The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-03-19
THE SPIRIT OF THE PRESS.

THE rapid growth of the Salvation Army is
curious commentary both on the credulity OF
human nature and the failure of the more re-
spectacle to reach the great masses of the
ignorant or debased.-ferre Haute Express.
NOTHING is palmer than that public opinion is
rapidly hastening TO secure TO women the same
opportunities OF Intellectual development which
men enjoy, and to conce,le to them an equal
right of choice to the scope and extent Of
their eduoaton,- Harper's Weekly
To tax the liquor traffic would certainly tend
largely To regulate it. 1t would not prohibit it,
but 1t would place 1t under reasonable restraint,
and this would certainly be great improve
nent upOn that free trade which Ohio has had
for thirty years or m0re.-Cincinnati Commercial
Gazette.
THE Mississippi river cannot, 1t seems, be inn
proved by government TO any great extent
without millions of dollars being aquandered on
Insignificant streams i'll all parts of the country.
This business has gone on until it has become one
of our greatest national scandals.-Cincinnati
Journal.
THE Rhode Island canvass is the first ripple in
dull campaign and does not promise To he
very lively one. The election comes early
fore the autumn Will he the midsummer cam
paign In Kentucky, where political contests are
too one-sided TO be exciting.-New York Times.
IT is the idle who are most prone TO 20 astray.
The girls who shirk home duties, as they also de-
spise the store. the workrOom and the factory,
are the ones who fall the most easy victims To
the temptations of fast life with wine, fnerv
and company. These lack the independence
which comes with wage-earIhng, which is OF it,
SELF u HUlelu 10 Nlrlue.-CHCdSO
THE typical monopolist demands that the good
done one hand shall excuse the evil done
the other, rather denies that there Is any thing
but good, and the typical nntimonopolist over
looks the good in his denunclation OF the evil.
Wise regard for both public ana private rights
steers middle course, recognizing both the good
and the evil, and seeking 70 increase the former
by overcoming the latter-St. Louis Globe Dem
Ocrat.
STATES are corporations, formed for the public
good, and no: always so large or so powerful
at han innR ann In
PEELED by law 10 fulfill their obligations. IL ia
ntolerable that they should reap the advantages
OF their credit us sovereign States and then pro-
tect their gains Dy this constitutional shield,
never intended for snch purpose. We may
look for sixteenth amendment abOlishiug the
eleventh.-Frank Lesie's Weekly.
WE shall certainly never win by playing SEQ
Ond fiddle TO the Republicans. We shall GER
tninly never win by running away from live
issues We shall never win nor deserve to win
II we show ourselves an army OF moral towards,
who have only to see nm advance of the enemy
to run away from our record and our traditions,
the organic law of the party and the cOns;itu
tional law OF the land-"A tariff for revenue
onIy."-LOuisvilie Courier-JOurnal.
Mr. PARNELL wisely and truthfulv said in his
recent speech that England can govern Ireland
by tindness, but never by cruelty or oppression.
The lessons of centuries have confirmed the
trni II of his statement, and there Is not "a step
which England could take to-day that would
make her more friends in ireland than TO come
to tile relief of these thousands OF starving peo
pie lin Donegal in u section of Ireland which
ms l0u no maui Ill VI ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
Tribune.
In Pennsylvania 1t is proposed to forbid by
statute the cremation of deceased persons-a
step that may he regarded from several points
of view aud ia lliberal or Justified according ia
the motives that suggest the measure. II the
proposition has its origin in religious opinions
and relates u u supposed interference with "the
resurrection of the body 1t will get but little
sympathy; but II 1t starts from considerations OF
the impeachment that cremation will put in the
way OF the detection ~ crime there is much to
be said in Its favOr.-New York Herald.
THE collection of Irish patriots in this country
ia getting large, and IL Mr.. Parneli comes Oves
next month with several of his colleagues 1t will
be imposing enough To excite curiosity. What
Is the object of this combined descent on Amer
cal Ia there to he IA grand revival ATTEMPTED OF
the drOopng interest In irish affairs ana new
fund called fort II 80, will the masscs OF this
American Trish contribute just ms freely TO the
new fund ne they did to the old IN spite of the
undispelcd doubt about where n good deal of TIT
money In the first has gomez Possibly; the frisl
are ~ peculiar people and easily led by. sham pa
triots.-New York Tribune.