The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-09-06
SPIRIT OF THE PRESS.

FROM any point of view, the rash attempt at
Spirited policy in the East seems franght with
peril for France, and her warnest friends at
home and abroad must afdently desire that 1t
may be abandoned IT there yet be chance to
withdraw from it.-New YORK Times.
THE anti-monopoly issue is bound to be a
great one in time. 1t will be but few years
when it will excite as much discussion in this
country the corn law repeal did in England
1t is quite as near the masses of the people as
that great question was to the great masses of
the English pODulatiOD.-DenverT Tribune.
WHEN the immense amount of unscientifc,
and to speak plainly, brutal handling which the
minds of children are made to undergo in the
common schools, particularly in the rural dis
tricts, considered, it makes one feel as if we
were in the midst OF a perpetual slaughter Of
the innocents.-St Louis Globe-DemOGrat.
Is net the pension claim agent becoming a
nuisance2 There are perhaps some honest men
engaged in this business, but under the stimulus
of lax and wastefnl legislation the humber of
dishonest claim agents has greatly increased.
Some measure for guarding the treasury against
them should be contrived.-New York Herald.
THE danger of English landlords converting
America into a second ireland is somewhat re-
mote. Whenever the Engllshman among us tills
the soil or III any way adds to the productive re-
sources of the country his presence Is certainly
beneficial, and simply as an absentee investor he
sometimes proves d promoter of colonies of de-
slrabe citzens-Springtield Republican,
BY honest voting, after an honest declaration
of principles, and not by bargains, little and
great. Republicans are to elect their President
in 1884. Repeling voter who wishes for any
reason TO Keep the Democrats out of power,
the Republican party simply declares that raw
recruits shall not be generals, or be allowed to
turn the army into huge foraging party.-BOs-
ton Advertiser.
IT ought not to take Congress many hours,
after its organization in December, to authorize
the Secretary of the Treasury to suspend the
coinage of silver and the issue of silver certih-
Gates until the stock on hand has been absorbed
into circulation. But If it then refuses, the re-
spOnsibiity for the consequences will rest upon
the new Congress, and not upon the Repub-
licans.-New York Tribune.
THE popular objection does not lie against cor
porati0ns per Sc. The form of organization is
convenient and beneficial The substantial
complaint is that many OF these corporations
more or less of a monopoly, exact such tolls as
compel the public TO pay round dividends on
watered stocks, and, in doing this. treat their
employees with even more tyranny than they
treat the public.-ChicagO Herald.
IN the national treasury is "a large surplus. Let
a reasonable part of it be employed in the con-
structiOn of a new telegraph system which shall
compete with the old one. This is the only plan
by which DIR. Green and his fellow stockholders
can he made to consider "the public good" A
government telegraph which shall compete with
the system of DIR. Green and his friends will in
troduce healthy rivalry and insure proper re-
gard for public interests. Chicago Tribune.
TUE exuherant land policy of the past is to be
checked The apsed grants to railroads, which
have never earned the land allotted TO them,
must be made to revert to the government and
be thrown open TO settlement Public opinion
demands that the next Congress should give
prompt attention TO this matter, and it VIII not
look kindly upon any person in authority who
should set up so bad precedent as the handing
over to the Southern Pacific this vast unearned
area.-Boston Journal.
FRANCE, standing strong and firm on repub-
llcan feet, Listens to the echoes of the strife at
Frohsdorf and GOritz with smile of mingled
pity and contempt Little she cares whether the
Bourbon monarchy is buried with the Count de
ChambOrd resurrected in the Count de Paris
She wants no monarchy, neither Bourbon nor
NapOleOnic. She is content with the republic
which, in the twelve years that have followed
overwhelming disaster, has given her more solid
peace and prosperity than the century before;