The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-07-28
SPIRIT OF THE PRESS.

1T will after while dawn the minds OF
people that strikes are poor methods to remedy
a grievance. AS rule. they mean dissipation,
habits of idleness hunger, rags and general dis
comfort in the home. Arbitration, and not
strikes, should settle all questions between en-
employer and employe.-Chieago Inter Ocean.
THIS is d free country, and is not to be bossed
| by corporate mOnopolies on the one hand nor by
| labor mOnOpolies on the other. Between tina
with being crushed between the upper and
neither millstones; but in the end the ''mOnOpo-
lists" of both kinds will discover that, after all,
the real boss is eve, the People."-New York
Commercial Bulletin.
WE submit to our prohibition friends that 1t Is
their policy that it is their duty, to advance the
interests Of the Republican party. 1t may not
come up to all their wishes, but mother will t
make shipwreck of what they have already &C.
complished Democracy, on the other hand. is
| to-day the right arm of the rum power even as
| before the war it was the right arm OF slavery.
Choose between the two.-New York Tribune.
IF it [civil-servics reforml fails to do what is
moderately claimed for it, there will be relapse
| to the all but overpOweriUg old order of things.
But those parties make mistake, If they hope
to injure the cause, who point to the fact that
girl of sixten passed in certain contest the best
competitive examination There is powerful
tendency toward indorsing that kind of a girl,
and all she represents.-St. Louis Globe-Dema
ocrat.
TIE problems will never be solved by the dyn.
amte party. The vast majority of Irishmen
know this, and the tendency of Irish agitation
to-day is to fight the battle in the British Parlia-
| ment, where they have gained ali the Irish VIC
| tories over bigotry and prejudice during this
| century, notably. the removal of Catholic dsf-
| biiities The dsestablishment of the Irish Epis-
copal Church and the two tentative land acts.
Louisville COurier-J Ournal.
| CAPTAIN WEBB undoubtedly had sense enough
| TO know that each single person who would adj
mire his toolhardiness IN going down these rap
| ids would be cipher. But he thought the sum
| of them all would he fame. There are great
many who think, like Captain Webb, that the
| concurrent applause OF a sufficiently large mum.
Der of persons, of whom carries any
aip hppn a haV
| are always accommodating a fortune by adding
| clphers.-Chicago Inter Ocean.
| AND now this man (Dauphin, of the Louisiana
| lottery being finally driven ont of New York,
| and reaching back for the patronage of his
| former dupes has the audacity to claim the use
of the mails and to threaten the faithful officer
| of the government who has enforced uhr 4 lws
| against him. This, indeed is the assuran, Y #
| schemer who has grown fat on ill-gotten gains
IL will be credit to the State of Louisiana when
| Dauphin and his vicious devices denied
| further protection and sanction of State law.
New YORK Times.
PEOPLE of the cas-; iron order OF thinking may
| prove by apparently unassailahle logic that
| there can be no difference III Interpretation loi
| Sunday laws permitted in the premises; but hu
Clanity is not nodded the cast-lron basis.
| Every thing human is more or less elastic and
| constructed so as to give little occasion,
| and the laws are no exception. There may seem
TO he legal heresy in such position, but IL IS
| truth nevertheless. Civilization IS not to he
broken on dead letters because legislatures have
| forgotten to formally repeal theM.- St LOup
4
WE are surprised that any should think
it desirable or practicable in this country for rhe
| government 10 assume the monopoly OF the
! telegraph. But confess we are still more
| surprised that such astute men Mr.. jay
| Gould, Mr.. A. b. Cornell and the other managers
| of Western Union did not foresee that when
| ever they made the public feel the iron hoof oil
| their monopoly upon its neck that could only
| result in general determination of the people
| to protect themselves against such oppression,
| not by buying The monOpolisUs out, but ny set
ting up an independent government line--New
| York Herald.
IF ever there was fair field for the exercise
| of compulsory arb ration this would sea n to
| be ono. Many of the charges brought against
| the Western Union Telegraph Company, which,
| by it's enormous business and extensive influ
| ence practically controls the action of all other
companies. are unquestionably true The com
| pany has shown in IFS dealings with the opera
| tors something of the same grasping and M
scrupulous spirit that it has betrayed in its stock
| operations But If all the charges were true
! there would still be in such strike as the one
recently entered on public injury against
| which the authorities ought to protect the COM
muuIty.-Harper's Weekly.