The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-12-03
COMMENT AND OPINION.

The country can get aloug without cocaine,
and its manufacture and sale should be prohibit
ed under the severest penalties
Chronicle
The public debt was increased during the
month. The economies of the new admins
tration are becoming appareEt.-Pittsburg
Chronicle.
If we must have government control and con-
duct of the business and property of the country,
we may as we'll inaugurate monarchy at once.
Saginaw Courier.
The Republican senators should not elect
President of the Senate whose term of Office ex-
pires before the close Of the present admnistra-
tion.-Boston Journal.
Fish and Ward are Justly suffering for their
own sins, but unfortunately they are suffering
from the sins of others as well. This is not
fair-New York Graphic.
Considering that death is the most certain
thing in the world, it is surprising to find how
few persons arrange their afairs with reference
to it's possibility. Boston Herald.
The registry law was drawn by Republican
lawyer and passed by Democratic Legislature,
in obedience to popular demand for further
safeguards against fraud.-Cincinnati Sun.
The Presidents decision not to attend the flu
neral of the Vice-president is no less creditable
to his sense of public duty than his first decision
to go was to his right feeling. -Brooklyn Union.
Federalsts may sneer as they please at the
rlSntS ana powers OF the StSteS out anarchy IS
impossible in this country as long as those rights
and powers are preserved.-Louisville Courier
Journal
If the Atlanta temperance people think that
a prohibition vote really prohibits they ought
to visit the large towns in Maine and Iowa.
Their fight has only just begun, if they are in
earnest.-Boston Record
Now is the time for the Republican party to
make itself solid by judicious legislation and the
enactment of such laws as will secure to their
party the support of all classes of men who la
bor.-Cincinnati Telegram.
Pretty nearly everything seems to be uncon-
sttutonal in Ohio just now except forgery AS
substitute for the popular will, forgery is
handy for those who work in politics az q steady
thing.-Cincinnati Commercial Gazette,
There is a chance for some philosopher to dis
tinguish himself by explaining how it happens
that the adoption of prohibtory liquor law in
varlably causes an increase Of strife an9 scandal
in community.-St. Louis Globe Democrat
The increased correspondence indicated by the
postal returns for the last four months is proof
of healthier and better business throughout the
country. When there is little doing In the way
of trade the postofice receipts fall away cor
respondingly. Philadelphia Record.
President Cleveland can serve his country bet
ter by attending to the duties of his great Office
IN Washington than by attending the obsequies
OF Mr. Hendricks, no matter how strong his per-
memory of his associate in Office may be.-Den-
yer News.
One of the most persistent traits Of the
American people is unbounded, and often I'M
reasonable, curiosity. Witness the crowds in
indianapolis, accustomed to seeing Mr. Hendricks
every day, yet thronging before his house and
standing hours for chance to see him in his
coffin Philadelphia Press.
IT, with the same moral purpose and brain
power, Mr.. Hendricks had been a Republican,
about his memory would now cluster the honor
of having championed the most benefcent public
measures OF his time, and he would be known
as having taken part in accomplishing the best
results of American politics.-Chicago Inter
Ocean.
prohibition or anti prohibition is a political
issue, and must remain So "Wet or dry" as it
is understood in Georgia, represents the right of
the single community to choose its institutions
and to regulate its own affairs For many rea-
sons that principle is as dear to the South as the
principle of national prohibition is odious.-St.
Louis Republican.
During the last two years Mr.. Gould has been
gradually concentrating his wealth into three
favorites-Western Union, Missouri Pacific and
Manhattan Elevated. None of these companies
are investments. properly speaking, and, until
age and good management give them stability,
Mr.. Gould will not be able to leave the street
entirely. -Philadep Press
The strike gives reckless and desperate men an
to bring discredit upon the cause Of
labor by their misdeeds. Out of work. and
often full Of drink, at such times ignorant men
are with great difficulty restrained even by
those whose couEses they usually follow If
there were no other reason for preferring arbi-
tration, this ought to be sufficient to those who
have the cause OF labor at heart.-New York
Tribune.
The radical temperance reformers of the fu-
ture may turn their attention from the rum
shop to the apothecary shop, when they are try
ing TO remove from men and women the tempta-
ton to runous indulgence in stimulants If
people are driven away from alcohol may they
not fly to beverages which are still more per
nicious2 However that may be. the habitual use
OF drugs as stimulants seems to be increasing at
an alarming rate-New York Sun.
1t would not be another Waterloo, but another
Yorktown, if Congress should have the sense to
maintain American monetary independence by
stopping the coinage of silver. 1t does not follow
that failure of Congress to act this year would
necessarily involve American defeat but the
danger is great. On the other hand, wise action
by Congress this winter would almost insure
British defeat and the complete victory of
American industry.-New York Tribune.
That part of Ireland which can get wages and
food has returned conservative men; that part
which is covered with wretched cabins where a
potato blight means starvation, where rents can
not be paid because there is nothing to pay them
with, has thrown score or two of desperate
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nifcant. Ireland with something to eat is loyal,
and Ireland with nothing to eat wants change.
That is natural, and it is right.-New York
Herald.
The President has done we'll to disregard his
own personal inclination, and remain in Wash
ington instead of going to indianapolis to attend
the funeral of the Vice president. The sugges-
tion that he is in just as much danger at the ma
tional capital as he would be anywhere else has
no force. The risk of railroad travel would be
additional, and during the interval which must
elapse before the election Of President of the
Senate and Speaker of the House or Repre-
sentatives, it is the duty of the President to
incur no possibility of peril which he can avoid.
New York Sun.