The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-11-26
COMMENT AND OPINION.

Ne KIT to the preaching of Gods word, there is
no calling better fitted to call out all that is true
and lofty in manhood than that of the true poll
tician. Gen. Joseph Hawley.
SOME of the London papers are trying to start
boom for President Cleveland for another
term. One trouble with such a boom is that
American Presidents are not elected in England.
Chicago Journal.
IT is suggested that the party known as the
~ Progresslve Democracy" may be something
ike progressive euchre" It has already move
down one table and bids fair to be euchred on
the next deaL-New York Graphic Dem.
CIVIL SERVICE COMMISSIONER EDGERToN is
good deal more intent upon having his way
than he is upon securing thorough application
of the rules in the Philadelphia case. He is
partisan first and reformer afterward-Boston
Journal
POPULAR education will undoubtedly increase
the letter writer's out of proportion to the in
crease in the population, until even at our pres
ent low rate of postage the postofice department.
shall become important source of revenue.
New York Commercial Advertiser
WHAT is the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engi-
neers about that it permits one of its members
to work sixty hours without rest until he falls
asleep on his engine and is only wakened by
collision? The latest accident on the Iowa Cen
trail road needs investigation. Philadelphia In
quirer.
IHE COCldIlStS VI NElCARO are Ultt6Fly uOStl1O
to the proposed cooperative slaughter house of
the striking butchers. Under cooperation
workngman is permitted to use and enjoy what
he earns; but the Socialists propose to take it
from him and give it to other people. -Philadel-
phia Record.
THE Democrat of to-day who appeals to the
prejudices of the landess not honestly hide
the fact that the Republican party has for
twenty-five years offered free homes for all, and
that its policy in that respect was defeated by
Az 80.
ID either branch of Congress.-New York
Tribune.
THE Postmaster is yielding little to
reason He is not so fierce an opponent as he
was year ago of the policy OF making provision
for carrying the mails for South America, but
rather leans towards spending money for that
laudable object. The Democrats will know
something if they remain in power long enough;
but their education is fearfully expensive TO the
business interests of the country. York
Mail and Express
THE probabilities are that the universal dis
armament, the loppng off Of military. royal,
ecclesiastical and civil establishments will be
matter of slow growth and by gradual processes.
There is a strong temptation to expect universal
war. followed by universal revolution and an end
of these things, and yet corrective processes are
not cataclvsmic. Great convulsons are some
times necessary to pave the way to them, but
the corrective processes themselves are like the
healing of wounded parts, slow.-Memphis Ava
lanche.
If the people will not consent to the indefinite
maintenance of so much of the public debt as
may be necessary to supply basis for national
bank notes-and many arguments might be ad
vaEced in favor of this-it ought not to be diff
cult to agree upon some satisfactory substitute
security. The country is not willing to have the
national bank Observation-Disclosures to be the
best in the world-disturbed, and the emission
of paper money in times of peace is not properly
function or the general government. What
shall replace the paid-off bondS9 That is the
question. philadelphia North American
ALMOST sixty years ago great Democratic
leader announced that the party in power was
always the party of Capitalization, and he was
right No party in power can ever have enough
Of power TO be satisfied. If the limits were re-
moved so as to broaden the field indefinitely, the
love of power would grow on what it fed on. 1t
would be as easy to satisfy coquette with fiat
terry. or mser with money, as to safe the appe
title of triumphant party with power It is
creditable to Governor Gordon that he sees the
effect of taste of power on his own party, after
its long fast, and lifts his voice in solemn, elo-
quent warning. -National Republican.
One of the main objects of protective tariff
is to keep prices of labor, manufactured goods,
and agricultural products from falling below a
certain level-the level of profitable employ ment
and production. The periods of good prices are
the periods of general prosperity. This applies
to the farmer as we'll as the manufacturer If
Europe. he must sell his wheat and pork in Eu-
rope and lose the home market. By selling
them to consumers at home he saves transpor-
tation both ways, or divides the saving with
home labor. The general effect, therefore, of a
protective tariff. operating over long periods of
time, is not OILY to cheaper home manufactured
products as far as they ought to be cheapened,
but also to maintain higher rates of wages than
are paid in Europe. -Cleveland Leader.
IT seems to US that Mr.. Edmunds has the best
of the situation, and that Mr.. Blaine lost an op-
portunity of exhibiting a broad-mirded tolerance
of other peoples prejudices. Had he responded
to the greeting of the Senator from Vermont
the meeting of the two gentlemen would prob
ably never have been commented upon, and if it
had. the inference would have been that Mr..
Blaine was so secure in his own integrity that he
could afford to overlook the others mistaken
opinion of him. On the other hand, Mr. Ed
rnpndss personal recognition of the Maine gen
tle.nan would have been accepted as the act of
gentleman who did not wish to obtrude his own
judgment upon others, and who saw nothing 10
the quarrel between them which should prevent
the other from receiving every personal consid-
Grafton to which honorable men are entitled
-Pittsourg Chronicle Telegraph.
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