The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-03-12
THE SPIRIT OF THE PRESS.


ON the whole the free traders in all parties
nave been deprived of about all consolation ex-
cept the Innocent feeling that free trade is bound
TO win some Time IN the future perhaps in one
hundred years or mOre.-Kansas City Journal.
IT must be said that the close of the Forty
seventh Congress shows the strong probability
OF the determination of the election of 1884 by
the independent vote, and that as yet the Demo-
Gratis have done nothing to attract it-Harper's
Weekly.
CREMATION interferes with religious preju-
dioes. If generally adopted it would be of ines
tnmapie dement, to public health in populous To-
calities. where the gases escaping from the de-
composing dead poison the air breathed by those
living III the vicinity of cemeteries
Herald
A LICENSE fee OF $500, which would wine out
OF existence many of these SUM rf1Ous grog-shops
sOould not only pray but work 1t is not ques-
ton OF prohibition or of Puritanica objection to
the temperate use of liquor, wine or beer
Chicago Tribune.
THE theater, in the face of the pious ban, is
grow ing more and more into prominence as the
popular recreation, as an educator of the peo-
pie, and as Il moral power. On the other hand,
the moral influence of those who condemn the
theater is comparatively growing less -Cncin-
natl Commercial Gazette.
THE failure of Virgins will by no means ex-
tlngulsh the race of snams or cure people of
their credulity Nor will science be sufficiently
potent to overcome the snperstitious fears of the
masses, We shall have more Wggnses big with
events, and more fools to put their trust in
them.-Clncinnati Commercial Gazette.
We have heretofore suggested that the only
apparently possible prospect for continental
submergence may be found in the periodical
variation IN the ellipticity of the earth's orbit
during the revolutionary cycle of 81 900 years,
and that the Northern hemisphere will, at some
future time, he again gaciated and deluged as
the Southern hemisphere is now.-COurierJOur
nal
ONE of the points upon which the attention of
the people of this State is fixed at the present
time is the conduct of great corporations created
by the state; and the intention of the people is
that they shall be honestly managed and shall
not be used to give legal form to downright
robbery. II the people cannot attain this de-
slrable end in one way they will in another
New York Herald.
proper uses is not to be despised; the pursuit of
wealth as a business, through just methods and
to judicious ends, is not tn be condemned It
Is the blind estimate which we put upon money
in and for itself that is doing the mischief, and
thrusting the Iabors into place and influence at
the expense of what is truly deserving and rep
utable.-St. Louis Globe Democrat.
THE one Indispensable and imperative condi-
ton of our escape from the degrading patronage
system, which is rapidly banishing from our no
ltical life every vcstige of political virtue and
honor. is that the President shall return to the
practice of Washington, which means that he
shall cease to be the President of party-1that
he shall get ont and he kept out of politics How
can this condition of Washington be reinstated?
Chicago Times.
THE question of the advisabllity of the con-
tract method of employing convicts may he said
to have passed beyond the stage of experiment
or investigation. 1t should be accepted set
tied, and attention should be directed to freeing
the system from incidental abuses and evils, II
they exist and not 10 the question of retaining
or abrogating IT, In the minds of intelligent
and conscientious students of the subject that
question is no longer an open One.-New York
Times.
WHEREVER there are iron works there are
workmen who will vote against the Democratic
free-traders who propose to make further tariff
reductions which will compel further wage re-
auctions. The Democrats may do as they threat
n. if theV puiltV of
suicidal folly as their threats imply. Should
they attempt to carry out their threats tt would
he only more foolish for them to nominate
Democratic presidential ticket at all.-Philadel-
phia Telegraph.
PROHIBITION and license stand on common
ground so far as either is adopted as a means TO
promote decency and public order. If uure-
strieted liquor selling is an ev-as 1t is gener-
ally admitted to be-the right to regulate the
traffic by license involves the right to prohibit
1t altOgtthi +. 1t Is for each State each COM
muniiy to decide whether license or prohibition
VIII most tenu 10 dimlnlsn the NUMBER OF MUIR
dcrs aud other offenses from rum.-St. Louis
Globe Democrat
THERE is a change in the attitude of the public
mind toward this lstar route trial. There has
been much less interest in it than there was in
the former trial, and there is almost entire
absence of feeling in regard to It, Unless the de-
Tense has some real evidence to offer which shall
dissipate the great mass of facts that seem
prove their guilt-and of this they give no indi-
cation yet-the chance is far better than 1t was
last September for a satisfaction of the demands
of justice.-New York Times.
THERE is no reason to doubt that eventually
the twO-cent rate will produce nearly quite
much revenue as the three-cent rate Not
only will more letters be written, but more let
tiers Will exceed half an ounce in weight, and
bring in double or triple postage. II is probable,
too, that letters will take the place of postal
cards to a great extent thus increasing the
ceipts. All things considered, the measure will
undoubtedly prove as safe In the matter of rev.
enue as 1t is welcome to the pubic.-Chicago
Times.
WE can discover but one point of hope for
Democrats. A commercial and industrial ca
tastrophe might in some way disturb the votes
of those Tho Imagine that it must be the fault
OF the government if there no cells in the eel
pots. As of old, the Only chance for the Demo-
Gratis is the possibility of some great national
disaster. Even many of them lOnged for
of civil! war, SO their craftsmanship will presently
move them to pray for a panic.-New York
Tribune.
his lot with the people of Georgia in the seces-
sion movement, what else, may be asked, could
or should he have done7 Though opposed to the
movement, he was a firm believer i'll the right of
secession. He had been educated to regard his
primal allegiance and duty as due to his State,
and this with him q profound conviction
And when Mr.. Stephens, after unsuccessfully
opposing the secession proposition with all his
might, yielded to it. and went with his State into
disastrous experiment. he did what he no
doubt thought was a solemn duty to the people
in whose midst he lived and to whom he was
bound by all ties that men hold dear and sacred,
st. Louis Republican.