The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-10-26

the enlarged products of labor as they have a
right to receive. But all their needs and their
rightful demands may be best secured through
arbitration. New York Tribune.
Hendricks and Mcdonald pursue each other so
rapidly through the tergiversations of the polit-
ical comedy of errors that it is difficult to tell
which of these two Dromios are which. Louis
vile Commercial.
The title of cattle king is rapidly becoming
synonymous with that of star-reuter, and which
of them implies the biggest grabbing is a conun-
drum about which there is a good deal Of doubt
-Pittsburg Dispatch.
The governments power should be exerted to
its full extent, if necessary. to put an end to the
barbarism inaugurated in our Western Terri
tories against the peaceable, inohensiye China
man.-Pittsburg Chronicle.
The President has caused Colonel Lamont to
put in writing that he is a Democrat In pcli
tics and religion men are judged rather by their
practices than professions, and Presidents are
but men.-MaconT Telegraph.
That johnson was at first the bitterest of all
the conquering side is recorded in his speeches,
and that he was soon leagued with old confeder-
ates In a reconstruction which failed is true,
These two points are undisputed matters Oh
history. Memphis Avalanche.
If we cannot have honest elections we cannot
expect to maintain the proud position we now
hold among the nations of the earth, II, indeed.
we can hope to escape a gradual loss of liberty 1t
self. with all that the term signifies under our
laws and institutions-St Louis Globe-Demo-
craL
When one reads such tributes to the memory
OF General Grant as Chauncey NJ. Depew's letter,
published yesterday, one cannot but regret
that more of these things were not known and
published in the days when men went up and
down the land vilifying Grant and few defended
him.-Philadeiphia Inquirer.
There can be no more vital issue presented
than this great crime against free suffrage, and
we rejoice to see it brought into the foreground
where it should be retained. whether Demo
Gratis and doughfaces like 1t not, until the
wrong is righted, and the fifteenth amendment
made everywhere operative. -Philadelphia
Press.
Narrow-minded, i~lliterate, passionate, and
with an Unborn class hatred which hattery quick
ly turned to servility, johnson was one of the
most dangerous demagogueS ever elevated to
power in this country. If not promptly foiled
by Grant he might have brought upon the coun-
try calamities almost beyond estimate. Chicago
Tribune.
1t is surely a hopeful indication of a broaden
ing tendency of thought and belief that men of
all denominations, crossing sectarian barriers,
have gathered around the bier of the first Ameri-
can cardinal in a common grief. and a full rec
ognltion of that common kinship. which binds
the whole human family together. Frank Les
lies Weekly.
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been reserved until no s~rspicion could have
been entertained that it was put forth to annul
the effect on the public mind of General Grants
latest sincere and earnest utterances, that a
most cordial friendship should exist between
formerly warning sections of the Republic.
Boston Transcript
Any cooperation of colleges in their work will
have a tendency to lift up the lower ones toward
the standard of the higher ones; and while uni
formlty merely for the sake of uniformity has
no advantages, an effort to make work uniform
that shall raise the standard of the lower institu-
tons TO the standard OF the higher will lift up
our whole academic work.-Brooklyn Union.
If each Indian has land of his own, hedged
about in its title so that neither he nor his chill
dren can be displaced from it, he will at once
be awakened to a new interest in its cultivation.
Ii the rowing tribes in the Indian Territory, OF
those already advanced In civilization were thus
treated the world would soon see a marked ad
vance along the line toward good citizenship
Chicago Inter Ocean.
This labor problem is one of the vexed CUES
tons which Congress must solve in the near
future. The fact that more than half of the
Senate Is composed of the capitalist class, many
of them men who owe their fortunes largely in
the employment of cheap labor, is not an augury
OF any prompt action on their part. Most of
these men have no more sympathy with the
laborer than the British aristocracy, even
though many of them have come up from the
ranks themselves. -San Francisco Chronicle.
There is not a Democratic paper in the United
States which has condemned this waving of the
bloody shirt by FitZhugh Lee and his rebel cav
airy; but when John Sherman, or Judge Foraker
or Senator Hoar refers to the fact that the Re
publican vote in the South is suppressed, and de
mand on behalf of the Republican party thai
there shall be a free vote and fair count in that
section and that all citizens shall have equa
rights before the law, then all the Democrat,
papers howl in unison that they are waving the
bloody shirt and encouraging sectional animos.
ity! Is this consistent2-Chicago Tribune.