The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-08-13
COMMENT. AND OPINION.

THERE has been be-Hedden in the New York
collectorship. -Pittsburg Chronicle.
BETwIxT the Goldfish and the greaser our svig-
orous foreign policy" is getting rude buffetng.
st. Louis Post Dispatch.
ONE way to keep socialism alive is to pursue it
with petty persecution, as is done In Germany.
New York Commercial Advertiser.
Mr.. GEORGE WILLIAM CURTIS says reform is
not dead. Probably not, but in some sections it
seems to be sleeping very oundiy.-Baltimore
American.
If we have a war with Mexico II will not be so
expensive for Mr.. Cleveland as the late War Of
the Rebellion He will not be compelled to hire
a substitute. Chicago Mail
THE Anarchists defense, on being closed ap-
pears to be: Eve did not mean to do it so that
we could be- hung and ''The other fellows are
liars. "-Pittsburg Dispatch.
ABOUT per cent of the soldiers and 100 per
cent OF the claim agents are responsible for the
clamor that was effectually rebuked by the G.
A. r., at San Francisco last week.-National
Republican.
THERE seems to be prevalent opinion that
the Democratic party has reached the condition
long ago ascrlbed to the State of Virginia and a
hill of potatoes-the best part underground.
-Phiadelphia Inquirer.
DOES the President think that he Is recogniz
ing the colored people any better by putting an
obscure person of that race from Albany, N. T..
in the place from which he has just ousted Fred
Douglassa-Boston Record
1T is good time for people down on the Mexi
can border and in the State Department to re-
member
How nations sink. by daring deeds oppresst.
When vengeance listens to the fools requesn
Springfield Republican.
THE State Department gives out that it has
got its most automatically ambiguous and OBJ
scure Second Assistant Secretary Adee at work
on an official correspondence. Altogether, our
country seems to be safe, and the horrors of war
less imminent.-New York Star.
DOES Mr.. Bayard imagine that he will be sus
tanned in seeking to establish the great principle
that American citizens may safely circulate in
Mexico libels against Mexican citizens, or sedi-
tious publications, provided they procure them
TO be printed in the United Statesl-Boston Ad-
yertiser.
If the people were right in censuring Repub-
lican Congress in 1882, what are they to say to
the hypocrites who get into power by denounc-
ing extravaganza and pretending to be reform
ers, and who Immediately appropriate more
money, except for pensions than the last Repub-
lican House appropriated?-New York Tribune
If in the end it is found that injustice mas been
done Cutting, Mexico can heal his wounded feel
ings with some of her silver dollars. At all
events, the United States must not assume the
role of bully. Great Britain should be per-
mitted to retain her monopoly of this character
in dealing with nations weaker than herself
Cincinnati Sun.
WHILE think that the temperance cause,
and prohibition as one Of Its methods are making
Roadway, we do not think that the Prohibition
lists a separate party gaining; nor do We
think that party whose only success If it has
any success at all, lies in putting the worst
mics of its cause in power, can do any good.
Philadelphia Press.
THE one element safe to rely on IN the present
state of Europe Is that the policy of Germany,
so long as the aged Emperor lives, will be peace,
and in this policy Austria seems willing to join.
In that view the present meeting of the two
Emperors, though mainly personal in character
may possibly be looked at as a token of contn-
ued satisfaction with the peace policy.
York Times,
If the President had appointed some eminent
merchant of New York he would have empha-
sized his declared desire to have the custom
house run on business and not on political prn-
ciples In choosing Mr.. Magone he has named
man who is personally rreprcachable, but who
is bitter partisan and who will play the game
of politics while sounding the manifesto of re-
form. -Phladelphia Press.