The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-04-30
THE SPIRIT OF THE PRESS.

AS a civilized nation we must impress upOn
the Queen and her Parliament the necessity OF
Il reform in the conduct toward, and treatment
of, Irish subjects; with greater emphasis must
we place our disapprobatiOn upon the use of dy-
Mantle and the spirit of Observation-Disclosures
vile American,
THE man who Keeps his children out of the
schools, either all the time or on alternate weeks,
has no right to COMPLAIN of their not being edu-
Gated. Nor has he the right to abuse the teacher
whom he refuses to aid in supporting or whom
he declines to furnish with comfortable school
house.-Loulsv1lle Commercial.
Nor even the blind guides who talked so glibly
few years ago about "the dollar of the fathers"
ana raved about the independence of the United
States of the monetary standards of the civil
iliZed world, will pretend now tEaE Il measure of
value which makes eighty-five cents equivalent
to dollar Is likely to bring anything but hnan-
cial confusion ana ruin.-Brooklyn Union.
AS IL matter of fact the great majority in all
our large cities are interested in the preserva-
ton of order and can be relied on to maintain il.
All of the labor riots in the United States and
they have not been numerous have been sup
pressed by men who have closer relations with
the audinces of Herr Most and such than with
the mlllOnaireS.-San Francisco Chronicle,
is IT proper for the government ever to COM
promise suit on the payment of the money in
vOved where criminal charges have been
adl Is the government in such a case solely
endeavOring to collect a tax evaded or proceed
ing to collect that tax ana also to punish the
offender as warning that punishment will in
eXOrably follow defiance of the lawl-New York
Herald.
WE have before us the promise of a very Sc
labor, resulting from the apparent necessity OF
readiusting wages. The trade tribunal act comes
in most opportunity, and employers and en-
ployed should alike use their endeavOrs to prove
experimentally the virtues OF this new law be-
fore enforcing the wage issue in the usual sui
cidal Observation-Disclosures Press.
IT has been the studied purpose of the British
government to prevent ireland from having her
proper representation in Parliament. Until Ire
land has her equal representation, so as to have
the fearful abuses of British rule removed, there
will be an Irish question, and Irishmen will he
justified in demanding their right to equal repre-
sentatiOn and III all lawful agitation of the sub.
ject until they get it.-Courer-Journal.
THE hot-headed, illogical. ignorant men who
have been Rossas dupes may love Ireland well,
but they do not serve her wisely. II Irish
Americans are to effect any hing toward i'm
proving the condition of Ireland the first stepin
the convention will be to repudiate the dynamite
policy. Its record. and the kind of parasites
whom 1t has produced should be enough to CON
denim it.-Charleston News and Courier.
THE glass interest in this country is tariving,
and the day is not distant when we shall not be
dependent on Europe for any kind of glassware.
from the common window glass to the highest
designs in c0Ored and cut ware, and it is to this
attainment that American manufacturers should
devote their energies and capital, rather than TO
seek to force market abroad with very doubt
full success or proft-Clncinnati Commercial
Gazette.
It is always pleasapter to meet your enemy IN
the open field in square fight For that reason
We have been hoping that the Democrats would
be a good deal more bold and a little more stupid
than usual next year, and avow themselves
openly for free trade. They NAV do so vet, but
the drift among them just now is in favor of q
straddle on the question. One will be
only little less fatal than the other.-New
York Tribune.
IF there is not sufficient law In this country to
punish persons who abuse its hospitality by con-
spring on lis soil to commit murder or to incite
to murder abroad, no time should be lost In its
enactment. No honorable plea can he urged
against such legislation, and no opinion that
opposes it is worthy OF anything but adherence.
A society that cOuntenances these dynamite
consprators or refuses to extirpate them Lour-
ishes deadly enemy in its own bosom.-Phila-
0elphia Record.
THE right of revolution always exists, but 1t
exists in Ireland, not here or in England, and
bitter experience has shown that progress is not
helped but hindered by mere insurrection and
riot. The gain that has been achieved In Ireland
in the last twenty years has been in spite of law
lessness, not because of IL, and the yet greater
work to be accomplished for the political ameli-
Grafton of Ireland needs cool heads not less than
warm hearts, and the wlsest and most temper
ate Observation-Disclosures Times.
PLACING Carlisle as our standard-bearer in the
third highest office of the government, and Civ
ing him the construction of the committees OF
the House, We go into the next presidential cleo
lion with new platform, unknown to modern
Democracy as 1t was unknown TO the Demo-
cratic and Wing policies of our fathers. The
Democracy cannot afford in this critical jnncture
to throw away all chance of victory by pushing
forward a Southern man for Speaker upon this
British platform.-Noblesville Register, tDem)
THE American government ought to insist
vigorously that the American hog should be al
lowed free entrance into Germany. 1t is our
commercial duty, looking to the best interests of
the American producer ana the German con-
sumner. 1t is cur political duty, for the American
hog in Germany will be the most energetic pos
sibe republican propaganda If Germany dis
eliminates against our missionary meat, this
country should at once prohibit the Importation
of every aduterated article of commerce from
the Chicago Tribune
PENSION bills are almost always drafted for po-
litlcal purposes. and no one dares refuse to vote
for them; no Governor or President dares veto
them for fear OF alternating the soldier vote
from himself his party. 1t is time for this
costly nonsense to end. The survivors of the
Mexican are not paupers. Perhaps some OF
them are In straitened circumstances, but II
they are the inhabitants of the localities where
they reside should make 1t matter of honor TO
provide for the old fellows, instead of allowing
them TO he practically the tools Of demagogues.