The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-10-01
SPIRIT OF THE PRESS.

WHAT the country now requires for the protec-
ton of human life is striped suit and ball and
chain for some distinguished railroad magnate
who studies the safety of his dividends more
than the safety of his passengers.-New York
World.
1T is by the education of the coming genera
ton that the Indian problem will be solved. 1t
is next TO useless to ask the adult warrior to
pillow and plant and harvest. The government
must support him in idleness to keep HIM from
the war path, but the next generation should be
educated to take care of itself.-Chicago Inter
Ocean.
On the whole the plea of the colored men
shows an intelligent appreciation of their wrongs
and their rights Its demands are by means
eXtraVagant, and it ls gratifying for the evil
dence 1t exhibits of growing capacity in the
race to work out its own salvation in the face of
adverse Influences and cruel encouragement
New York Times.
THERE are some things which community
cannot afford to have too cheap. Indeed, living
rates are essential to good service everywhere.
It is yet matter of doubt whether the news
paper cut in New York will stand. But if 1t does,
1t will end inevitably in lower tone and value
in the journalism of theEgreat metropolis with
out one single corresponding Notwithstanding
Courier-Journal.
REASONS for turning out the Republican party
may be plenty as backberries, but the Senator
was unable TO give one. The Democratic party
may have lying latent clear policy and mpor-
tant measures for administering the govern
ment, but Mr.. Thurman failed to indicate sign
of either. SO far as his speech signifies, he is as
much sat Outs" with the Democratic party as
with the Repubican.-Cincinnati Commercial
Gazette.
THE great trouble has all along been to dis
cover somewhere an honest point of difference
between the two Presdent-making parties. The
Massachusetts issue presents such a point, and
would furnish for once In the history of Ameri-
can partyism two honest and distinct and COM
prehensibe party platforms, to-wit:
REPUBLICAN PLAT DEMOCRATIC PLAT
FORM: FoRM
Butler must go! Butler must stayl
Chicago Times.
THE color of their skin is no more a claim to
special consideration than it is mark of inferi-
orlty, and IL Is not as negroes, but simply as
men, that they have to work out their own sal
walton in the republic. All things considered,
they have done remarkably well in these fifteen
years, and they will do better stlll in the years
to come if they Will turn their backs the dem
agogues and politicians, of Whatever color. and
each man 20 to work to elevate his race ny ele-
waiting Observation-Disclosures Times.
THE tendency of all literature is toward ex-
pansion so the most Industrious reader of books
can scarcely IN lifetime become well informed;
newspapers, on the contrary, cOndense nearly
everything into as few words as possible. We're
a student to attempt to give the POLITICAL social,
religious and literary history OF the world for a
day he might do 1t in far more elegant style
than the newspapers, but his story would occil-
Ply the readers time for at least week. The
newspaper is the true American university
New York Herald.
THE thirty years. record of prohibition in YER
mont only confirms the experience of this IA
NAUTICAL remedy wherever it has been tried.
There are no penalties sufficiently severe to stop
a man from drinking, and where men want to
drink there will always be men to sell to them,
if not openly, then in secret. Vermont has had
fair test of this now for several years. II ex-
perience teaches anything in that State it ought
to convince The Green Mountain solons that
their only remedy is to recognize drinking as a
necessary evil which cannot be altogether sup
pressed, but may be regulated, and that the real
remedy of intemperance is high-license law
which will reduce the number of saloons by
wping out the worst of them, and will compel
the survivors to pay the expense OF the burdens
they entail upon the community Chicago
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