The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-08-20
COM MENT AND OPINION.

SECRETARY BAYARD should open a diplomatic
correspondence with Geronimo.-St. Louis Post
Dispatch
MICHIGAN has a Greenback labor womans-
suffrage prohibition party. If the hyphens
should give way the party would 60 to pieces.
st Louis Chronicle.
THE new postal card has many good qualities,
but there is nothing about it that will prevent
the carrier reading it as he journeys along lifes
sidewalks Detroit Free Press.
SECRETARY BAYARDs estimate of his country:
Not large enough to face Canada when in the
right, but amply able to terroriZe Mexico, even
when in the wrong.-Boston Advertiser.
MARCH madness" is an old phrase, full of
meaning. But 1t is a more reputable variety of
mental u2soundness than that which Mr.. Bayard
is exhibiting just now.-New York Mail and Ex-
press
CANDIDATES are taking a lively interest in
the condition of the wheat crop. Wheresoever
thrashing machine is gathered together there
will the politician be found Minneapolis
Tribune
THE Ohio Democratic convention, which is in
session at Columbus. ought to pass resolution
yindcating Senator Payne We shall have our
doubts about him until this is done.-Pittsburg
Chronicle.
THE Democrats all over the country are afraid
that Mr.. Blaine is about to say something in
Maine. And from this distance it looks as if
their worst fears would be ealized.-Philadel-
phia Press
AFTER all perhaps it would be just as we'll not
to kick Mexico until we are ready to get kicked
at in return. There is comfort about this long
range battle that hand-to hand conflicts wouldn't
have.-Ph Philadelphia Times.
THE Democrats are in SILVER of dread be-
cause Mr.. Blaine has ordered some public docu-
ments from Washington. They fear he is going
to ''arraign the administration. If he does, the
administration will never get over it.-Chicago
Journal
WHEN provincial locality attempts to dictate
tastes to a cosmopolitan population, there is very
liable to be friction and dissatisfaction. Rhode
Island seems favorably situated TO pay good
heavy penalty for the prohibition folly.-Albany
Express
IF Mexico keeps on disclosing new phases to
the Cutting affair at its present industrious rate
it may yet be discovered that Secretary Bayard
ought TO apologize to the sister republic for the
fact that such a fellow as Cutting was ever per-
mitted to exist-Pittsbure Dispatch.
HIGH license shuts the doors of unnecessary
drinking saloons precisely as high prices curtail
the consumption of beef or butter or blackber-
ries. The cost of license can be nicely adjusted
to the public convenience; there are ten saloons
where there should be but one.-Philadelphia
Record.
VIRTUE, learning, high thoughts and entire
freedom from selfish motives admirable, and
to certain extent indispensable to a nations
welfare; but the theory of competitive literary
EXAMINATIONS ana non partisan appointments as
the only means of getting work under the civil
service departments Of Democratic govern
ment, is humbug and nothing else.-New York
Sun.
WHEN Mr.. Powderly says that the Richmond
convention will be congress of workers. repre-
senting all classes of workers throughout the
country, he clearly ignores the fact that the
great majority of workers will have no power in
selecting the members of the convention, no de-
clared sympathy with any of its objects, and no
disposition to be governed by its acton,-New
York Tribune.
The cure for violent sectarianism is the same
in all times and in all lands. Education does far
less to assuage its bitterness than is commonly
supposed Mere systems of administration &C.
complish nothing more. 1t must wear itself out.
The day of its exhaustion will be happier one
for Ireland than that which sees the perfection
of the most promising governmental plan.
Brooklyn Eagle
EVERY year more readers of the daily press are
learning that the sensationalism and nastiness of
certain newspapers is not due to any inherent
quality of journalism, as their publishers would
have them believe, but is naught save the rehec-
tioa of the depraved state and vile mind of the
editor himself, who generally owes his position
solely to the publishers lust for gain or power,
or both.-Cincinnati Sun.
IT is evident that it is the cue Of the prohibi-
ton leaders. all along the line TO the Re-
publican party by defeats, next November This
is the new style of politics. of which mug
wumpery is another illustration. It is the appll-
cation of the principles and methods of Nihilism
in politics; the institution of system Of terror.
old American system of the rule Of the majority,