The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-02-26
THE SPIRIT OF THE PRESS.

For the present we believe the President has
been right and trne to the country, and the Re-
publioans in Congress have been grossly wrong
and nnfalthful to their trust and to the people,
New York Herald.
THE policy of kindness, justice. honesty and
confidence is certain to be successful as meas
ure of Industrial regeneration among the cOlOred
people, and that it will be profitable to the
planters is beyond all question. Chicago Trio-
une.
IT cannot be doubted that much of the moral
effect Of the punishment of crime lost when
the execution of the law is long delayed and
when, through oversight or otherwise, technical
questions interfere with questions of justice, no
matter how plain the latter may be.-Louisville
Commercial.
THE watchfulness of the friends of civil-serv-
Ice reform mnst not be relaxed if they expect to
see their wishes realized. They must keep a
constant watch over the proceedings under the
law and they must be ready to condemn in
fractions of either Its letter its spirit they
are to applaud Its faithful eXecution,-New York
Times.
No one benefits more through protection than
the farmer. He and his fellows have command
OF the entire home market, and export only the
little which is not consumed in the United
States which export amounts to only 10 per
cent OF the whole What folly, then, would II
"goose which lays the golden eggs."-Cleveland
Leader.
WE have already carved this Nation into too
many small pro vinces for either its general or
Its local good. We have suffered political dema-
gogsm to erect altogether too many rotten bor-
OughS, and TOO many polltlcal asylums Tor the
support of political paupers and deadbeats. II
is high time to stop the business or carving out
petty palatInates for the facitation of political
humbug.-Chicago Times
If Gorringe's "brother officers" include o half
dozen admirals and a score of commodores, they
could not do the country better service than in
expressing their sympathy with him by resign.
ing. The Secretary of the Navy could not please
the public better than by accepting their resig-
nations aud not filing the vacancies. just W
officers of the navy are altogether too numerous,
in both senses of the term.-Chicago Herald.
THE foremost business question in this country
has not had one days attention from the Con-
gress about to expire. We refer to the question
of stopping the coinage of silver. There is not a
sound business man in America who does hot
know that the forced coinage or silver should be
stopped There is not an intelligent believer in
the two money metals who is not of opinion that
the continued coinage of a stated sum of silver
is a mistake Cincinnati Commercial Gazette.
EVERY silver dollar coined displaces o gold
dollar, and sooner or later, by the operation OF
an inexorable economic law, the cheaper money
will drive out the dearer. Twice already in the
history of this country ha5this operation taken
place-once prior to 1884, when the overvalued
silver dollar drove out the gold, and again after
the change In the coinage laws In that year, by
which the gold dollar was overvaued, and In
its turn, drove out the silver. There is no magic
in the present situation which Will avert the con
sequences of q law which has its foundation In
the constitution OF human nature.-New H0rh
Times