The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-09-26
SPIRIT OF THE PRESS.

IT would be worth millions to the Democracy
If they had no Speaker to elect this winter, and
no committees to frame. That majority in the
House of Representatives is the weight which
will drag them Down in several ways in 1884
st. Louis Globe-Democrat.
THERE is not, there never has been, a greater
delusion, a more senseless superstition upon this
earth, than the notion that the industrial forces
and activities of society can be benefcially regu
lated and controlled by state agency. 1t is sur
vival of fetichism from the most primitive state
of the human race. The quantity of this FETCH
ism which has been dumped by philosophers with
q mission into Mr.. Bla1r's committee room in
New York is immeasurable.-Chi Times.
AT the dctation of the saloon keepers, the
Democrats are pledged TO repeal the Scott law in
cess at the coming election will be Immediately
followed by this action. Nothing short of it will
satisfy the saloon-keepers' end of the combina-
ton. 1t remains with the people to say whether
they shall be given the opportunity. or whether
the law we have sh all be maintained and given
that fair and earnest trial it deserves. Glove
land Herald.
To succeed in 'lessening the power of the
ignorant we must have every local community,
every school district, every family taking a di-
rect interest in the work. This is what will be
accomplished under the present system If we
patient and preserving, 1t is what other
wise is impossible. Ten years hence Opr public
school system under the pernicious influence of
federal aid will be far less efficient than it Is to-
day, for its vital forces will be gradually, but
certainly destroyed. louisville COurier-Jour-
nal
THIS season has witnessed efforts all over the
country to revive the political efficiency of the
soldier vote. Reunions, society and political
organizations, end The IaDors of such men as this
one just discharged by Judge Gresham [Gen.
Vandervoortl, have been Instrumental to this
end. If issue is taken now the question
whether this Is good thing for soldiers, parties
and country it may be productive of good. The
soldier. socially, can be cheerfully encouraged
in perfecting the organization of the Grand
Army of the Republic or any society he may
dertake But as a political figure he has been
ruled out by The logic of events.-St. Paul Pi.
0neer-PresS.
THE license system grows in popular favor and
increases in its exactions because it yields local
revenue aud dfminishes taxation in proportion
to the fees imposed upon the saloon keeper, and
the number of drinking-places decreases in pro-
portion to the public charge made for the privi-
lege of running Them. Hence the license ia in
manifold ways Expressive agent in intemper-
ance and practical promoter of sObrlety; and
in advocating the system Mr.. Robinson and the
more Tor the cause of temperance than che Pro-
hibitioDsts could accom- plish If they could have
their way and establish system of universal
law-breakng .--Chicago Tribune.
OUR people are able and willing to maintain a
public school system; they will do undoubt-
eddy without federal aid. 1t was doubted hun
dred years ago if religion could flourish without
government subsidies. church separate from
the state was then the dream only of fanatics,
and yet now we see how injurious that connec-
ton WAS, how it subordlnated to government
control the greatest forces that have moved hu-
manity. 1t Is the free church that is evangeliz-
ing the world; 1t is the free Schoo-free from
federal aid or Interference, grounded in the af-
fectlons and sustained in the Judgment of every
community that Is to conquer and Danish Hit
eracy. louisville Conrier-Journal