The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-12-27
SPIRIT OF THE PRESS.

THOSE who regarded the triumph of Mr. Car
Isle III The speakership race as the promotion OF
low tariff interests will be strengthened III their
convictions by the committee appointments.
Mr.. Randall would be odd quantity in the
ways and means committee as anuounced.-Cin-
clnnatl Enquirer
WHEN a man who has been helped by his
friends to public place neglects mis- friends, ex"
hibits ingratitude, shows that he lacks proper
sense of what is due to the rungs in the ladder
he has climbed by, and turns TO make himself
sire myth by rewarding his enemies complantis
ust.-Cincinnati News Journal.
THE propriety of railroad legislation on the
part of the general government ia growing in
creasingiy plain. The property of the numerous
corporations has no reference to State lines. and
If it was placed under one set of regulations in
essential matters, it would obviate an immenso
amount OF lobbying at state capitals, to say
nothing of the siinplihcation that would ensue.
ST. Louis GloOe-Democrat.
ft is to be remembered that ever since the Re-
publican party was organized the smalleya
within it's ranks have tried to give side issues
prominence to the exclusion of the rights of th6
coiored people, but they have never yet sue
ceeded, aud we do not believe they ever WILL so
long as negroes can find no protection from civil
wrongs and murder itself in any Southern state
count-Chicago Inter Ocean.
If the action of the House is in accordance
with the complexion of It's most important coru-
mittees the Democrats will go into the presden-
tial canvass as the party of reform. Ii they
have courage and energy to instruct the people
they will deserve, and we believe may hope TO
obtain, the success which for many years
they have vany sought by facing both ways on
important public issues.-New York Herald
THE economic doctrine of the Democratic
party covered ny the words ga tariff for reve-
nue. only" and those who cannot swallow that
formula have no business in the Democratic
party. Another thing to bear in mind is that.
if the national Democratic party shonid weaken
on the tariff question, 1t would lose thousands OF
votes, while it will lose but ahandfnl by prac-
ticing what it preaches.-Charleston News and
Courier.
In order TO put the Sunday question on right
basis, some legislation would no doubt be need
full. Such legislation should discriminate be-
tween ADJUSTMENTS which are either vicious or
merely Annie So and those which are confessedly
beneficial, as being something more than amuse-
ments, and no license should be issued which
does not guarantee one day of rest in the week
TO every person employed by the applicant.
New York Times.
The solid South, while it furnishes one-thrd OF
the total membership OF the House, has cOnsId-
erably more than Onehalf of the committees,
and consequently more than one-haif of the au-
the South has grown very great in this House; IL
not checked in time it may soon Outstrip the
paying power of the North, which has two
thirds of the population and pays far more than
two-thirds of the taxes.-ChicagO Tribune.
THERE is great cry over the Huntington let
ters, but mighty little wool. Those who assert
that the revelations made and to be made
through the agency OF these letters will surpass
even the disclosures of the Credit Mobilier. are
reckoning without their host. While some of the
letters contain references which might justify
an inference that improper means were being
USED to influence congressman and Others, there
is no direct evidence of such acts. Chicago Her
aid.
THE American political system depends upon
the m oral, educational and social elevation of
the working classes throughout this country.
AS those who wOuld come under the classtca-
ton of laborers form the great majority, and as
our future rests in their hands, for good or forN
evil it Is Incumbent upon the government to do 81
all in its power to prevent their debasemenJ by
hlegitlmate competitions and by illegitimate
competition we mean the competition of those
who are not brought under the influence of the
American social system-BOston Herald.
ONE thing certainly the Southern politicians
h. hndf ham lx-f ln FL a ns4h
for government expenditure. The committees
are not formed looking TO economy. The one
thing they may accomplish, in connection with
the rings that are non partisan and would bind
the whole country in massive chain of rob-
berry. is u tremendous expenditure of money, es-
pecially on such profigate buffoOnery as that so
ostentatiously pressed III the name OF the Mis-
sissppt river.-Cincinnati Commercial Gazette.
THE textbook question is "a serious one to pa
rents. great deal of money is wasted In the
purchase of school books which convey very lit
tie useful knowledge, and that little so diluted
ny mass of verhiage OF no use Whatever that
they only serve TO confuse children The State
should print the school series, and a commission
of educated teachers, as distinguished from mere
pedagogues, shOuld be appointed to revise tho
textbooks and adapJ them to educational re-
qurements only. They are now complied in the
interest of publishers Only.-Memphis Sclmitar.
ASSOCIATED industry has quite enough TO CON-
TEND against, without deliberately alternating
from itself and its cause the considerate APP
prevail of enlightened public sentiment It has
an undoubted right TO regulate its own a1alrs'
and it has greatly benefited both legitimate
ployerS and employed by the DeJlef features OF
association; but when it assumes to control the
labor or dealings or business of otherR and to
declare arbitrarily what newspaper people shall
read or advertise in or what shop or grocery
men shall patronZe, it becomes its own worst
foe and strips itself of its just usefulness and
power-Phadelph Times.
MEN getting afraid to buy stocks which
Could or Vanderbilt or Huntington may buy
into or get the control of by proxy without buya
ing "A share, and then wreck. They begin Co see
in the coming contest in the Northwest about
territorial mOnOpOly-an issue also certain to
arise in the East ami South-sti deeper ques-
lions than those of directors morals. These are
questions the settlement of which by war will
wreck values to the amount of hundreds of mill
ions. Trustees and investors VINO have been
bitten by wildcat mines, railroads and oil-wellS
are looking for q security that cannot be
wrecked. or "amalgamated." or consolidated"
or "paralleled," or pooled" and the only eueiS
they begin to see, is real estate.-ChicagO
Tribune.