The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-07-04
SPIRIT OF THE PRESS.

To say that we want no more pauper immi-
grants is to say that we expect to discontinue
the various occupations and enterprises, such as
railroad-buiding, dItch-digging, scaveD ger work,
rock blasting, which gentlemen who have cash
in their packets, even TO the small extent of
$25, invariably decline TO do-Chicago Inter
Ocean.
THE Spectator who argues shat because the
smash of 1878 was preceded by the building of
1000 miles of railway in one year-and We built
nearly double that amount last year-we must
have still greater panic, takes short-sighted
view of the situation. There is vast difference
between the present conditions and those of
1873, one of the changes being the rather i'm
portant fact that we have since reached spe-
Gle basis for our currency.-New York Herald.
If we are to omit everything that is or has
been characteristic of Independence Day let us
abolish the holiday, winch is fast becoming a hol-
low pretense and mockery. If we cannot have
spontaneous and unchecked racket let lis return
to our farms and merchandise, open the banks
and exchanges aud go about our business just as
though the republic had been founded by acct
dent, and John Adams never lived. So shall In
dependence Day disappear from the calendar.
New York Times
IT is to be remembered that the very consd-
liable reputation the President has acquired for
the fair treatment of the politicians OF the diff
ferent so-called wings of the party he has
earned himself He had no capital of that de-
scrption to start out with On the contrary, he
had the obstacle of the opposite impression In
the mind of tine public to overcome. Having
done this much, it is fair to infer that there will
be no change of policy on his part during the
rest of the presidential term-St. Louis Globe
Democrat.
AS an affair of honor the Virginia duel was a
lamenta failure. 1t Ia certainly dishOnorable
to violate the law, and this Is what Messrs
Beirne and Elan did. For several days both
men fugitives, engaged in effort to
avoid the officers of the State; one OF them is
still trying evade arrest, and the other is
quiescent only because he is confined to bed by
the wound he received. Both to-day crm-
nails in the eyes of the law: and If they consider
that honorable it is time to revise the code of
honor.-Chicago Tribune
1T is barely possible, in view of the revision OF
the tariff so lately made, the effect
of which is yet so imperfectty developed,
and Of the tmidity with which radical changes
are regarded, that the parties will attempt to
tide over the next campaign without coming
into direct antagOnlsm on this troublesome
issue. The further development of sentiment
which barely show themselves at the present
time Will be a matter Of great interest and inn
portance, whether or not the next pational con-
test is to turn on the revenue policy OF the cOun-
try.-New York Times.
THE Republicans of OHIO have not abandoned
the drunkards' wives and children. They have
dropped the sentimentality and impracticability
that built up the enormous retail free trade
liquor traffic in Ohio, and clapped tax upon it
that will yield mill0ns-a tax that enable us to
clean and pave and purify our city, and reduce
the taxation that has made living costly here
and oppressed the industries of the people. It
will check the fanatloal agitation that has been
So Improbable, and it will divert energies Dith-
ertO expended in sterile tasks to works
of moral suasion, Of individual reformation, of
informing and pursuadlng. There are the wide
harvest fields ready for the raapers.-Cincinuati
C0mmnrniHl GaZatEe.