The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-01-04
THE SPIRIT OF THE PRESS.

THE SPIRIT OF THE PRESS.
A ''sELF-CONTAINED" country-a country ndepend-
ent industrialy of the rest of the worlds
fine thing to dream about but it is not the country
which can best withstand and recover from these
shocks, which all modern experience teaches TO
pect in consequence of that want of equpoise which
from time to time appears in the industrial organism.
When such shocks occur the frees country will al
ways exhibit the most strength and elasticty-Chi-
cago Times.
THERE is a kind of beauty in women so dignified,
pure and ennobling that it renders all adventitious
adornments not only petty and futile but discordant
and intrusive Just is it with the nobility of ge-
MUS. The fortunate possessor of that high gift not
only needs no adventurous aids but they clash with
the insignia of that spiritual rank which distinguishes
him Between genius and hereditary arstccracy, in
deed, there is all the difference between things eeles
tial and things terrestral.-New York Tribune.
IT is very true that the Democracy cannot afford to
make itself responsible for contradiction but then it
must be remembered that for twenty years it has done
little else than commit precisely those sins of omission
and commission which political party could afford
to commit; If the Democratic House Of Represents
tves could be guided to and kept in the path OF pot-
cal wisdom would have fear of business depres-
sion during the year 1884. Thus inseparaby inter
woven are business and politics in a country where
the people sovereign.-Ciicago 1hter-Ocean.
SECURE an honest admin st stion of railroad prop
erty and all the other evils of the system will disap
pear In other words, h ne management in the in.
terest of the real owners OF the railroad property is
needed AT present the railroad business is organ
lied and practically legalized brigandage-a vast pile
of lies, frauds, thefts and treacheries-at the exe
penss of every honest man who invests in this kind OF
property. The effect of these methods may be read in
the stock market reports and in the proceedings Of
courts bankrupt Observation-Disclosures AdvO-
cate.
THE decline of the Republican majority in Iowa is
to be attributed entirely to the fact that Republicans
have disturbed themselves with the question of the
prohibition of the manufacture and sale of Intoxicating
drinks. The tariff question in the Northwest Is n4t
likely to help the Democratic party, because that
party has principles beyond the theories of parcel
of impracticabes. The Democracy have nothing to
offer but confusion. With the solid South holding
doublebarreled shotgun under the public nose all talk
of Democratic reform is NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.
natl Commercial Gazette.
THAT the State has right to pass laws defining what
may and may not be lawful on Sunday is undoubted.
1t has the right to legslate to Sunday that it
has to legislate to Christmas any other holiday
All laws that tend to secure to our working people
a quiet and wholesome holiday to be applauded
but the right to egsate with this end in view does
not confer the right to egsae in the interest of any
one religious sect There millions of in this
country to whom Good Friday is sacred day
than Sunday: but that fact would not authorize the
passage of a law forbdding to open their shops
Good Friday-New York Times.
WITH the lights before u.s. only assume that
suspicion fasteneditsef upon the wrong and that
the guilty ones have escaped Ihatls the pona CRIME
too horrible to contemplate was committed in the
broad light of day in the village schoolhousei there
can be no denial of that fact-and Justice is bafed A
promising human life has been reduced to misery
homes have been broken up and at least two have
hurried themselves into ETERNITY because of crcum
stances growing out of the the whole machinery
of the law has been used to discover the guilty and
yet the mystery is great now it was the day
If the power to create legaltender notes rests in
Congress the public should so understand it, but il
the opposite be the the Supreme Court ought to
fearlessy record its decision to that effect. As a
matter of fact decision adverse to the legalender
quality of the notes would hurt and effect
interest disastrously The government is bound to
redeem the in gold presentation, and it mat
tiers not whether they egaltender the opposite
1t would really though the court had an inn
portant duty to discharge in this case and is to be
hoped that for the sake of its high reputation
there will be flinching pushing of the matter
aside.--Ceveland Leader.
ONE bill which Congress ought to pass is that which
provides that females employed by the government
Shall receive the same rate of pay is allowed TO
males for the grade and character of service AT
present, in many bureaus, women work side by side
with men, at precisely the duties, and with at
least equal capacity and fidelity and yet receive
sderaby less pay, simply and solely because Of their
sex This is obviously unjust. and the government
ought TO set better example. The proposed change
would be only extension of civilservice reform.
That makes merit, and not influence thetest OF ad-
mission; this would make merit and not SEX the test
of salary.-Brooklyn Union.
THIS scheme of plumber means the taxation Of the
people to the amount of 500 600 600 for the benefit
of those who sodiered in the picnic called the Next
war 1t means not only future monthly pay
men to them but the collection of thirty years
alleged arrearages Every dollar to be taken will alb
sorb the wages of an average day work OF the b2r-
trsasry to the amount Of $1,000 900 900 means the
plumber of 100, 000O 600 days labor of the workmen
of the United States 1t means donation of $780,
600 900 that has no basis in law or equity 1t means
the robbery of the pocketboos of the whole people at
a time when they least afford it.-Chcago
Tribune.
THE Gladstone administration will attempt no mora
Irish reforms and if it does its downfall is as
sured The Liberal majority in Parliament, large
as it is will melt away if submitted to such a test
and the probabilities that Gladstone himself is
weary of efforts which have brought him thanks
from any quarter, and involved him in troube
and vexaton than all the rest of his government work
put together Meanwhile it will tax his genius to
the utmost to keep Irish affairs bad they are from
getting worse When the animosity between Orange
men and Nationalists has reached the height unIns.
takably shown at Dromore, only spark is required
to produce tremendous explosion. And who knows
cautions that spark may drop!-St. Louis Republican.
THE brief experiment at the Academy of Design has
shown conclusively however, that strong desire ex
lists in the city for Just such Sunday resorts tina
loan exhibition. On the first Sunday the crowd was
largely increased the ordinary attendance and if
there not large representation of the hard.
day-laborers, it was probably much because it was
munity that the exhibition was to be open as to any
other reason. On the following Sunday, after the
matter had been agitated in the newspapers, the at
tendance greatly increased the previous
Sunday, and there marked proportion OF the
working element. There can be little doubt after
this that if picture galleries, museums and libraries
in this city open free to the public Sunday,
they would be the resort of many thousands of nell
gent and respectable people, would bring and
great pleasure and benefit into their lives, and would
both directly and indirectly tend to diminish disspar
ton and Yice-New York Tribune.