The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-11-17
COMMENT AND OPINION.

THE completed election returns show that
there is a Republican majority in the brains Of
CONGRESS. Philadelphia North American.
IT is evident that recent events have some
what encouraged the Democrats to speak their
minds about Mr.. Cleveland.-New York Mail
and Express.
WHEN a Congressman wins or loses an cleo
ton by three votes, as was done in Ohio. it is
fair to conclude that the race was no hippo
drome--St. Louis Post-Dispatch.
TIRE great powers are much like DULLES. There
is not one of them that will go into fair stand
up night without the assurance of unfair adyan-
tage to begin with -Phiadelphia Record.
THE man who is the biggest Labor politician
usually is not the best workn gman. aud a sirni-
lar thing can be said of the Prohibitionist who
makes the greatest display in politics. Louis
vile Commercial
DEFEATHERED is the word that now takes the
place of ''innocuous desuetude." tits applied to
the free-trade wing of the, Democratic rooster.
The entire bird seems to be discombobuated.
-Pittsburg Chronicle.
We need rigid laws against the adulteration Of
1000 and liquors, and then we need an efficient
system of inspection. Something should be
done to stop the wholesale poisoning of the peo-
ple.-Atlanta Constitution.
If the Knights would succeed in their efforts
they should first of all learn to submit to au-
thority and to show the obedience and discipline
of an army. So long as mere walking delegate
the laws of the order and make higher law Of
their own failures are certain to be many and
great.-philadelphia Inquirer
TT costs young man much of his time, pa
thence, patriotism and money to belong to che
militia and to conscientiously perform all his
duties. The cost of this of training
should, so far as is possible. be lifted from his
shoulders and placed on those of the community.
His personal expenses in the necessary outlay OF
the course of training should be less, and his
any tim xxyhA I'D int
Chicago Times.
THE American people will never have any
sympathy with doctrine that leads to proms-
cuous prostitution as a substitute for the family
and that would abolish the Christian home and
set up code of social morals by the side OF
which Mormon polygamy and the Mohammedan
harem are commendable and altogether vlrtu-
ous Should such calamity ever occur az the
success of socialism the last of its confscations
will be the homeland after that chaos.-ChicaRo
Tribune
THE South now pretends to be DESTROYS that
the discussion OF things connected with that aw-
full period shall cease, and certainly the North
has no wish TO dwell upon subject sad and
painful; but how can there be peace and har-
mony when Southern statesmen persist in de-
claring that the war did not settle the questions
which it directly involved aud that the rights
for which the Southern States vainly fought are
still matters of fact and worthy OF popular re-
spect and supportl-St Louis Globe Democrat.
THE Democratic party needs leadership almost
as badly as it needs principles on which it can
agree. Mr.. Ceyelandis not only short of mBnyof
the essential qualities of leadership butt so open
y indifferent to the success of his party that he is
constantly exasperating or disgusting the real
leaders of the Democracy The large Demo
cratic losses in the late congressional elections
tell the whole story of the steady decadence of
the party whose official head, oficous tutor aud
real enemy. Mr.. Cleveland is and has been.
New York Mail and Express.
AS a memorial of the estabshment@of the
Constitution OF the United States. we shall need
no world fair, temporary or permanent. AS for
Washington, it had no political existence at the
time OF that great event. The proper day and
the proper place for the national celebration are
alike fixed by the Inauguration of George Wash
1889, in the city of New York, at that time the
seat of government. Still more important, the
government of the United States ought not to go
into the show business New York Sum-
THE political campaign, among its many bene-
fcent effects, has done oratory service The
metaphors which are so familiar on such occa-
sions as a ratification meeting or a rally" have
done arduous duty for many years. They have
been in many cases sadly abused but speaker
during the late campaign has effectually
squeched them by getting them all into one sem
tence They come out so battered that they are
positively quite useless for any kind of an occa-
sion Gentlemen" he said, 1.-The renown OF
this glorious victory will re-echo in golden let
ters through the corridors of the river of time.
San Francisco Chronicle.
THE rates of wages and the hours of labor cam
not be determined by procamations, or pream-
bles, or resolutions, platforms" or conveu-
tons, orders" The law which regulates
them is fixed and memorable one, above ard
beyond the power and author..y alike of labor
and capital These are facts which may we'll
engage the sober reflection of the great multi
tude of we'll meaning workingmen who have
been deluded by the shallow sophstries of their
self-constituted leaders into course of folly
whose appalling consequences should give them
pause, and induce them to the adoption, in the
future, of more rational and eficacious methods
for the Improvement of their condition in life
Chicago Times