The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-12-19
COMMENT AND OPINION.

-CnrlStmas IS drawing eXtravagantly near.
Philadelphia Times.
At last the political disabilities Of Gen. Rob
ert Toombs have been removed.-National Re.
publican.
The President says Indiana is bad State.
Of course it is. 1t went Democratic -Pittsburg
Chronicle.
The New York Grant monument fund is boom
ing. Only $789. 900 is now needed to complete it.
Chicago Mail.
If the Democrats in Congress cannot agree
upon revision of the rules. 1t isn't at all likely
that they can agree upon revision of the tariff.
milwaukee Sentinel.
Few people will be disposed to quarrel with the
proposition in the Senate to grant pension of
five thousand dollars q year to the widow of Gen.
Grant. Philadelphia Record.
The fact that Jay Gould is now the richie st
man in America shows how one man may profit
by the death of another without being mentioned
in the will.-Atlanta Constitution.
Postmaster Aquilla Jones, of indianapolis, is
in trouble again. having come into violent col
lison with the civil service rules. 1t is becoming
more and more apparent that either Jones or re-
form must go.-Philadel phia Press
So far as our observation extends, the Repub-
lican press does not believe that it is polite for
the Republican Senate to refuse to confirm the
Presidents appointments political grounds,
except when officers have been suspended on the
ground of offensive partisanshlp.-Boston Jour-
nal.
Labor organizations should always insist upon
arbitration, and require their adherents to sub
NIT every question to fair arbitration before
resorting to any other means They would thus
prevent great part Of the controversies which
now cause the workers such losses and suffer
ings.-New York Tribune
The death of chosen President creates an
emergency in which we MI st do the best we can
for the time, but to allow every President in
choosing his Cabinet to name his successor for
three years would SAVIOR strongly of the ancient
royal privilege of bequeathing the crown to the
kings favorte st Louis Republican.
Bob Toombs's worst enemy was his tongue,
and its idle babblings made character for him
that did not represent the best that was in him.
1t is pitiable thing to see man who might
have been statesman tottor into the grave
victim of an overwhelming vanity and con-
Stunning temper. Commercial
This proposed convention of"anti-saloon Re
publicans" shows what influences are working in
the Republican party. 1t will not be surprising
ii, in the next two years. formidable attempt
will be made within its ranks to commit the
national convention of 1888 to prohibition plat
form of some kind Philadelphia Chronicle
Herald.
Several days ago Speaker Carlisle was re-
ported to have had no fewer than lbs applica-
tions for places on the labor committee of the
House. 1t is very gratifying to see these evil
dences of the dignity of labor in this country
and the demagogues as we'll as the statesmen
know it.-Chicago News.
To open the United States mint to all tenders
of silver bullion and coin it into silver dollars
for all corners would be equivalent, as any sensi-
BILE man can understand, to Offering to pay in
legaltender coins of the United States pre-
MUM above the market of about % cents per
ounce to any man who may bring it forward,
Louisville Courier-Journal.
We do not anticipate the development of any
serious and deeply ramfed conspiracy in San
Francisco, but the business men of that city may
be brought by this discovery to realize that such
people as O'Donnell cannot be elected to office
without creating the conviction in many minds
that the doctrines they preach have also been in
dorssd at the ballot box-New York Tribune
It is better to be living pauper than dead
millionaire, but none of the Philosophers who
point out the futity of riches would not like to
be a millionaire in good health. Rich es are
vanity, OF course, but all the world thinks
them very agreeable sort of vanity to have in
the house Still, theoretically, all the world
will continue to pretend to despise this vanity.
New York Sun.
The Bland law is simply the effort to compel,
by brute force, the adoption of an Illogical and,
therefore, unwelcome measure. Its operation is
to coerce the world into accepting as 100 cents
what is actually worth but 81 cents, and the in
tention of the coinage regulation was to give
practical effect to an hystercal theory that a bad
thing could be carried by sheer force of multipli
cation.-New York Star.
There are stray dogs in the street, on the
wharves-wretched, ownerless curs-and any
one of them may cause untold agony Get rid
of them. There is no reason why they should
be allowed to menace the health of the people.
When we are called upon to choose between the
child of the poorest man In the city and thou
sand dogs, every humane motive prompts US to
say. kill the dogs."-New York Herald.
The people of southern Dakota have strong
claim for admission apart from the alleged guar
antees of the Ordinance of 1881 The part of the
Territory which thoy have set off is quite large
enough for State 1t is SAID to contain $50 pop
ulation, would be entitled to two members of the
House of Representatives, and is rapidly grow
ing and building up industries 1t is undoubt-
eddy capable of self-government and fairly en-
titled to it, and it may be suggested that the fact
that it has chosen Republicans to State offices
and for members of Congress is not sufficient
reason for rejecting its claims New York
Times.