The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-11-14
SPIRIT OF THE PRESS.

PRACTICAL temperance retormers and the tax
payers everywhere will De better satisfied with
the results of local option and high license than
with the comparative failure which will await
any attempt at absolute and universal prohibit
ton; and certainly the prevailing sentiment OF
the State IIowaI will accept partial prohibition
and universal reetI amt in preference to "a grab
for the whole loaf and getting no bread.-Chi-
cagO Tribune. Isl
THE presidents of a number of leading banks
have just given to the public their views on the
subject of bankrupt law Without exception
they all agree that national law of bankruptcy
of some KIND Ia necessary to the commercial
welfare of the community. This opinion APP
pears to be well-nigh universal among trade or
ganizations and business men. Every member
of Congress, which is now soon to meet, should
make a note of this fact.-New York Herald
ONLY party whose offices are continually
being filled from the better classes of people,
and which has the better GLASSES behind it, can
do what the Republican party has done and is
doing in this respect The administration in the
splendid work 1t is accomplishing is true
representative of Republicanlsm, and the con-
tinuanoe of lis present course is the best posi-
BILE eiectioneering work that can be furnished to
the campaign capital next year--St. Louis Globe
Democrat. +.sts.. ss rns u
ONE week ago to-day Ben. Butler was laid ont,
as unlove1y corpse as one could expect TO be-
hold. To-day he Is bright, chipper and auda-
cious, declaring, with bunch of sweet violets
in his buJtoII-hole, that he is very much alive
and that he will be candidate for Governor of
Massachusetts next year. AS keen and ever
lasting thorn in the side of his political enemies,
Benjamin is entitled to all the medals and AN
He Is like lobe Orders show, $50 darned
bad that he is real good" and with all his
faults one loves him still-Lousvile Courier
Journal.
THE laborers con ia ashamed to do any man
nal labor. If the girl does anything for herself,
she gnes into store, where the work is exhaust
ing, and more pitfalls surround her. The boy
too often spends his time IN lounging on street
corners, and travels the downward road of
idlers. Boy and girl are unhappy because they
are between two WORLDS belonging neither TO
the One nor to the other. good system of
technical educaton and apprenticeship, by
means of which intelligent young men and
women may look forward to high class of me-
clanical employment, respectable and well paid,
wonld probably do much to cure a growing
DIAL evil.-New York Tribune.
Poor preachers-that is, intellectually poor
are worse than bad actors and indifferent, con-
ceited writers. No one is required by either
business or moral obligations to 20 to the thea
ter or read everything they find In print. The
man or woman who, however, attends church
regularly from a sense OF moral duty, for the
sake of example to the rising generation or for
any other good purpose, has to listen to the
preacher and is entitled to frequdnt changes.
The preachers ought to be glad, too to get new
con gregations. The truth is, the pulpit is the
most irving place in the business of supplying
the intellectual wants of the people. There is no
d0dgng in it. There are few places In which
man is so quickly estimated at his worth.-Cin-
ciunatI ENQUIRER,