The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-11-28
SPIRIT OF THE PRESS.

II there is one business that more than any
other ought to be in the hands of sober. cautious,
responsible aud law-abiding people It's the bust
ness of selling Intoxicating liquors. Under the
present system 1t appears to be impossible to
weed out the bad from the good The adoption
of high license laws is the true method of bring
ing about the needed REFORM Philadelphia
Record.
THE reopie North and South have resolved to
look forward and not backward, and work to-
gether for the good of their common country.
They cannot be led by SET of heartless and
blood thirsty conspirators against the Union. tG
is the North and Sonth who will now preserve
the Union against the Vaccinations of Re-
publica leaders, who are writing themselves
down as conSplrators against the public welfare.
Louisville COurier-Jo urnal.
THE doctrine of free trade smells too mueA OF
the closet and Democracy too much of the
tomb The country breads both of them. It
will not tolerate them. They are dangerous.
They are inseparably united, as Mr.. Watterson
declares and the country is fully aware that the
revival OF one would be promptly followed by
the resurrection of the other The Republican
party will be thankful to Mr.. Watterson for his
eandOr In defining the issue, whether the Demo-
cratic organs are or not.-Philadelphia Press.
BUSINESS was never more sensitive than it ia
at this time. 1t is not huoyant; not even aver
age in general prosperity; ana the party that
even threatens it with disturbance will be de.
feated as surely as the rising of the sun cleo
ton day. This is the naked Issue, markedly pre-
scented, involved in the Speaker contest at Wash
ington, 1t was not made by Rtndaf, it was
made for him by those who SEEK to defeat him,
and it has beer made so plainly that none can
about itlNew York Sun.
THE old idea that murder Will ont seems to he
a mistake. Unlike as are the,Various cases. they
have one point i'll common, they are fathomless
mysteries to the detectives. The sleuth-hounds
of society can hunt down defaulters, matter
If they go TO the uttermost parts Of the earth,
but when II comes to the assassin. whether it be
single murder or family massacre, the in
stinct of the chase fails. The hound can smell
money from atar, but as for blood yon may
smear his nose with It without conveying any
sensation to his ofactory nerves.-Chicago Inter
Ocean.
No additional federal offices are required to
perfect such a sche me, no control over Southern
schools and Southern school books is to be gwen
TO any outsiders, and any State ohjecting to the
appropriation may refuse TO receive II. The ed
Vocational bill which Congress will be asked to
consider this winter was drafted by commit.
tee OF thirteen, appointed at the Louisville
meeting, eight of whom are recognized educ:.
tional leaders in the South. The Others repre.
sent the States in the North which are shown
by the United States census 10 have the best
educated louisville Commercial
PRACTICALLY the French Deputies are aim st
MS powerful in political sense as the conven-
ton They easily overthrow t. strongest man
in France; they have snnbbed Premers and dis
ciplned minister's; they have barely tolerated
the President as the wooden hgurr-head of the
republican shp they have openly detied the
Senate and practically exercised all the tunc-
ton of government. 10 remains to-day as il
was a century ago, an open question whether an
omnipotent Chamber can furnish an enlightened
democracy with durable form and system of
government France does not need "a heroic
period so much as it does a commonplace and
common-sense era of cOnstil uiona revision.
New York Tribune
THE Harvard faculty evidently has no wish to
strike football from the list of studies. Nothing
could have been easier than TO have taken tue
ground that the study of Greek, Latin, mathe-
MATES, and applied sciences is, in the estimation
of the faculty, of more consequence than foot
ball, and that for this reason football will no
longer be studied at Harvard. 1t might further
have been shown that there are those who think
1t undesirable that young mon should be sent to
m n IN NhntN
legs instead of their brains But the faculty has
not taken this ground, and there is really no
reason whatever TO charge them with the inten-
ton of striking from the curriculum one of the
most popular of the higher studies The students
need only change their rules so as to legalize
choking and striking and Harvard will become
more renowned than ever rs the greatest loot
ball college OF the land.-New YORK Times.
Iris the plain duty of Congress as guardian Of
the public interests to hold all the land rings
down strictly to the contract. With OF without
the land grants their interests coincide with the
interests of the public in wholesome Western
development. For their own good they will he
compelled to fos or progress and growth Weet
ern progress will be the whOesoner when lands
are omen to settlers, and the roads brought
down strictly to their business as carriers. They
have a right to demand, aid the government
must grant them strict justice. Wherever they
have gone forward, relying upon grants made
and com plying with their own contracts, theY
are entitled to a strict performance by the gov
ernment; but there is call for generosity
The strict letter ana spirit of the law, and nd
more and no ess is due to the public. and Their
right. THIS is a question vita which COngrcsi
must speedily deal-Cincinnati News Journal