The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-03-31
THE SPIRIT OF THE PRESS.

UNLESS the coming summer shall witness the
development of more internal harmony than
now exists in either the Republican or Demo-
cratic party in Ohio, the election next October
will afford few grounds for safe conclusions con-
corning the general political prospect for 1884.
/ Providence Star
! PROBABLY no libel suit ever developed a case
| of lying by reporter, The trouble is begun
usually by a "shyster' lawyer who, failing 20
get clients by legitimate means, goes about try
ing to convince people that a newspaper has
slandered them, and Offering his services for a
percentage of the prospective Judgment against
the publisher.-Louisville Commercial,
To borrow money to pay current expenses
would be suicidal. Pay as you go is the true
| policy. To this end license system should be
adopted That would augment the income to an
extent sufficient to meet demands for street re-
pairs without Increasing the tax rate. And to
| this point the energies of enterprisng citi-
| zens should be directed.-Cincnnati Commercial
Gazette.
| Hon. HOMER A. NELSON Eliminates the whole
| proceeding against the newspaper press of tlS-
| State 1t is simply one stepin the case of Poli
| tician versus Newspaper. Judge Nelson forgets
the relative longevity of politicians and news
| papers. With his permission we will remind him.
| There notes that live IN the sunbeam, and
there is the sunbeam. There are politicians, aud
there are newspapers New York Tribune.
| AFTER all, the man who calls woman an angel Is
| not far wrong She is in her chosen realm when
she ministers to the suffering and the sick, and
| worldliDess and seltshness fall away from her
| as she might put aside garments she Will use no
more. Such acts of devotion are not uncommon
among the gentler sex, but whenever brought TO
| lie commendatlOn.-Lou Commercial.
| so faras the law can abate the evils now
threatening to Oyerwhelm us as the result Of the
| dominance of the brute elements in the life of
| great communities, it should be vigorously EN-
! poyed 10 that end. Meanwhile, let an enght-
ened public opinion set itself sternly against all
| practices and "amusements" which tend to
| nOurish young old those animal passions
which, unrestrained, become fiery demons,
| scourging the soul down to death and perdtiou.
Frank Leslie's Weekly.
TIN, ,nout nm tisYactory tion that ia
| luded people ever engaged In is libel suits
| against respectable newspapers. Journalism Is
| at greater pains and expense to get the truth
than is any other business calling, for the two
| fold reason that It's success depends largely,
upon the reputation which the particular newsN
paper may establish for the credibiltty OF Its ut
terances and it's avoidar ce of the penalties which
! the law attaches to malicious or erroneous pub
| licatione.-LOuisville Commercial.
| THE present examination system is especially
| objected to by the reformers. 1t Is the main
means depended on to bring all the rebellOus in
teects to the dead level. The elaborate exam
nations" are pronounced suicidal. But again
| the reformers have nothing to suggest in their
place. IL is hard to see how the school would
get on without something of the kind. Boston
| would not quite abolish superntendents either,
but it insists that the supervision shalt be SIN
tehgent and without foppery." -Cincinnati
Journal.
IT is q curious fact of history that religious in.
situations were born first, then social. and last
politica but that in the development and per-
lection of these three the order Is exactly the re-
verse. Living as we do in the midst of cviliza-
tion of course we now find these respective in
situations mutually inter-dependent, and hard to
view separately But close study shows us that
at present the most advanced political Ingttu-
tions of the world are perceptbly nearer our :
conception of ideaty than are the leadng social
institutions, ana that our religious institutions
are less perfectly developed than either OF the
other two.-Proyidence Star.
SO great is the difference of opinion among
those who look upon the drinking habit as tho
greatest curse from which this country suffers,
as to the course to be pursued in overturning It,
that the temperance advocates are split up into
fnetions, and any power for good that they
might WELD, did they present united from TO
enemy, is weakened by the chickering's In their
own ranks. In fact, there are now two we'll
defined divisions in the ranks of the cold-water
peOple--those who believe that reform only
be gained through prohibition and those who
claim that all true advancement of Temperance
principles must be based upon moral suasion.-
Brooklyn Union.