The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-08-23
SPIRIT OF THE PRESS.


powers Is more remote than ever before. But
we still go on increasing our stock of legatender
Treasury, and adding to the incubus which
sooner or later must, like the Old Man of the
Sea, prove destructive il not thrown off.-Eew
York Times.
THE Democracy has no principles whatever.
1t Is a neutrality-suspicious. only dsOrganized
raid on the Offices What Democrats are @here
for Ia the offices, and there can deeper ha-
tired burn in the oorroded heart OF crowd than
the Democratic detesratiou of any reform that
shall compel them to show any fitness for the
oftces.-Chicago Tribune.
In sober reality the people send fewer mes
sages and consume less iron than they did
year ago, and not only the lase strikers hut also
their employers will have To accept the situation,
whatever they may say about fighting for
principle, or about the abstract rights OF capital
and labor. Indeed, these recent labor move
ments have not settled anything, and as a pre-
eedent they are absolutely wOrthless.-BOston
Advertiser.
WE shall have to get back the habit of living
according to our means, vigorously, conscien-
tiously, happily. 1t will require religious pur-
pose and divine support. 1t may not come until
another panic asswept the land like a torn ado;
but until IL comes We shall live in the midst of
serious and appalling dangers to our happiness,
our morals, our progress. and our religion. The
new worldliness is destroying the beauty and
blessedness OF our life.-NOrthwestern Christian
Advocate.
A MAJORITY of the citizens of the United
States wanted General Garfield for President
and did not want General Hancock. They cast
4,454, 416 ballots to elect President Garfield; he
was elected, and neither the count nor the hon.
estv any of these ballots In any particular cleo
ton district or any particular box, has ever been
disputed or questioned, or ever will be. Until
these ballots are impeached talk about
"treaties," conferences" or "bargains" is twad-
dle.-PhiadelphiaP Press. f'tt
THE men who expect to become great by
working hard with their mouths: those wage
working cranks who are never half 40 happy as
when they are on a strike and receiving weekly
contributions from men who have to work for
living; those professional workingmen who sep
or afaf hnn alNyaG oil ham, unrFi NV
forming close corporations and mOHOpolies,
called trade-unions, are playing themselves
out very rapidly in this matter-Of-faot country,
end in these matter-Of-faot tmes.-Chicago
News.
THERE ia Enthusiastically nothing-in Gem
eral Garheld's acts as President which gives the
least color to these assertions against man now
dead and unable to defend himself, and for
whom those who pretended to be his friends
while he was alive ana in power are making a
very feeble defense. 1t seems TO lis that honor
able mer have right to regard these accusations
of Garfield as infamous II ANY one has proofs
to offer OF their truth he had better do it quickly.
But Ii there was the least proof il would have
been produced long ago.-New York Herald
VIEWING the success OF the schools of applied
mechanics, the question has arisen in the minds
OF the promoters OF public schools whether the
| money now expended in teaching Greek and
Latin might not be more probably used in
practical instruction. The plan has even been
recommended to the consideration of the school
boards in various cities. There is no doubt that
If children TO be educated Mt the expense of
the State, the State would be jusrifed in insist
ing that the dead languages and abstruse ologies
shall be put aside for something like useful edu-
cation Philadelphia Record
WHO will sag, since the Land League began its
career under great difficulties In 1879, that there
| Is not remarkable progress toward the solution
of the Irish problem2 Certainly the effeetuaton
of the HOme-rue principle in IrelandwiIl enable
that country to right itself within legitimate
lines, The principle obtains in every colony of
the British empire, while British statesmen have
made 1t their fixed policy To withhold that prin-
cipe from Ireland and TO continue methods by
which ireland can he characterized as the worst
governed country under civilized power ill the
world.--L0usville Courier Journal.
THE agitation Of the subject has led the Ohio
voters TO inquire not so much as to this particu
| lar issue OF veracity as concerning the plain and
simple question OF fact whether Judge Hoady
| did pay out $4,000 or any part. of It for the
purpose of influencing the Democratic nomina-
| ton, and II so, TO whom be paid 1t. and with
what result. Judge: HOadly was very slow In
| making his denial of Woodard's story in the
| first place, and even now he makes II in such q
vague and unsatisfactory way as to rather in
| crease than allay the general suspicion that he
| bought the nomtnation-New York Tribune.
| A CONTROLLING element among those voters
of the country who represent the truest patriot
Ism hold party allegiance in slighter regard now
| than for many years past. These people Will
vote next year with the party that puts forward
i the hest men and shows the nest spirit and de-
clares the best purposes. When both parties
stand about the same in these respects they will
stick to their own, but the one that makes mis-
| take will he beaten, and no appeals to old MEM
| cries or old party cries or the power of Organiza-
| ton money can save it. If both parties rec
ognze this fact, the country will be all the bet
| ter off for it.--Louisville Commercial.
TIE (emigration policy ia no doubt a wise
one in both cases. There is always goodly pro-
| portion OF persons In these districts of too
| much population who are willing To move. bur
| prefer to go abroad and take their chances
rather than to try their fortunes in another part
| of their own country Both elements will be ac-
| commodated by the present bin, and the princ-
pie of relieving local troubles by this method
| will be established. It is an advance over old
| methods, in that 1t shows disposition to do
| something other than the enactment of coercion
| and repression laws. AMI its adoption even on
| small scale will tend to show the people of Ire
| land that they NAV occasionally become objects
| of philanthrOpic movements, instead of the old
time monotony of suspicion misrule, distrust,
and severity.-Ph phia Times.
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