The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-10-15
SPIRIT OF THE PRESS.

AS the corporations are the creatures OF the
State, it is perfectly competent for the State TO
use its power to check such abuses as have been
psrpetrated by watering stock.-Chicago
Tribune
With so many foes without and foes Within
and "the monarchcal chain closing more and
more around the French republic." lis rulers are
tempting fate in these efforts to acquire new
territory. If the republic is TO be saved and per-
petuated, salvation and perpetuity must come
from France herself-not from Asia, or Africa,
| or Madagascar Louis Republican.
IN the temperance contests at the West not a
few citizens of German and Irish birth have
been found Jealous advocates of prohibition,
pec1ally among those whose religious feelings
are strong. In some places the Catholic Church
has used great influence in favor of restricting
the sale of liquors, and many of the Protestant
Germans have been active Prohibtionists.-New
York Tribune.
THE history of the whole world can be ram
sacked in vain for a single instance showing that
the religious spirit, manifested in any modes or
forms of belief has ever been reduced or changed
or modified by statutory enactments, or by any
methods of governmental attack. 1t is not rea-
sonabe, then, to expect that Mormonism can he
modified, or be made to modify itself, by that
means.-Chicago Times.
LORD CHIEF-JUsTICE CoLERIDGE has been the
favored guest of much of that sham nobility
that bases its pretensions on the mere aecumu-
lation of cash. With charming candor. he tells
us that they who advise us to build up aris-
tOcracy, and to affect contempt for the democ-
racy which has been the foundation of American
greatness, offer decisions and snares. Here is
an Englishman who, feted by tufthunters and
money.lords, reminds us tnat linen who their
duties know" not cash and acres, constitute a
SGate.-New York Times.
THE stars and stripes are more potent for the
protection of American citizens anywhere else
than in America ITSELF One may be robbed or
even killed i'll this country with impunity so far
as concerns the general government. 1t has no
power of redress, except in special cases. The
State courts are clothed with constabulary au-
thOrity to the exclusion of the national author
titles. But the moment the citizen steps hey ond
the Jurisdiction or the State governments, the
United States asserts its power and is not dere-
lict in its exercise.-Chlcago Inter Ocean.
THE Democratic victory in Ohio will WELD
some bitter fruits to the victors and those who
aided them. Those fanatical Prohibitionsts who
helped to put the entire machinery of the State
government into the hands of the free-rum
party, and the indignant wOOl-grOwers who
voted against the party which most uneQuvo
cally favored high tariff, will get no satisfac-
tion from their work save the mOmentary pleas
ure of fully gratified thirst for revenge We
advise them to enjoy that to its utmost, for re-
pentaDce will not be long in coming.-New York
Times.
THERE are no sectional animosities or preju-
dices in the States where the Republicans have
sway and give tone and direction TO popular SEN
timent. A Southern man can settle anywhere
he pleaSes in the North and be sure that neither
he nor his family will be prosecuted or ostracized
on account of politics dialect. There is no
reason why IL should be otherwise with North
ern men who try to make their homes in the
South, and the fact that it is so is for which
the South alone is responsible, and which the
South alone has the power to rectify.-St. Louis
Globe-Democrat.
THE liquor element, which has placed the
Democratic party IN power, has been fierce in
its denunciati0n of this local prohibition feature
What will the Democratic Legislature 90 about
it2 Will it abolish the tax feature of the Scott
law, and so put burden of 100000 annual
ly on the shoulders of the general taxpayers OF
the State? win il repeal thelocal option feature,
and so run counter to the temperance senti-
meut' of the people? Or will it leave the law
untouched, and so abandon the issue upon which
the party took its stand and repudiate the liquor
interests that placed it in power? Whch?-Cleve-
land Herald.
SOCIETY in all the more advanced sections of
this country has no mission for preachers like
Ingersoll. Infidelty win get on well enough
without them But in Utah the case is different.
That province Is sorely afflicted with a virulent
and disgusting disease, which nothing bu5 an APP
plicatlou of the spirit of unbelief cure.
There is in Utah field which needs the mission
airy work of an Ingersoll-a field in which Iuger-
soil can do great and good work in breaking
the intense religious fever of the Saints, and so
effecung cure of the foul Mormon malady,
which all the legislation in the world can never
cure.-Chicago Times
IN the touching words of Mr. Watterson, ''the
devil is loose" again. He always is loose when
the Democrats get power to do any mischief.
Democracy is so constructed that out of power,
the dog sometimes wags the tall but in power
the tail always wags the dog. When Demo-
cratic maj GRITTY in Congress and in the Ohio Legis
lature has been at work month or two the old,
old story will be told again; the rear parts of the
party will take command. This is going to be
exceedingly trying to Democratic statesmen.
and they may we'll lay in large stock of pa
thence. Before spring flowers come they will
need it all.-New York Tribune.