The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-04-09
THE SPIRIT OF THE PRESS.

IF Canada joins us it will be due to her own
prayers And if the Canadians make up their
minds to petition for adm1ttance, the indications
now are that England will not seriously inter-
fere. st. Louis GlObe-Democrat.
! ENGLAND has her nihilists. and the she
| recognizes that they are an infinitely more.
dangerous and venomous breed than those of
Russia the sooner she will take effective meas
| ures to get rio of them.-New York Herald.
1T is by no means certain whether the new
| perils to which governments are exposed from
the use of so terrible an agent AS dynamite will
not render necessary combined international
| action and revision of the whole series of ex-
tradition treaties.-New York Tribune.
A LEADING reason why the effort to abolish
| pOlygamy has failed is that Christians have been
too anxious to stamp growing sect out of exist
ence simultaneous with polygamy. This Is
| grave mistake which must be avoided If the on
slaught on polygamy is to have good results in
| the near future.-Pittsburg Dispatch.
| THE spectacle of Samuel ]. Tilden as Demo-
cratic candidate for president in 1884 will be
rather sad, but it will illustrate fifty the poverty
of the Democratic party in the quality of states
manship in being compelled TO go back to a SUI
perannuated and feeble old man more vigor-
GUS and enterprisng than any of the younger
element.-Chicago Tribune
TUE public good, apart from strictly political
considerations, must be paramount. And the
Importance of checking the ravages OF intemper
ance cannot be overestimated. Every Jail ard
every brothel is in certain very real sense a
temple of Bacchus. Wherever crime and vice are
found, intemperance is also found. They the
witches who mix the hellbfoth of society.-Chi-
cago Inter Ocean.
LET the English find way to make the Irish,
people prosperous and happy That is their
duty as the rulers of Ireland. The condition OF
society IN that island is a standing reproach to
English craftsmanship. If they are wise. Eng
lish public men will regard the dynamite fiend"
as the symptom of a disease which it is their
business to cure, and which will no longer ad-
nit of quack remedies.-New York Herald,
WHAT would be said of the authorities of the
city of Chicago of the State of Illinois it, with
good reason to fear that crazy creatures we're
plotting whole acres OF murder, they should not
eagerly search out the horrible plotters, destroy
their murderous material and tnwart their plans?
Their imbecity or tmdity, whatever
would disarm justice in righteous quest,
would be the reproach of mankind.-Chicago
Times
THE Indian children should be educated, both
as to the mead and the hand, and the adults be
assisted to the practice of some self-supporting
occupation to which they are adapted. They
should be given a status in the courts and be
held amenable TO the laws. And every organi-
cation or agency that is engaged i'll urging this
policy upon the people and the government
should receive announcement and aid-Boston
Herald.
THERE is no such general advance or fall as to
justify all LABOR in getting more or all employers
in refusing it. What is plainly wanted is fair
talk and fair arbtratiop; complete presenta.
ton of all the needs of labor and all the straits
of capital, careful consideration of the many
influences. like labor elsewhere, raw material,
profits or loss last year. food rent, andrso onto
the end that justice may be done.-Philadelphia
Press.
BUrLER1sM will not be without its good eff
feets. II is to the common wealths where it has
prevailed, and to Democracy, like epidemics.
hard to bear but in the end purifying. Ii would
not be well for 1t to prevail universally. There
would be very little of Democracy left if it af-
fected the Democratic party In many States at
once. II is simply a corrective scourge, a tenn
porary evil with consequential good attached
Cincinnati News.
THE American people will not steadily sustain
the high duties steel and iron and their many
various products, on wool, copper, tools and ma
chinery, and on other articles which are either
raw material are necessary for daily use of
common people. They DO not wish these duties
swept out of existence at one stroke, but they
can be driven even to that by stubborn and
| foolish resistance to moderate and gradual re-
duction.-New York Times.