The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-12-16
COMMENT AND OPINION.

1t is said that Vanderbilt died of overwork.
If this be true what is the use Of getting richf
New York Star.
The Democrats in Congress are working for
harmony" What they most need to work for ID
principle and policy to be harmonious upon.
| Boston Herald.
| This country has given $50. 900 to the Parneii
| fund since Oct. l. Who says we are poor2-Phil
| adel9hi Inquirer
| How does President Cleveland find time to
| read all the papers that publish "We note that :
| the President has acted on our advice" etci
| Boston Transcript
The President observes that parties still seem
to be necessary" The action of the Democracy
| in Congress will show whether or not this par
| tscular party is necessary. Boston Herald.
| There would be very few strikes. and those
| under extreme necessity, the families OF
the strikers permitted to vote the question OF
knocking off work.-Cincinnati Commercial Ga
| Zette.
The saints of Utah have gazed upon the United
! States batteries and wept They are innocent
| babes. We have an idea that Greenland would
suit the saints They need freezing. York
! Journal
'The interest in the Hendricks monument
| must not flag" says the Indianapolis Sentinel
There is faint flavor of New Yorkism in the
above expression which is truly touching
Minneapolis Tribune.
What is the matter with Democratic news
papers2 They do not devote that attention to
the changed condition of the national finances
which should be given by alleged organs of the
people.-Chicago Tribune
| AS Col. William Morrison's party refused to
| elect him to the Senate, the probability is that
| he will become known to fame as the Great Hor-
lzontal. He will grow tired of the fatteniug- out
business. Atlanta Constitution.
| The outlook at present is for monkey and
| parrot time over the organization of the Ohio
Senate, thanks to the action of the partisan
1 hold fho nav tic
frauds in Hamilton county.-Pittsburg Chroni--
| Gle.
1t is curious coincidence that, just as Mr..
| Gladstone's party sees a chance of getting back
| into the government, a new Mahdi rises up IN
the Soudan and demands to be crushed There
| seems to be sort of fatality about is.-Boston
Record
1t will be found, upon comparison, that the
| views of the straight Democratic journals
| upon the message are expressed with more hon
esty and less timidity than the views of the so
| called Independent journals which rail at parti-
sanship and boast of their honesty Milwaukee
| Sentinel.
| Terms of members of Congress- like all things
| earthly, have an end, and Mr.. Seney is wisely
| seeking to cast an anchor to windward. If he
can get the civil-service law repealed before he
becomes applicant for Office within it's
| rules he will not be met by examination
which any well-informed man could readily pass.
Chicago News.
| record
| treachery and violence than that which gives
! the unwholesome progress and the shameful con-
| summation of Mormonism in this country. No
one thinks 1t worth while to argue the point that
the crime should be obliterated. 1t offends the
meanest intelligence to propose the controversy.
New York Star.
The people must be brought under the infu-
ence of religious teachings; and this cannot be-
| done by the mere holding of services with a
ritual elaborate or simple, or with the added at
traction of hymn-b book got up for the occasion.
| To reach the people. religious teachers must 60
| after them, and not sit, like JONAH idly bemoan-
| ing popular indifference and perversty.-New
| York Herald.
| The only notifications of the civil-service law
| the present Congress may reasonably be en-
| pected to make are such as will take from the
Commission the power to restrict appointments.
| Were it made the duty of the Commission
| simply to certify to the qualifications of those
examined by them instead of selecting for ap.
| pointments, the constitutional objection to the
system would be removed.-St. Louis Repub-
| lican.
When one man Injuries another it almost inva-
| riably awakens in his mind antipathy 30 the
| man injured, and the fact that Mr.. Cleveland
| wa: given an opportunity to write presidential
message only through the suppression of the
| black vote in the South may have had the effect
| to deepen his dislike for the colored citizens At
| all events, he ignores them as profoundly as il
they were inhabiting the wilds Of Africa. -Phil-
adelphia Press.
| There is no gain for honest men-and they are
| necessarily the great mass of the people-except
| in honest ways of doing business and especially
| In honest money. Sharpers and tricksters may
| win. here and there, with dishonest currency,
but for the man who gives days work for a
| fair days wages, cheap money brings nothing
| but loss and loss which it is harder for him to
bear, because the days labor, once used, can
never be used again.-New York Times.
With all the Democratic talk about retrench-
1 ant fha tiroaf IF fha dana
| for the coming fiscal year all exceed the sums
| appropriated for the current year. with tina
| single and very significant exception that tha
| Pension Bureau makes its figures 81 $40 900
| lower. The Democratic policy Of economy
begins, it will be observed, with the idea of
requiring the soldiers to get along with less than
| has heretofore been expended for their benefit
st Louis Globe Democrat
The growth of popular intelligence and feeling
points Enthusiastically to al era in the future
when the man who has done great things for the
good OF his race will be gratefully remembered,
while the conquerors of earth will be forgotten.
or, II their names survive, it will be only as ft
objects for execration. This view of the sub
lect is respectfully commended to the attention
of tie men in our midst who have it in their
power to build lasting monument to their own
fame, if not one that would tower so high to-
wards heaven as the one that could have BEEN
| erected by Vanderbilt+-Chicaeo Tribune.
Kearneyism was stamped out from the midst
| of American workingmen the moment the anti
Chinese law was passed. and since that time tho .
soil in which il has fourished has been furnished
almost wholly by foreign Socialists, whose inn
migration and settlement in the United States
has been far greater curse to the workingman
than all the Cinnamon who ever stepped upon
our shores. 1t is to these destroyers of every
thing and builders up Of nothing that the anti.
Chinese crusades of the present day are due.
and not to the intelligent laborers of the West :
to whom they have been generally credited.
New York Times.