The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-12-04
SPIRIT OF THE PRESS.

WE shall hear in a few days what are the Pres
ident's views On this subject They need not bt
very far-sighted to m a degree of re
spect and attention not likely to be accorded &
those of Mr.. Blaine.-BroOklvn Union.
IT is this insecurity OF the dead that consti
tutes by no means the least of the 4
favor OF cremation. Nothing short of tt
adoption of that system will spoil the trade
the resurrectiOnist, eXcep It the building of tomb
as inaccessible as bank vaults, and AZ an expen,
which would place these massive piles OF ma
sonry upon the list of forbidden luxuries TO tt
poor.-Washlngton Post.
O'DONNELL's behavior after he was sentence
shows him so be just such a man as would be s
lected to do the work Of an avenger. From II
hour of his arrest until that moment he show
extraordinary frmness and self-control; b
when he saw that self-restraint would serve hi
no longer, the desperate man burst forth wi
terrible curses and cries of defiance. 1t was u
the conduct of a man ~unjustly condemned
death for killing another in self-detense; b
that OF a man who glOried in the result of a pl
meditated crime.-New York Tribune.
THE presidential aspirants may be expected
do q deal of tinkering within the next fl
months. Butler, for instance, wants, like Blait
to use the liquor question for his own benet
and would have the States regulate the liqu
income and distribute it in each according to|
own Judgment. But a great deal of legislatiI
national ana State. will be necessary before Il
plan of this KIND can be adopted: and meT
while the presidential election will have col
and gone, and the thinkers will have lost alis
terest in tue maJter.-New York Graphic.
WHATEVER the Gladstone ministry may chot
to do-and they can do doubt cOerce the K
dive into q fresh concession of land, and perht
carry their scheme Of a huge loan TO the FreI
company through the House of CommOns-ii
questionable whether the COnseI vative major
in the House of Lords will take an equally
timistic view of the SueZ canal business. tt
will probably ask TO see more substantial CT
siderat1ons than have yet been p~rofferrd by M
Lesseps before they comply with his modest 7
quest for forty million dOllats.-New York So
IF the new House desires to promote the o
iniuistratiOn of Justice, and does not desire to
come the tool of thieves, it will promptly a
upon some of Mr.. Brewster's recommendation
Members OF the House know very well how il
tice has been defeated in Washington cour'
They now have the testimony of the chief Il
officer of the government as 10 some of :
causes of those lamentable failures which ha
up his suggestions at an early day and ende9v
to purify the courts of Washington and to secu
fair treatment for the government there or els
where.-New York Times.
TUE Democratic newspapers, with more.
less jusrice, Ina We been accustomed to blame Il
Republican party for failure to put down II
Mormon %iniquity. I5 is owing TO Democrat
legislation that the troops of the United Sratf
now garrisoned in the Territory, would ha ge
sit as Idle spectators, no matter what the Nc
mons should choose to 90 against the laws
peace of the United States. They might inaug
rate n general massacre of the %gentlles, az
under Democratic legislation nobody could ca
on the soldiers to stop 1t or protect the v
Tins. the Democrats have ample opportun1
to try their hands now, and they had much he
ter try to settle the Mormon question than
NEEDLE with the arif.-LOuisville COnmercf