The Indianapolis journal., 1885-12-18
COMMENT AND OPINION.

The Western tariff tinker will eat cold
victuals before Congress adjourns-Atianta
Constitution.
Mr.. Parnell has what they call out West
tail hold" on the British Parliament Boston
Evening Record
The prospects of the iron business are improv-
ing but let no manufacturer forget that the
tariff tinker is still there.-Phiadelphi Press.
What the MOrmons need TO insure their safety
in crime is supply of Democratic judges all the
way up to the United States Supreme Court.
Cleveland Leader
Senator McDonald's son has been appointed
pensioner examiner at indianapolis. Hitherto
Senator McDonald's prospects have been good.
Minneapolis Tribune.
1t must be said that in many places the skating
rinks have been very prolific source Of scandal,
which has predisposed public opinion against
them.-New York Sun.
Perhaps Mr.. Vanderbilt did not do as much
for charity as some people expected but then it
must be remembered that charity never did any
thing for MIR. Vanderbilt. t.-Phiadelphia Inqui-
rer.
Presidential messages will never be generally
read until some man is elected President who
will understand that column of sense goes
further than twenty columns of sound.-Detroit
Tribune.
There are $40, 600 still wanting to put the Bar
tho!di statue of Liberty Enlightening the World
outside the city to do his duty-Cincinnati Com
mercial Gazette.
What makes the Forty ninth Congress chiefly
remarkable is that there is no Smith in it. Has
the country lost confidence in the Smiths, or are
they tired of managing national affairs?-Phila-
delphia Record.
While people are remem bering their own chill
dren i'll the homes of plenty, they should not
forget to make other children happy in the homes
of want 1t doesn't cost much to do this and
pays hundredfold. Chicago Inter Ocean.
Eulogists of Mr.. Vanderbilt are now trying to
show that when he said, 'The public be
damned" he didn't mean it at ALL He only in
cluded in his remarks that part of the public
which didn't patronize the Now York Central
railroad Cincinnati Sun.
The silver men who fear contraction as con-
sequence of suspension of coinage, should re-
member bit of history. The Greenbackers
feared contraction and demanded imitation
What was wanted then is wanted now-conf-
dence.-Memphis Avalanche.
Because senators and congressman will NOT
patronize temperance lunch rooms is no reason
why the legislative hall of the nation should be
turned into gin-mill and the whole country
scandalized by their reputation as wine -bibbers
and whisky-guzzlers. Chicago News.
There is no reason why Mr. Bayard should
not try Mr.. Kelley on England. 1t is true Mr.
Kelley has been talking rather rough about Eng
land, but these utterances have been printed only
in the newspapers. And this is no evidence, ac-
cording to Secretary Bayard. Chicago Tribune
The American people have been so thoroughly
trained in the doctrine of popular rule that when
an act comes in conflict with the will of the
people they refuse to regard it as valid or bind
ing, and it remains dead letter; and that is the
reason there are now 2, 800 saloons plying their
traffic in prohibition" Iowa.-Chicago Tribune.
The women in public life have originated
nothing, just as Miss Cleveland has written
nothing to attract notice except for its elegant
diction. The sex must offer something more
than this to show capacity for political leader
ship. and surely woman does not want to vote if
voting does not lead the way to ofice.holdine.
louisville Commercial
When the whisky distlers announce with a
flourish of trumpets that they don't care for any
further legislation, it may be taken for granted
tfat they do care very much for just that thing,
and that they are getting in their work where it
will do the most good, while the dear public is
being fed with the delusion that nothing is
wanted.-Philadelphia Times
This inevitable drift toward a silver standard
is drift toward the rocks. There is danger
and nothing but danger, in that direction. There
is no arithmetic in the world which can make
eighty cents the equivalent of one hundred and
there is not credulity enough in the world to
make the people content with the eighty cents
when they know they have right to one hun
dred.-New York Herald.
1t is not reasonable to believe that the power
1ui anti l-Whlsky sentiment which has been de-
veloped in this country, and which is CONSTANT
increasing, will always, or much longer con-
tinus to operate in a non-political way, and to
let the Offices be filled without reference to its
work and its teachings. Temperance men are
becoming too numerous in all parties for that.
st. Louis Globe Democrat
The death Of Robert Toombs will not afford
Dir Lamar, or any other Secretary, an opportun-
ity to lower the flags at Washington. Unlike
Mr.. Jake Thompson. Mr. Robert Toombs was
never connected with the executive departments
of the government He was merely United
States senator. There he gave the cause of dis
union able service; but he never was pardoned
for the part he played later in the Rebellion,
and since the war closed. therefore, he has not
been sent to Congress nor has any Cabnent or
diplomatic position been offered to him.-New
York Tribune.