The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-11-21
COMMENT AND OPINION.

| e.-Springheld Republican.
Whisky has broken the color line in Georgia
to an extent no question has before done.-Gal-
| weston News.
| felony, because the security of the public re-
| qures the conviction of the offender if it is pos
| sible to accomplish that result -Columbus Dis
| patch.
Albion may thank, and will yet thank, Irish
| endurance that it has saved her from ruin
through her own long, blind, stupid injustice.
| Memphis Avalanche
! 1t is living shame to be obliged to speak of
| ga Democratic court or "a Republican court"
| Politics should have 10 more to do with law than
with Observation-Disclosures Sun.
The Prohibition party is beginning to come to
| its senses. A member in Onondaga county, New
| Iork, was expelled the other day for being
| crank.-Philadelphia Inquirer.
| There are indications that the Republican
| party is slowly but surely getting its mad up,
| and that those renegade Republicans called mug
wumps are the maddest of the lot.-Philadelphia
| Inquirer
| If England has gone so far in the direction of
| the rights of man" in the last century, where
| is she liable to go in the neXtl And who the
wiser prophet in 1892 Edmund Burke or Thomas
| Paine?-St Louis Republican.
| The Republican Senate cannot undertake to
| arrest the spoils-grabbing of q Democratic ad-
mlnlstratlon, and its main function for the next
| three years will be to defeat vicious Democratic
| egiS!atlon.-Chlcago Tribune
The ignorant, the shiftless, the violent work
| ingman is the best ally of the monopolist. Con
| vert him to the ways OF common sense and
| down crashes the Mooch of monopoly, and class
privilege Philadelphia Herald.
Of course there is way to avoid the silver
standard; but tits very serious question wheth-
| er Congress will have the wisdom to take that
| way. We shall be better able to Judge about
| that a month from now.-Chicago Times.
Mr.. Fishbacks reply to exChief Justice Vim
| cents defense reveals state of affairs in New
Mexico that demands the presence of judiciary
not only above suspicion, but of the most posi-
| tive force of Characterization Transcript.
The publication of the public service can only
be accomplished by the presence of capable,
| proved officials not merely political workers
who regard the Offices of the government as
| theirs on account of partisan services.-Albany
| Argus
If it is true, as alleged that two Republicans
at indianapolis have stolen the ballots at an cleo
ton precinct hope they will get into the peni-
tertiary at the earliest possible moment. But
| their guilt remains to be proven.-National Re
| publican.
| grateful sense of relief settles over the face
or the country as the news speeds across the con-
tinent that Sterling will not contest the appoint
ment of OBrien. Macnanimous Sterlingl Happy
OBrien! Thrice happy country!-National Re-
| publican.
What the Pope has conceded to democracy is
ment. What he has failed to concede is of IN
| fnitely greater Importance It is the right of
| the people to be the government.-St Louis Re-
| publican.
| Brother Beecher announces that protection is
| "the jugglery of the devil" and that those who
| advocate 1t are mere vote mongers" Evidently
| Brother BeocherS creed reads: Thou shalt
bear false witness against thy neighbor "-Phila-
| delpbia Press.
| Newspaper will find mingled cause for
| alarm and encouragement in the assurance that
recent statistics show that the average life of the
| laborlng man in this country is one third less
than that of professional man.-Charleston
| News and Courier.
Boycotting particular employer may involve
in common ruin score of related industries. 1t
is this aspect of the boycott this wide and ire
| mendous injustice, which makes it deserve to be
classed with dynamite social remedial agent
st. Paul Pioneer Press.
The glee of the English in Canada goes to
| confirm the impression that their chief motive
| in pressing the execution of Rel was not their
| desire to see the law indicated, but q determi-
nation to show the French Can adams who are
| masters in Canada. Boston Record
1t is about time the heart of tho people de-
mand the abrogaton Of all Indian treaties and
| tribal relations, and the settlement of the Indian
| question by preparing them for the acquisition
| of person al rights under the Constitution and
laws of the land.-St. Louis Republican.
| If it shall become clear that Congress will not
stop the silver dollar coinage we shall think it
| our duty to advise every workingwan who has
money in a savings bank to draw it out at once
| in gold if he can get gold and put it aside to
save himself from loss,-New York Herald.
Grand Master-workman Powderly has done a
good thing for the Knights of Labor in revoking
| the charter Of Cleveland Assembly, of St Louis
| which contained the dynamiters who were will
| ing to destroy innocent men, women and chill.
| drin in pursuit of their object. Memphis Ava
| lanche.
| The New York World is deliberately trying to
ALLEVIATE the Democratic party from the Demo.
cratic President, and if it could succeed it would
4 bring about a breach that would make further
| Democratic success in this State or in the
| country impossible 1t is an enemy to the
| party.-New York Star.
The Latin Union practically abolishes the
| legal-tender feature of silver coinage by making
| it redeemable in gold This is virtually ignoring
the fact that silver has value of its own
Independent, of gold, and will furnish argu-
| ment for the anti-silyer men Of this country
st. Louis GlobeDemocrat
There is more of the genuine, unselfish spirit
| of true reform" in the venerable, but still in
tellectually and morally vigorous John G. Whit
tier, than in all the professional 'reformersn for
notoriety or hire, that pretended to support
| Davenport as means of supporting their ideal
and idol, Cleveland-New York Mail and Elk.
| press
We cannot sustain bimetallism on our present
ratio of gold to silver, and by continuing to coin
silver at that ratio we not only bring great risks
| upon ourselves but we make any international
arrangement practically impossible. Happily
the condition Of the Treasury is such that it
makes the facts of the situation very clear
| New York Times
| With his party against him on each of the three
| great issues with which his administration has to
deal, the President has to persuade an unfriendly
| Senate OF an opposing party to confirm the nom
| ination of officers appointed to succeed officers
removed without cause, in opposition to his own
utterances and MS expressed policy. Is he likely
to succeedl-Philadelphi Press.
We regard the Sterling case, therefore, as one
| of the highest significance and we trust that the
event will show that there has been no departure
| from the regular procedure. AS we write we
hear with regret that it has been decided to sub