The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-11-06
COMMENT AND OPINION.

begin paying off the debt agaln.-Hartford Post
Now produce for us the aboriginal mugwump
that we may bear him to remotest cave,
and there at leisure feel his bumps.-Washing-
ton Post.
Pity the country. the time aud the profession
whose old men have realized their visions and
whose young men will not dream dreams.-Buf-
falo Express.
The morphine for quinine druggist turns up
in Akron, O. He is evidently working his way
West, and may soon get far enough to be lynched.
Philadelphia News.
A special train carried President Cleveland
home to vote. This method of getting voters to
the polls is expensive, but presidential votes are
valuable. Philadelphia Inquirer.
The Democrats are entitled to Virginia so long
as the people of that State treasure the memo
rles of the rebellion above the traditions of
earlier days.-Pittsburg Chronicle.
1t is said that Mr.. Davenport had barl and
that he tapped it early in the campaign. 1t
was emnently proper that the mugwumps be
given showing.-Atlanta Constitution.
The people of this afflicted country will have
four solid weeks now in which to forget politics,
and it is to be hoped that they will make the
most of the respite. philadelphia Telegraph.
The result in New York means that the of
fensive partisan nonsense is played out, and that
Republicans must be fired, because their places
are wanted by Democrats. Milwaukee Sentinel
Republicans have never made anything in
trading with quarrelng Democrats. The indie
pendent Democrat, when he reaches Legislature
City Council is regular IN every respect.
Boston Journal.
Who will mourn the mugwumps now2 That
bubble reputation which has been theirs since
Cleveland carried New York by their small aid,
where is it now} Where is the mugwump party?
st. Louis Post-Dispatch.
The experiment Of the age is and must be the
education of coming voters. The legislation
which shall accomplish this may end the trouble
over the negro as voter; if this will not, moth
ing will.-Lousyille Commercial.
Neal Dow says the rumsellers are running the
State of Maine If this is true, one may be par
doned for asking what the Prohbitionlsts, head
ed by Neal Dow himself, have been dong in
Maine for the past thirty years Cincinnati Sun.
Ohio sat down on future October elections by
nearly third Of million majority The sensi-
BILE business people of that State are evidently
tired OF having a carnival of corruption and
boom of billingsgate twice in one year.-Boston
Record.
A good name is better than great riches, and
neither the President of the United States nor
any of his Cabinet has any right to blast a mans
reputation for uprightness of character, and re-
fuse to tell the man himself, or any ore else, the
reason why.-Denyer Tribune.
Without discussing the matter in this con-
necton we will only add that New York and
Ohio have, in their recent State campaigns, il
Illustrated the opposite courses indicated upon the
fore the public.-Chicago Inter Ocean.
II appears that the new temperance law of
Switzerland is not like our local option" at all.
1t is merely shrewd form of high license with
view to restriction, not prohibition, of the
traffic in liquor These model law makers rec
ognize prohibition as all moonshine. --Boston
Transcrp pit
If there were no apples and grapes there would
be no temptation to any one to make wine and
cider, and as the chief plank in the platform of
these temperance reformers is the removal of all
temptation from every body, it might be wise to
begin with first principles in this matter --Phila-
delphia Times.
married man. who looked as if his wife had
two majority in the House and full control of the
Senate. came into our Office yesterday and said
that he wanted to subscribe for the journal, a.
he said there was no living with the old woman
until he did. The old lady will please accept our
thanks.-Centrala Kan Journal.
Something more is needed to arouse honest
Republicans than to tell them that the candi-
dates OF their party are eminently respectable,
that they are enormously wealthy, and that they
are SO really nice that they do not perspire
during the hottest weather. and that their nom.
ination is satisfactory to the men who last year
were the party's most bitter maigners. Chicago
Mail.
In or out the Republican party will still con-
tend for a free ballot and an honest count; that
vote in the South shall count no more than
vote in the North True to the achievements of
the war and the great and grand principles upon
which so many victories have been won, this
party will remain true to the soldier and oe
found fighting for his rights.-Muncie (Ind)
Times.
If a candidate for Office is fit man. honest
capable and patriotic, it is simply nobody's bust
ness to inquire whether he is Catholic or Protest
tant, Jew, Turk, hereto infide because
these are personal matters in no way re-
lated to the only concern with which notifies
all call Of
proper men for offce--New York Commercial
Advertiser
There was time when it seemed that even
Parrot gun or the convulsion of civil war could
put new idea into a Democratic head, or take
an old prejudice out But now Democratic
President shows that there is one Republican
institution, at least. upon which the party does
not mean 10 make war, the institution of Thanks
giving. For this mercy, Also on the Goth we
may be profoundly thankful Even the Demo
cratic party moves little.-New York Tribune.
The government is not bank. although some
Eastern politicians seem to think that the banks
constitute the government The government is
not a money-lender, borrowing at per cent and
lending at 6 per cent If the government were
engaged in this business there would be sense in
saying that it would be bad fnanciering to pay
off the public debt bearing 3 per cent at time
when money brings per cent. The truth of the
matter is that the Treasury Department is
searching diligently for excuse to .erpetuate
the money power of the bondholders. -Denver
Tribune.
The agriculture of this country has spread
over too many acres already. What it needs ia
to bring higher intelligence to its aid and TO
make each acre produce far m ore than before
We have not yet begun to realize the productive
capacity of this country nor shall we until the
farmer makes manufacturer of himself part
OF the year. learns to make all his months
produce wealth for him, and adapts his industry
more TO the permanent and increasing needs of
the home market, so that he may be less de-
pendent on the changes of industry or of legis
lation abroad.-New York Tribune
republican government is not possible ex
cept through parties. The conflicts and strug-
giles of parties, endeavoring to for their
respective principles measures and men predom-
nance in the government, are Indispensable to