The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-09-21
SPIRIT OF THE PRESS.

THE danger of a land monopoly is, of course,
not immediate, bur, in view of the enormous i'm
purchase of whole to wnships by British capital
lists seems to be on the increase, the serious at
tention of American statesmen may be drawn to
the newest phase of the land question English
landlOrdsml has not be Ell such an unmixed
blessing at home that its extension in our own
country can be viewed with much pleasure.
Chicago Herald
THE government pays price for It's buildings
which certainly entities 1t TO handsome returns,
and IL ought to have the benefit of the best skill
and intelligence OF the architects of the country.
The erection of appropriate and beautiful build
ings would crafty both local and patriotic pride,
and would cause the taxpayer TO feel that there
was at least one redcemng feature in the ex-
travagant policy of building stone palace in
every town that has an energetic congressman.
New York Tribune.
Mr.. ROBINSON is as aoe and upright as Mr..
Pierce, and IL by no means without valuable
political experience. He has always been loyal
to the best tendencies OF his party, and seems TO
be equally acceptable to the stanch partisans
and TO those of independent instincts. If with
him a candidate the Republicans cannot
rout Butler, he must, Indeed. be a formidable
parsonage in Massachusetts politics, and Massa-
chusetts politics must have become strangely
degraded.-New York Times.
WE shall never establish IN the South a school
system which can accomplish anything while 1t
is subsidized by the central government. If we
cannot arouse our own people sufficiently to in
duce them TO vote the necessary appropriations,
we have failed in the beginning. Reformation
otherwise it is superficial, emotional transient.
This is not the work we have undertaken. Gov
erument aid IN this work turns us back ten
years,-LOui5vllle Courler-Journal.
No arbitrary enactment binds the cobbler to
the last and dooms him to wOrk always for the
low wages that are the result of competition.
On the one hand, thousands Of smiling acres can
be had by him and his friends for the asking; on
the other, the whole field of enterprise is open
to him, and he NAV fit himself to occupy any
station, social or political, in the republic. In
lOuu-mOutneu
ances OF wOrdy agltators whose prominence is
due to and depends upon the maintenance of an
antagOnlsm between labor and other interests,
lies the solution of the labor problem."-Chi-
cago News.
THE Republican party has been the party of
the government. Its education has been broad,
and its education has made the party policy lib
eral enough TO care for all portions OF the coun-
try and the sons of every portion of it, 1t Is so
unlikely the Democratic party will place IA
Southern man on its national ticket that the a0-
sence of a Southern name may be taken as a
certainty In time the Southern voter will dis
cover that this is so, and lie Will learn after
awhile why it is so. The present demands for a
Southern candidate for Vice-presldent indicate
that the Southern voter is beginning to appreci-
ate their true value his repeated sights at the
hands of those whom he has cOnslde red his
friends.-Philadelphia Press.
WHEN Abraham Lincoln issued the procamd-
ton which struck the chains from four million
slaves, he was denounced by the leaders OF the
Democratic party from one end of the country
TO the other The measure adopted oy the Re
publican party for the acknowledgements of the
cOlOred race was fought with all the bitterness
and prejudice that always characterized the
Democratic party in its treatment OF slavery
and the status OF c0lOred men from the Dackest
days of slavery down to the amendment or the
constitution which made cOlOred peopit, equal
before the law with white people. This istn"
history of the Democratic party. IL has every
where, ana on every OCCASION proved itself the
enemy of the cOlored race, and II it had had its
way, slavery would nave been ia existence TO-