The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-09-14
CURRENT PRESS COMMENT.

THE issue forced by the Southern leaders in steal
ing thirty electoral votes and thirty Repre-
sentatives in Congress will be squarey met by the
Republican party and agtated until public sentiment
forces reform that will extnguish a solid Demo-
cratic South.-Cleveland Leader.
THE equities governing the subject of strikes-or,
in other words the natural rights of laborare yet
imperfectly understood 1t was only the other day
that strike, in New York, unlawful conspir-
acy. We know better than that nowadays But
wo1kmen advance in their knowledge of the subject
they must be careful not to fall into which may
give capitalists chance of putting them in the wrong
San Francisco Chronicle.
If the press is tending to make stump-speaking
protess occupation, it is due to the growing indie
pendence fairness and thoroughness of the editorial
discussions much to the greater opportunities
which the press has for the kindly trea men of living
topics and the fresh and full presentation of facts and
arguments. If the stump is to survive, it must keep
better pace with the times, and leave room its
platform for conscience and real freedom of speech.
Boston Herald.
MASSACHUSETTS Prohibtionists do not follow
closely in their convention the lead of their New
York brethren. They do not assail the church; but
they jump with both feet upon the two great political
parties and call upon them to dispense and be re-
arranged according to the total abstinence standard
They would measure with pint vessel of prohibition
the continental seas OF American political sentiment
1t is a harmless but futile experiment. The old
parties will not go because of such fooing.-ghila-
delphia Record.
THREE hundred Mormon converts in charge Of
missionary bishops, landed at Castle Garden
yesterday These recruits for Che organized rebel
lion against the United States which daily strength
ening itself In Utah, but under the laws, they
stand, nothing be done to prevent their passage
the country to help in the systematic effort of
the State of Deseret, to assert and maintain its
independence of the government on territory belong
ing to the Nation Our dealings with this matter
absurd to the verge of insanity.-New York CONNER.
cial Advertiser
EXPERIENCE shows that prohibition is impossible
in execution, but high license is actually enforced
wherever it has been imposed and the testimony
to its great practical benefits is without contradiction
1t dimnshes the number of liquor saloons, improves
their character and the character of those who keep
them, makes every licensed dealer ally of the
thorities in compelling obedience to the law. dmin-
shes drunkenness and brawlng, and brings into the
public treasury vast amount of money thus decreas-
ing the taxes and enhancing the prosperity of the
munities which enjoy its benefts.-New York Sun.
WITH all commodities where the home supply is
ample to meet the home demand and to create sharp
home competition, the duty on the same grades inn
ported is paid by their producer. The who hauls
his wood to market toll bridge while all others
reach it without passing the bridge must pay the toll
out of the arket price of his load 1t may be added
that it often happens that the price of article pro-
duced wholly in foreign country is retained when
the duty is withdrawn. For instance, when the duty
taken from tea and coffee in 1870, the price
not reduced to the customer as the growers
and controllers of the article transferred the duty to
the price of the article.--Boston Journal
TT is an extraordinary circumstance which no one
has yet fully explained that these controversies about
wages more numerous and more bitter and lead TO
longer suspension of labor in times when food and
other necessaries of life cheap than at other times
When prices good laborers generally well
played and manufacturers and mine operators
generally reluctant to suspend production But there
is on the other hand, unexplained and remarkable
tendency among the laboring people to insist upoE
higher wages resit reductions at time when the
cost of living would render reduction least burden
some to them It is TO be noticed that the relations Of
labor and capital unusually disturbed at this time.
in this country only but throughout the western
world and that the same. phenomena appear to exist
in the most of the countries of Europe. Prices are
everywhere low and the cost of living is everywhere
ess than usual, and yet strikes remarkably fire.
uent.- New York Tribune.