The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-12-15
COMMENT AND OPINION.


worth his salt-New York Tribune
Wanted Somebody outside of newspaper
office who has read the Presidents message from
beginning to end-Albany Express
There are irreverent Democrats at the capital
who speak of the President as mot a Democrat
but Randallite. National Republican
In his dressing gown andsslippers Mr.. Blaine
weighs l9l pounds. In his fighting clothes he
still weighs ton-just the same as of yore
Minneapolis Tribune.
1t might pay Wall street to take an inventory.
When Jay Gould gives up soft snap, it is well
to see if he didn't take the snap with him.
Louisville Commercial
Free-trade Democrats would not have known
to which party the President belonged, after
reading his message, if they had not known
which ticket he was elected on.-Chicago Inter
Ocean.
A politician says that he does not believe that
party is strengthened by navy-yard. Inas-
much as navy is not strengthened by navy
yard, either, the concern might as we'll be abol
Neutrality-suspicious. Herald.
When Mr.. Parnell gets his own Parliament it
and keepers of dance-houses may go back to be
chosen members oft But alas! it is q fond and
foolish dream.-New York Times
The Presidents reform pretensions rest on the
fact that he has made vacancies only when able
to I'LL them with incapable party workers. ana
has seized every species of spoils not protected
by the letter of the civil service act.-Chicago
Tribune.
What has become OF the mugwumps9 They
are as quiet as if they had never had an exist
ence. Ordinarily, men who have been as I'M
fortunate as they glad to be forgotten, but
that is by no means their disposition.
York Graphic.
The Supreme Court of Ohio is apparently not
above partisarship. In the decision relating to
the Hamilton county election case the court, by
strict party VOTE ordered that the certificates
of election be issued to the Democratic canGi-
dates.-Chicago News
The days of the legislative rider would seem
to be numbered. were it not for the fact that the
legislative rider has passed through 80 many ad
verse experiences that it has acquired strength
OF constitution that viii perhaps carry it through
the present attack also.-St. Louis Globe Demo
crat
The are high spiritual blessings no doubt
which come to us through poverty, but the ex
tremely small number of persons who volun-
tarily become hermits or paupers in these later
days in order to obtain them shows how uncer-
tain the popular faith in them has grown.-Phil-
adelphia Record
There is no reason why the seeking of and the
appointment and confirmation to Offices should
be made what it is-a matter of mystery, So
crecy and intrigue. On the contrary the more
openly it is carried on the more certain the
people will be that competent men are put in
office-and the people are those mainly interest
ed.-New York Herald.
Compulsory education is better than none at
ALL and the parents who would not send their
children to school, or the children who would
not willingly 60, should be made to do so; but
the ideal learning is recreative in old and young
There is no such thing as finishing" ones edu-
cation. The intellect should be docile until it is
senile. Chicago Inter Ocean.
Mr. Tilden, in his letter on coast defenses. in
Inmates that the retail price of whisky is Of no
great consequence to the fifty six million people
of this country. Yet, strange as it may seem,
the man who gives utterance to such an aston
shing economic and social falsity was once a
candle for the presidency and received over
four million votes.-Chicago Times.
Durbin Ward of Ohio is a bitter partisan but
he has too much sense to pretend to put any
faith in the Mclean maneuvers to beat Sher-
man. and says there Is no possible chance but
that Sherman will De returned. All the bother
that the Ohio papers keep up on the subject
merely serves to make Mclean look bigger than
he need to outside the State.-Springfeld Repub-
lcan.
We do not believe the rumor that the proprie-
tors Of the Washington Post were offered an ad-
vance copy of the message by the President
himself on condition that that paper would
praise it and that it refused We do not believe
that the propretors OF that paper ever made
such claim. Yet Washington correspondent
asks the public to believe both these statements.
Boston Journal.
The old processes have outlived their useful
ness, and modern methods are required, not in
revivals merely, but IL all the operations of the
church. Christianity is as strong as it ever was
and its opportunities were never greater; but it
languishes for want of proper energy and due
recognition of circumstances on the part of
those who have its interests professionally in
charge.-St. Louis Globe Democrat
We are fond of ridiculing the weaknesses of
kings. and there is nothing that arouses our
much as imbecility. yet in the pretensions
OF our foreign policy and in our absurd and pitt
full inability to realize them against the most in
significant opposition, we rival that most minute
of monarchs, Thebaw. of Burmah and contest
with him the distinction of furnishing the most
absolute apotheosis Of imbecility New York
Star
Tho conservative manner in which the Van
derbilt estate has been managed Is worthy of
consideration. These vast moneyed interests
have not been used In a corrupt or irresponsible
way. They have been legitimately employed in
strengthening the corporations with which they
were invested. The Vanderbilt fortune has
been in hands that were nerved with sense of
alarmed by the prospect of the accumulation of
private fortunes of indefinite magnitude this is
reassuring fact.-New York Tribune.
The President uses the favorite word Sim
portaton" in referring to Mormon immigrants
but the term is not more applicable to them
than to other emigration from Europe. Goods
are imported, but men immigrate of their own
free will, and few people have ever been deport-
ed from Europe to this country without their
full consent 1t may be popular just now to
speak of importations OF people from Europe.
but there should be more precision of language
in an official message recommending to the con
sideraton CT Congress such measures as the
President shall judge necessary and expedent"
Philadelphia Record.
The comments of Secretary Manning upon the
tariff are narrow, unstatesmanlike, inaccurate,
and misleading Upon the face they show be-
You'd peradventure that the man who assumes
responsibility for them was not master of the
subject They are, IN brief. sort of stew COM
prised of free-trade mutton. raw material car
rots, and turnips. and Randall protection pota-
toes AS might be expected, the mutton favors
the dish. 1t crops out alike in the inaccuracy of
the statements, the intent to mislead the public,
and in sending abroad assumption. the exact pur-
port Of which 1t is doubtful IL the writer himself