The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-07-31
SPIRIT OF THE PRESS.

OUR advice to the holders of Confederate bonds
is TO burn them up. Even an Englishman ought
10 he ashamed, and will before long be ashamed,
10 have 1t known that he keeps such trash. But
at any rate no one hut q person incapable of
managing his own affairs or a gambler anxious
10 lay money on the most hopeless of bets will
give this syndicate any money "fOr preliminary
expenses."-New York Herald.
GAMBLING is evidently losing ground. Whether
tne continued loss Of margins Ia beginning to
weary the adventurous spirits who have been in
the habit of putting them up and to discourage
them from pursuing any further a constantly
losing game, or whether the leaden dullpess of
the markets is the cause, il ia certain that the
brokers' are sitting in idleness and looking in
vain Tor lambs to shear.-New York World.
THE truth about organized labor is plain. 1t
Is not an evil, but a good, in itself. All the Or
CARNATIONS cannot De condemned as iniouiuous.
but each is to be judged on its individual merits,
according to its behavior and its demands. Those
which are recklessly managed are bound to drop
70 pieces through their own vice. The policy Of
the large telegraph companies toward the Broth
erAood of Photographers is blind and fatuous.
New York Times.
THERE is always room for Improvement, but
the colored people are doing well enough to pos
sess their souls In patience, and not waste too
much of their substance in conventions. What
grievances they have are gradually disappear
Ing, and iU becomes them not to engage in manu-
1aoturlng any, as there is some danger of their
attempting to do. Industry and good conduct
VIII build the race up more rapidly than any
Jhlng else.-St. Louis GlObe-Democrat.
PRESUMABLY the clergyman is struggling to
ma the right road upward. If he has found iT he
is accepted as a guide. If he has solved any
problem of the day-intemperance, or liceptious-
ness, or infdelity-hi words will be listened to
with respect and gratitude. But it will be be-
cause he has solved the p~roblem-not be-
cause he stands in the pulpit. Authority has
largely left the office, but it has descended with
double force upon the man.-New York Tribune.
THE people are getting sick of having this
treasury bureau run for the benefit of Boss So
and-so. and that postofice manned for Senator
Blank, and they have got thoroughly reoonciled
10 irving the experiment of having the public's
custom houses and internal revenue depart
ments and postofhces managed for the public.
The people want Congress to build a peoples
telegraph, and they want it equipped by peoples
officers, and not by the cOnfdeptial agents of
any boss, no matter what party he belongs to.
Chicago Tribune.
NEITHER popular sentiment nor the actual
situation demands free trade. On the contrary,
both popular sentiment and the best interests of
the country demand protection. But each de-
mands that protection by tariff regulation must
be applied with reason and sense, thai il may be
in accordance with 'the country's interests
as they exist and develop, To maintain this
regulatory balance it must become necessary
from time to time to revise and shift the tariff,
at an times keeping two ends in view-revenue
and protection.--Cleveland Herald.