The Indianapolis journal., 1886-04-21
COMMENT AND OPINION.

DON'T let the cholera news distress you. It is
the regular spring outbreak of hlth abroad.
Chicago Mail.
THE mugwumps can come up out of the cellar.
Senator Ingalls, has thrown his club away Phil
adelphia Press.
down, and the Knights of Labor are the resid-
uum-the part left.-Pittsburg Inquirer
THIS is fairly rich country but IL is not rich
enough to afford the luxury of having such high
priced fellows as Geronimo running round loose.
San Francisco Chronicle
GLADSTONE has wisely postponed the second
reading on the Irish measures to give the Amer
ican newspapers, with their sapient advice, time
TO reach England.-Pttsburg Chronicle.
JAY GOULD says he hasn't had q transaction in
stocks since JAM l. We have had no transac-
tions involving stock in Jay Gould's word since
the first January we ever heard Of him.-Boston
Post.
SINCE General Black completed his tunnel
under the civli-servlce law the Democratic mind
has shown indications of decreasing dsgruntle-
ment with that portion of the statutes at large.
National Republican.
PowDERLY and Gould are to appear before
the House committee on labor troubles For all
the good this will do, they might as well go be-
fore the umpire of South American base ball
team. Atlanta Constitution.
OVER one hundred ministers of Cleveland, O..
have entered into solemn compact to boycott
the Sunday newspapers With becoming mag
nanimity they decline to impose fines on the
editors or to make them pay the expenses of the
boycott-St Louis Post Dispatch.
ACCORDING to well-autheutcated statements,
prohibition has proved failure in Iowa and
Kansas, and has always been failure in Maine;
the eyes of the world will therefore be turned
on Rhode Island to see If the size of the terri
tory to be covered has any influence in affecting
the result-St. Louis Globe Democrat.
THE men Of the Southwest may be justified or
may not, but the fact that there is doubt about
the matter should teach the whole order of
the Knights of Labor the necessity of arriving
at some system by which in future it shall not
be possible to order strike whose absolute ne
cessity is not evident.-New York Star.
UNTIL the plain meaning of the words en-
ployer and employed shall be entirely changed,
neither can be the arbitrary master of the other
Employers will employ those who are the most
useful to them and discharge those who are in
competent or faithless, while labor will accept or
decline employment. without dictaton from
any. Philadelphia Times.
THE right TO strike must sooner or later be de-
fined as beginning and ending with the right to
quit work. 1t cannot be stretched to include the
right of obstruction to persons who wish to take
vacant places, or the destruction to the property
of former employers Within these limitations q
strike is lawful, and when it is not also wise the
burden of folly will be upon the strikers. st.
Louis Globe Democrat.
IF Daniel Webster had been mugwump. we
suppose he would have bolted the Wing ticket
every time he failed to be nominated for Presi-
dent. Fortunately, he was too great man to
be confined to Beacon street and State street
A button off of his buff waistcoat contained
more craftsmanship than was ever conceived
within the brains of all Massachusetts, mug
wumpdom.-New York Times.
THE gravity Of these thee errors-intimida-
tion and interference coercion of non-union peo-
pie and the boycott--cannot be overlooked when
once attention is called to them, and it is pre-
cisely the bad judgment which adopts them that
irritates the public, warns men who are heartily
in sympathy with the cause of labor to look to
constituted authority for protection and finally
defeats labor's movements for redress Brook
lyn Eagle.
THE strike. the boycott. and demands for
wages or hours of labor, arbitrarily fixed by one
of the parties to the contract, are not the best
means Of improving the relations between en-
ployers and employed They are, indeed, about
the worst means imaginable. There are other
means which should first be invoked. Arbitra-
tion means peace. The strike and the boycott
mean war; they are war. Peaceful methods
should always be exhausted before recourse IL
had to war.--Chicago TimeA