The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-09-16
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IT may be taken for granted that the Republican
senator's will not merely pass upon the Presidents ap
pointments but will inquire into their character and
fitness. They will not pursue factious and obstruct
i've course; they will treat tho administration with
fairness and beralty but where removals have been
made without cause and appointments made without
merit, and both on false grounds that the public
interests have suffered the Republican senator's will
exercise their prerogatve of reviewing the action.
The session is not likely to be dull at the Senate end.
Philadelphia Press.
On ground, at all events. the creation of an
American Catholic university at Washington will be-
viewed with satisfaction by all udicous friends of the
higher education. The concentration of Catholic
single great establishment will tend to
convince every powerful Protestant denomination of
the inexpediency of frittering its means among null
titude of petty local instiu TONS The funds thus
dispersed and wasted will hereafter be likely to
feed and multiply the energies OF the larger educa-
tional foundations; and the universities of the
highest type have in the United States the better.
New York Sun.
THE of dynamite argument III labor dis
ag eements has fortunately not become very common
in this country. But outrages of that kind too
frequent for the credit of the labor associations and
the detection aud Imprisonment of of these
maiefactorS would serve a wholesome example,
and lawabidng workingmen ought to rejoice in their
punishment 1t is strange that the trades-unions.
while taking pains to denounce many things which
they regard un-Amercan, should FREE
quently speak out aga nst revoltngY un American
practice the of dynamite by striking work
men.-New York Times.
THE workman ought to understand one thing. and
if he does understand it he will always be able to
reach a safe conclusion. When his employer puts a
dollar bill into his hand pay labor if he go
to the nearest bank and get gold dollar for the
piece of paper the country is stable basis and has
nothing to fear but if the contrary he takes the
paper to the bank and can get only fractional part
of gold dollar for it. he may be that something
is wrong and that though he may deude himself into
the belief that he is getting hundred cents he is
really getting eightyf and not penny more
This is what will happen when the country has been
flooded with silver and gold has Misrepresentation
York Herald
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wumps to pack their gripsacks and travel. But
whittier will they go9 They cannot logically remain
where they for although Cleveland's heart is
doubtedy running over with warnings to carry out
the civservce reform-or, rather. they pretend to
believe it is-he is poweress in the premises
wooden Indian. The stream has burst the dam and
caught him, and he is going down with all the other
debris mugwumps included Their wisest course
would be to put their repelents, hoist their
breas. come back into the Republican camp out of
the wet ard promise not to go wandering off again
after false gods If they will not do this we see but
one left for them, and that is to join the
Prohibtionists. Chicago Tribune
OF course, it is moral and intellectual and not
material aristocracy that the Freethnkes claim for
themselves. Guiteau Freethinter. The crank
that killed himself in Central Park the other day. to
help Mr. Ingersol redeem the world. was Free
thinker Tom Davies, with his three wives.
Free-thnker. Almost all thieves Free thinkers.
Whenever man thinks deeply and nobly, and lives
noby he belongs to aristocracy old as history.
The trouble with the average Free-thinkers is that
they to claim monopoly OF this virtue. whereas
usually very slavish and of the shallowest and their
lives are certainly not above the average lives Of
other men, But there is no doubt the ALBANY COR
vention will chuckle over the new name-Phladel-
phia Times
IT is surely not out of place at period when high
standa d of comfort and even luxury is general to
build churches of precious marbles and to adorn
them as generously as we may in design and with
beautiful fittings and accessories. Nor should it be
thought that this avshness is solely for the pleasure
Of tie socalled better class If look back to the
twelfth and thirteenth centuries when the greatest
and most splendid churches that the world will ever
see reared, find that the cathedrels or
Charities and Rheims and Salisbury and all their ma
iestc fellows built in great part by the scanty
offerings and freely toll of simple but believing
dor of glass and painting and with carving profuss
and patient that all the wealth of to-day would shrink
from vying with them.-New York Herald.
No Democrat of distinction outside of the admins
traton save one has arisen defend and support the
civil service law Senator Randall Gibson, of Louisi-
ana is the the shining exception. lie has written
long in which he charges his party to beware of
the fate that befe the Republicans through their
greed for party spois He urges Democrats to strive
for higher aims and to put away the question of spos
All this is very interesting 1t is calculated to raise
our ideals of public morality and make the observer
believe that politics. after ALL not bad rs they
have been described to be-. But, unfortunately at
this juncture an iconoclast happens along who
observes that nasmuch Mr.. Gibson has control OF
all the federal patronage in louisiana his professions
not quite DISTINGUISHED at first they appeared
AT all events Gibson is the only Democrat of prom
reform.-New York Commercial Advertiser.