The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-09-11
SPIRIT OF THE PRESS.

WHEN honest industry is not compelled to
herd with vice, as It must do now, to some ex-
tent, then vice Can be fought without risk of do
ing more harm than gOod.-W ashingtOn Post
THE prohibition sentiment of the West is not
TO be wondered at Drink is the cause of more
EVIL TO this country and of more crime among
our people than all other causes put together.
IN TACT, the ever-ready revolver and ever-ready
drink between them furnish the temptation and
the occasion for nearly all crime that is commit
ted.-New York World.
THE exposure and punishment of thieves is a
good thing but the promotion of sound admins
tratlon is equally necessary. Just surely as
reform brings less taxes lower expenditures,
cleaner streets, better water and cheaper gas,
just so surely will the plain taxpayer believe in
the value and good faith OF reformers; hut if re-
form does not work this he will dOu b reform and
reformers. -Philadelphla Press.
MIXED schools, even if it were possible to sus-
tam them, would work an injury to the cOlored
children, by bringing them under subsection to
the children of the dominating race. Neither
race at the South is far away from the Old
habits and traditions of slavery that any Jheor-
les Of equality prevent this practical subiec
tion of the weaker when its members are
brought into close relations with the stronger
Atlanta Constitution.
THE Southern States are poor to-day not be-
cause or the war and not because of anything
except that they fail to Rold OUT the only kind
of settlers that worth having the one induce
ment which is all-potential Missouri is suffer
ing from the same conditions, and with an even
less prospect OF finding relief, unless some seri-
Gus effort is ade 10 assert the majesty of the
OF CIVILIZATION Philadelphia Telegraph.
WHAT is most important, and what should be
done with the least possible delay, is to stop
manufacturing silver dollars We have now
enough to supply any legitimate demand for at
least fifty years, and to 90 on multiplying them
Is deliberately to invite the precipitation of our
entire currency system to the level of silver, and
the tosal Punishment of gold except as an
article of merchandise. 1t is high time to stop
this folly and worse than folly.-Chicago Times
The absorption of public land by private own
I ha hI.fl rIia nj a
tors. They seem to think none is Ieft for them.
But the truth is, there is, and viii! be for many
Years, an abundance of fertile land to he had for
the asking. The trouble with these chronic
fault-fnders with American institutions is this:
They prefer to hive by their wits as professional
agltators in New York 10 living by the sweat OF
their faces farmers at the West.-SU. Louis
GObe-Democrat
THERE many things good in themselves,
like popular education, that it seems at times
might be done better by the'federal government
than by the individual States But nearly all
these things would be fatal, if at first only
slight, departures from our system. They would
open the door to greater departures until
got to look to the federal government for every
thing, and TO the States for nothing. That is the
inevitable road to centralized despOtism
Hartford COurant.
THE future of the colored race is indissolubly
joined with that of the white race. There is no
question that they suffer from injustice and
offensive determinations in the South, and that
they do not enjoy the rights which have been
guaranteed them, as was contemplated in the
is not as bad as 1t was ten years ago. Slowly, to
be sure, but steadily, they gaining their
rights, and as time goes on their condition will
lmprove.--ChicagO Tribune.
How M. Ferry and his ministers can be so
hlind as not to that in persistng in their
wild schemes of colonial conquest they are play
ing inIO the hands of Frances most bitter foe,
BIZ marck, 1t is hard to understand. II they are
not able to frame wise foreign policy for
France, based on knowledge ana experience,
they might at least be acute enough to refrain
from doing just what Germany wants them TO
do. Napoleon once said that the greatest need
of France good mothers. That day has
passed. What France needs now seems to be
statesmen with brains New York Tribune.
THE acquittal of Frank James raises the in
quiry whether after all the administration of
justice could not be done by contract for several
of our States better than by the State author
tiles. If the State of Missouri would let out the
contract OF administering justice in that State
to the PinkertWH agency for very moderate
commission that concern would furnish dttec-
tivrs, witnesses, sheriffs, judges, lawyers, hang
men, jailers, and, if necessary, governors who
would make the name of criminal justice ter
rOr TO all such innocent gentlemen Frank
Iamaa-(hica0O Inter Ocean