The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-05-02
THE SPIRIT OF THE PRESS.

SO LONG as he 1.-THE Indian is kept in a state
OF pupllage and taught to depend upon the gov
eminent, just so long will he be source of ex-
penso and an increasing nuisance. SO long as he
is cheated and wIonged, he will do as white peo
pie do-seek revenge.-Boston Herald.
To hunt heresy is an essential OF the self-pres-
ervatiOn of sects. But heresy-hunting would
not be necessary from the sectarlan point of
view If heretics would have the decency to with
draw from "A communion in only the temperate
ties of which they have further intel est.-Chi-
cago Times.
If the next shpload of paupers who are ''as-
sisted by the English government from ireland
to our shores are sent back, the hint will be suf-
fcient, aud the vast food of misery and ignor-
ance from the Irish western coast which is begin
ming to set in upon will be diverted to Can
ada, where it beiongs.-New York Tribune.
If anybody thinks harmony can be secured In
the Republican party by close organization, by
making the machinery more efficient, by a Sc
verify of discipline that excludes all who do not
in all points agree with the otficehOlders the
committees, that person is much mistaken
rather more mistaken than those, if there are
any, who think that party can succeed without
Observation-Disclosures Advertiser.
1t is a mere subterfuge to call dealing in fu-
lures by even the name of speculation" Moth
| ing is bought or sold but the chance to multiply
your money at some one elses cost. 1t is not the
purchase ny one of anOther's commodity, in
which transaction neither need necessarily lose,
but deal in futures is a wager in the settlement
| OF which what you win is inevitably what an
other has lost.-St. Louis Republican.
If Red Cloud wants to maintain his present
honorable reputation and save his band from
dreadful suspicious let him avoid organizing a
company TO put his new mine on the market in
the shape OF stock. Even band If preachers
grown gray in the service of heaven could not
at the present time venture on such an operation
without being watched as If they were assoc-
ated pickpOckets-New York Herald.
DEMOCRACY hasn't proceeded far enough from
the forks of the road to yet begin TO look behind
IL. Better relegate the tariff issue to a DISPOSE
ton by Congress. 1t won't do to burst the Dem
| ocratic mass inst at the present time. There is
not enough OF it to spread out over the whole
country, If YOU slice off the old Wing element
with tarif-fo revenue-only knife. Let's do the
handsome thing, for since the coalition,
and elect President In 1SS4.-Nashville Amer
lean.
On the general question of the moral value of
dynamite there is nothing to add to the sentl-
ments that it Injuries innocent people, makes
| towards OF mel, and helps along the good cause
not one whit. 1t ia not bit more suitable for
Europe than for this country. If killing a few
people by cowardly explosions will not reform
things IN this country, neither will it in England.
In point of fact, those who so ardently support
| the dynamite culuus have nothing to gain by its
use.-Chlcag0 Herald.
THIS is Is a government of the people, by the
people and for the people. Whatever the major
| ity decides, upon that the rest of abide
But in no event will the Democratic party issue
an uncertain plan of campaign. The Republican
press may as well stop its chatter. 1t neither
misleads Democrats nor deceives the public
Practically, the issue is already made up. 1t is
Revenue vs. Protection; and. as sure the fight
is fought gu on that line, will the victory be won
by the forces of freedOm.-LousviIle Courier
Journal
1T won't do to establish the right of private
vengeance against life, else we put it in the
power of malice to invent charges and seal with
death the lips which could disprove them. For
| every excusabe case of vengeance we should
| incur the risk of twenty murderers borrowing
| virtuous Indignation as cloak for crime. 1t
will not do for public sentiment to permit any
private individual to take life except to defend
| life None of us can tell how soon This rule may
be necessary for our own protection. Punish
ment must be left TO the law alone.-Louisville
COmmerclal.