The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-06-22
SPIRIT OF THE PRESS.

To make the country secure against serious
financial and industrial troubles, we ought first
to repeal the silver law of 1878, and, secondly,
TO place our foreign trade upon a more satisfac-
tory basis, so that it may not be dependent to so
great an extent upon our agricultural products.
New York Herald.
AS John Brown has become to the world at
large one of the immortal champions OF liberty,
Mr.. Boteler's paper is very much like the blow
ing of a penny whistle at the tail end of a pro-
cession that has moved by with roaring chorus
es, loud cheers, and Jhunders of musketry. He
is lost, and his plant ia lost in the noise of
'Jehn Browns soul goes marching
go Inter Ocean.
THERE are too many people in this country,
who, while they Observa Sunday rellgiously in
other respects, have grown up to look upon Sun
day trains as necessaries, almost as much as
Sunday meals. Our immense foreign popula-
ton. accustomed to regard Sunday as a holiday.
Will never object to a measure so helpful to their
enjoyment of the day as the running of Sunday
trains.-Louisville Commercial. f.-.r,
A SIMPLE remedy for prevention of corners,
many times suggested, is to prohibit "optlOn''
dealings, or sales of property not owned by the
seller. But dealers object that such a step
would take away a great part of their business.
No doubt 1t would. But the public eadeavors TO
take away the whole of the business of tine faro
dealer. on the ground that 1t is contrary to the
public welfare.-New York Tribune.
THE body of the people are heartily sick of
machine politics, and desire nothing so much as
to see the Government run for the benefit of the
voters, and not for that OF the bosses. The peo-
pie of this country are not yet corrupted, an d
thN1 lVdAlHD ldtiJ bbdb UNIV Il way lOodNO U IO
republic from drifting into the hands of mad
dictionaries, and to cool the rising heat of cleo
ti0ns in which universal suffrage struggles for
the chances of being supported at the public
expense, is to sever the connection between
party service and pub lie place.-Chicago TriD-
unp.
IT is not in the power of the War Department
to keep the Apaches in charge rs prisoners of
war, and the Secretary of the Interior cannot
escape blaine for his delay in deciding what
disposition Ia to be made of capUives whose fu-
ture tbs undoubtedly his duty to look after.
just such laundering as is plainly to be seen
in this case has been the fruitful source of Indian
outbreaks, and it is time some wisdom has been
learned from experience. The chances now are
that half the good effects of Crooks expedition
into Mexico will be lost by the misnranagemen
of the Indians he has brought back.-St. Louis
Republican.
THE priuciple that taxation and protection are
reciprocal ami inseparable, is a living one, with
out which the power to tax would have no foun-
dation. The power of the government to lay
taxes Is founded on its duty to protect the prop
erty ana persons taxed. To suppose any other
taxing authority than this Of reciprocal duty,
Is TO suppose. that the government derives its
power from some source other than the people.
The simple statement of the foundation of the
taxing power, and OF the reciprocal duty as
sumed by the government in laying taxes, over
throws the doctrine that 1t may be used TO de-
strGy the taxables, and shows how widely this
Judicial sophistry has led grave and reverned
lawyers from the principles of constitutional
government.-Cincinuati Commercial Gazette.