The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-09-21
COMMENT AND OPINION.

ONE sign of prosperity that should not be
overlooked is the marked increase in the number
of applicants for admmisson to our colleges.
New York Commercial Advertiser.
SECRETARY BAYARD. it is announced, will
next month take a vacation. A vacation is
tomething of which Bayard can take very freely
without provoking any complaints of greediness.
Chicago Times.
BOND calls that do not call are a sham, and a
sham in the interest of national banks and of
Wall street. 1t is time that the Treasury De-
partment should be administered in the interest
of the people.--New York World.
In ordinary times we may seem to be given to
the pursuit of the dollar; but when the trial
comes, the American people rarely fail to prove
that they still have individual qualities worthy
the history and greatness of the Natiop.-Piuts-
burg Dispatch.
the fertile and facile Yankee mind will find little
difficulty in providing, should occasion arise,
whatever special weapons or special service may
be required to insure an adequate defense Of our
ports Philadelphia Record.
THE Chicago convention has mapped out a
great but feasible work for temperance senti-
ment to accomplish through the instrumentaity
of the Republican party. Temperance reform,
if it advances at all. will advance along the lines
of that programme. Albany journal.
IT is presumption of the law that every man
who comes into a country is under as much obi
taken such an oath. We can deal with these fell
lows without putting any limitation upon our
liberal laws.-New York Mail and Express
PROHIBITION is at present the greatest him
drance 10 temperance legislation, and if it is set
to one side and confined to tho actual believers
in it without any attempts at Cancellation or
compromise the prospect for really eficacous
public policy will be much improved. New
York Times
THE fierce and implaca BILE tribes who massacre
our settlers, and for months, sometimes for
years. defy our troops prove to be, when sur
rendered, mere handfuls of squalid and half
starved creatures. In few years they will
have disappeared, and the Indian question will
cease to veX asst Louis Republican.
Mr. BAYARD's ignorance is astounding What
Mr. Bayard proposed to demand of the republic
of Mexico is the repeal of its penal code. This
would be an Unprecedented request to make of
one OF the States of our Union, but when it is
ernment it is both unprecedented and arrogant
Boston Journal
THE insane of Indiana appear to be beaten
and i'll fed to conduce to Democratic success by
the appointment OF the cruel or incompetent
friends of Democratic workers as attendants
and by the large contributions to campaign
funds of Democratic contractors, who have
plundered the State and starved the insane pa
tlents.-Chicago Inter Ocean.
EVERY one who favors temperance, sobriety
and good order, whose judgment is not warped
by fanaticsm, will support high license, wheth-
err Prohibitionsts not. 1t is true, too, that
many who sell and large proportion of those
who drink Intoxicating liquors to a greater or
less extent favor high license law from consid-
erations of public interest Philadelphia Press
PROF MCGEE tells a gaping continent that
the recent shaking up of 100000 square miles
was caused by an internal landslide" Who
ever heard of an internal landslide before? No
geologist down to Prof McGee ever heard the
expression before, and the latter evidently coined
it for the occasion in Charleston Internal
landslide" indeed! The next time we hear from
Prof MCGEE he will ba suffering from severe
attack of internal bald head-Columbus (Ga.
ENQUIRER.