The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-12-22

ford, the best of all good things of life consistent
with his obligations to his fellow men.-Losls-
vile Courier Journal.
Perhaps Secretary Manning had better print a
blank form OF a call for bonds for redemption
and send it around, so that the rising generation
cap see what the thing is like. The congress
sional indications are that it will be a long time
before the country will get another chance 20
study the document -Philadelphia Times.
Political philosophers need cudgel their brains
no longer as to the best disposition of the Treas
ury surplus. For better or worse, this Congress
IS gong to make way with it. No expectation 10
justified by the passage of the distribution
scheme, except that it is going to usher in an
era of unprecedented congressional ~extrava-
gance.-Philadelphia Press.
IT senators and representatives intrigue with
the executive to procure appointments. the door
is wide open for a corrupt bargain between the
President and his friends in Congress, by which
they will grant money or authorize measures in
return for places given them. That is not gov
eminent; it is a cabal. and the country has more
than once suffered seriously from such a cabaL
New York Herald.
He [Parnelll is to-day the foremost man Of
the British empire; and though he fail to
achieve home rule for his country. he will still
have achieved more for her than any others have
done. He has proved that thought is a moro
powerful weapon than mimic balls, and that rev.
~olutions can be fought and won by men entirely
great by quiet, peaceful means as we'll as by
sword and gun.-Philadelphia Telegraph
Mr.. Gladstone accepts homo rule as the in
evitable outcome OF the overwhelming majoritiea
cast for the Nationalist candidates. For this
after all, is the nineteenth century; and Eng.
land, with its superior civilization, cannot go on
governing the Irish in the English way, when by
legitimate agitation and constitutional methods
they insist upon the right of governing them
selves in their own .way.-New York Tribune
By and by Mr.. Vest and other Democrats will
ha wnndaripO why tho manila nf Dakafa cti.k m
the Republican party, and the answer will be,
because that great Democratic statesman, Sena-
tor Vest, made himself very needlessly offensive
to them when they applied to become a State
1t seems to US that Mr.. Vest, like too many other
Democratic statesmen, is always trying TO catch
flies with vinegar and wondering that he gets SO
few.-New York Herald.
With the telegraph in its control, the admins
tration would possess the secrets Of the country.
Its agents would not only be distributed in every
hamlet-as they are now by virtue of the post
Office establishment-but they would be BROUGHT
into much more intimate and more influential
relations with the people than they have ever
yet attained. It would, in our Judgment, be an
unfortunate day for the prospects Of Democracy
If the government should become the monopolist
of the telegraph.-New York Sun.
1t is a curious fact that all the thoughts and
strivings of the trades-unions are to secure
higher wages-more money for work-and NC
organized effort is ever made TO increase the
purchasing power of the money earned. There
has been no cooperation of the trades unionists
to purchase the necessaries OF life any cheaper
than at the dearest retail. This is a truly sur
prising oversight. To prevent reductions Of
wages when the market says down, and to push
up pay when possible. and maintain long and
desperate strike battles with employers. and to
shorten the hours of labor without reduction OF
wages, appear to embrace the whole trades
union programme up to the present time. Chi
cagO Tribune.