The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-03-30
THE SPIRIT OF THE PRESS.

IF the English troops are to remain in Egypt
until all that Mr. Gladstone announces is effected
the occupation may as well be considered perma-
nent. If they are simply to prepare the way for
the payment of bondhOlders, then the war with
Egypt must go on record as anational outrage
Chicago Tribune.
If the Republican protective tariff shall, be in
dorsed by the election of Mr.. Randall. then the
Democratic party will stand as approving the
Republican conduct of affairs and as destitute
OF principles or policy of its own, and yet as dis
turDlng the country by great contest, having
no higher aim than the spoils OF the office pat
tronage.-Ctncinnati Commercial Gazette.
REPUBLICANS in New York, Pennsylvania and
elsewhere have learned at their cost that moth
ing is to be gained by dissenslons and divisions.
Once in while little bitterness acts well me-
dlclnaly, but agreement and united action are
the best in fight. ONO Democrats might take
few useful lessons from Republican experience
in the Empire and Keystone states.-Cincinnati
Journal
UNLESS women are less sensitive than men
now are they to be expected to remain enamOred
OF husbands who either ''smoke cigarettes by the
bundle" or subsst cigars that offensive
even to other smokers, or spend many hours
daily in sucking pipes of various degrees of
ranknessl To remain in love with the smoker OF
certain type implies either an abnOrmally large
heart or detective olfactories.-New York Word
EVERY other interest has to pay its fair
amount Why should the saloon be exempt
me poor man is heavily taxed. Why should a
tenths of the disorder, the crime, Gne distress,
and the pauperism in the city. Why should
tuoy uOb 10 cOnpelleu 10 40 something
some for the city's improvement, and help lessen
tne burdens OF the poor and the workingmenf-
Chicago Tribune. a
THE political forces will have to be divided in
1854 on the live questions of the time, and none
or these has a more vital interest than that OF
national taxation and the relations of the gov
eminent to the industrial interests, including
that OF trade on the ocean in all its phases Par
Ties cannot ignore these questions; they cannot
be on both sides OF them. This speakership con-
test is interesting and significant mainly as pre-
liminary to the next great political struggle of
the c0untry.-New York Times.
NEVER has Massachusetts been affl icted with
such Governor before, and we venture to pre-
dict that 1t Will be many years before she Is so
afflicted again. IL will be painful but useful
experience TO her, and if it shall demonstrate to
the country at large that "a man is not a ere
former" merely because he assails everything
that is established and respectable, the whole
nation will be benefited. Slam-bang statesman
snip Is taking" on the stump, but IL always has
been and always will be a distressing failure in
Office.-New York Tribune.
THE inquiry is made if prohibition does not
prohibit, why do salOOn-keepers universally pre-
fer the license system? The answer must sug
gest itself to all who will reflect moment. The
business of all honorable and responsible deal
ers is destroyed by prohlbitory laws, whether
drinking ceases not. A class of irresponsible
persons who are willing to defy the law and sell
SurreptltiOusly may profit by prohibition, but no
other retailers can. The question, therefore, is
not free from difficulties. The facts affecting it
without careful exanlinatiOn.-St. Louis Repub-
in