The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-12-28
COM MENT AND OPINION.

THE Wattersonian system of craftsmanship
would soon land the old flag where not even an
appropriation could be called for.-Boston
Record.
Our free trade contemporaries. who are advo-
eating home rule for Ireland and foreign rule
the United States have our sympathies. Phil
adelphia Inquirer
The dynamiters had better be watched. So
much money is to be given Parnell that ODono-
van Rosa feels it necessary to do something of
great moment.-New York Graphic.
IT would be dstressful indeed if the admins
tration were compelled to skirmish round on the
Republican side of the Senate to find able cham
pions Of its policy on the silver issue.-National
Republican.
1T may be merely coincidence, but if so ii is
remarkable coincidence, that within twenty
four hours after the delivery of Senator Beck's
speech on silver, gold commenced leaving the
country.-St. Louis Post Dispatch
IT is curious fact that all the thoughts and
strivings of the trades-unions to secure
higher wages-more money for work-and no
organized effort is ever made to increase the
pure hasing power Of the money Grandchildren
go Tribune.
Now that it has been shown that the boy
cotted employer is not the abjectly helpless
creature he at first appeared, but that he can, in
his turn boycott the boycotters, it is to be hoped
that the use of this barbarous device will be dis
continued altogether-NeW York Times
there is no record Of such martyrdom of hell
as the Union soldiers of the civil war suffered
in the Southern prisons Surely the govern
ment in whose cause they suffered is responsible
to the small minority who were hardy enough to
survive their torture Chicago Inter Ocean.
THE sad fate of Mr. Bishop, the mind reader,
who insisted on suing Mr. Henry Labouchere for
$3.50, 900 damages for libel, and now has TO pay
MIR. LaoouchereS costs, conveys the moral that
mind readers should practice sufficiently to OBJ
tain inc oh ~ tho 1iyde of hocou
they embark in libel suits. -Pittsburg Dispatch
MERE size counts for nothing in Congress- the
test there is population. AS whole, Dakota will
long be weak State numerically, and to cut
into two States would be unjust to all States Of
the first class. Dakota, n whole, may squeeze
in, but the division project will not be accepted
by the House of Representatives. Con-
stitution.
IF his (Cleveland's) appointments are patriotic
and wise, the Republican senators have no ex-
cuse for antagonizing them. If they are foolish
and mschievous, the Democratic party will be
the only victim. IL does not seem to be the
affair of our Republican friends. in any event
The people have ordered Democratic banquet
this time-why meddle with its preparation?
Washington Post DEM .
THERE was no injustice TO the people. creditor
or debtor. in the changes made in the
gold dollar, and if those who complain of the
difference in intrinsic value between the two
dollars of the United States would only give
over their vandalism toward silver the
friends of the latter would very likely consent to
their unilication in value. So long, however,
as the present attitude of the monometaiists is
maintained, no change is likely to be effected
in the coinage policy of the United States. Chi
cago Inter Ocean
MoRMONIsM is dscrediting the country all over
the world. The Mormons refuse to obey the fed
eral government, and their church plainly aims
at making of them an alien community, certain
to be dangerous the moment it is numerically
strong enough. These men are really outlaws
and rebels We 10 not call them so; bat since
all mild measures have failed in dealing with
them, and since the time has come for settling
the matter definitely, there is much reason for
justifying the proposed law 1t cannot make the
Mormons more recalcitrant than they are.--New
York Tribune.
DUBUQUE is not Puritan community and
liquor drinking can be stopped there only by
great moral reformation of the drinkers or the
enforcement of prohibition at the point of the
bayonet. In such community the only means
of enforcing prohibition is by resorting to mill
tarY rule. Otherwise there will be prohibition
in theory and untaxed, free whisky in practice.
The common-sense solution would be to adopt
feasible restrictive measures and secure as much
prohibition by high taxation AS possible without
denying the right Of local self government.
Chicago Tribune.
For generations the negroes were Of necessity
the most abstemious race this continent but
when the opportunity came they were quick to
form the drinking haolts which have proved
the main obstacle to their advance in the last
twentyf years. 1t seen that free
whisky would destroy the labor value OF the
blacks and make them shiftless, idle and i'm
provident A prohibitory law that applied to
negroes only would be invalid, and hence the
Only way to rehabiitate the old code against
lquor-selling under the cover of statutes
that in terms bore equally on all classes. The
backbone of the present movement in the South
is the determination to take liquor away from
10 blacks RI
be able to their tpple.-Chicago Tribune.
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