The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-11-14
COMMENT AND OPINION.

eDolng and flowing from day to day, but good
| many men don't seem to see them.-Philadelph
| Times.
Mr. Tilden is said to take less interest in poll
tics as he grows older. 1t is about time for Sam
| uel to drop politics altogether and freeze to his
Bible Minneapolis Tribune.
| The administration may have definite and
wholesome policy on the silver question, but it
| should be careful not to mix too much Marble
| dust with it.-Philadelphia Press.
| If male voters would do their whole duty as
| citizens at the polls on election day, the agita
| ton of the question of suffrage would
| cease in moment.-Chicago News.
| Mr.. Cleveland's letters to Commissioner Eaton
| and George W. Curtis, on the question of civil
service reform, were not intended for circulation
west of the Mississippi-St Louis Post Dis
| patch.
The correspondents are again telling the poor
| Office seekers that the headsmans ak is about to
| cut off tens of thousands of official heads The
| poor fellows 60 to Washington and walk home.
Memphis Avalanche
Why should we 60 on coming silver when the
| nations of the Latin Union refuse to do So and
are now engaged in an attempt to average their
| losses on silver, in which attempt France is al
ready bullying poor little Belgium2-New York
| Herald
The Knights Of Labor are bringing their use
full organization into disrepute by their late per
| formances in St Louis and Galveston. The or
| ganization holding such power of obstruction
which exercises it without due occasion becomes
a menace to good order. --Philadelphia Record.
| Shut up our workshops and drive their pres
| ent inmates to become bad farm laborers and it
| will be very soon that the workers
ployed IN trade and transportation Just as
| closely interested in the maintenance of protec
| ton as any other class of toilers-New York
| Telegraph.a
Without any very definite basis for a change
| the Republican feeling as to the senatorial CON
test has greatly frightened within the last
| $vun of1y-fn Y,rh
| from Columbus that the Supreme Court will
sustain the registry law rs constitutional.-Cin
| cinnati Sun.
| Like the Prohibitionists, the Aboltionists, as
third party, gave many political victory, even
| the presidency to the pro-slavery Democracy
| Yet abolition, as political issue, could not be
forced on either the Wing or Republican parties
| The Prohibitionsts should gather a lesson from
| history. Albany Express.
| Colonel Watterson's sad-eved goatess of re-
form is delegate to the free trade convention
at Chicago. If there is a member of that body
| who is real friend of the Democratic party he
| will tie can of dynamite to the tail of the
| goatess and give her a running start on a rocky
road.-Lousville Commercial.
Obviously we are never to attain peace till we
| have sounded the whole gamut of social and
| political experience-till we have tried all the
possible combinations of the sexual puzzle.
| What reason is there for longer postponing this
| experience of woman suffrage, which is bound to
Y.
| 1t looks as if the administrative and legislative
| problems which In France are pressing for solu-
| tion are too complicated to be dealt with by any
| Ministry in the existing state of parties in the
| Chamber. Nothing can be done without stable
and harmonious majority. and such majority
can only be secured by an evasion ofiany trench
ant action.-New York Sun.
| It is almost time for the reporters to again
| write something about the demand for small
| houses. But there is no demand for small
| houses. The demand is for large houses, of not
less than forty five rooms to be kept in good re-
| pair and rented for Is cents week, gas and
| water free. Nobody wants a small house in
| these days.-Louisville Courier journal
| Those who know the President we'll state that
| he will leave untried no method which would
| bring about the suspension of silver coinage If
he should attempt to make converts of Demo
Gratis who have hitherto been in favor of silver
coinage by Offering them positions, he will do
| more harm to the country than would have re-
suited had he turned every Republican out of
position three days after his Inauguration
Francisco Chronicle
| AS New Workers, the members of the New
| York delegation to the Democratic national con-
vention of 1888 will naturally be for Mr.. Hill.
But as earnest and consistent civi-service re-
formers their first choice will necessarily be for
Mr.. Hendricks. It remains TO be seen whether
the duty or the inclination of the delegation will
| triumph. Cleveland may have killed himself off.
but it is by no means clear at this writing that
Tribune. M}JRS
We know that protection, in shutting out the
products of cheap foreign labor, is discrimina-
ton against the poor of Europe for the benefit of
American labor. We plead guilty to loving the
workers of Europe less than ourselves This
| may be as marrow" as "mean" and as Selfish"
as the most pious of free trade apostles pro-
| nounce it, but it is the American policy, and
Americans will insist on keeping up the fence
will positively decline to let down the bars.-Na-
tional Republican.
A great increase of silver dollars would mean
great rise in prices. But there would not be
corresponding rise in wages Wages are always
affected last by general rise in prices, and those
who live by daily wages are those who would suffer
most by great increase of silver dollars. These
are not theories, nor arbitrary assertions. They
are facts proved by universal experience. The
| theorists are those who do not see that what is
called cheap money can not possibly cheaper
prices.-Harper's Weekly.
There is upon the stage itself little or nothing
to excite the reasonable opposition Of the clergy
There is much about the theater to do so--the
late hours, the nocturnal habits and surround
lngs1n particular-and, as long as dramatic per-
formances are had at night these objections are
incurable. Their evils may be magnfed. They
may often be misconceived but they cannot be
excluded from the average mind which, in pro-
portion to its actual ignorance, will increase it's
moral repugnance -Louisville Courier-Journal
To the results of an election honestly reache
every man who is worthy of citizenship will
submit, buato fraud reached for the purpose
of public robbery nobody entitled to be called a
| man will submit Courts may be bulldozed;
| the judiciary may be diseraced, but manhood
will assert the rights that belong to citizenship.
The danger resulting from iot-box frauds is
at our door, and this will be recognized by every
citizen who values the safety TO society that re-
suits from law and order.-Cincinnati CONNER
cial Gazette.
The magnificent victory in Ohio and the disas-
trous defeat in New York tell their own story
Comment is hardly necessary But we will say
here that the defeat in New York is the best
thing that could have happened the Republican
party. Its effect will be to everywhere
strengthen the protection sentiment If the
State had been carried with the aid Of the mug
wumps, who are to man free-traders, there is
no doubt that the protection sentiment would