The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-11-20
COMMENT AND OPINION,

Louisville Democrat
Two or three Southern bloody fools continue
to furnish the only blood that remains on the
tattered bloody shirt -Philadelphia Times.
In the voluntary political as we'll as CONNER
| clal union with the United States lies the hope
| and the future of the Canadian provinces.-Chi-
| cago Tribune
MT George William Curtis continues to insist
Vhat the mugwump party still lives. Mr.. Curtis .
seems to have lost both his optics and his olfac-
| torles.-Detrot Tribune.
Ii the French people have learned the lesson Of
attending to home affairs instead of wasting
their resources and energies on useless foreign
expeditions. it will be great gain for that re-
| public.-New York Tribune.
President Cleveland is not pleased with the
! new Civil-service Commissioners. Maybe he has
heard that they intend to haul him into court
| for contributing that 81 900 to the New York
| campaign fund. Philadelphia Press
This time last year the mugwump was sitting
| at the head of the table carving the Thanksgv
| ing turkey; to-day he is engaged in a spirited
argument with the cook over his right to take
cold potato and go.-Louisville Commercial.
/ am encurridged. When SIGH men ez Dave
| Hill kin be elected Their is hope fur me. / shell
| shortly emerge from the gloom that hez envel-
| oped me, and walk erect before my fellow man
| with billed shirt on.-Petroleum V. Nasty.
The report that Attorney general Garland re-
fuses all kinds of social invitations sounds quite
| Spartan; but it could have more effect If he had
| shown the same firm sef-denal in response to
offers of telephone stock.-Pittsburg Dispatch.
A religious fere or something of the kind will
obliterate Riel as a physical fact. and alternate
him into memory concerning which there may
be exposition of much sentimental indlgna-
ton. but nothing of serious nature. Chicago
Times.
Now if the Democrats can only prove that
Senator Evarts once struck his little sister, or
| that John Sherman tied can to his-grand-
mothers dogs TAIL about all the available Re-
l pSa1 ind
Philadelphia Times.
If the United States does not like an isthmus
canal owned by French capital and built by
French enterprise, let her moneyed men put up
the sixty millions required to build another on
the Nicarauguan route. Meanwhile, De Lesseps
promises to have his ditch through by 1883
Cincinnati Sun.
7, The English parliamentary campaign is re-
markable for nothing much as for its dense
| stupidity There is not single issue between
| the two great parties that is clearly drawn. The
Irish Nationalist constitute the only party that
| has clear understanding as to what it means.s
National Republican.
The Rev. DR.. Crosby, of New York, has is
| sued pastoral letter warning the members of
his congregation against the Sunday newspa-
| pers. He might well warn them against
| warm dinners on Sunday The good Doctor has
commenced his crusade too late in the nineteenth
| century.-LouisvilleC Courier Journal.
| The close of our great war without being fol-
| lowed Dy q single pOlltlcal execution aHOruS
| splendid example to the world of the beneficent
| effect of excluding revenge from any considera-
ton of political error. There was enough of the
| political element in Reps crime to have made it
unwise to execute him.-Washington Post
| There may be some New York Republicans
| who seriously think that success is to be as
sured only through the expedient of catering to
the caprices and prejudices of voters who are by
| their own confession ready to support one
| party the other; but suspect that they are
not md fhnir cdr
| will not bear inspection.-St. Louis Globe-Dem-
ocrat
| Hungary. as the aggressive and now controlling
| element of the Austrian monarchy may have to
| bear the first shock of collision with the Mus,
covlte colossus but from the outset of the strug'
| gle German army of observation will be
massed upon the Vistula ready to strike Russia
on the flank should the Magyar strength be
overtaxed.-New York Sun.
We are sorry for Burmah. She is small, she
has no friends, and she has had the bad taste to
acquire property. She is doomed. The only
person who can afford to have anything that
| England wants in these days is some other ruff
| fan, like the United States, just rs big, and
| burlv, and truculent as England herself As for
| Burmah-detenda est-New York Star.
| Fortunately for the country, these is the Re-
| publican Senate. Standing between the House
| and the President it is expected to prove bar
rier too strong to break down and too high to
| overlap. At any rate, it is one that the entire
| community of business will depend upon to pro-
tect it from the ruinous purposes of the Demo
| cratic free traders and financial tinkers pills.
| delphia Inquirer.
Whether two or three of the separate litt!s
| states OF the Balkans coalesce and run together
| by merely breaking the thin shell which sepa.
| rates them, is question which probably has bur
| little significance to Germany, Russia Austria
| or England, though they may perhaps have con-
cocted plan of action when the time comes for
| the unsettled and disturbed elements again to
| crystalline. Louisville Courier Journal
Our dealings with the Chinese are becoming a
dark page of our history unworthy of people
| calling themselves free and the representatives
of the doctrine of equal civil rights among men.
| But nothing better can be expected of poll.
| ticians. If Sumner Wade, or Corwin were
| living and in the United States Senate we should
at least have the truth spoken with the courage
| that produces conviction.-St. Louis Advocate
The civi.-service law il responsible in greater
or less measure for the depression of trade DUR
| ing the past season in this district and
while the business OF the country at large
may have experienced no perceptible harm from
the same cause, an unwise. crude and injudicous
| law is never benefit to any people. A reform
| which is set about in the wrong way seldom be-
comes an accomplished fact-Natonal Repub-
| lican.
The one-party politics which prevails at the
South inevitably tends to ring rule and corrup.
ton, and sooner or later there must come revolt
and overthrow. popular uprising cannot be
prevented however much it may be delayed.
Once let it come, and grow to the proportions of
| a formidable State movement and it will be
driven by the logic of its position into antagon-
| ism to the dominant Democratic party.-Chicago
| Inter Ocean.
The execution of Riel, followed by the excite
IN ent attending the outbreak of smallpox In
Lower Canada. has embittered the French popu-
lation against the English more than any other
| event of recent years. The establishment of
friendly or even of tolerant relations between
| the two races will now be extremely difficult,
| and without such relations the lot of the Min
| istry, of whatever party will be one of endless
| perplexities.-New York Times.
| The judges of the Territorial courts alone of
the federal Judiciary are subject to removal at
the will of the executive; but if they be SO