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

THE more this cause oelebre Is investigated the
more public belief is confirmed that shocking in
Justice was done in allowing so great a crime as
the assassination of Davis to go unpublished or
even unrebuked.- Chicago Herald.
THERE is manifest much ignorance in the
wholesale condemnation of the pleasures OF the
therewith-so 1t is with all good-but it is much
exaggerated by a certain class of mOralists.
Nashville Banner.
IN a nation like America, which has very little
past and a great deal Of future, there Is no use
and no place for reactionary or merely negative
politicians, and about the only function they
can expect to fulfill is that Of an effective help
to keep the alternatives in power without taking
proper pains to exclude their rascals. Chicago
Times.
WHY should those who cannot make a living
at homo be sent to any other country by the ma
ton that proudly asserts that 1t Is the foremost
Of all nations In intelligence and philanthropy
Is not the United Kingdom able to take care of
Its paupers9 Undoubtedly it i, and this attempt
to get rid of the burden by placing itupon the
shoulders of Americans ia a petty business.
New York Times
REFORM should begin at home. The greatest
drawbacks to civil-servioe reform is the reform
ers. No doubt many of the lOudest professional
'refOrmers" are attitudinizing. Insincere men,
like Dorman b. Eaton, are insufferable bores.
Men like Rutherford B. Hayes are intOlerable
frauds. The first reform needed by civil-service
reformers themselves is to get rid of some of
their offensive standard bearers.-New York
World.
THE man who knowingly adulterates human
food. drink, or drugs, is an enemy to his race,
and should be treated as such. He is simply a
human wolf, fattening upon the bodies of his
fellows, and deliberately poisoning men for the
purpose of making his own vile existence a little
more comfortable. IT there be any excuse at all
for such dastardly outrages upon humanity it
certainly is not to be met with in this part of the
world, where good, pure food is plenty, and
ought to be cheap.-Chicago Tribune.
WHEN the vast currents of trade i'll this coun-
try are considered. the intricate and far-reach-
ing relations OF capital. the delicate nature of
credit, ETC., the inadvisabillty of trusting the ma
the Democratic party will powerfully present IT.
self. The element which in the 'off years. keeps
out of politics will come to the front in strong
force In behalf of trade, manufactures, sound
money and general prosperity. Herein will be
the weightiest significance to the people OF the
contest of lSS4.-St. Louis Globe Democrat.
1T is very plain that the campaign against
MOrmonism and polygamy, whether 1t has been
plished next to nothing, In the meantime Gev-
otees OF that faith have Increased enormously
In number and material power. The crisis OF
the death of Brigham Young and the succession
safety, but to the apparent great advantage OF
the church, and today not only Utah is firmly
held by the MOrmons, bur they are Intrenching
themselves in the surrounding Territories.-St
Louis Republican.
THE country has more intelligence. as
will Judge the two great parties less by what
they may say at the last moment than BIZ their
conduct for years past. What the Democratic
party has again and again tried to do the cOun-
try will EXPECT it to do fit gets a chance. That
party has tried to break down the protective
system, on the ground that it was utterly foolish,
burdensome, dishonest and wicked-nOt to mod
ify or amend it, but to destroy it altogether. 1t
will be found too late for the party to change the
estimation in which twenty years of conduct
have caused 1t to be held.-New York Tribune.