The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-01-25
THE SPIRIT OF THE PRESS.

JOURNALISM should have higher mission than
merely TO cater to depraved public taste. II 1t
cannot car influence the elevation OF that taste then
the press has less power than it claims and has
mad conceded to it.-Lousvi!le Commercial.
AT present the demand for corn for feed, low
stocks and absence OF movement TO grain CEN
ters Is advancing the price OF grain. The out
look, therefore, is for better prices enou gh grain
and more live stock and provisons.-Cincinnat
Enquirer.
THERE is nothing that so ouickeps the action
OF a tagging mind and guides it Alright as the
feeling which we imagine has lately come over
many men OF both parties in Washington that In
some matters delays are dangerous and mistakes
fatal.-New York Times.
THE defects In the present school system ara
largely due to the men who control or have the
direction OF public education. They are not
practical enough, and are too often carried away
by the theories of the feather headed "higher
education" people, Courier-Journal.
DEMOCRACY is not the champion or advocate
OF protection but 1t does not commend the i'm.
mediate abolition of all incidental protection
the tariff for revenue only plank does in terms
although in fact, and as interpreted it does not.
AS it is interpreted we approve it, but would
have IT express clearly what is meant.-Cincn-
natl News.
THE fine old groves In the fertile regions Of
Ohlo and Indiana are doomed. They are dying
OF old age, and are torn by tho tempests. No hui
man power can save them. But by being fenced
IN and protected from grazing cattle and from
fires, new groves would soon spring up to take
the place of those which are observation-disclosures
natl Journal.
PUPLlC opinion, which has grown Gallons, must
he quickened. If u 1.-THE Of the ingenuity or the
care which is devoted to the prevention of acci-
dents by land shall be turned by this great ship
wreck to the prevention OF accidents by sea their
lives Will not have been given in vain by the
German elnigrants whose bodies are being
washed ashore on the Island of BOrkum, at the
mouth of the River Ems-New York Herald.
NEW YORK expends nearly $500 900 year
on free education, and twelve Southern States
combined do not eXpend the same object
much more than one-hslr that sum. Senator
Blalrs proposition 10 simply excuse for resist
Ing the reduction ef taxation and an attempt to
create another Federal corruption fund to be adj
constitutional and less misohievous to vote the
money out of the treasury forthwith, distribute
It among the States, and be done with it.--New
York World
THE Industries Of the country cannot afford TO
endure two years of stagnation and uncertainty.
The effects of that uncertainty upon business
can already be seen. The Republican party will
certainly lose to dangerous extent the conf
dence that it has hitherto enjoyed II it leaves
this question unsettled, fails to make the changes
that are admitted to be necessary by both COM
mlttees and tha commission ALSO and offers no
definite measure about which the defenders OF
the American industrial system can rally.-New
York Tribune.
IF there is a law of coincidence IL muet be O
single cause for diverseIevents, and here ara
three, and hence, IL there Is such law, 1t must
lie back of these secondary causes, which brn 90
us TO the proper agnostic point for leaving the
subject, with the remark that those who believe
III the coincidence in time of great disasters will
never have greater apparent confirmation than
in the horrible cluster which appeared in the
blazing fires aud terrible sacrifice at the New
hall, including the loss of 800 human lives at
the echoes from the California explosion.-Cin-
cinnati News.