The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-07-09
COMMENT AND OPINION.

THE rpening of the watermelon crop has
taken much of the friction ont of Southern poll
tics.-Boston Record
IT would be just like Lord Randolph Churchill
to insist that he did it with his little tongue.
Philadelphia Times
RECORD of the Forty ninth Congress to date:
Congress has done nothing, and the President
has vetoed it..-BoSton Pilot.
THE Chelsea electors evidently thought Sir
Charles Dixie altogether too Liberal in sons
spects.-Pittsburg Chronicle.
POPULAR intelligence is the first safeguard of
the purity of the ballot politics on live issues
the next Springfield Republican.
ONE slight consolation about this weather ia
the reflection that members of Congress can't
dodge it st Louis Post-Dispatch.
CONTEMPLATING the success of the Fitz John
Porter bill, the deceased wife's sister bill can
take fresh grip and resolve to never say die
Detroit Tribune.
SIR CHARLES DILKE's defeat in the Parlia-
mentary contest counts one against Mr.. Glad
stone. but is triumph for English decency
Philadelphia Inquirer.
THE main argument against woman suffrage,
viz. That they do not care for che ballot usa
it when they have it" becomes very weak VIXEN
male voters are often guilty of the same neg
lect of duty.-Chcago Mail
THE main purpose of the [Democratic] party
now appears to be to break down the civil-service
ner that it derides and abhors the presidential
policy in this respect Providence Journal.
ALL the odds have been against the Premier.
But he can take comfort in the fact that he has
forced both Wing and Tory to take up the queS-
ton, and that sooner or later Irish affairs must
be controlled by Irishmen.-Phiadelphi Rec
ord.
II is not unlikely that the lavish appropria
tons of tho present Congress will create an
actual Treasury deficit instead of a surplus, bui
still Democratic petitioners will humbly pray
for the scattering abroad of the supposed $780,
O00 900 cash surplus Philadelphia Press.
WE are glad to see there is disposition on the
part of Sherman, and Hoar. and Frye to give
this subject 1.-THE Payne matter an airing. II
goes beyond the present case. Mr.. Payne aside
it should at least be established that no bribery
can be allowed even in ucus-Memphis Ava
lanche.
THE 800, 000 sent to Grea. Britain by the Irish
League, of America, may have cost home rule
lOO.0 900 votes patriotic people naturally re-
sent such foreign interference in their home af-
fairs, and the Englishman has more, perhaps,
than his average share of patriotism and resent
ment-Louisville Times
COMMISSIONER BLACK refuses old colored
women pensions because their husbands, killed
while fighting under the flag, were slaves; and
Cleveland denies a suffering veteran relief be-
cause he was not perfectly healthy man when
he enlisted. Are these men monsters2 OH mol
THERE never was a man who wrote more
sternly moral sentiments than the esteemed Mr..
Upper. He never wrote anything else; and ne
only became an object of general critical ridi-
cule. because he insisted upon sermonizing in
the form or poetry, and upon regarding himself.
not as preacher, but as poet. Upper might
have made a fair sort OF preacher. had he let
poetry alone; and Mr.. Cleveland is a sort Of DO
litical Topper. Express.
A LONG tenure of Office begets Incidence, inef-
fciency, neglect and perfunctory discharge OF
duty. This cannot be truthfully denied There
fore, theorists and speculative reformers may
protest as much as they like. but they can never
permanently establish any system of civil
service rules which would prevent the application
of the only adequate remedy for these defects,
to-wit: rotation in Office. Brooklyn Eagle
If parent were to send his child to eynis
nasium for physical training. and have it re-.
turned to him at the end of several years with
an arm or leg highly developed, and the rest
of it's body dwarfed Impractical and useless.
the parent would scarcely find cause 20 congrat.s
ulate himself upon this result. It is serious
question whether, if he could survey the mind
Of his child, very different result would be dis
covered in any product of our present school
system.-Charleston News
Now is the time for the Irish to demonstrate
their capacity for self-government Patience
and good order under their disappointment are
the qualities which can most help them now.
The greatest harm they have to dread now is an
outbreak of the dynamiters. The Irish have
the sympathy Of the civilized world now. With
patience and order, triumph is only question
of a short time, but the civilized world is op.
posed to dynamite assassination, and will smpa-
thize with none who encourage it--Louisville
Commercial.
IRELAND must be patient Next week VS.
shall know the whole story OF tho election and
what the people Cf England think. What tho
people of Scotland think we know now. They
have spoken a generous word for ireland, and
spoken it with great emphasis. Indeed. we can
afford to wait. for months and even years are
necessary to great changes. Al revolution which
is tho result OF battle is the work of day, but
revolution which is the result Of an educated
public opinion moves slowly to its grand cons
summation.-New York Herald.