The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-04-02
THE SPIRIT OF THE PRESS.

THE freetrader who has no better reasoning
at command than to say that a duty which does
not enhance prices therefore does not protect, or
that duty which doae not raise wages there.
fore does not benefit labor, has yet his alphabet
TO learn.-New York Tribune
IN various quarters there is agitation for
an increase of teaohers' pay and an improve
ment of school-houses. i'll both of which par.
ticulars the South has been lamentably illberal.
Heavy debt and taxation, of course, are largely
responsible for this, but with commercial i'm
provement will come a corresponding advance
In this direction. The cause of Southern educa-
ton needs considerable stirring up, but it is rot
by any means in a hopeless or dormant StaeS.-
st. louis Republican.
IT seems to be the inevitable tendency OF
demOcraoies- to run into relationships but the
dictators have generally been great, II they were
bad But the politics of this city and the whole
country appear to he drifting into the hands
of mObs and of scum. The sand-baggers. jury.
fixers reporters, our criminal aristOcraey, and
their political instruments intend to mako the
result of next Tuesdays election just what they
think it ought to be, not what the votes say it
ls.-Chicago Tribune
THE tendency in city elections to independence
and partyism, bossism, and riDgism, among the
property owning class, Is much strenEe. tNau &C
Is in provincial national elections, and this
tendency In undoubtedly growing. III New York,
in Philadelphia, in Chicago, and in some other
important cities, 1t is becoming extremely diff.
cult for the party bosses to draw party lines or
put any dependence on claims OF party fealfy,
or obedience to party commands, IN municipal
elections.-Chlcago Times
JOHN BULL never could understand tnaC ''WnaG
is sauce for the goose Is sauce for the gander"
Suppose Secretary Frelin ghuysen should declare
in public speech that the Irish chiefs had
s'made naJiona" John Bull would with
empty fury-but would this be any worse than
Mr. Gladstone's similar declaration about Jeffer-
son Davls2 No Alabamas have been built and
manned and provisioned and sent out of our
ports as yet. to prey on British commerce in the
name of Ireland.-New York Herald.
THE party in this country that lives and
thrives must advance. The Democratic party
plu Rapuhlfpan Marty muat
its standard forward and plant 1t beyond its last
fighting ground. We live fast in these days. and
and must piece it out with fresh ideas Our
coming battle-cry Will be the American policy
for the American continent, genuine civil ser.
vice reform. protection TO nome industry, an
honest ballot box, and strict financial accOunta.
Disqualification Press.
LET nobody have "leave to print" anything
that has not been said, and let remarks be
"withheld for revision" but everything be-
printed on the day after it is spoken. member
shonld not be allowed to revise his remarks at
all. The revision should be confined to a correc.
ton OF the press, and If the report contains
errors of the press the aggrleved member can call
attention to them in the House without insert
place of what he did say. To report the debates
as they are is the best method OF making the de-
bates worth reporting.-New York World.
IT is well to reflect for moment upon who is
responsible for the wide dissemination of the
view that strict adherence to honest methods
is "sentimen talisn." A few reckless and
nrlnclplpu pOHtlChi uuNtuturcTS utSdH W pTtdcu
that doctrine few years ago, and so soon az
they had collected followers enough TO COM
mand few thousand votes the Democratic party
rushed over TO them Ill body, and embraced
both them and their principles. Had they not
done this the rag-mOney movement and It's
lineal successors, the silver craze and the anti
resumption movement would never have as
sumed formidable proportions. Ohio, Indiana
Name and finally Massachusetts, were all car
ried by this unhOly alliance. General Butler IL
Governor of Massachusetts through it's agency,
and 1t ia not the fault OF the Democratic party
that Greenback principles are not in force in our
government to-day. These statements cannot he
denied and should not be forgotten. The party
has never been honest enough to resist alliance
with - bad principle II only there were votes be.
hind 1T. aud it never will be.-New York Tribune.