The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-02-10
THE SPIRIT OF THE PRESS.

WHAT Is needed is a regulation by law OF prim.
airy elections by the people for the choice OF Can
ddates for whatever parties they may choose to
constitute among themselves.-New ork Times.
But there is sounder American principle
than that the public schools and public instltu.
lions of every kind shall be nonscctarian, and
the Roman Catholic body is the only reigi Gus
denomination which, as such, shows itself stead
lily hostile to this fundamental condition of equal
rights. Weekly.
THE Irish of this country win never get rid" OF
the drain on their resources which the sorrows
of their kindred and of their old home exacts
from their generosity until Ireland is made quiet
and prosperous by just laws, and the retirement
of Parnell from politics will put off that happy
day NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. Commercial. 80"
If there are Democrats who believe that they
can elect a President after driving all the msn'
ufacturers and their employees over to the Re-
publicans, wo wish them joy in their belief, and
trust they may persuade their party into ac-
cepting it as its policy. The Republicans are
able to contemplate with serenity the panic
which such policy would inevitably cause
New York Tribune.
SPECULATION plays as important part in
modern French politics as 1t played ia the days
of Barras. Mile. LANCE under other names. SILL
makes or mars a government. Read closely the
signs of The times. and they will be found to he
those which, IN the history OF the country, have
Invariably preceded a military dictatorship or a
monarchy. Into what gulf Is France about to be
plunged9-New York Herald. "-1s+a+i- g
AMONG those who have watched with curious
interest the past exploits of the Democratic
president makers in dodging the tariff question:
and in taking it out of politics." there IS much
curiosity to see how they will a3t and what they
will do when they again confront in politics,
even at their outset in a president-making pro-
gramme, the question they have been so long
and so laborlously trying to evade.-Chicago
Times.
No man ever fooled the Germans as Bismarck
has done. They thought they were getting
liberty when Bismarck gave them the Empire
and German unification. They are further
from liberty than ever, and, instead of a con-
stitutional government in fact, Bismarck treats
them TO such things the royal rescript OF
Jan. 4, 1882, in which, over the name of the
old Kaiser. he gives them heavy dose of old
Metternichian divnerightism, and let's them
know that they are emphatically subject to one
man power.-Cincinnati Journal
If the Prohibitionists were honest either In
their aspirations or pretensions trey would aban-
don the hopeless, Illogical attempt 10 coerce alb
stinence from drink by indirectlon, and would
bend their energies toward the repression of tho
evils and abuses of the liquor traffic and the vice
of intemperance The people of Nebraska have
taught them how this good work may be eboOur-
aged and assisted by law. If they are earnest in
the desire to restrain incompetence and prOmoJo
sobriety, let them agttate practical high license
instead of impracticable prohibition Chicago
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