The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-03-26
THE SPIRIT OF THE PRESS.

JnS prepared much raster IMAM the protected
monOpolists are willing to believe.-Chicago
Times.
THE Democratic party of the nation seems to
ne In absolute want for a general political re-
ceivershlp. The Democratic machine Is tearing
Itself TO pieces, and promises to sacrifice all Its
once bright prospects for the next presidency on
the altar of its hereditary incOmpetency.-Phila-
delphia Times.
1T is safe to say that there is no person now
engaged in the making of laws for the city, the
state or the country whose memory will be held
In anything like the same tender respect by so
many people, thirty years after his death, as was
yesterday expressed by the people who thronged
about the bier of the author of "Home, Sweet
Home."-New York World.
No reform can ever succeed IL it does not ap-
peal to the interest and enthusiasm of the
young. Push the young men up to the front.
Put them in places of responsibility and trust.
Young men with warm blood in their veins and
with brains and hearts are plenty. They have
none OF the doubt and hesitancy and misgiviDgs
OF age.-Chioago Express.
TIL nature of the Democratic beast cannot oe
changed, nor can it disguise itself. 1t Is worse
than even Republican ''bOssism," but as that
evil element has been to a great extent removed,
there will be no room for comparison whatever
between the two parties among men whose
opinion any value may be placed, at the next
general election.-St. Louis Globe-Democrat.
WHEN once a man is attacked by the peculiar
form of insanity which leads him to believe that
he is about to be made rich by being one of the
heirs OF a great estate he ia lost. Open his eyes
TO the folly Of his hopes, ana he will trust and
QUILL HNluO lIlC Jul vi < MI CCluAhS
cures are either partial or temporary, and only
death destroys his dream OF wealth forever
Cleveland Leader.
WHATEVER is going on interests some one. 1t
must be had at once. That is the news idea.
Whenever q head is presented, and the head is
not a correct one, hit it. That is the comment
will interest the reader, and what it will cost.
When 1t sees a head il wants an introduction,
and then stuffs its club lest it hit some one wfo
must not be Observation-Disclosures Tribune.
Va or,ao xv;th eIo loc;, t1,at @la oan-oea e
1884 shall have for its object not a mere change
of residents of the White House, that II shall net
he a mere struggle for office, but that the votes
snail De called on to decide upon the policy
which ought to rule the most important of all
Questions to the people free and at peace-the
question how, with the least injury to then
selves, they shall pay the necessary taxes out Of
their hard earnings.-New York Herald.
II government cannot afford to use its mill
ions as counters in the speculations of Wal
street.. III 1t should consent to do SO, it would to
subject to constant solicitation from one set or
another or spectators TO give or withhold relief
IL should leave the money market to itself, AMI
conduct its own operations with a view to doing
SO as effectually as possible. So long as it pre-
duces no arrangements, there can be no de-
engagements which it is its business to rectify.-
New York Times.
THE conduct of the Democratic Legislature of
New York has thrown great light upon the polit-
ical situation. II has demonstrated the utter
lutlnty or the Democratic party as a means OF
reform or progress. 1t has shown the party to
oe a mere desperate combination for spOils,
without principle or policy, without the instinct
or capacity for wise legislation, and even with
out the lowest form OF party cunning. Its only
merit Is that 1t dees not pretend to be merito-
rl0us.-Harper' Weekly.
1T will be remembered of Victoria gratefully
that in a time OF much moral laxity she was q
faithful wife and "A devoted mother. The change
that would follow her death would be a change
OF persons only and not of principles. AS be-
tween herself and her son, the great preference
of the English nation, no doubt, would be for the
woman. But there is good reason to believe
that haP IafaCFu d in No nnAAf.f dancer an1
there is abundant hope that a green and vigor-
GUS age lies before her.-ChicagO Times.
ONCE upon a time a certain Prince of high de-
gree, accused as correspondent in a case in which
a husband sued for divorce from his wife, went
upon the witness stand, and, to use the language
Ot the time, "periured himself like a gentleman"
The utter antipodes of this forsworn defender of
a woman's good name is the crawling creature
in Pennsylvania, Dukes by name, who, by a
wicked perversion of law. has escaped the gal
lows. This is q rascal who should he dashed
naked through the world.-New York Times.
THERE was laundering in the Ohio campaign
OF last year; that everybody knows. We have
how to profit by it. They have learned by this
time much that they did not then know. as to
the nature and resources OF their adversaries, as
to the practical working of certain methods, and
as to the usefulness of some OF the members OF
Congress who then asked reelection. Especially
the Republicans know now something of the re-
latlons OF the Democratic party with the whisky
and beer question.-New York Tribune.
On pure government the party stands on the
glorious old Democratic principle: "rO the vic
tors belong the spolls." Does any independent
voter desire to join this picturesque cOmbina.
tioD2 Does any business man feel eager to trust
the affairs of the government IN such handsq
me Rhode Island Democrats put forward Mr..
Sprague without any platform. They considered
his record to be platform enough. We commend
their example TO the national Democracy. Their
acts are more eloquent than their words eau
New York Tribune.
HUMAN passions are not new, 1t is only the
science of dynamite that is new; and happily the
science of political government is 80 progressive
that the new tool for the old passions loses much
of Its terror. How free is tile population of the
great industrial republic in America from the
faint of Socialism,! How harmless are Anarchists
in u France that is Republican in its government
and Democratic and progressive in its tender
cies! How impotent is the Irish science of dyna-
mite In h country where by weli-timed conces-
sIons a Gladstone has reformed the land systeml
New York Tribune.
THE overt acts and preparation of a conspira-
cy here TO commit murder elsewhere, or to blow
up a friendly capital, are not probably criminal
under our existing laws; but justice and a
sound policy require that they should be made
so. In abstract right the purchase of a dyna-
mate machine is as much an infraction of the
duty one nation owes another as the purchase Of
an Alabama. and it should be dealt with accord
ingly. There is "a valid distinction in fact,
which ii would be perfectly safe to leave to q
jury, between the acts and plans OF a conspiracy
LOOKING 10 rebellion and revolution and plots
whose object was explosion and ssassination.-
Philadelphia Press. b.
If prosperity is ever to be secured, it must be
by the removal of Ireland from the platform of
party contests. Things have reached "a pass
there at which all these who wish well to that
unhappy country should unite against the com
mon enemy. The terms of such an alliance
might be formulated as follows: First, that re-
spect to the law should be enforced, and security
OF life ana property guaranteed at all costs.
Secondly, that under no disguise and upon no
pretences is the question of legislative iu-
dependence to be brought within the region of
practical politics. Thirdly, that in the interests
of Ireland herself, as well as of the empire at
large, communism in any shape cannot be
This is about the substance of the
Conservative view of results obtained from
Liberal legislation in Ireland.-St. Louis Re-
publican.
HE little crew OF Dragging, brawling, bloody
minded agitators, who will he neither Americans
nor British, are an insufferable nuisance to
every peaceable citizen of the United states, In
Guiding the great body of respectable Irish
Americans. We would be rid or them if we
could. We do not sympathize with them or
with their murderous plans. We only confess