The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-11-16

problem in Iowa The State will not be-content
with prohibition and free whisky in spots and
deplorable notification of law in all the large
towns.-Chicago Tribune
1t would be absurd for the Democrats to try
to repeal the civil-service law The Republican
Senate would prevent it, Besides, they have
President who shows his willingness to evade
the law and Commission composed of old
fashioned Democrats. Milwaukee Sentinel -
Sober second and third thoughts will not take
such utterances these from man of Mr..
Gladstone's years and treat them as the bah
blings of boy like Churchill, but after weigh
ing them will see that their author is very safe
person to be trusted with the disestablishment
question whenever it must arise.-Philadelphia
Times.
we make money out of protection, and we
should almost certainly lose money by adopting
the free-trade system Until it can be clearly
demonstrated that it is better for a nation to
frame Its laws with view to retarding its own
.n.eIests' we may be pardoned for insisting that
the time has not come for Distressing with n tar
III In this country.-St Louis Globe Democrat
heard good story about General Sherman
the other day. Some one wrote him n letter re-
questing lock Of his hair and an autopranh In
reply the General said: Il regret to state that
as my orderly is bald, and as the man who
formerly wrote my autographs has been dis
missed, cannot comply with your request"
This was mailed without his signature. -Phila-
delphia Inquirer
1t would not be surprising if many of those
who reluctantly went with Mr. Morrison should
on reflection. reach the conclusion that perhaps
Randall was right in demanding that Congress
wait until something sensible and practical could
be done, rather than pass a bill which was ac-
cordiug to the concession of its author, merely
political makeshft. to satisfy the tariff agitators
Memphis Avalanche.
In this country we have had but one really
successful strike; and in that instance the blow
was struck by other than the workers We re-
fer to the struggle of more than twenty wears
ago for the abolition of slave labor. Even that
magnificent result was achieved only at an i'm
mense cost In most other cases the loss to all
concerned has been out of all proportion to the
advantage sought to be gained Chicago Tri-
bune.
If workingmen can all be persuaded or even
compelled to do shorter days work and take
correspondingly smaller pay, an eight hour law
can be enforced, but it must be enforced upon
them rather than upon employers. If they are
not willing to do this there is no Justice in fore
ing them to it; but organized movements of this
kind are really directed against the rights Of
labor and not those of capital-New York
Times.
Never before was England so willing to do
justice to Ireland, and never before were the
contrasted foreign politics of the two parties
more sharply drawn; and never was there
deeper popular interest In domestic legislation
than to-day. Therefore, Lord Salisbury exposes
himself to charge of political obliquity in de-
hberately charging conspiracy OF iconocasm
upon the Liberals in order to rush into power on
apanic. -Springfeld Republican.
If Germany and England were to become in
volved in war, the English would consider it an
instance of extreme barbarity if the victorious
Germans insisted upon possessing themselves of
the British isles, and converting the country
into German dependency; and yet the English
have no more right to their political independ-
ence than the people of Burmah have, and to de-
prve them of this brthright can only be iusti-
lied by the law of force.-Boston Herald
If the restriction measures are enforced the
white population on the Pacific coast will in
crease much faster than the Chinese, and event.
ually the latter will by gradual processes, be
distributed throughout the entire country.
When this is accomplished the presence of the
Chinese in the United States will hardly be no
ticed. They will be taken into the body polite,
and although they may be held as in a cyst,
doing no good, they will do but little harm Den
yer Republican
If England's ex-Premier was no statesman; if
he could ever have risen to the head of the Brit
lsh Ministry. and practically of the British ma
ton, without possessing the highest talent and
ability, if not genius; if. in other words. he had
been mugwump and sham reformer, he might
have considered it beneath his dignity to make
political stump speeches for his party. He might
even have imbibea the silly idea that he owed no
obligation to his party, to which he owed every
thing else. But being statesman, Mr. Glad
stone has no such foolish notions.-New York
World.