The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-07-10
COMMENT AND OPINION.

''Gone Old Man. n-Pittsbu Chronicle.
TT is not strange that Mr.. Garland should
have desired TO save up something for Ranney
day.-Boston Transcript
THOMAS JEFFERSON never shoveled any horse
humor into his pension vetoes. He was patriot
and statesman. Press.
THE New Haven News says that oleomarga-
rine should henceforth be called orphan butter.
Let it 60 no father.-Lowell Courier.
IT seems that Congress will have to be smoked
out of Washington. There is no disposition yet
to adjourn.-St. Louis Post. Dispatch.
WHEN the millennium comes, we shall expect
bakers to make deduction for the holes in
doughnuts and cookies. Burlington Free Press.
WE shall never have Democratic party
worthy of the name until it becomes positive
party and stands for something. Boston Her
aid Mug
THE motto in Chicago and in all other places
in the country should be: eff any Anarchist
shoots at the American flag, shoot him down on
the spot.h-New York Mail and Express.
THAT boycotters must go to jail and keep
going in perennial succession until they stop
boycotting, is fundamental principle of Ameri-
can polity.-New York Evening Post
THE President is too closely occupied with
writing two-cent vetoes TO consider the miscon-
duct of leading officials who thought there might
be millions in gift telephone stock.-New York
Tribune.
IT is an insult to the American Republic when
foreign Anarchists and Socialists who come here
because there is justice for the people in their
own countries, attempt by terrorism and intimi-
datlon TO parayze the arm of Justice IN gov
eminent of the people.-New York World.
In all the actions of the present government
from its head to the neutrality-suspicious. Cleve-
land to Sparks;-not one thing has yet been done
for which the Northwest has to be grateful. If
Duluth had had the ili-fortune to be situated in
Mississippi the President would probably have
cio cad tho IvUifh hut lie
Tribune.
THE fearlessness of the President in vetoing
the small pension bills has caused a good deal of
enthusiastic comment among the Democratic
and mugwump journals Yet he hasn't the cour
age to ask Garland to resign. A pension claim
ant with chronic darrhoea is not so formidable
person as q Southern politician. milwaukee
Sentinel.
WoRKINGMEN should be taught to obey the
laws; but the best way to do it is to show them
that corporations will be made TO obey the laws
also. In their own interests the labor unions
should combine to insure resp ect for order on
their own part and obedience to the restrictions
of the law on the part Of the railways Miiwau-
kee Sentinel
The Presidents messages veto!ng pension bills
suddenly lost their cutting sarcasm after he had
the effect of it, In spite of the fact that we
have Democratic President there are still some
people in the United States who resent an insult
to the men who whipped the Democratic party
when that party attempted to split the Union.
Minneapolis Tribunes
GLADSTONE is grand old man." even in the
hour of the defeat of MS cause Standing on the
further shore of life, he has the courage to es-
pouse the cause Of the oppressed. and to fight
for principle which grows tardily that he
can hardly hope to see it realized. Gladstone is
rot fighting for personal fame, but he is all the
more famous on that account.-Cincinnat Sun.
Now it is time to let Fitz-John Porter drop
n a WI for m
-ry is heartily sick of hearing of him and
the bill for his relief General Logan will do
well to swallow his natural feeling of disgust
and let Fitz John Porter's funeral proceed-for
his nomination to s'the rank held by him at the
time of his dismissal from the army is his
funeral. Why delay the Chicago
News.
THE Pan electric combination was at the bot
tom of the inquiry in the Interior Department,
which is the basis of the present suit The
President, once free from the meshes of thu con-
spirators, became again involved when the pres
ent suit was brought in the name of the United
States. He will continue to be involved so long
as this suit is prosecuted by the government,
Mr.. Garland in the Cabinet or out-Boston
Journal
THE matter with prohibition is that as soon as
it wins, and the attempt is made to enforce it in
any State, it discredits itself by it's impractical
bility and impotence. Maine, Kansas and Iowa
under a prohibitory law are good object lessons
haps desirable that prohibition should win few
more victories, that the reaction to sensible and
practical liquor legislation may be the greater
and more lasting. New York Sun.
FEW persons here desire to see Ireland dis
severed from the British empire. We only want
to have the Irish people ruled that Great
Britain will be stronger than ever, because dis
content has been banished from Ireland by En-
glish magnanimity and justice The strongest
arguments for removing the United States mill
tary from the South after the reconstruction acts
went into effect were drawn from the evils pro-
duced by British military domination in Ireland.
Boston Transcript
JOHN BRIGHT rageth like the heather and ut
tereth strange things. We have Mr.. Parnells
word for it that the concession of home rule will
satisfy the aspirations of Irishmen IL the direc-
ton of political independence. Give them that
and the longing for national autonomy will cease
Satisfy their legitimate claims and there will be
no danger of imperial dismemberment. Cannot
the illustrious old Quaker see that this conces-
sion would strengthen, not weaken, the ties of
the empire9-Brooklyn Eagle.
No NATION likes to hear the foreigners are
meddling in its concerns, especially if they are
using money to help one side or the other. We
may depend upon it that accounts of our home
rule meetings are telegraphed to the other side,
and we doubt very much whether they will help
the cause they are intended to serve. The
queter we keep in this crisis-the less obstru-
sive we become-the less ground we furnish for
the charge that the Parnellites are American
hirelings. the more votes home-rule Is likely to
get. Contributions of money are we'll enough,
but they should be sent discreetly, without flour
ish of trumpets or newspaper notices. No
American statesman could survive proof that his
pockets were filed with British gold. We must
give our English cousins credit for equal sus-
ceptibility.-San Francisco Chronicle.
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