The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-10-16
SPIRIT OF THE PRESS.

LET the South go to work now to restore her
credit. Let her repudiate her regulators, and
bring forth works meet for repentance for their
mlsdOings. No country in the world has less
cuse for being dishonest; no other has greater
incentives to probity. The South has also great
opportunities The future is big with blessings
for her If she will but invoke Uhem.-Cleveland
Herald.
WE donot know that she 1.-THE widow of John
Brown would visit the South If the chance were
offered for she is old and feeble, and afford
only the plainest clothes but it would be q neat
and gracious thing for the South TO invite her
and in case she went, it is safe to say the
Northern press would not require apology
from her when she got back.-St. Louis Globe
Democrat.
pool rooms, and declare it TO be % criminal Of
Tense, Yet what are such gamblers as compared
with gamblers of the Vanderbilt stamp. 1t is
palnful sight 70 see the father OF any young man
chuckllng over such mad and discredtable Ca
reer for his son, applauding his gambling sue
cesses aud boastiug with vulgar glee that he
never ''squeals."-New York World.
THE more the subject is discussed. the more
does 1t appear that she national bank currency
will have to be given up. No admissible method
Of perpetuating it has been presented All
reasonable propositions for keeping 1t up involve
perpetuatlon Of portion OF the national debt
and II there is one thing the people are reso-
lutey agreed upon, it is that the national debt
shall be paid off to the last dollar just
il can be done Of course when the debt is
gone the national bank currency will have gone
with it.-St. Louis Republican.
CAN prohibition, which makes no distinction
between whisky, beer or wine, render the eause
of temperance good service, or Will its effect be
to drive out beer and increase the use of whisky2
There are a good many good citizens who have
great fear on this score, IL is impossible to carry
on a cladestine beer traffic. The nature of the
property itself is so perisnable and bulky as TO
forbid it. But whisky seems just adapted to il
licit trade. This difference herein is very i'm
portant element in the practical operation of
prOhbition.-Chic Inter Ocean.
THE Republican party has gone as far it
proposes to go in this business in adopting the
luW n
liquors. 1t does not as party believe in prohib
itory laws 1t does believe in the principle of
taxation, restriction and regulation, and 1t
would adopt judicous yet stringent license
system If the constitution permitted. That this
will be the future policy of the Republican party
it is pretty safe to assume, and If the question
should again be forced into party politics, the
outcome, whatever it might be, would certainly
not be an homogeneous one-Cincinnati CONNER
cial Gazette.
No better plan can be presen ted for overcom-
ing the silver difficulty than that which was ad-
vocated in the Berald few weeks ago, and
which Mr.. COe accepts almost in its entirety.
BY withdrawing all the notes of a denomination
under ten dollars an opportunity would be ere
ated for the circulation of IA large amount of
fractional silver. Those who really wish silver
to circulate ought TO be able to unite with men
like Mr. Coe, who cannot be classed as in favor
OF silver, in passing suoh measure, and by this
simple step the dangers which are now pending
through the operation OF the silver law will in
great measure be removed.-New York Herald.
THIS naked fact GButler as Governor OF Massa-
chusettsl, which comes so near to being an indie
cent exposure OF a State honored in the past,
confuses sober, respectable people almost
mnch as it shocks them but such forget how
guilty the American public, Its best and wealth.
est and sOberest, has been in cOndoning and ex-
cusng the Buffers of business and religion and
politics, until there is not single city which
does not contain men whose cynical Indifference
to the ten commandments at some period of
their lives should make them kissing and a
by-wOrd, but does not, because the public
have agreed to let success act as a statute of
limitations on the moral law. Philadelphia
Times
To remove 80 many OF the existing bad taxes
as will abolish the surplus revenue will return
to the people not only that particular sum, but
an almost infinite power of reproducing 1t again
and again in profitable empIoyments, besides
removing many if not all of the burdens that
now restrict the development Of industry and a
profitable and extensive foreign commerce.
Many schemes have been suggested by the poll
ticians for making the revenues and expendi-
lures balance by providing ways for the
penditure of the surplus. There Is not one of
these schemes that can be defended upon
grounds of public policy, not one that Will bear
the test of an honest examination.-New York
Herald.
THE Republican party, moreover, is now as it
has always been, strongest among the most in
dustriOus and most intelligent citizens. No party
has ever had 80 magnificent tradition. 1t has
shown unprecedented power of self-cOrrectiOn
and recuperaGOn, and 1t ID to-day stronger in the
confidence of the independent voters than it
has been for many years. 1t is those voters VIII o
will decide between the two parties as probable
agents of reform and progress of more decent
politics and honest government and there is no
question that the great body of such voters will
support the Republican party next year, unless,
in the mean while it should forfeit the conf
dence which it has fairly earned.-Harper's
Weekly.
THE prohibitionists do not stand on the SOLID
ground the abolitionists occupied. There is
room for two opinions about the use of wine and
spirits. man may Use both in moderation and
be quite as worthy of respect as his totally alb
staining neighbor. But slavery was utterly
abOminable, and among disnterested and hui
name men there was but one opinion about 1t.
There is no such thing as slavery in moderation.
A man must be slave or a freeman, and when
the movement for the abolition of slavery was
once under way it had no logical or moral stop
ping place short of the emancipation proclama-
stop short of the absolute prohibition Of the
manufacture sale, and use of spurious and malt
! liquOrs.-New York Times.