The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-10-27
COMMENT AND OPINION.


The funniest spectacle in modern politics IL
Carl Schurz figuring as the prodigal son.-At,
lanta Constitution.
The man who wants to infuse religious issues
into political campaigns this year is being unans
lmousy invited to call some other tine.-Phila
delphia Times.
According to the Bourbon organs Republicans
from the North, who make campaign speeches
In Virginia, will be regarded as invaders. Ma
tional Republican.
In our own Judgment, it is beyond question
that the pardon of Mullen by President Ceye
land operated as great direct encouragement
to election frauds -Boston Advertiser.
The chances are that Congress will devote
about seven months to civil service. silver, and
the tariff, and that the session will end leaving
all these questions just where they are to-day.
National Republican
The proceedings in the Downes case in Bos-
ton, indicate one of two things Either Parsog
Downes is guilty, or he is altogether too con-
fdingly innocent to be of any real use in tho
pulpit-Philadelphi Press
All the ''errors" yet detected in the canvass OF
the Cincinnati votes happened to be in the inter
est Of the Democratic candidates. As Thoread
said of the fish in the milk can, this is strong
circumstantial evidence OF frauG.-Boston Her
aid.
1t is one good result Of the election in Ohio
that it secures the reelection of Mr.. Sherman to
the Senate. No man has been mentioned upon
the Democratic side as his probable successor
who could have filled his place -Harpers
Weekly.
Uneasy lies the head that wears a crowns
The Car has forbidden the celebration of Rus
sian emancipation. which took plack twenty five
years since. And yet it was the nobest act
ever performed By Russian soveregn.-New
York Star
Striking may sometimes be justified as des-
perate remedy for desperate disease, but
n h0ffn h0 dnf VTx1
capital with that distrust which results in the
paralysis of industry and trade.-St Louis
Globe Democrat.
Secretary Bayard's address at the Huguenot
bi-centennial reveals his interest in the politics
of two centuries ago. This may also afford an
explanation of the principle of selection that
seems to rule in some of his diplomatic appoint
ments.-Pittsburg Dispatch
Just so long as inventions are multiplying the
instances in which machinery does the work
which mans labor has heretofore performed, in
just so much is mans condition improved, and
the ratio OF that improvement is the greater the
poorer the class who are benefited by it-Wash-
ington Post.
The story of General Grants life as told by
Mr. Beecher exhibiting his faults as we'll as his
virtues, his weaknesses as well as his great
strength, gives a view of the man which is
heroic while yet human, and which appeals
most strongly to the sympathy and the under
standing.-Boston Advertiser.
Fred Grant and his brothers could do no one
thing that would so endear them to the people
OF their native land as to get up their mettle
and rescue their sister Nellie, if it were neces-
sary to punch the everlasting filling out of the
man who promised under high heaven to love
and honor Williamsport Breakfast Table.
The transfer of the Indian question to the
army, in SO far as such transfer can be man
aged, is dictated by common sense. That so OBJ
vious an expedient has rot yet been tried in all
the experimentation with the Indian question is
due to the Influence, at Washington, of the
officials interested in maintaining the present
state of things.-Eew York Times.
While it is unquestionably true that depraveE
woman is more depraved than a man gets to be,
yet there can be no hope of reforming such
woman except by bringing her under the infu-
ence of q woman of pure morals For this and
many other reasons women should be employed
In all the larger prisons to watch over and care
for the depraved creatures who are sometimes
locked up.-Denver Republican. 1855
The best interests of commerce have been sac
rifced wherever the lower races have come to
regard rum as the most desirable of civilized
products All Christian nations once worked
| together to destroy the slave trade The die
tates of humanity and the interest of their trade
should impel them now to restrict, if they can
not wholly destroy, this other evil, which is as
disgracefu to civilization as the crime of slave
steaing-New York Sun.
With the schools the press and the pulpit--
the three great teachers of the publie-seekng
to elevate the purity of political methods. soma
lasting good may be hoped for but not without
these. Nor will a marked change come before a
new generation arrives al the pulls Meanwhile
it is In the power OF every good citizen, by his
vote and by his exsmpas. whether be belong 10
citizens league or not. 10 do something in the
direction Of good sOve-u-ne1t-Lc1lsvI Com
mercial
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ireland Cali De 6s2graneE esther hagnnu,ag,iIy an
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think that ore on lhs ssUiQngssst asu6ansass aswr
furnished 81 GsgiSsh ar;fiis in ns,ssEnf is aia
fact that many eli tire n,,f<h paoJte nasse he
cesae ignorant ard eewaciIy asiniri,'h 10 sfsst
such system Of vengeance ss that nt lis Tire
madness Of the saan eA estt AsisQygn nose oil 10
spite his face ~Desper News