The Indianapolis journal., 1885-12-29

ing SHOWN Ti Latter-day Slnners-Phlla-
OoNGREs Is taking a rest just now, but gosh,
how the country will catch it when Congress gets
its second wind!-Minneapols Tribune.
JOHN BI6ELows declination Of the proffered
position of assistant treasurer in New York in
dcates that old man 1iden still has policy Of
his Philadelphia Press.
CHEAP telegraphyis is as necessary as cheap
mail facilities. and it will never be obtained un-
til the government takes charge of the service
for the people. News.
On the whole ''these be parlous times"
While the Democratic factions are getting ready
for great field engagement, it's good time for
Republicans to keep cool.-National Republican.
A Boston paper has an editorial showing Ben
Butler the folly of ever re-enterng politics. This
s like giving patient who has lost both legs q
tract on the sin of dancing. .-Philadelphia North
American.
PRESIDENT CLEvEIANDs message does not
seem very long document since the publication
of the decision of Judge Sawyer. setting forth that
Sarah Althea Hill never was Mrs Sharon.
louisville Commercial
WHAT better could New York do than to make
prohibition the rule for the rural sections of
the State which desire it, and give municipal
ties the option of an even minimum tax of $500
or 81, ,O00f-Chicago Tribune.
DAKoTAs grip on the public attention indicates
that she means to hang on to the outside of the
Union until she is taken in. And that is what
makes the partisans who do not want her in
squirm over her attitude 80 much.-Pittsburg
Dispatch.
SOUTHERN Democratic organs are in an anus.
ing predicament between their fear lest economy
may not be the rule in the present Congress and
their anxiety lest liberal appropriations may not
be made for Southern rivers and harbors.-Bos-
ton Journal.
BAGGAGE-MAsTERs always tremble when they
hear that Senator Blair, OF New Hampshire, is
about starting for Washington. 1t is not an in
frequent thing for him to pack at least six trunks
with bills for the amelioration Of human life, or
for warming up the gulf stream of national
progress, as it were.-Boston Record.
THE people are happy and prosperous, and in
general not bothered by thought of fine
problems in finances They receive wages and
pay for goods in money that they can pass
at the same value it came into their hands and
are willing that statesmen shall have all the
trouble they can borrow.-Cincinnati Enquirer.
WHOEVER in Congress votes against the sus-
pension of silver coinage will vote to pay the
workngmen of the country in eighty-cent dol
lars and whoever does that thing will feel de-
servedly the just indignation of the robbed
working men and women of America before he
is very much oldor.-New York Herald
THERE may be difference of opinion as to the
ultimate success of the experiments now in
progress. Men of science are naturally conserv-
ative. 1t is best so. But no one will deny that
Pasteur has opened the door of great discov-
cry, through which. if he does not himself pass
he has made it possible for some one else to pass
New York Herald.
HERE is a chance for the Prohibitionists. If
they will agitate Congress for the passage Of a
law forbidding the importation Of all wlnes
spirits and beer, they will find the American hog
at their back, and that he carries weight with
him in a double sense Prohibition and the
honor of the American hog" would be a war-cry
not to be despised. New York Sun.
hoo uot voNo
crisis without producing q man equal to the
emergency, and it may be safely assumed that
race which has played such a great part in the
worlds history will find a man to lead it through
the present most unpromising difficulty. But at
present the best friends of France must admit
that the outlook is bad.-New York Telegraph.
RUMoRs continue to multiply that Mr.. Sher-
man may be sold out in the Ohio Legislature
next month. The comment of the average jour
nalist and politician upon this contingency is de-.
cidedly cynical. Ii reminds us OF the gentleman
who urged his friends wife to elope with him
not because he cared for it. but because it would
be such great joke on John.-Phadelrhi
Record.
THE rumor that Senator Evarts is preparing
speech in favor of the silver mems cause may
now take a long vacation The Senator denies
it point blank He is known to think that silver
and gold should both be used as money; but he
realizes as fully as any other statesman that the
coinage OF superfuous dollars. IL carried on
iDucn ser at the present rate, VIII % sure 10
upset the finances of the Nator.-New York
Tribune.
Ir is clear that if every dollars worth of un
claimed property in England belonged to heirs
in this country. and was divided among the un-
numbered host it would hardly pay the cost OF
collection. American claimants before spending
much money in the pursuit of an English estate
should read the statute of limitations, post up
on the statistics of the Court of Chaneery, aud
then take the advice Of some good lawyer.-Ch
cago Tribune.
THE new year dawns upon the United States
as the most favored nation in the world. Busi-
ness is reviving in every department. Our store
houses and granaries are full to overflowing
We are free from all foreign entanglements.
The public health is good, and with reasonable
there is nothing to dread from foreign pesti
lence. We can look back upon 1885 with grate..
full hearts and forward to 1886 with hope and
confidence. Verify, this Nation is the chosen or
Of the Lord's.-Chicago News,