The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-03-29
THE SPIRIT OF THE PRESS.

LADY FLORENCE is quite right. Mr. Egan
ought to disprOve her charges by exhibiting the
Leagues books or else hold his peace. But Lady
Florence knows that the Irish a queer lot
and even her sharp letter, we fear. will never
bring Mr. Egan to a realizing sense OF the imprO-
priety of his cOurse.-New York Times.
THE Republican party afford to maintain
and defend the tariff 1t has framed and adopted,
because all those voters who are in favor of pro-
lection at all will be united in resisting any at
tempt now to make further reduction of duties.
whether they constitute a majority the votes
will determine beyond d0ubt.-New York Tri-
bune
ENGIIsHMEN already eat American oysters,
beef pork, mutton, game, bread, butter and
cheese, and drink large quantities of American
liquors, although these latter first "dOc-
tOred" in France. When they can add our clam
to the long list it will be time to begin to look
for the entire reconstruction of the English
physique after the unapproaehable American
model.-New York Herald.
BUSINESS suffers more from uncertainty than
from any action, and uncertainty cannot end as
| long as the entire commercial fabric rests
| superficial foundations each breath of wind
| snakes 1t as AN earthquake. The1ntelligent men
| of business, the far-see1ng manufacturers, begin
to realize that there is no stability under thepres-
ent system, because II is system OF shRms and
false pretenses, and under such circumstances
IL party in earnest will be the successful party.
| louisville Courier-JOurnal.
THE temperance question seems to be settling
| down upon a compromise, and sensible one,
| too, between prohibition and unrestricted sale.
| This is license, more or less high. Maine still
holds on to prohibitiOn but in other States par
| ticularly the West, the tendency is toward
license Such is the drift in Ohio, Illinois, Min
| nesota and Wisconsin, Missouri has passed a
| license law. Iowa has not had pleasant expert
| ence with extreme legislation on the subject
| Many prohibition experiments have failed. We
| shall now have a chance to see how the license
| system will work-Cincnnau Journal.
IRELAND cannot afford to educate Itself into a
democracy by any such experiments, and hap
PLY j. will not be permitted to. Germany is per-
haps in suitable state to absorb proftably large
accessIons of popular power. There is saving
| common sense among the body of the Germans
which belongs to the same family as Anglo
| Saxon conservatism, and may be traced to the
same root. But however all these revolutionary
| movements in Europe may eventuate, they oc-
cupy too prominent place at present, and are
attended with too many fireworks not to be wor-
| thy of the serious attention of statesmen.-St.
| Louis GlObe-Democrat.
OF all the Democrats elected to the next House
not more than four or five are publicly known
to be able to discuss the details of the tariff and
| to show what would be the effect of a change of
| duty. Yet this is precisely the information the
public needs, and which it has been enough
| aroused TO the Importance of the subject to ex-
| pect of its representatives. Any member of
Congress who expects to take a leading part in
| legislation and to acquit himself in a manner
which shall be either creditable to himself or
| useful to his country cannot too soon begin his
| study of the tariff-New York World, tDem).
| EVERY man who is down at his own hearth
| stone must feel the cold shadow OF wrong
against the oppressed weighing upon his heart
when he thinks of the laws of this free and en-
lightened country clearing such creature as
| Dukes. The women in the case may or, may not
| have been 10 blame. The necessity for stringent
| measures Of right against the preparation OF
wrong remains unaltered However, submission
| is the only cOurse-submissOn to the decree and
| the enforcement of the law. The law should be
| upheld at all events. Yet it is ,diSeernible to
every cool and practical mind that the EVIL of
| such tragedies now aud then Dlacken our
social record must be treated by some method
not yet discovered Lousville, Commercial Fl
"ToDAY the Republican party is uBquestion-
ably stronger. Whyi Because 10 has slnanfully
accepted the popular rebuke, and addressed it.
self to its duty. 1t has enacted law for the
| reform of the civil service and set men to exc
| cute it who are believed to be both competent
| and in earnest. 1t has reduced appropriations
about S66,000,000, and cut down taxes about
$75, 100000. 1t has revised the tariff, in spite
OF Democratic hostility, effected many i'm portant
reforms thereby, and reduced many duties which
were a hindrance rather than a help to industry.
| OF course it has made blunders; all parties do
and Congress organized with Mr. Keller as
| Speaker could not help laundering. But the peo-
pie have reason. They forgive many blunders
when party proves that it is honestly trying to
| do its duty. The one thing that they could not
| forgive is deliberate disregard of duty in q
scramble for the spOils.-New York Tribune.