The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-01-30
THE SPIRIT OF THE PRESS.

THE people of these United States are not yet
prepared TO rub out such State lines as still en-
dure. The Federal government is q beautiful
thing, and the people mean to keep 1t beautiful
by keeping 1t Federal.-New York World.
THE giving of holiday gifts. so far as society ia
concerned. is paying tribute to the observance of
an ancient tradition. Wedding presents are 80
cial taxes. When the giver pays he says, "Thank
heaven, that is off my mind."-New York
Times.
IT is very desirable that some method OF max.
ing use OF the labor Of oOnvicts should be devised
which Will neither subject the convict to abuse
nor bring the product OF their labor into in
lurious competition with that OF freemen.-New
York World.
THE silver dollars continue to lie idle and
menace our financial stability because not even
half a dozen congressman are honest enough to
insist on the coinage ceasing, and to explain to
the country the entire change in the status Of
silver; The silver dollar is q greater. swlndle
IMAM the river and harhorjob.-New YORK Herald.
! THE orthodox belief of all ages has been, and
still is, that the soul aud breath, so far as their
relation to the human body is concerned, are CO.
existent, and that 80 long as the soul Is present
the breath is present, though it may not be man
ifest In the pulse, or even TO the most delicate
instrument, and that at the moment the breath
leaves the body the soul departs with it.-Cin-
cinnatl News. .t
REFORM in this matter 1.-THE public school will
not come from schools or teachers, because their
ambition ranges itself on the side of the error.
But parents are beginning TO look into the mat
ter here In New York and elsewhere IL ia their
duty to do 1t. A man may not know much about
textbooks, but he does understand his ohild's
brain and body and how much forcing they will
endure.-New York Tribune. j.
BUT what are we going to do about itf 1t can-
not be prevented, and 1t can only be partially
cured. But as the facts stand they should con-
vince people that the liquor traffic. which pro-
duces this crime and pauperism, which Imposes
this expense upon the body polite, which
makes police and prisons, aims houses and hos
pitfalls necessary, should pay the cost of their
support, or at least a fair proportion of it.-Ohi-
cage Tribune.
NEW YORK Is already in torment abont the uses
to which her streets are subjected. The laying
OF steam-heating pipes through some of the
downtown streets has hurried on q crisis. There
is not room for steam and gas and water and
sewers, to say nothing of the wires; ana there
are loud smells and startling explosions and a
general sense OF insecurity and discomfort that
should serve far and wide as a warnIng.-Cin-
cinnati Commercial Gazette.
THERE ara some men like BrissOn, President
OF the Chamber. who have been on trial since
1871. IN notable crises, and have not been found
wanting, Brisson is a courageous aud able Re-
publican, and the Republican party might
safely submit to his guidance, taking for its
watehwOrd that saying of old Theirs: ''The Re-
little panic will soon be cover, and that the French
Republicans will come to their seuses.-Courier-
Journal.
WHENEVER there is depression in business this
class will be found extOlling and urging some
patent remedy or riding some hobby in a tilt
against imaginary giants. AT one time 1t is the
bOndholder and capitalist who are the spoilers,
and they must he drowned in greenbacks; again,
II is the railroads who Cypress the country, and
the anti-monOpOlist would hand them over to the
government or regulate the minuUest detail of
their business; now It Is a protective tariff to
which they pretend to attribute all evils. This
class OF politicians cannot comprehend the COM
pick and interdependen elements that go to
make up our great industrial State. Their cOun-
sells are folly, and their leadership would mean
disaster.-Louisville Commercial.