The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-04-30
COMMENT AND OPINION.

WHAT this country wants Is an annual arbor
day. upon which it will be lawful to plant
statesmen who have failed.-Macon Telegraph.
1T ought to be possible to plant daisies or the
grave of the Morrison tariff bill without first
listening to forty-five orations. Reading Pa,
Times
HEREAFTER when congressional committee
undertakes to get facts out of Jay Gould it will
probably hire some smart man to ask him lead
ing questions. -Atlanta Constitution.
SENATOR PAYNE, of Ohio, says that the
charges made against him amount to nothing.
Charges never do amount to anything 1t is the
proof which makes troubls.-Bostoa Record
SENATOR PAYNE invites the utmost scrutiny
in the bribery charges. in the calm confidence of
a man who took especial care to look the other
way while it WAS going on.-Pittsburg Dispatch.
CINCINNATI talks about opening the public IL
brary Sundays. In the moral aspect of the case
it is at least true that the theatres in full blast
would keep the open library in countenance.
Boston Advertiser.
AS matter Of fact, the United States gov
eminent can no more make men temperate than
car the State governments. And the idea of
prohibition is just as fallacious when attempted
to be enforced by national as State legislation.
Boston Transcript
If Congress cannot do any more in the next
two months than 1t has done since the session
began, it would better adjourn and let the mem
berS go home The present Congress is hum
bug. 80 far as the passage Of important bills is
concerned.-Denyer Tribune. "a
Do the skilled and organized iaborers propose
to make the adoption of the eight-hour system
the equivalent of demand that there shall be
an Increase OF twenty per cent in wages, or
twenty per cent in the cost of the labor put into
the production of a given article?-Cincinnati
Commercial Gazette.
TRADES UNION Know nothingism will not be
allowed to impair the rights of American citizen
ship and override the laws established for the
government of free country. The right of
every citizen to engage in any lawful occupation
without interference is one that must and shall
be preserved. Chicago Tribune. e
AS most of the eight hour advocates thought
lessly associate ten hours pays with eight hours
labor, they should consider well before they
strike blow that would inevitably diminish
Still further the employing power of the coun-
try. There is now little enough for labor; don't
make that little less Philadelphia Times. ~
PROOF of such corruption as sent Mr. Payne
to the Senate is rarely If ever. found. 1t is sell
dom that testimony is found in such cases that
can put the accused in as bad position as MIR.
Payne placed himself in when he failed to de-
mand an investigation, as no accused Senator
ever did before. The fact speaks louder than
lack Of evidence. Memphis Avalanche
THE Prohibition campaign seems not to have
been waged in the right spirit Indscrimnate
abuse of liquor and liquor-dealers, of drunkards
and of moderate drinkers, 10 not good means
of persuading men who use liouor to become
total aostainers The Atlanta people were wiser
in their methods than those of Richmond and
Lynchburg. New York Mail and Express.
IF the laborine man is going to receive as
no doubt like the change, otherwise he would
prefer his ten hours and the comforts they will
bring to his home. Any farmer who is asked TO
limit his working hours to eight will reply that
such programme means empty granaries and
poor stock and mortgaged farm. Chicago Inter
Ocean.
THE fact that the existing rates of wages have
been almost universally fixed by the working
men themselves must operate very strongly
against an increase of wages equal in all direc-
tons to 70 per cent. as reduction of two hours
from each working day, without correspond
ing reduction of wages. would involve the stated
increase of compensation. Philadelphia In
quirer
APARry is justly judged by what it DOES, not
by what 1t says-by its representatives not by
its resolutions; and if the Democratic party
means to be recognized and received as the sup
porter of home rule. of economy, of equitable
and moderate taxation, and of reform in admin
istrut on, 1t must stoI nominating and electing
men who are opposed to these things.-Bostoii
Herald.
THE Willis Blair educational bill has been
kicked and cuffed about enough to convince the
South that it she ever receives grant of money
for the promotion of free education it will be at
the hands of a Republican Congress. The treat
afforded grotesque exempfcaton of the OBJ
structive power of Democratic ignorance.
adelphia Press.
THERE will not be a general strike of the
Knights of Labor on the 1st of May. has been
reported. Mr.. Powdery assures u.s. but expert
ence has shown, we regret to say. that strikes
may occur without any previous knowledge on
Mr. Powderly's part. and even be continued after
he has ordered them to stop. His authority to
state what will or will not happen in that respect
lie therefore evidently subject to certain limita-
tons which impair his usefulness as prophet.
however wise and good his intentions may be.
st Louis Globe Democrat.
LEADERS like Chief Arthur are blessing TO
the cause of labor. Those who follow the ad vice
of such leaSers find their wages steadily rising
their circumstances and conditions steadily inn
proving, and they never driven to starve
their wives or children, or led into law breaking
that ends in prison cell But the men who
follow such agitators as Martin Irons find it both
an expensive and disagreeable burden As for
those who rely upon political demagogues, and
more fat Offices and departments to increase the
burdens OF labor, they deserve only what they
get New York Tribune.