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

The Boston pulpit should turn its face TO the
morning.-Boston Herald
A prosperous condition of our foreign COM
merce is greatly to be desired but we seem
destined to have good home trade in any event.
and the other will follow in the course Of time
Cincinnati Commercial Gazette
Jones. of Binghamton, sneers such deep.
scorntul sheer at the poor mugwumps that the
WING vi q blows through his whiskers mady. Jones.
OF Blnghamton will hereafter register himself
as Jones, of the Observation-Disclosures Press.
II 1t once be established that robbing, mall
treating, or killing Chinaman renders the per-
petrator liable to be sent to the penitentiary or
| legally strangled the sport of hunting the Chi
nese VIII az once be stopped. Chicago Times.
David b. Hill is doing we'll so far. He has
climbed the first two rungs of the ladder Hehas
been mayor of Elmira, and he is Governor of
New York Now let's all watch and see him
spring for the third rung.-Hartford Courant
Tammany is good enough Democratic organ
iZation now, but when it tries to the national
convention in 1888 will the man it opposes be
loved, as Cleveland's friends claimed he was, for
the enemies he has madel-Louisyille CONNER
cial
We want no Westminster in the English
sense The national character of our people is
separated from that of England by line clearly
demarking the two, though not interfering with
complete friendliness between the two govern
| ments.-Troy Times
The Cinnamon should keep away. however
much it may hurt our Eastern trade or balk the
selhShnesS of capital In its constant endeavors to
| subjugate labor. They are not wanted here as
citizens or laborers; and what is more the pur
| pose they will not be tolerated here.-Lousville
Courier-J ournal.
| The New York Sun dscourses eloquently in q
| column editorial on 1.-THE Hold in Round Dane
| ing. The general impression about that matter
is that the closer the better; and there those
who believe that, the hold once properly taken.
| it is wiser to suspend the dancing and sit down
on the sofa.-Cincinnati Sun.
The Prohibitionists, as rule, vote side tickets
| on sentiment, regardless of results but The liquor
| interests are now organizing, not to fool their
votes away on sentimental issues. but to vote in
| the most direct way to benefit their cause by
| throwing their presumed balance of power for or
| against regular party candidates Philadelphia
| Times.
The apparent prejudice of society against an
| ex-convct is not mere fanciful idea without
foundation in reason but is the capitalization of
| an opinion that when man is so far gone in
| crime as to have undergone one term of impriS-
| onment for that man there is no hope; and, in
the main, the judgment of society is correct, and
| its treatment of exconvicts is just.-St. Louis
Globe Democrat.
| The idea of circumscribing and getting rid of
| an evil which Gladstone declares has wrought
| more harm to the world than pestilence, famine
| and war is "a noble one an idea that fills and
| expands all generous souls" 1t is moral idea,
| and the anti slavery idea. History re-
| peats itself There were croakers and blind men
| IN the fiftes and we have them in the eighties
New York Voice.
| Fixed, uniform and remunerative charges are
as essential to the success of trade as to the
| prosperity of railroad stock and bondholders.
| The only trouble about this agreement is the
| impossibi!ity of compelling the companies to
| stick to it. 1t can be made only q moral obliga-
ton. and that is one which seems to have little
binding force upon its adopters if it prove un-
profitable. Philadelphia Inquirer.
The Irish question is assuming large proper
| tons. 1t is the question of the future, without
doubt. Ireland is becoming concentrated, COM
| pacted solidifed She talks less and does more
than formerly. Gladstone is safraid to wrestle
with the problem for fear of fall and the To-
ries are waiting for something to turn up" which
will give them the cue Ireland is getting ready,
| but England cannot quite believe it.-New York
| Herald
We know that 'the folks on Bitter creek are
| bad" and Henry Watterson has repeatedly told
us that he is from the headwaters of that noble
stream Perhaps the poetcal perpetrators in
| that locality not amenabe to the discipline
ordinarily admin stored. But for the sake OF
the dear public and in The interests Of litera-
| ture the Colonel will be called blessed if he will
| cause the poetical crank to cease turning. AL :
bany Express.
Let the treasury continue to pay out the silver
| Let it retire the and twos. Those which
are left in circulation an abomination. They
are ragged filthy, ilegible, and their foul odors
| contaminate the clothes of those who carry
| them. These vile dsease-breeding rags should
all be called in and destroyed, and in their place
the Treasury should send forth the beautiful
silver dollars, with the goddess on one side and
the daring eagle on the other.-New York Star.
When France suspended the free coinage of
! silver the value of the silver had fallen below 88
per cent. of the legal value. A year ago it was
85 per cent. In July it was 80 per cent. To-day
it is but 70 per cent The gold Napoleon, which
| was formerly worth twenty francs. is now worth
| twenty-five francs. The old ratio has become
| false one. Not only that. there is not and has
not been since the suspension any ratio that was,
| or promised to be, could be made. stable.
That is the naked fact that stares everyone in
the face who starts to consider the feasibility Of
unlimited coinage at fixed ratio. It is in
superable obstacle to any agreement-New York
| Times.
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