The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-10-30
COMMENT AND OPINION.

What the Democratic administration nee DIS is
not more brains but more honesty.-Philadelphi
Inquirer.
Boston can at least claim that her MURDERS
like her church scandals startling and pecu-
llar.-St. Louis Post-Dspatch.
Civilservice Commissioner Thonan is the first
Ohio Democrat on record who has voluntarily re-
signed an Office Albany Express.
Let the Democracy take heart. There are 49,
900 federal offices yet to be filed before che Re-
publican rascals are all turned out.-PittsDurg
Chronicle.
II would remind you that all the thieves are
not in the Democratic party says Mr.. John e.
Hurst. TruI some of them are in the peniten-
tiary.-Baltillore Herald
Nothing is needed to make the special-delivery
service for letters ridiculous, except to have
postmasters or their clerks running around to
deliver the missiyes themselves. Boston Her
AID
President Cleveland proposes to close the
White House doors to office seeking bores on and
after the LIST of November. And there are still
COCO Republicans in fat federal Offices. New
YORK World.
Jones, he pays the freight" but the Presi
dent has generously relieved him of part OF
the expense by making a thousand-dolar sub
scription to the party barrel-New York Mail
and Express.
The protective system adopted by the Repub-
lican party built up our exports at marvellous
rate, and they continued to grow until checked
by the demoralizing influence of the free traders.
-Nationa. Republican.
The spirit of the civi-service law will be vio-
lated if the Republican appointee on the new
commission should be one of the men who aided
in the defeat of the Republican party last year.
National Republican.
We fear that the immediate solution of the
Irish question will not be found in any possible
application of the federal principle Irish hope
has thrown itself far beyond the mark which
Lord Roseberry has Washington Post.
Let the people pay their debts and put out
their money. Have the little jobs of repairing
done about house and store Buy new over
coat or cloak. Look cheerful Do not be ex
travagant, but stop pinchlng.-New York Advo
cate.
The largest measure of freedom should be the
workingmans aim, that he shall not be- re-
pressed for the benefit of those less industrious
and provident. To avoid the danger of being
prosecuted himself, he must abstain from the
persecution of Characterization News and
Courier
From the interview itself. as we'll as from the
quasi-denial of the interviews correctness, we
gather that Mr. Conkling, when considering the
of Mr. Blaine. feels a sort of savage ioy
over the fact that when he (Conkling) was kicked
into private life he kicked himself. Philadelphia
Telegraph.
The failure of bank officer to deal faithfully
with his customers gives shock to the fabric of
credit as severe the shock to morals involved
in the delinquency Of a preacher. The last year
has done very much to shake confidence in the
management of banking Institutions Philadel-
phla Record.
There is nothing improbable in James D.
Fishs testimony that Ferdinand Ward lied to
him over the telephone in order to get the Marine
Banks certlfcation to worthless check of
Wards for ST. 800 Wards whole career as
Young Napoleon of finance" was lie.-New
York Evening Post
President Cleveland's action in contributing to
the Democratic corruption fund to debauch the
voters of New York, and in influencing" his
Cabinet advisers to do likewise, would warrant
an investigation by the civil-service board to de-
termine whether he is not IAN offensive parti-
san. '-Albany Express.
Neither ignorance nor imbecility can Justify
any person in establishing himself as distrib
utirg center of pestilence. For which reason the
sanitary authorities should not forbear, when
occasion arises, to subject every member of the
Anti vaccination League to compulsory VAGINA
ton. New York Times.
The Southern people do not desire to be idle,
and do not wish to be poor. They lack the OPP
portunity which variety of production in agri-
culture and manufactures would give. These
opportunities are being provided daily They
will result in such wealth as the South has hith-
erto enjoyed only in dreams-New York Tee-
graph.
1t is a disreputable evasion of the point at
issue to raise hue and cry over the Bell tele
phone monopoly in order to divert attention
from the criticisms made upon Mr.. Garland's
conduct in accepting. when a senator of the
United States, present, 81 500 900 of the
stock of the Pan Electric Company. -Milwaukee
Sentinel.
We may be wrong. but it seems to us that
man loses his moral influence when the fact is
known that he was once addicted to missionary
on toast and boiled colporteur There is preju-
dice in the public mind that cannot easily be
overcome A reformed cannlbal may deserve
our confidence, but he can't get it-Atlanta
Constitution.
The masses may be deceived as to the mere
unimportant mechanism of this reform and
)isten at times to the silly twaddle Of politicians
about copying English methods and about the
nonsense of examinations, but they are, as