The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-10-05
COMMENT AND OPINION.

CUMMENT AND UPlNION.
The possibility of making the tariff a national
issue seems to have passed away.-Memphis
Avalanche.
Register Rosecranss dislike of Republicans is
so intense that he prefers to run his bureau
shorthanded to having them around.-Boston
Record.
Posterity ought to be given chance to pay
for some portion of the benefits which this
generation has secured for it. The war taxes
will stand another chp-Boston Record.
Without legaltender value, silver is no more
money than wheat, corn or tobacco 1t needs
the force Of law to make it equivalent to
gold in the circulation Of the country.-Wash
ington Critic.
The Philadelphia News says there are two
horns TO the Democratic dilemma. This will
not please the average Democrat. What is want
ed is at least two ''horns" to each Democrat
Chicago Mail.
If accepted as the keynote of the campaign
not for this year only, but for next also, it will
be not the least of the many notable services
which Mr.. Hoar has rendered to his party
Worcester Spy
To the untutored mind it looks as if the mug
wumps were simply Disguised with their new
company and had concluded to swallow their
pride and return to the Republican fold.-Min-
ueapolis Tribune.
There is no war upon silver. The single pur-
pose is to maintain stable currency of gold and
silver. and to discontinue that compulsory coin
age which imperis our own monetary system
Charleston News and Courier.
Mr.. Beecher's return to the Republican fold
seems to indicate that his lack of orthodoxy pre-
vents him from having faith in any such wine
and-water miracle as the success of Democracy
and eform.-Plttsburg Dispatch.
Prohibition, if it comes at all. will come by
harmonious series of State statutes and not by
a national law constitutional amendments.
People are tired of being prohibited unless they
can prohibit themselves. Philadelphia Times.
Formerly the Pope was often consulted in af
fairs of state policy, but of late years he has
rarely been called upon in such matters. 1t was
specially strange that Germany should submit
dispute to his decision-Denver Tribune-Re-
publican.
Not on the Pacific coast alone. but in the heart
Of New York, it is not as safe for single China
man to walk the streets of ali evening as it
for strange to visit that by-word of all nations
the ancient Sodom.-New York Journal of
Commerce.
Mr.. Hoar speaks for the great Republican
party when he expresses the utmost good will
toward the South, and he at the same time
speaks for it when he denounces the suppression
of suffrage in some parts of that section. BIOS
ton Journal
There is no need of boasting of coming tri-
umphs, or Of claiming victories before they have
placed itself right before the people. can await
the verdict of the baliot-bo without fear or con-
fusion. Philadelphia Press.
There is only one thing more that Mr. Cleve-
land can do to insure the execution of the law
in the administration of the New York custom
house. and that is. when sending nominations to
the Senate, to omit the names OF Hedden and
Beattie. Philadelphia Times.
Perhaps our growth might not be so rapid
with immigration wholly cut off for few years,
but we could we'll afford the slackening up if it
would result in the restoration of the eouilibri-
UNI between demand and supply in our labor
markets.-Pittsburg Telegraph
If it is susceptible of proof that the Bell Tele-
phone patent was obtained by fraud and by gross
violations of Patent Office rules no personal
consideration whatever shonid prevent the De-
partment of Justice from taking action to pro-
tect the pubic.-St. Louis Post Dispatch.
The Associated Press report contained no
allusion to the Hastead letter, which was
published in the Cincinnati Enquirer on Sunday
morning 1t was also silent rearding the pro-
visions of the Warner silver bill. The manage
ment should attend to busines.-Denver News.
There is no power that can make moneyed
men invest with any commonwealth that will
not pay its debts AS rule, regulators lose
their credit in the market, and loss of credit is
expensive--very. Do the financiers of Georgia
and Virginia see the point9-Springfeld Repub-
hcan
Mr.. Halstead is right in saying there is much
iii MS war letters to Secretary Chase that would
instruct the rising generation. But the instruc-
ton would be obtai ned at too great price, ow-
ing to the hysterical folly of Mr.. Halsteads
judgment of men and movements
Sentinel.
If the Civil service Commissioners are to be
changed. just like the other fellows, at every
change of party what becomes of cvil-servce
principlesF 1t would be better to take advantage
of the limited liabilities act and make its official
title Civil service Reform limited "-Phila-
deiphia Inquirer.
TO suspend the protective policy now would be
to shut off the West from her proper share in its
benefits. The guests earliest at the table have
made square meal. but it would be cruel to
clear away the dishes while the newer comers
are just beginning to satisfy their hunger.
Chicago Inter Ocean.
No colored man can act with the Bourbon
party in the South so long as it occupies its
present position and carries out it's present pol
icy without showing himself to be miserable
contemplate creature, who does not deserve the
freedom which was given him by the Republican
party.-Chicago Tribune
The liable men" now have the President in
what they call the ''hole" they have made for
him. They care less for Hills victory than for
Cleveland's embarrassment. II Hill is elected
the President will be rebuked. Failing to elect
Hill, they hope to ''rebuke' him by charging the
defeat to him. Brooklyn Union.
Every sincere man respects the belief Of the
Roman Catholics of Montreal, who hold that the
scourge of smallpox may be liRhtened by inter-
cesslon with heaven; but it is hard to have pa
thence with the priests who are planning for
great religious procession next Sunday in the
stricken city. Can they not see that any gath