The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-01-02
THE SPIRIT OF THE PRESS.


THE country is rich in property and there is lack
of money but does not to be distributed where
it would do the most good Let us hope that the
year will straighten ont the crooked ways, and bring
business back to healthful northumberland
Commercial Gazette
APPEALS to worl1ngmen to rally" for the defense
of their fresides and liberties fall unheeding
The American workman knows very well that he is
not the victim of any iron heeled despot and that
the misery and starvation depicted by Socialist dema
gogues exist ike the arstocracy of shoddy million
aires, only in the realm of fancy-New York Times.
THE statistics show that are progressing slowly
toward the scientific principles of doing business
which it is the province of statistics to illuminate
Making all allowance for the reaction from the boom
of 1S79S1 it is st evident that the great bulk of
the disasters due to blind and amateurish ways
of trading, speculation, and the ovefstraining Of
credit.-Chieago Tribune.
No doubt the advocates of strict Sunday Observance
are in the main honest. But they are mistaken 1t is
an aid to morality and decoru to give the people who
toll all the week the fullest opportunity fog innocent
and desirable amusements on the Sabbath, and we o
hope the present experiments will be followed by the
Sunday opening of all similar places. If law on the
subject is needed the Legislature ought promptly to
supply the want.-New York World.
If there is no living issue but the tariff what mis-
fortune it would be for Democratic aspants for the
Presidency if it should be disposed of by this session
of Congress. In that event the Democracy would
have no reason for continued existence and the party
would have to dissolve Every living issue having
disappeared there would be occasion for running
Democratic candidate in 1884, and the only question
or GTesham.-New YORK Sun
IN Germany as elsewhere events all turn toward
greater religious freedom. The rupture in the Mos
lem world if prolonged it is likely to be- will tend
powerfully in the direction, and the great in
crease in the number of Christians in India accord
ing to the recent census another indication of i'm
portance 1t is possible too that the disturbances in
Tonquin and on the southern frontier of China may
ultimately open denseypopulated regions to Christian
infuences.-New York Tribune.
THE census of 1880 shows only % per cent of the
British-born inhabitants of the United States to be
living in the fifty principal cities whereas nearly 40 per
cent of the Irsh-born and 80 per cent of the Ger
born to be found in those cities British i'm
migrants do not concentrate in the large cities to tho
extent of the other nationalties do and
in the cities they absorbed into the of
citizens. There is some food for thought in these
statements, for politicians as well others.-New
York Tribune. G7n-
PERHAPS the most encouraging fact in relation to
the present situation is that have vastly better
currency than we had in 1873 If Congress would
only order suspension of the dollar coinage, there
would be for serious apprehension in this
spect Another encouraging fact is that we have had
panic and there will be such unreasonable fear
of investing capital eight years ago. There is
reason therefore to hope fora speedier restoration
of industrial equilibrium than witnessed after the
disaster Of 1873.-Cheago Times
THERE is nothing like free discussion these DAYS Of
independent newspapers and universal schools. 1t
reaches error however pausiby masked and brings
public to the footlghs, before the glare of intel
ligent public opinion, to aequit themselves Unfor
tunatey for the English pauperlabor doctrnaires
free trade free schools and general intelligence do not
harmonic, and as schools and intelligence cannot
backward free trade must to the or be over
But there freetraders now for which there will
be general ioy.-Phadelpha Times.
HIS Mr.. Gladstone's assent TO the strangng of
Egypt not only the mistake of his life, but was in
many ways contrary to what was to be expected
of the humane statesman from whom the Bulgarian
atrocities called forth such scathng denunciations
that the only possible conclusion that he forced
to approve the suppression of Arab by pressure
which with all his independence he could not success
fully resist The embarrassments brought upon him
self and upon England by that mistake have now be-
gun to reveal themselves.-New York Times.
THE murder of Mclaughlin and the acquttal of his
SLAYER the direct results of corporation control in
California They should teach the millionaire man.
ayers of railroads one lesson and law-abidng people
another. While the former may see that men cannot
be robbed, even under the forms of law, with impu-
nifty the people should understand thaf are to be
preserved from anarchy the time has to bring
railroad managers under proper legislative control,
and to secure more swift and certain protection for
their victims in courts of justice.-New York Times.
LET have the truth about this Mason business.
1t and is utterly dsgracefuL This soldier was
responsible for the safety of who whatever the
awful magnitude of his crime yet unconvict-
ed and under the protection of the laws 1t was
his sworn duty to discharge the obligations thus
placed upon him Had the covering wretch he guard
ed been attacked by mob his life should have been
sacrificed if needful, ere harm reached him. But he
proved false to his trust and attempted to cheat JUS
tce of her victim He not only forfeited all claim to
respect by this act but he committed no less serious
crime than planned and deliberate attempt to COM
nit murder.-Chicago News.
THE poisonous admixtures that imported from
France and Germany for genuine products of the
grape should be poured into the ocean. The manu-
features cunningly loaded" with jute and other
cheap substances and nvoced French silks should
also be condemned as frauds whenever imported For
such measures. however the inhibition upon Ameri-
can pork should not be needed stimulus. They
should be adopted because they just in themselves
and necessary for the protection of American
ers At the time, the detection and punishment
of poisonous authorizations in homemade wines and
LIQUORS as well as of frauds in the manufacture of
silks and other goods should not be neglected -Pha-
delphia Record
THE southern entrance to the Red sea and the
southwestern seacoast line toe important Eng
land to be left under the weak of Egypt OF given
over TO the Bedouins 1t is easily conceivable that
England may rule Lower Egypt and the canal and
Red sea shore up the lower falls Of the Nile and 70
the Nubian desert, through the Egyptian government,
land install another agent to the south for irner
hold upon the important southern coast and opening
to the Red sea. This would place the Soudan as
distinguished from Soudan--that is the Egyptian
portion of Soudan-under Abyssinian rule, installing
there the strongest native African power and, next to
Egypt, most Important and, besides Egypt, the
only entitled t. he called native government
Stranger things have happened with REASONS less pow
erful for their happening Cincinnati News Journal.