The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-10-23
SPIRIT OF THE PRESS.

FAITHFULNEss, honesty, good work, reason
abeness, are what is wanted among the labor
ing classes, and success is sure to attend any
who wins "A reputation for such virtues.
-Philadepbia Press
IT is not very unlikely that the refractory and
unmanageable "husness end" of the Democratic
mule will succeed before the winter is over in
convincing the country that it isn't safe to trust
that animal with the financial affairs of the
country.-Chciago Times.
THE country well understands that it parted
with the rascals in 1860, and that since then the
government has been administered honestly,
economically and in the interest of the masses.
Rascaty ended with Buchanan and his Demo-
cratic gang and from that time onward the adj
ministration of public affairs has been pure and
satisfactory to the entire country.-Cieveland
Leader.
As the general distribution of property and
the prosperity of the middle classes is the glory
and strength of this country, 50 the growth OF
corporations which threaten to absorb the land,
and their development into an oligarohy which
is likely to control legislation and the cOurts is
It's greatest s6i: Ey ang s,ndR I'M
means its advance may be stopped-Plttsourg
Dispatch.
WHISKY and tobacco are Injuries, and large
majority of the people desire that these luXuries
shall be taxed. We do not think that these taxes
should be removed. nor do we believe that Mr..
Randall and his companions can secure their re-
moval. The surplus Is too large, but 1t ought not
TO be reduced by raising tariff rates to prOllih-
itory standard. 1t should he reduced by cutting
down those taxes which The people find most
burdensome.-New York Times.
THE country is behaving itself well. It's trials
and reverses only serve to show how solid is the
foundation which it's prosperity rests. We
have fashionable extravaganza and social fool
shness in some quarters, but the great body of
the people prefer comfort to display. There is
vice everywhere. as there always VIII be where
there human hearts, but it is nos small
thing that 800, 900 voters III one State deliber-
ately tried to prohibit the sale of Intoxicating
drinks.-New York Tribune.
WITH past experience in view, it will be we'll
for ha ah6Pan RiSnOIl
Turner characterizes them to begin preparing
the way for fair election by letting 1t be dis
tipctly known that they propose to vote, unless
prevented by downright force and violence
and it might not be amiss for them to declare
further, by way of admonitioD, that where they
have SO much at stake they must not be expect
ed to easily as they might II the Issues
were not personal and so vital.-St. Louis
GlObe-D Democrat
TO expel indecent literature from the land is
not only to save multitude of boys and girls
from pollution put also TO create a greater de-
mand for wholesome books and papers. The
publisher of every decent volume and sheet
ought to contribute to the support of the move
ment for the suppression of indecent literature,
for TO remove the evil is to promote the demand
for literature which is unOlJectlunahle. wise
general would see in existing circumstances the
most conclusive reasons for pushing the war
against uncleanness in type with the greatest
Vigor.-New York Mail and Express.
IT is true the Annamites are savages and that
they show little mercy in war, but France is not
u nation of barbarians, and she puts herself in
sends expeditions to foreign lands to vie with
savages in all that is horrible in their customs,
This whole TonQuin business. and all other
schemes of foreign conquest on which the
French Republic has entered, are parts OF
grand mistake, and the blunder would be bad
enough If the French character were not DIS
graccd by such indescribable atrocities as were
perpetrated on the MISUNDERSTANDING n
Post
THERE is no better way of reintroducing COM
petition into the telegraph world and keeping 1t
there than for the government to build and run
telegraph lines an adjunct to its postal bust
ness Every private concern that We have
started to compete sells out Let us now try
public competition that cannot be sold out.
GoFeInment competition Will not exterIninate
nor even injure the Western Union. A growing
country will give business enough for both. 1t
will check its dropscal growth or watered stock
and mend its manners and It's speed, and that
will be as much of a benefit to its stockholders
as TO the public.-Chicago Tribune.
THE policy which would he the most logical,
the safest, and the most prudent for the Repub-
ncan party is precisely that which was pursued
that policy led to defeat there. and its opposite
brought success in Iowa. In Ohio the Repub-
licans committed themselves fairly and firmly
to a law taxing the liquor trade and providing
against it's serious abuse, The merit of such a
course is, that 1t is practical and sane, and can
be consistently adhered to. 1t fully represents
the undoubted conviction and moral sentiment
of the great body OF the party, While IL does not
commit the party to any impractlcaDlea ana rev.
dictionary measures. 1t pledges the party to
work that can fairly be accomplished by poht-
ical agencies and does not pledge 1t to an oplect
which Is, in practice, unattalnabe.-New YORK
Times.
Mr.. Holman's Portrait.
New York Evening Post.