The Indianapolis journal., 1885-12-04
COMMENT AND OPINION,

Let well enough alone is the popular verdict
on the tariff question.-Ph Philadelphia Inquirer.
General Rosecranss latest attack on General
Grant is in exceedingly bad taste and temper,
and suggests kicking dead llon-Boston Trans
cript.
No wonder prohibition is popular in Kansas,
when all a man has to do to get bottle of beer
is to say he wants it for female weakness
Kansas City Times.
Don't worry about John Alexander Logan
we are enabled to say that he hasn't lost
minutes sleep since this discussion got started.
Philadelphia Press
1t is such near thing that it is hard to decide
wEetherit is Hendricks's mantle his shroud
over which the Indiana Democratic leaders are
wrangling. ng.-Pittsburg Chronicle
We think that by the time California gets
PRESIDENT the capital will have been moved to
the territorial center of the United States, which
is San Francisco.-San Francisco Alta.
By all means let Congress regulate the presi-
dental succession. The aforesaid succession
wss interrupted about a year ago in way
some of us loathe. Minneapolis Tribune
From all the business centers of the country
will come an earnest appeal to Congress for the
passage of bankruptcy act Congress will
probably talk about it-National Republican.
They say that C.eveland's message will be an
unusually readable one Perhaps he has really
adopted the Chronicle-Telegraphs suggestion
Chronicle Telegraph.
Things are manifestly drifting steadily in the
direction of increasing power for the money
kings. and so will they drift until reformatio
can be wrought in the moral tone and tendencies
of the people. Louisville Courier Journal
Enormous fortunes have been made on the
Island of Manhattan during the last half cen
tury, but who would suppose it who walked
about the city looking for signs that rich men
lived in it or were proud of it.-New York Even
ing Post
The verdict is generally that the present tar
III is bad enough, but the unsettlng and disturb
ing tendencies of tariff agitation would be worse
But, OF course, the agitation has sooner or later
got to come. This is an era of reform. Wash
ington Critic
The report that at the Hendricks funeral 'sthe
place OF honor was accorded to exPresident
Hayes" is calculated to make the New York Sun
howl unintelligible rawlings about ''the fraud of
1876" for the space of two calendar months
-Pittsburg Dispatch
It cannot be denied that the Democrats when
in control of the House. have shown singular in
capacity to legislate, which has resulted mainly
from the efforts of few men, headed by Mr.
Randall, to retard all positive action as much as
possible.-Boston Herald.
The fact that people live two years longer now
than they did thirty years ago in England
speaks well for the government of that country
and is an added indication of the amelora-
tlons which have been seffected in the condition
of its working classes. s.-Philadephia Record
The people of Iowa are hard to understand
They wanted prohibition and fought for it until
they got it. Now, before they have tried it long
enough to show its good points, they propose to
hold a State convention. composed of representa-
tives fromftowns of 1000 and upwards. to discuss
the entire question Of prohibition. on.-Atlanta Con
StitutlOn
Mr.. Cleveland did all that the most stringent
proprieties demanded of him when he issued a
proclamation announcing in fitting terms the
death OF Mr. Hendricks. There was and is no
reason why 1t should ever have been expected of
him that he should leave Washington to attend
the funeral of the Vice-president PHILADELPHIA
Telegraph.
The Mormons may be right as to the action of
the GENTLE court in releasing the accused gen
tiles; but they have yet to learn that there is
dlHerence, and quite legitimately drawn dis
tnctlon. too, between vice and crime committed
against law, aud vice and crime systematized.
and setting themselves up as lawful Memphis
Avalanche
Compulsory vaccination for all who are CAB
bling IN opposition to the protective system that
has saved hundreds OF millions of lives is the
miidest prescription we would give. There
seems to be a society Of those cranks in London
stopping over with false statistics and a litera-
ture of general debility CONNER
ciai Gazette
1t cannot be doubted that liquor-drnking to
eAcees Is nothlng nKe SO formidable now it
was years ago. Even in England, among the
wellto-do classes, the three bottle port-imbibers
who improved the opportunity afforded by the
treaty of Methuen. which let this beverage into
the island free of duty, have had no successors,
and IN the United States such badge of dis
grace has been affixed in social circles to drunk
enness that great improvement in convivial
habits has resulted Louisville Commercial
One thing we are proud to remember-the
death of no man can rob of the Republic
Statesmen die, the Republic remains. Our
country's great men simply drop the burden
they have been carrying, but others take it up
None of u.s. not even the noblest and the most
commanding, is necessary to the perpet,lity of
our institutions. We depart, one after the 9TH