The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-12-02
COMMENT AND OPINION.

Logan's right to be the President pro tenn. has
the Endorsement OF his party and of nearly one
halt or his countrymen as expressed in the vote
OF the Electoral college.-Cncinnati Enquirer.
The prohibition movement in Georgia is a
menace to the political solidity of the South.
For that reason. if there were no others, its
growth is full of promise to the cause of intelli-
gence and progress.-Ph Philadelphia Press
Courage is always on the side of those who
are In the right. When vigorously attacked by
moral sentiment, organized vice. which lives
upon public robbery, will tremble as the as pen
leaf and Observation-Disclosures Commercial
Gazette.
III the Hoar bill, which the Senate passed, had
not been defeated in the House, the presidential
succession would have been wisely provided for,
and the President could have gone to Indian
apolis without risk of any danger to the con-
tinuity of any part of the governmental mechan-
lsm.-National Republican.
If the Sheridan scheme were adopted and car
ried out, every Indian family in the far West
would be able to live comfortably, and without
work the remainder of their days. There are
not fewer than five million white men in the
country who would be glad to exchange places
with the nomads on these terms.-Denver News.
The reasonable Probititionist bearing in mind
That the real purpose of prohibitory law is to
decrease or abolish the consumption of liquor,
would not impose on any community greater
degree OF prohibition than it could enforce, and
IN this way might insure the best results posi-
ole under the Recommendations Tribune.
The tendency Of our time is to make religion
less austere to those who profess it and more at
tractlve to those who do not. The billiard table
ought to be enlisted on the right side in the
struggle between the coffee house and the dram
shop, and not abandoned to the enemy of man
kind or charged with the sins of its abuse.-Chi-
cago News.
Sin ever treads close upon the even step of
well-dolng, and the viest dens disgorge their
hoht FONTS Ill 49, H.
and exalted would seem to rebuke infamy and
make 1T skulk back abashed to its dark retreat.
A carnival of thieves at the funeral of Hendricks
might well inspire the pencil of Dore if he was
living.-Louisville Commercial
The doctrine that private property should be
invlolable except for the public good, and that
one mans private right should NOT prevail over
the private right off another, is Magma Charta
principle The contrary was not dreamed of a
few years ago. But the old doctrine has grad
ally been breaking down, and it is not now SO
fully recognized as formerly.-Denver Repub-
lican.
Say, for instance, that strike and the usual
accompanying boycott be unjustly enforced.
WIZ the employer be permitted to indemnify
himself for his losses by assessing tax on the
poor rule that will not work both ways, and, it
may be added, such rule is sure to iniure it's
inventors in the long run.-St Louis Globe
Democrat
Public Office is public trust Confidence that
the dead himself, could he speak, would declare
that, under the peculiar and delicate" circum-
stances, fidelity to this trust forbids the Presi
dents exposure to the risks of travel and pro-
hibits his absence from Washington till Congress
is organized, is the highest tribute of esteem
that can be paid to Vice-president Hendricks
memory-New York Herald.
The man who aspires to be statesman with
out first becoming politician may fit himself
for the chair of political economy in some col
lege, the editorship of some independent Repub-
lcan newspaper or even for place the
Civil-service Commission, but he will never be a
statesman. Mr. Hendricks was both politician
and statesman. He was trusted by the people
because he trusted them.-St. Louis Republican
If the staid Episcopal Church can employ I'M
wonted agencies for the refreshment of the re.
lgious life in such way that they neither de-
generate into extravaganza nor pass away in
smoke when the newly-kindled fires are spent
it is fair to hope that much may be accomplished,
at least in Protestant circles, in giving the
sacred things of religion greater meaning and
closer relation to ordinary life-New York
Times.
When Congress meets resolution is sure to
be introduced defining the relative powers of the
federal legislature and the heads of depart
ments. 1t is not to be tolerated for a moment
that the head of department shall have the
right to say whatlaws he will execute and what
laws he will neglect No responsible member of
any partY,will justify the assumption by a Cabi-
net officer of the right to sit in review on an act
OF Congressman Francisco Chronicle.