The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-07-17
COMMENT AND OPINION.

WHETHER liquor drinking can be abolished or
not. the liquor power will have to 60 before
long. New York Evening Post.
IL Colonel Glider doesn't find the north pole,
he may furnish additional relics for future expo
stions. st Louie POST Dispatch.
A SUCCESSFUL editor can have no legitimate
desire for congressional honors-unless he wants
to give up his paper and Washington
Post. 4t
THE Attorney -genera1, if he is at all sensitive
about public opinion, will run from Office as
though hornet were after him-New York
Herald.
MIR. BAYARD has without doubt some qualities
which 60 to the making of a good judge He
has elaboration enough for two three judicial
minds.-Boston Record.
A LABOR organization that should precipitate
a war of races in the South would be calamity
to any present hopes Of elevating negro labor.
-Pittsburg Dispatch
THE surplus is doing no harm in the Treasury
This is more than could be said of it if it was
scattered in a way to destroy all business con-
fidence. -Phiadelphia Times
THE committee and the country ought, by
this tiIne to be satisfied that Black is partisan
humbug No more public money should DO
wasted in following up his alleged clews. New
York Tribune
THE President now threatens to ''dip out"
oficeholders 'sTo flip is not so elegant phrase
as 'innocuons desuetude, but he has to depend
upon himself for phrases since Rose Elizabeth
went TO Chicago to array that town IL Tyrian
purple. -Pittsburg Chronicle.
THE labor strike is not m American institu-
tioD, for it is in conflict with the doctrine that
majorties shall rule. The number actually en-
gagged In strike is almost always great deal
smaller than the number of innocent persons af-
fected by it. -Philadelphia Inquirer.
THE sentimental excuses made for Garland
which assert that he is not corrupt but Tex
tremely unfortunate" are made at the expense
of his understanding, yet he was formerly re-
liable to be misled by crank into gross official
indiscretion. Milwaukee Sentinel
THE hard money battle will have to be fought
over again, evidently. Mr.. Hewitt unfortunately
is about the only wellequipped champion Of
hard money doctrines left in the House His OK
celent speech against the Morrison surplus reso-
luton makes still more regrettable his determine
ton to retire from politics Louisville CONNER
cial ISIS
81 AM surprised" said prominent Massachu-
sets Representative, ''that seemingly intelli-
gent men act upon the assumption that civil
service reform is the great question before the
country when In half dozen States elections
are a farce. and the vote-counters make the re-
suit to suit themselves" Honest elections will
still continue to be an issue.-Boston Journal
The Duke of Argyll is just q trHe tardy in
acknowledging that he was wrong in sympathiz
Union. His confession would have been vastly
more to his credit if he had not delayed it for
twenty years or more Now it is belittled
and made contemplate by his effort to use it
to further the Tory cause at home. -Phiadel-
phia Press.
THE surplus remaining in the Treasury is
nearly all in silver dollars, which cannot be
forced into circulation; consequently the bonds
must be redeemed under the resolution in sill
yer dollars. There is no escape from the con-
clusion that this is the meaning of the resolution
although Mr.. Morrison disclaimed any intention
of defraudine the creditors Of the United States.
New York Mail and Express.
THE political demagogue constantly stimu-
lates discomfort among the workingmen in order
to get their votes The labor demagogues con
stantly stimulate discomfort in order to get
money out of members of the union. Strikes
are contrived in great number for no other pur-
pose, and If testimony from the inside on that
point were needed, Grand Master Powderly
himself has supplied it.-New York Tribune.
THE large vote by which Mr.. Morrison's bin
passed, including the bulk of both parties in the
House. IS substantially an attack resumption.
1t is tho first business of the Treasury to meet
this by an accurate and careful observance of
the laws under which it acts 1t ought not to
GO on receiving paper money for customs duties
when so large majority in Congress attacks the
solvency of the Treasury and seeks TO impair the
resumption fund New York Herald
IL there is to be labor canvass in Pennsyl-
vania it will turn upon this Issue: Government
by trades-unions, by the strike and by the boy
colt, or government by the people, through their
customary and established forms. There Is no
doubt what the verdict would be on this issue,
aud it would be pronounced in a voice heard
from one end of the Union 20 the other. Mr.
Powderly surely is too sensible man to Get in
| the way of such an avalanche Of ballots as would
oyerwhelm him. Brooklyn Eagle.
CONGRESS only is restrained from passing
laws abridging freedom OF speech or of tho
press. The federal Constitution contains no re-
striction on the States in this respect The
States may restrain themselves, as New York
has done by her Constitution, from passing any
law abrideing freedom of speech or of the
press. But by new constitutions the States may
also remove this restriction and provide for a
censorship OF speech Or Of the press. This sub