The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-05-23
THE SPIRIT OF THE PRESS.

MONEY can buy a race horse, house and
sometimes wife, but IL cannot buy IA club No
man has Il moral right to belong to a fashiona-
BILE club unless he can indulge that luxury with
out stin ting his home life, but 1t equally true
that no club can afford to consider mere wealth
and any organized on that basis alone Is sure
| to miss its Ohject,-Chicago Inter Ocean.
MONEY in this country is easy at low rates;
but the labor dissensions continue, and the out
look In the iron and cotton fabric industries Is,
| as yet, no brighter. The goal Of the world of
| commerce is now set along into the earlier part
OF July. afCer the new tariff has gone into opera
ton It is thought that reasons can be seen to
| trust in radical improvement alter the date
named.-Cincinnatt Enquirer.
THE cowardly action of the Kentucky Demo-
| Gratis in avoiding an honest and outspOken dec
laration of their principles, and asserting them
selves for reform only by inference and reference
must be ranked among the Ill Omens of the drift
| of our politics Nothingis so much to be desired
among the citizens of government of the people
by the people a vigorous and continuous dis
cussiOn of principles and their applications.
Chicago Tribune.
Mr. FRoUDE. in his capacity of literary execu-
| tor Of the Carlyle estate, has put a thorn under
| the pillow of a great many men of more or less
| fame writ g, but germs and seeds OF thought
Ought not t0 be destroyed because buried in the
| ruOhish of private letters between public men.
| The Swings and Whittiers should carefully edit
Whit they may have In hand, oonsigning TO the
open CRATE nothing OF real worth TO mankind.
Chicago Inter Ocean.
If the circular of the Pope forces any Irish
men from the church he Will surely be glad to
The law of the Papacy ia law old Chris
tanity-those who are not for 1t are against 1t.
II with any section of its adherents the interests
of politics weigh more than the interests of re-
ligiOn, why, then, they may go in peace, and
over them the Catholic church neither will eX-
ert nor seek TO exert any influence whatever.
New York Herald.
Is the negro to remain in the Soulful The wild
est reactionist will admit that he here to stay
is the negro To remain voterf There is no one
to deny that he will retain the privileges OF citi-
HAUEniD. ~ follows Inevitably that tho adupa-
ton of rho race Ia IA necessity. There Ia other
escape frOm the decentralization and disaster that
attend upon Ignorant SUFFRAGE IL Is to the inter
est OF every white man, woman and child in
Georgia that the negroes should be educated.
Atlanta Constitution.
IT does not seem unnatural that the Holy
Father should warn his Irish children against a
system that has blOssOmed In murder and that
Is likely to do the Irish people In North America
| as well as in the British islands an immense
mischief Ir the dynamite deviltry goes In
The name of Ireland, IL will arouse civilization
against the sO-called Irish cause, and place the
Irish race at "a disadvantage throughout Christ
endOm. II ia the policy of the people TO avert
the evil days that threaten,--Cincinnati Com
meroial Guzette.
THE divine law which says "ThOu shalt not
XIII" and also demands tooth for a tooth, an
eye for an eye and life for life, Is recognized
In all enlightended lands as the code that snail
govern society, and the only safety is IN the
rigid, equitable and impartial enforcement of
that law. There are statutes sufficient for the just
punishment OF every crime. and for the prOtec-
tion of every man in his rights, and he who takes
the law IN his own hands not only becomes Il
criminal, but does irreparabe injustice to sOcie-
ty.-Cleveland Leader
Iris a shOrt-sighted Judgment and low mo-
rality that negects jury duty, as 1t is fashiona-
BILE now To do. Though we do not expect To be
tried, expect our fellowcittzens to sit and
try the thug who kills one OF us or who robs u.s.
whether In the streets or in the administration
of the stnr routes To receive a sacrifice from
others which We deliberately shirk when 1t Is