The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-01-21
COMMENT AND OPINION.

A PARTY that was anxious to impeach Bel
KNAPP should not shut its eyes to the charges
against Mr. Garland.-Chicago Mail.
IF the President has made removals for good
cause he ought to welcome the opportunity to
give the reasons for his action with enthusiasm.
Milwaukee Sentinel.
WEALTHY Republicans not Office holders and
many Republicans not all wealthy, have in this
State. done the work of the campaign and paid
the bills.-Boston Transcript
THE secret session is device of oligarchical
government, which ought to have no place in our
system, except as means of safety in times of
great danger.-New York Commercial Adver-
tser.
On the whole, it is safe to say that in Kansas,
as in other States where prohibition is at work,
only the localities where the public sentiment
favors the law are able to report its successful
operation. Boston Record.
EVERY child in republic should be taught
to read and write, and money spent in that d-
rection is a safe investment. Compulsory edu-
cation saves the nation. School books are our
sole dependence.-NewY York Herald.
THE free-traders who are counting or a ma
jority in the House for the forthcoming Morrison
bill are either deceived themselves or practicinc
deception The majority against the proposition
will be about forty National Republican.
THE Democrats in Washington are figuring on
getting along without New York, New Jersey
and Connecticut by making gains at the West.
If they don't improve their record as legislators,
the country will figure successfully on getting
along without them.-Boston Herald
WHO knows but the Irish scenes which have
attracted so much sympathy in this country.
and over which we have so often thanked God
that we were not like unto that Pharisee may
not recur our own soil It certainly looks as
though they might-San Francisco Chronicle.
MAINE, the Utopia of the Prohibitionists.
probable furnished more bloody crimes and MUIR
ders last year, most of them directly traceable
- k1a-
and. perhaps, quite as many as all put together
all OF which is not a conspicuous argument for
the Maine liquor law.-Springfeld Republican.
WHEN matters are at their worst they are
likely to mend soon, but, while matters appear
to be at their worst in Ireland now the PRESENT.
temper OF the English people is apparently not
such as to enable them to do what it is obvious
ly proper they should do to mend the affairs of
ireland for Engand's as well as Ireland's benefit
philadelphia Inquirer.
In this city there are over eight thousand
licensed saloons, besides large assortment Of
unlicensed ones. This gives legalized liquor
shop to every 185 of popuation-women and
children included. A high license law would
sweep half of these purveyors into some better
business, and would insure better behavior
on the part of those remaining New York
Graphic
If the President has been making uniustifiable
removals and bad appointments, it is not the
Senate only which should know the particulars,
butt he whole public If any highly-placed politi-
clan either side has succeeded In inducing the
President to make improper nominations, it
ought to be made an open secret. There is no
such cure for this sort of abuse letting all the
world know about it-New York Evening Post.
MONTANA has not reached the position that
entities it to become State. and the fact that
another Territory has reached that position fur
nishes no ground for admitting it If members
of Congress cannot rise above petty considera-
tons of party advantage in dealing with ques-
ton of this kind, both Territories may as well
wait until both are fit for admission, or men OF
broader gauge called upon to act in the mat
ter.-New York Times.
THE removed officers now rest under imputa~
tions of dishonesty or unfathfuness. Their
friends have right to ask Of the President his
reasons for removal, so that If there have been
secret charges of misconduct the outgoing men
may be indicated He cannot refuse this in
formation without taking the part of whole
sale slanderer of officials fully as upright and
conscientious as himself 1t is not to be pre-
sumed that he will take any such course-New
York Tribune.
STATE sovereignty and national sovereignty,
State independence and national independence,
are terms OF opposite meaning that admit OF no
compromise, no reconciliation, in any rational
Interpretation that can be given to them. The
decision in the drummer cases" is another au-
thoritative negation of the former. another ju-
dcial assertion of the latter-another affirmation
of the American Nation against one of the most
absurd political delusons that ever has obfus-
cat. the wit of man.-Chicago Times.
THOUGH the discussions in the trade associa-
tons are often characterized by impracticabla
and extravaganza views. still there is leaven of
truth working its way through them with greater
and greater prominence as the years go by
This is giving labor a dignity and position in
society which it has not hitherto enjoyed. It is
freeing it from subservience on one hand and
FROM being the tool Of demagogues on the other.
Let the thinking and talking go on. 1t is in tho
line of the intelligence which furnishes the stable
foundation for real democracy. New York