The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-11-12
COMMENT AND OPINION.

CUMM AND UPlNlON.
Boston must intend to run a race with Chicago
for the proud title of the wickest city in the
country. Its startling sensations" now average
about one day--Baltimore American
They have named jackass which is seven
feet high and weighs 500 pounds. and located in
Bristol Tenn, His Excellency OF course the
unfortunate animal can't help it Tne name
seems to fit Observation-Disclosures Press
Garland is the richest man in Grover Cleve-
lands Cabinet In addition TO other vast sources
of wealth, he possesses 81, 800, 900 in telephone
stock. The Attorney general is rich man. and
lives up to the law and the profits.-Peoria
Transcript
The plays that--warm, ful-toned and deeply
observation-disclosures the chiefest virtues, pro-
claim the highest truths, are the plays that do
most good In molding the minds Of the young, in
terminating the ethical natures of the mature.
Chicago Inter Ocean.
The time will come when an English policy
will not control the coinage Of the United States
or the schedule for customs dues. In other
words, an American policy as to tariff coinage
and currency will dominate upon the westerc
hemisphere. National Republican.
The two Democratic Civil-service Commission
ers appointed last week have not been very con-
spicuous as reformers in the past, and if we can
judge from the influences that secured them
their appointments they are not very likely to
become so in the future The Republic.
erty of Chinese residents in this country are to
be protected at all hazards, and the reckless and
worthless agitators, who are far greater curse
to the communities which they infest than any
other class of heather, will subside. New York
Times
If the children of the commonwealth are given
fair and even start in the race of life and such
degree of rudimentary knowledge as Ats them
for the duties of citizenship. further provision
by the State takes a shape of invidious prefer
ence The children cannot all share alike.
philadelphia Record.
Few people on this side of the water take
much interest in English politics Less people
care whether the one or the other party succeed
IN general election, but all will sympathize, il
they have any sympathy at all, with Mr.. Glad
stone in the good fight he tries to make.
Charleston News and Courier.
If the Democrats are not determined to dis
play once more their marvellous capacity and
genius for laundering to their own defeat, they
will let we'll enough alone by neither changing
the rules of the House as proposed nor fooling
around Mr. Morrson's horizontal reduction bill
second time. Philadelphia Telegraph.
Objection is being made to Mr.. Edgerton's ap-
po1ntmeut to the Civil-servce Commission ON
the ground that he is seventy years of age Such
objection is absurd. Mr.. Edgerton is gentle
man of the old school, well versed in Sanskrit.
Hebrew, Greek and Latin, all of which will
greatly aid him in putting questions to cviserv-
ice applicants.-Albany Express.
Thomas A. Hendricks has personal reasons for
qualification at the mugwump humiliation in
New York In his capacity as the great Ameri-
can straddler. he has watched with jealous an
ger the attempts of Curtis. Jones, White God
kin and Schurz to beat his record by stretching
from Cleveland to Davenport and their disas-
trous fall fills him with delight-Cleveland
Leader
Perhaps the Indian is no more fitted for citi-
zenship than he is to be a treaty making and
treaty keeping creature. If that is true, il is
very unfortunate for the Indian. We do not
believe that all the sentimentalists in America
can reverse the policy by which the pale-face has
possessed himself of the red mans landss unless
it can be done by making him citizen.-Mem-
phis Avalanche.
The defenders of American industry need to be
on their guard. They were fully warned last
year, before the election They have been
warned again this year that Democratic victory
would encourage the administration to make war
on the tariff. The war has been declared, il
seems. and it will not do to underrate the power
of the administration with Democratic House.
New York Tribune.
The production of silver is increasing, though
not so rapidly as that of the great staples of in
dustry. but still rapidly enough to make it far
less oppressive than gold as a standard of value.
Justice, therefore. and our commercial interests
combine to recommend that silver be adopted
and gold discarded until the course of events
shall reverse the present relations of the two
Standardization York Sun.
AL the evils brought upon us by the mischiev-
Gus Bland bill may be enlarged upon and intensi-
fed by an I'M udicious move in the opposite d.
rection Let that bill be repealed, but in such A
way that the repeal will contain no hint at the
characterization of silver. The true policy of
this country is to avoid. above all things ex-
treme action either for or against bi-metalism.
minneapolis Tribune.
This is working world. and the boy who ia
sent into it unable to work, ignorant of its pro-
ductive industries and its agricultural, mechan-
cal and scientific methods, and unskied in the
use of his hands, is handicapped in the struggle
for success and confronted with every chance Of
failure at the very beginning of the race The
manual training school bids fair to supply this
deficiency. Chicago Tribune
We have very high opinion of Mr. Pend1e-
tom our ministers to England and France may
be inexperienced diplomates, but either of them,
it is fair to conclude, are much better qualified
to conduct the inquiries intrusted to Mr.. Marble
than that gentleman. His appointment was
simply partisan job, and the report of the long
list of distinguished people whom he has met
during his summer travels. given out to the
Associated Press by Mr.. Bayard, is ridiculous.
The Manton Marble mission belongs to what the
Nation is fond of calling 'opera bouffe poll.
tics. milwaukee Sentinel