The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-02-20
THE SPIRIT OF THE PRESS.

THE Ohio will soon be within its hanks, and
when we shall be in condition to count the cost
it will be found to be heavy, but not near SO
large as many imposed, and If the authorities
do their duty there need be no serious apprehen-
sions In regard to sanitary irs.-Cincinnat
THE completely of any of the land league lead
ers in these murders is of course not proved; but
Carey's testimony shows that the Fenian organ-
ization and the land league sometimes over
Tapped, and that the product was assassination.
1t is also impossible not to recall that the land
league accounts were never made public with
satisfactory iullness.-New York Tribune.
THE proposed increase of the daily labor of a
government clerk from seven to eight hours is
not a hardship, and the sentimental, talk about it
Is folly. The craze to fill government offices is
now too rampant, aud 1t has ruined many a good
man. Why the government should pay more for
less work than railroads, manufactures and
stores is not apparent Cincinnati Journal.
THERE will naturally be IL tendency among
business men to underestimate their losses
rather than exaggerate them. There will be a
speedy resumption of wholesale business, and
| transportation interests will be active. Manu-
f~acturers will necessarily be behindhand. Many
engines and boilers have been submerged, and
time will he required to scrub them up and set
them going again, or replace them altogether
Cincinnati Enquirer.
SUCH crimes, a disgrace to civilization and to
ireland, should be exposed to the minutest detail
of plan and arrangement, ana in this case the
British government is fully justified in using all
means at hand to settle the guilt of the right par
ties and to secure their punishment. Men who
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of "A low and dangerous ORDER, and there should
be no syn patty with those really guilty any
where.-Chicago
WHEN manufacturing towns dot every State
south of the Ohio, and between the Mississippi
and the Atlantic, there will be smaller farms,
better implements used, more money made per
acre, and a more comfortable manner of living
among the farming classes. These are condi-
lions of progress which no free-trader or "tariH-
for revenue-only" politician has ever considered,
vet they are of the utmost Importance to the
farming classes in connection with the question
of protecting American industries. louisville
Commercial.
OUR river system between the Allegheny and
the Rocky Mountains is almost entirely triDu-
tary TO the mississippi, and tine first step In the
work of bringing that system to any degree OF
perfection has already been taken in making adj
ditional outlets on the lower portion of the great
stream to carry its waters to the gulf, and in
deepening, STRENGTHENING and clearing the chan
mel Of distractions. This work should be con-
timed steadily upward, and should include every
tributary of any size. Subsidiary channels could
be easily made, and when tine water In the main
stream reached a certain height the surplus
could be drawn off through these channels and
retained in storage or carried toward the ocean
without crOwding the capacity of the ordinary
river channel.-New York Graphic.