The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-12-07
SPIRIT OF THE PRESS.

IT is to be hoped that the Republicans in Con-
gress will have clearer and wiser ideas than
they can find i'll the report of Secretary FOlger,
as to the revenue, the banks and the issue of
certificates by the government. Particularly as
to the tariff, they will need better reasons than
Mr.. Folger gives when they come to discuss such
a report as may be made by q committee select
ed by Speaker Carlisle.-New York Tribune.
THE sooner polygamy is considered the easier
try are not in the temper TO regard with Pa
tience any longer the open and defiant violation
of it's laws. There should be no more eauivoca-
ton in adopting the Presidents recommendation
than he has displayed in making it. IL is IN con-
sonance with popular sentiment and there are
no legislators in Washington who can afford to
go on the record as disregarding that sentiment.
1t is not a question of party politics, but of pub
lie mo~rals.-Chicago Tribune.
IT is not true that the public is yearring for a
government telegraphy experiment. The only
truth in the matter is that some unmitigated
demagogues, who perceive that the party ma
chine is losing much of its former force, and
wish to sire ngthen it with more patronage and
more election manipulating apparatus, are
yearning for it. Behind these demagogues, those
only who are sOrrowing for government teleg-
raphy are the socialistic blatherskites, whose
need of any means for the of intel-
ligence is not great.-Chicago Times.
CONGRESS need have no hesitation about con.
forming to this suggestion ito abolish the terri
torial government Their power to enact such
a measure is undoubted. They have been legis-
polygamy in Utah, only 20 have their measures
laugh ii to Ecorn. Now let them try something
that Will bring these people undef their mime
date control. The voters of the country, North
ana South, will applaud and sustain Congress if
the recommendation of the President is carried
into e~ffect.-National Republican.
A RECOMMENDATION of Mr.. Gresham which
should and probably does meet with universal
approval is the one for making the single-raUe
letter weight an ounce instead Of half an ounce,
as it now is. This is the rule in Great Britain,
and its adoption here would be a great conve-
nience. Mr.. Gresl am shows that the proper
ton of double-weight letters at present ls so
small that there would be very little loss of in-
come from the change, at least after deducting
the increase which would come from the more
extensive practice of sealing heavy circulars
when it was found that they could go In letter
form for only two cents.-New York Sun.
EVERY vote cast by a man who cannot read
the ballot which he deposits Is a menace to our
system of government. Yet we have hundreds
of thousands of such voters and hundreds of
thousands more of them are growing up without
sharing any of the benefits of our free-school
system, or obtaining even the most
airy knowledge. To meet this peril TO the nation
il is necessary that the educational work OF the
States where illiteraoy is greatest should be
supplemented and strengthened by aid from the
national treasury. The present 10 n good time to
begin the work; and the need is so peremptOry
and pressing that every year OF inactivity VIII
Increase the difficulty of recovering lost ground.
Boston journal.