juries by satisfying themselves that
men they select have the qualifications required
by the statute-ChicagO Tribune.
THE biggest fool know VS. that stealing is q
crime and the gentleSt brute ought to be made
to learn that so killing, No man is obliged to
do either The rascals who have robbed Louis-
vile do not deserve half the pity which is denied
the poor devils who are sentenced for petit lar
ceny every morning in the Police Court. The
reputed virtues of the abscondng Tennessee
Treasurer tell against him, not for him. But the
public feeling rules otherwise, and is thoroughly
at fault. Until it is a0ated, crime Will abate.
Louisville Courier-Journal.
THE progress of society is to be a free-will and
not a constrained progress toward morality and
virtue. Society has decreed that men and
women shall work out their destiny,
through good and i'll, and the whole will not IN
terfere with the individuals, except where they
may tread upon each others toes or outrage pub
lie decency, order and morality. Thus, what
virtue there may be will be the free-wil Offering
of individuals to society. Any effort to adopt any
other rule Is but closing one channel to open
another and wOrse.-Cincianati News.
VERY few years have brought more absolute
practical reforms than 1882. In the financial
world, remarkable caution and conservatism has
halted the nation on it's way to panic. In In
dustrial affairs there has been a general tend
dency to correct inequalities and Inconsistent
In politics. reform has been the main issue,
and in all branches of national life it may be
safely said that the moral tone of the nation has
improved There has been much talk OF bad
things, but. on the whole, there is no reason to
complain or find fault.-Kansas City Journal.