The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-10-29
COMMENT AND OPINION.

1t costs only a ten-cent stamp to get man you
don't like awakened at midnight Milwaukee
Sentinel.
The woods are full OF politicians and parsons
anxious to be saved from their own misdeeds.
Philadelphia Times
The dime novel is the right bower Of the
devil when he is playing for a boys head and
| heart-New York Herald.
Whenever war is talked over for a fortnight or
so in Europe, it is safe to conclude that there
will be no fighting -Phiadelphia Star.
What the South most needs is an invasion of
| Northern capital and enterprise This will come
when political equality is established National
| Republican.
The talk about the President not desiring ths
| election of the Democratic ticket in New York
will now have to be taken in for repairs.--Phla-
| delphia Times.
1t is time to put down the party which has
elected President by organized fraud, and now
endeavors to suppress free suffrage in Northern
States also.-New York Tribune.
The coming farmer, and the one who will reap
| the richest rewards, will be he who can have the
largest fertilizer piles, the best meadows and the
| finest stock Nashville American.
Every spiritual revival in England has been
| compelled to stand aloof from the state Church.
| The separation of church and state means spirit
ual freedom for the church.-St. Louis Advo-
| cate.
The ptor of Jeff Davis has been removed
from Office by Mr.. Cleveland, but he has given
an Office to the captor of old John Brown. The
balance must be maintained somehow.-Mil.
waukee Sentinel.
1t does not become serious men of the South
to bather about the bloody shirt There are
some men in the North so degraded that that
| sort Of thing is expected of them.--Cincinnatt
Commercial Gazette.
The bankers of tho country have always
welded strong influence in legislative action,
| and it is almost certain that their united energy
in the matter of an eXtradition treaty will result
| in something. -Minneapohs Journal
Do not marry under twenty-eght for yourself,
nor under twenty three for your wife; and rec
| member, too, that the best dover wife cam
bring You is a sound constitution. 1t is worth
more to you than fortune Herald of Health.
The Downs and Taber trial is not without its
compensations. The Boston papers are too buoy
reporting it to continue their customary refec-
tons on the moral and social superiority of Bos-
ton over the rest of the world.-St Louis POST
Dispatch.
AS a lawyer, Conkline frequently has follow
ing, q constituency; as politician. he is, ad-
mittedly. without either, unless there still re-
main few Oneida county citizens who refuse
to think for themselves without cue from
Conkling. GETTYSBURG Dispatch.
But no cure of any kind is possible until the
rank, fostering, seething steaming hot bed of all
uneleanliness, called Ciacinnati on the map, has
been purified to point where it will cease to
produce such exponential growths as the En-
quirer. --Memphis Avalanche (Dem.)
Mormonism must not only be fought at home,
but also abroad. If its doctrine is Objectionable
in Utah. it does not become the less so by being
transported into Illinois or Indiana--0r Georgia
where Mormon missionaries are reported to be
at work.-St. Louis Globe Democrat
The evidence of the many venerable and hon-
ored public men which has been volunteered in
support or rebuttal of the story contained in the
Depew letter is not history but most of it Ia
| Gr1d NfI m hn
liable historical material-Philadelph Press.
If. with an emascnlated or abolished House of
Lords, divorce of church and state, and way
opened Tor the distribution of land an hereditary
arstocracy and monarchy can stand secure. IL
will De the most stupendous political miracle Ia
the annals of the world-St Louis Republican.
The President would gain nothing but evil by
receding He will gain all that, and more than.
he is aiming to accomplish by steadily advance
ing, as Grant did, ION this linen Civilservice
reform is not only the most important but the
} most growing question of the hour.-Chieage
Times.
The unemployed street-car drivers of St
{ Louis are amusing themselves by placing dynas
mite torpedoes on the tracks, thus destroying
property and endangering the lives of innocent
people. Six feet OF hemp, with man on one
end and a convenient lamp-post at the other, is a
sure cure for such villa1ny.-Louisyllie COM
: mercial.
The majority Of the people of all political par
ties are in favor of decency aud good order, and
the exposure of such infamies as have just now
put US to shame before the public will result In
the downfall from power of the men who are re-
sponsible for these crimes. If we believed other.
wise we should be in despair. Western Chris
|, tan Advocate.
The President has made a number oe very IN
, wise appointments, which he found out but did
not recall; but Judge Vincent makes mistake
in appointing the wrong as juror in dis
tant Territory, and the President arises in his
wrath and kicks him out, and refuses to listen to
, any explanation If the people had not been
more lenient than that with the President,where
. would Cleveland be9-Chieago Inter Ocean.
Q If it had been understood or suspected that q
time would come when. under peaceful condi
tions. one section of the country would be SC
solicited by local and sectional considerations
that the expression of honest opinion upon great
t national questions could not be obtained or en-
2 joyed within their borders, the Union would
very likely never have been established; and yed
that is precisely the situation in the South to-
day.-St. Louis Gl0oe Democrat