The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-11-26
SPIRIT OF THE PRESS.

1T will be an easy matter to check the Mahdi,
scatter his forces and drive him back, bur, until
this is done, all MOslem India Will have its share
of dlsqniet and unrest, and the chances of the
new Egyptian war may yet set ueland face to
face with that last struggle with Islam SO often
predicted as the final end and outcome of the
Moslem renaissance of this century.-Phila-
delphia Press.
1T is not easy to pass a corrupt measure
through Congress, and it is becoming less easy,
we believe, to manipulate State and municipal
Legislatures, not that men are any more honest,
but that the public is growing tTife more
watchful But there is long road to travel
and "a very strongly intrenched practice to break
up before honest relations Will be generally
maintained between corporations and ruling
bodles.-St. Louis GlObe-DemOcrat
IF any body should ask Mr. Watterson for
facts lt would duplicate the embarrassment of
the colOred preacher, who got mixed on the
parable of the lOaves and fishes and explained
thai five people ate 5000 luaves. brother i'm
the congregation objected and asked in con-
tempt how "they could done it without
bustinT' "If you is gwine to such ques-
tons as dem?" responded the preacher bitterly,
you'll bust up any system of theology in the
world."-Louisville Commercial.
THERE is no such thing sectional citizen
ship, and the old notion OF a state" citizenship
an idea born of cOlopial conditions and nursed
by pro-slavery demagogucs for u sinister pur-
pose-is rapidly vanishing from the still ample
list of false political ideas. The Inhabitants OF
Mississippi, and of every other prov ince on the
lower half of the map of this country, equally
with those or Illinois ana every other province
on the upper half of this country. are American
citizens, one people, one nation.-ChicagoT Times.
BREAKING down the feeling of respect for the
law bears the same relation to a munity that
the first crime does to the individual It in
cludes all others in its possibilities, and the
neighborhooi rapidly goes from hanging for
murder to hanging for hOrSe-sCeal1ng and then
for petty offeDses. The thirst for blood has
been created and must he fed. Whatever the
Nervousness of given crime, it is better TO have
one criminal escape under the law than TO make
hundreds through attempt to punish him
outside the law.-Phiadelphia Times.
ARE the people OF the majority section of this
country, of the northeast and the middle and
the northwest and The Rocky mountain and tho
Pacific States ready 20 make submission to the
South cOmpacted so that it is more than con-
federacy-tO the old boss class burning with the
unquenchable fire of sense of wrong; and
ready to submit to reprsals and acquesce in
humiation-ready to see the country turned up
side down, and history perverted until the hero
ism that saved the nation shall he made not
ashamed, to be sure but q reproach2-Cincn-
natl Commercial Gazette
WHERE the Mormon church goes it goes to
stay, and the 'stakes of Zion" are being driven
IN every locality that is capable of supporting
mankind. In this way the church proposes to
obtain control of a strip of country between the
great plains and the Pacific slope, and at no dis
tant day divide the United States into two sec
tions The way to stop this is to stop III to debar
from the privileges of the pre-emption and home
stead acts men who believe in the supremacy OF
the Mormon Church over the United States gov
eminent. AS 1t is now the law simply permits
the Mormon hierarchy to siren gthen ITSELF they
afford it means of augluehting Its power, and
give the lands of the United States to its ene-
mes.-ChicagO Inter Ocean.
PRESIDENT ARTHUR has respected the spirit
and enforced the letter of the civil service law
in a manner that is highly creditable to his
sense of duty. He will very likely recon-
mend in his message measures for
strengthening and extending the system. IL
would help the party greatly with the people,
who are determined to uproot the spOlls system,
il the Republicans in Congress should act
unitedly in support of the Presidents sugges-
lions, at moment when the Dem ocrats flushed
N h.a hnn al ha
silent in regard to reform as they press forward
for the spoils The stOppage of the silver
dollar coinage ia incumbent upon the Repuh-
ioans, and they should not leave it for their on
ponents TO do The outlook of the party in
power for the presidential election Is not Gu
couraging but a resolute right policy, clearly
defined and couregeously adhered to, will do
much to improve It. Are the leaders equal to
Adhesion Herald.