The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-06-12
SPIRIT OF THE PRESS.

WITH discrimination on the part of investors
in favor of intrnsically valuable stocks, with
the renewal of confidence in the future, with re-
duced taxes, lower level of values, and the
chances of fair crops. the outlook all around is
enoOuragng-New York Herald
THE "prinoiples of Jefferson" are waning.
Their light is fading out. Their influence in
popular thought and opinion is disappearing.
They are bound to go out, Ike the candle of
Buchanan's administration, with a bad smell
There Is nothing surprising or singular in the
manifestation among the Bourbon notables,
oven in Virginia, of a Discrimination to go out
with them.-Chcago Times.
THE Democratic party of Ohio is in as great
difficulty over the SCOTT law as is the country at
large over the tariff, and we are not aware that
they have anything to propose that any body
themselves incudedl is hound to respect. The
Republicans had a rugged and steep road to
travel last year, but already, through courage
and address, they have the slope of the Land in
their favor.-CincinnatiC Commercial Gazette.
THE accession of the Prince of Wales as regent
would not produce any profound radical
changes in administration. Doubtless Mr.. Glad
stone would retain the primary, and be, as he so
long has been, the real ruler of the kingdom.
The accession of the Prince would, in fact,
strengthen his hands ana rally the Liberals, who
seem to be just now hard pressed by their Oppo-
nents and weakened 10y discussions in the eabi
net.-Cincinnati Commercial Gazette.
WE are not sanguiue enough to suppose that
the coming resolution of the South into it's
natural lines of political division Will occur in
time to amount to much at the next president ial
as an axiom that where classes in the North and
classes In the South become aware OF the fact
that their interests In the main identical,
they will sooner or later form on the same po-
litcal line.-St. Louis GlObe-Democrat.
ROME mistook the opinion and sentiment of
the Italian peasantry when the estates of the
mOnasteries were confiscated; 1t utterly miscon-
ceived the effect of the Ferry law III France; it
relied in vain upon protest against liberal edu-
ca ton in Belgium; it has blundered in Ireland
If Spain ever has a popular movement, it will
hare The ayiil Oftppnturipa n
fail the Roman Catholics in divining the tenn per
of the people at large, and yet failure at this
point is in this age fata.-Philadelphia Press.
In all the leading colleges the curriculum has
been steadily advanced to higher standards
The requirements for admission have been great
ly increased, and the course of study enlarged
and brOadened. The tendency to abandon the
old oassca. course as out of date, which be-
trayed itself in some quarters a few years ago,
has been checked, and all our older institutions
have wisely concluded that the true course is
not to abandon the old, but to adhere to that and
add to it whatever Is best iu the new.-New York
Tribune.
THE people of this day are too thoroughly i'm
bued with the mercantile morality which incu-
Gates buying cheap and selling dear as the only
code of righteousness in the market. BY and by
the public will wake up to find that the men
who sell adulterated lard and butter and sugar
have been selling too dear, and that they can
not in the long run buy cheap or men who cut
prices only as the device of a competition whose
ultimate object is to kill competition. The
remedy for this state of affairs will come-f not
in one way then in another. Chicago Tribune.
THE long delayed hut relentless punishment
which has overtaken the Phoenix Park assassins
and the fact that they were betrayed by ac-
compcs must have a certain effect on the class
S@h0 are seeking their ends through murder The
history OF he trials shows that there is In
Ireland no such deep-scsted sense of wrong as
animates, for instance, the NIniists of Russia.
who do not betray each other. II ie very desira-
bile that the final disposition OF the miscreans
who for nearly year successfully deiled the
law, may make 1t easier for the English govern
ment to proceed with its reforms, which, after
all, the only possible. basis of permanent
pacficau0n.-New York Times.