The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-02-01
THE SPIRIT OF THE PRESS.

REVENUE must be raised from imports, and
there should be some way of doing IL that wonl4
furnish a reasonable amount of protection TO all
interests needing it.-Philadelphia Times.
If the Irish would give over their Improbable
land-league agitation aud unite IN the home-
rule question, 1t would DO to their pollticei eri
The question of HOme-rule involves gentl1e
principles. 1t has two sides and may bear dis
cussion.-Cinclnnat Commercial Gazette.
GOLD is worth its face value everywhere, but
silver is not aud yet the United States has ia
few years coined more than 50,O00,0O0 pieces OF
silver, nominally worth dollar each, and ts
continuing the dangerous blnnder at the rate OF
1000, 900 pretended dollars per month.-New
York Herald.
THE issue between the two systems Of taxation
Is made up, and 1t Is radical rreconcilabe and
irrepressIble. The Democratic party to-day, IL
never before the party of the people, stands for
a reduction OF the tariff to revenue basis, and
between these two there is no middle ground
Louisville COurier-Journal
THE great trouble with the Iowa Prohibition
lists aud their coadjutors and sympathizers
everywhere is, that they proceed upon falae
theory. They concentrate their efforts osten-
sibly against the manufacture and sale OF
liquor, whereas their real purpose is to prevent
the people from MISUNDERSTANDING Tribune.
If the President calls Congress together in the
spring to dispose of this work, d year later the
field may look very different. II he leaves 1t to
be taken up on the eve OF the nominations, the
Republicans will surely suffer from the result
From any point of view he readily justify an
extra session. The best way to avoid that event
Is to pass such bill as the President has dis
tinctly recommended.-N. Y. Times r.
PENNSYLVANIA and the great industries West
and South, of which she has, after ALL only
share, are perfectly ready to accept II neces-
sary. rates under which responsibilities, burdens
and opportunities are equal; but PennsviVania
will not, and her representatives In Congress
should not, accept reductions aimed at her alene
and by which her industries are denied prosec-
ton extended to others.-Philadelphia Press.
THE bonded spirits bill has been obstruoted in
the House. 1t passed the Senate some time
since, but the ways and means committee OF the
House using their power over the bill to pre-
vent its passage in time to give much needed re-
lief TO large business interest Our Washing
ton correspondent says that the bill Will have TO
run the gauntlet of corrupt congressman. who
think there is money behind it, and whose votes
are for sale,-Cincinnat Enquirer. f'
PRESIDENT ARTHUR has ample warrant for
calling an extra session OF Congress. He VIII be
merely appealing from n rejected Congress TO
the latest and most authentic expression OF the
pOpular will. This Congress will have shown
that it is incapable of coping with the questions
ofreyenue and taxation discussed in his last
message, and by summoning the newly -electod
represen tatves of the people he will prOv6 that
he has no policy that s not In accord with public
opinion .-Philadelphia Record
They went into one Western State after
another, and by more or less open alliance with
the Democratic party succeeded defeating
and in eecting Others who accepted tins alliance,
II would be ri ght that they should look to Dep,-
ocrats alone for succor. If that party VIII take
the responsibility of making whisky free, whiid
keeping up taxes on other products, let it bear
the whole risk, but Republicans certainly have
no occasion to take up the burdens of the whisky
ring Extension of time for payment of taxes
will only enable the ring to hold its whisky until
the next Democratic Congress can get u chance
to abolish the tax.-N. Y Tribune.