The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-04-03

| GoULDS millions will not avail him il Powder
| lys millions behave themselves. -P Philadelphia
| Record
PENSION COMMISSIONERS BLACK draws the
largest pension the rolls 1t is for total disa-
| bility, and he earns it-Philadelphia Inquirer.
| WHILE Mr.. Garland remains in the Cabinet
| the administration is tainted with scandal
which prevents confidence. Boston Advertiser
| If the Knights of Labor want to reinstate
| themselves in the confidence of the people they
must obey Powderly and overthrow Irons, who
is evidently reckless agitator and not wise or
| honest leader of labor.-New York Mail and Ex-
| press
| Mr.. MORRISON is good fellow, of plain. blunt
| common sense and an attractive art IN swearing,
| when he s'cusses" the right thing, and the only
| fault In the man is that the tariff is not his
| speciality and he thinks it is.-Memphis Ava
| lanche
THE men in any country and under any gov
eminent who now own property far exceed in
mum bers and strength those who own nothing.
It will always be 80, and therefore law and or
der in some form will always prevail Denver
Republican
changed by long and dreary debate in the Sen
ate, which has emphasized the fact that the
Democratic party has no sympathy with the per-
sonal policy of Mr.. observation-disclosures Tele-
graph (Dem.
THERE is no excuse for the refusal to accept
know that the Indians can be civilized. We
know that to deny them civilization is to doom
them to speedy and miserable extinction.
New York Tribune.
THE aggregate loss Of capital since the first Of
the year from strikes has been enormous,
amounting to many millions of dollars and that
of labor has been only less ruinous. Such a loss
is absolute. and the money it represents, once
gone is gone forever.-Philadelphia Telegraph.
THE ultimate failure of this strike was inevi
table from the first for the simple reason that 1t
was not based upon any defensible ground
But even real grievances can be redressed by
| more logical means than strikes and the futility
of this foolish device has been shown in way
that ought not to be forgotten. Philadelphia
Times.
In these dark days Of deep disgruntlement it
takes something very funny to upset the gravity
OF the Hoosier Democrats, but wild wave or
Democratic laughter rolls along the State, from
Lake Michigan to the Ohio river, when mention
is made in the papers of Edgerton and Oberly
running the civil-service machine. National Re-
publican.
IT must be confessed that disclosure of the
testimony on which the President acted in the
cases cited by Senator Harrison would be edify-
ing to the country, and would relieve himself
from an embarrassing responsibility. While 1t
cannot be called for by the Senate as right. it
would cause no harm to the general interest to
make it public. Herald.
every competent American citizen to get into
place without being indebted to any mans pat
ronage or favor and solely on his own merit, and
it provides that he shall not hold his place by
any mans favor, but by his own deserts, and as
long as he does his duty. This is the true Amer
lean system. Commercial.
PEOPLE do not like hypocrisy. They do like
the straightforward manly way. To remove a
man on the pretense that he has been faithless
to his sworn duty, and send him out into the
- u
fuse to give the people the charges on which
such removal was made. is not the manly way.
And that is why the people do not like it, Mr..
President. Chicago Mail
THE work of destruction by riot is quick; the
work of restoring employment is slow. In the
order of nature all the load of all society rests
at last on labor. It has to bear the burden of
all calamties and losses of the general we alth.
But as if this were not enough, these rioters go
at work to directly destroy their own means of
employment And they call this suicide of
workmen the war Of labor against capital Gin
cinnati Commercial Gazette.
PLoTTERs aud schemers may seek to embroil
Republican leaders, but they will signally fail,
and the effort to thrust in the presidential nom
inaton wedge to drive them apart will be
impotent The nomination will settle itself
when the time comes, and there is no occasion
for any premature agitation. The candidate will
be determined by the general sentiment of the
party as to what selection will be most wise and
most sure to bring success. Philadelphia Press.
AS demonstration of power the strike has
proved failure, and has done the Knights of
Labor an injury that it will take a long time to
repair. If it has taught them that their strength
must depend on the justice of their cause in
every case and upon the adoption of methods
which have a contant regard for the principles
of equity and careful consideration for public
and private rights, it may yet be turned to good
account The lesson is one that all labor unions
should seriously ponder. York Times.
THE absolute edict of the Knights was uttered
by those who had not the authority, and was
blindly obeyed by the workmen, and thus they
were sacrificed The declaration made by the
general executive committee give TO workmen
ground for the hope that out of this great crime
| and calamity will grow an organization, dsci-
pline, authority and deliberate government of
| the order of the Knights which will not allow
stroy the livelihood of an unnumbered multi
tude of contented workmen Cincinnati Com
| mercial Gazette.
THERE can be no doubt whatever of the sound
ness of the view of Judge Dillon, that comb
nation to enforce demands like those made in the
West, by the violent means there employed, is a
conspiracy for which all concerned are severally
liable. both civilly and criminally. This has
been constantly maintained by the courts. Chief
| justice Beasley sustained an indictment in New
Jersey for q combination by several employees
merely to notify their employer that unless he
| discharged obnoxious workman, they would
| quit his employment. He said it was seeking a
| rnischievous result by oppressive means. This
was going far, and we do not cite 1t as the gen.
eral law. but only to point out how plain it must
| be that q combination to enforce such demand
| as is made on the receiver of one road in the
| hands of court, by "killing" the engines aud
| capturing the property of another must subject
| all concerned to punishment aud restitution, il
the legal remedies shall be nvoked.--Frank
| Leslie's Weekly.
| THE great railroad strike In the Southwest is
not sustained by public sympathy, because no
reasonable ground for 1t has been statsd, and
because 1t attempts not only to assert che right
/ of employees to decide upon what conditions they
will work, but to destroy the similar rights Of
other employees, and to deprive property -owners
of the right to control their property. This is
an assault upon social order itself which could
right no wrong and which, unchecked would
| involva fha country in a common disastar How