The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-07-23
SPIRIT OF THE PRESS.

THE postal-telegraph project is the conception
of gigantic scheme of jobbery and fraud, which
the fact that the telegraph is not an indispensa-
Bile agency of any supreme interest of society
for the transmission OF information goes to CON
demn.-Chicago Times.
IF the State of Texas will not punish ex-Judge
Hauehn's murderers, the United States govern
ment cannot compel it to do But the govern
ment can make ii clearly understood that it will
prosecute offenses against the Federal election
laws fearlessly and energetically. 1t cannot
shirk this duty because ruffians in Texas may
eonspire to prevent conviction-New York
Tribune.
THE project to fix wages by law is but return
to system of false political economy which has
long been exploded. Freedom of contract is the
life of all healthy trade and industry. There are
combinations of capital which involve injustice.
There watering of stocks and eXtortions and
determinations which it is desirable should be
corrected, but the means of correcting them does
not lie in immoral conspiracy.-St. Louis Globe
Democrat.
THE least-trusted, the leastlIked Republican
of two years ago has become one of the most
trusted, the best liked. and solely because he
has appeared to be sincere IN his desire to serve
may not be the candidate of his party next year;
but if he should add to his popularity as he pro
oeeds toward the day Of his nomination, his
chances of being his own successor will. be
equal, at least, to those of any competitor.
Philadelphia Telegraph.
To interfere by law in behalf of labor, or be-
tween labor and capital, would but perpetuate
and give new direction to the tendency. Let
governmenG but cease TO foster this tendency in
one quarter and it will not be exhibited in
another. Let enterprise and capital be left TO
care for themselves and labor will for itself,
and both work out their destiny under the best
neutrality-suspicious. of the utmost freedom
and the largest opportunity for every man,
under equal laws.-Cincinnati News journal.
To show the folly and fruitessness and impos-
sibility of putting the sexes on an equality as
wageworkers it is not necessary to assert that
| the advantage IN capabity in favor OF males is
| such as to be always apparent and obvious as
between every man and every woman. Indi-
vidual cases prove nothing and that there is
here ana there calling IN whloh woman may
be conceded to be more efficient than men
proves nothing. The scale turns on balancing
the whole of one sax against the whole of the
other in all the emplOyments known to the race.
If the industrial field is all open to one sex and
is materially restricted as to the. other for any
tangible, permanent reason, the sex on which
the disability rests will not be able to escape the
consequences of such disparity.-St. Louis Re-
publican.
THE pharisaism of Rev. Joseph Cook, even if
IL pleases some churches, is offensive to the
laity of the nation. No New England clergyman
ever had less Christian spirit. His humanitari-
anism IS simply a spreading of the Cook mantle
of selfshness over those of the race who happen
to come within the narrow circle of his sympa-
thy. His prejudlces such that he cannot
make a straightforward statement of facts with
out giving it such personal color that makes it
Andover, the other day, shows that cergymen
of his class, whose theology and metahpy sizes
are of an obsolete school, are no longer wanted
even in New England for they link its present too
closely to past which con ains much that mod
ern liberalism would gladly forget.-san Fran
cisco Chronicle.
SUPPOSE that in the nominating convention
when the delegates are in deadlock over three
or four of the old politicians some eloquent en-
thusiastic member should propose that magic
name which every Republican loves and hOnOrs,
and IL should ''take," and kindle enthusiasm all
over the convention and the country, docs any
one suppose that dred-up old Tidens, dull.
heavy McDonalds, or frigid Bayards could stand
before it2 And this is the way that Robert Lin
coin will appear If he appears at all. He Will not
be in the convention as twelve and one-half
vote candidate, or a doubtful candidate, or a
candidate dragging along at the tail end of list
of others, ballot after ballot. Either his name
will not be mentioned at all or he will carry
rything before him. II he really touches the
sentiment of the country nothing can stop him
in the race.-Chcago Tribune