The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-01-23
COMMENT AND OPINION.

sion of Congress by the number of bills that
don't pass.-National Republican.
WE predict brilliant parliamentary career
for Peter Esselment the new member of the
House of Commons for Aberdeen. He has an
American wife. Minneapolis Tribune
THE trouble with General Wallace Is that he
has waited too long for his self vindcaton. But
for the needless interference Of General Boyn-
ton he would have this controversy all to him
f.-Philadelphia Record.
THE President denies. what nobody ever sus-
pected, that he is about to black down" on the
silver question. No one wants him to back down.
He is simply expected to believe that other
people have as much respect for their opinions
he has for his. That is all-Atlanta Constitu
ton.
SOME faint glmmering of the situation seems
to have penetrated the serene obtuseness of the
President, but it will need more skill and sagac
ity than he has as yet given evidence of possess
ing to extrcate his party from the muddle into
which it has been allowed to drift.-Philadephia
Press.
BISMARCK and the Gar appear to be recon
structng the civilization of their countries a
Chinese basis. The sluggish Russian popula-
ton may possibly accept a barbarian policy, but
such despotic proceedings ought to arouse the
educated Germans to vigorous and organized
protest-St. Louis Post Dispatch
THE civil service pretensions made before the
election, and still maintained. after fashion,
create just the opposite presumption, and put
upon the Senate an obligation which might not
have arisen at all. except in exceptional cases,
had it not been for this unwarrantabe assump-
ton of reform. Chicago Inter Ocean.
LAW of Congress to prevent rate cutting"
by enforcing arbitration is needful for public Sc
curity against disturbances in railroad transpor
tations. which put millions of business men and
hundreds of thousands of railroad share and
bondholders at the mercy of spectators who
play with marked ards"-New York Herald.
I'm 10 hall hot have 10 opc:d
BILE number Of persons, fairly entitled to recog-
milton in the pension lists. for whom ample pro-
vision has not already been made, and it is un
deniable that most of the pension bills now
pending in Congress are mere schemes for de-
pleting the National Treasury. to whose intend
ed benefciaries the government is no wise under
obligations. Judge Reagan is right 1t is time
to call hait.-Chicago Times.
IF the drinking habit is bad habit. what bet
ter can we do towards depressing it than to make
it costly alike to seller and buyer? Experience
has demonstrated that if we try to prohibit 1T
we only drive it into secrecy-from the open sa-
loon to the private dwelling. Why not give the
hieh-:icense system a trial in Pennsylvania
-Pittsburg Chronicle.
PENNsyLvANIANs have most obstinate way
OF voting almost unanimously for Republican
principles aud candidates. and we rather suspect
there is no cure for their obstinacy except that
of shutting up all the school-houses and drown
ing all the schoolmasters. for when education
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mocracy really has very poor chance to secure
victories at the polls. Republicanism Is intelli-
gence; Democracy is the other thing.-Philadel-
phia Inquirer.
THE miserable game Of party advantage is
essential to free government and republican
system of administering public affairs. Those
who most despise it and denounce it. must be
those who, at heart. despise and hate republic
an government, aud wish to see some other sort
of government established in its place. Such a
government exists in Russia. and such govern
ment is believed to exist in sheol. In these re-
gions ''the miserable game of party advantage
is never played. York Sun.
BoYCoTTING Is so new device in this coun.
try that those pursuing it have yet not been
prosecuted for it, But should it 60 on increas-
ing at last years ratio it will not be long before
our Legislatures will be compelled to enact spe-
cial laws defining and furnishing it. 1t is not
only dangerously formidable weapon in the
hands of men thoroughly sincere, but it is capa-
BILE of being turned and twisted by INSCRIPTIONS
dishonest agitators and knaves against the most
unoffending victims -Phi!adelphia Telegraph.
THE successful resumption of specie pay
ments. and the refundine of the public debt at
reduced rate OF interest, monuments to the
honor of Secretary Sherman as enduring as the
public credit whose foundations he built the
indestructible rocks of honesty and good faith
The fitness and availability of such an eminent
financier and practical statesman for the Pres-
dency will now probably engage the attention of
the politicians still more keenly than In the last
two national campagns.-Frank Leslies Weekly
Ware now suffering from it an extreme of de-
preston in certain lines which is hardly parallel
cd in the modern history of the country. The
solution of the problem ought to be made one of
the main objective points In our silver legiSla-
ton: and there is at least one guiding light
that we may trust with entire safety namely
that to this important particular of interna-
tional trade the present arrangement Of things
is precisely that which produces a maximum
amount of harm and misunderstanding Cour-
ier-Journal
THE only difficulty in the way Of Dakota is
the fact that majority of its voters. as shown
in recent elections, are Republican, while one
branch of Congress- which has their application
to act upon. is Democratic. Its admission would
add two to the Republican majority in the Sen
ate, and decrease the Democratic majority in
the House by two This fact makes no differ
ence with the right of its people to State gov
ernment but it makes very serious difference
with their chance of getting that right recog-
pized-New York Times
A MAN may contract for payment in any coin
or any legitimate commodity that he pleases
The government itself issues gold certificates
payable only in gold and receives for customs
dues nothing but gold. OF course, it would be
possible to change the legislation in these last
two respects; but it would not be possible. be-
cause it would not be constitutional. to limit the
right of private contract. 1t is just such scatter
OTdlu5u udbUttTS III uHduCo dS an w yen WuO
make half the business troubles from which this
country suffers.--New York Sun.
IF Territory has reasonably adequate pop
ulation, and it's settlement has taken the perma-
nent forms of American society. if it is evident
y a stable community and not for some sudden
and temporary reason a mere encampment of
settlers if the expression of its desire to become
State is honest expression Of free public
sentiment, and the only objection really is that
it is not as large some other communities, and
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yded, is the evident general desire-there is no
sound objection to its admission. q
Weekly.