The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-12-17
COMMENT AND OPINION.

| SPEAKING of 1.-THE Campbells are coming.
| isn't it time they began to go2-PIttsburg Chron
| ice.
| 1T is feared that Senators will strike for more
salary if Blair continues to read essays .-Phila.
| delphia American.
| New MEXICO is nothing to be proud of as
| Territory; it would be intoerable as State.
| Philadelphia Press.
| IT is a burlesque ON justice to refer to twelve
| opnioness fools jury of ones peers Mar
| tha's Vineyard Herald.
! In addition to being "perncious partisan,
| United States District Attorney Benton appear:
| to be pernicious liar.-Chicago Journal.
! FLORIDA has voted for new Constitution.
| The severe frosts last year cracked the old one
and rendered it unfit for use-Pittsburg
] Chronicle.
| PRESIDENT CLEVELAND thinks he can be re-
elected without the vote of New York. Well, all
we have to say is. we hope he'll try it-Pitts-
! burg Inquirer.
SOME day when Uncle Sam isn't rushed we
| hope he will melt over his old mail boxes and
cast some new ones big enough to stick paper
into. detroit Tribune
| THE Republican party will elect it's candidate
in 1888. But let that candidate be man whose
ability and integrity shall make the majority
the largest possible. Cleveland Leader.
CORRESPONDENT double 90 Stealey is still do
| molshing the War Department Secretary
| charging his Double -barreled D at him.-Louis-
vile Commercial
| SIXTY pounds of coffee and eight pounds of tea
is the average used last year in each family in
the United States. Secretary Manning wants
to increase the cost of coffee ST. 20 and of tea so
cents to the family.-National Republican.
THE prohibition city OF Atlanta has suddenly
been converted to spiritralsm. The people
carry singuar-looking brown jug out of town,
have it filled with quart of the ''ism, and come
homo feeling that life Is, after all, worth living
New York Herald.
THERE hasn't been time in the past ten years
when the Democra tic outlook appeared as gloomy
as 1t does to-day. There never was time. with
III that period, that a conference of leaders
seemed to be more necessary. or more unprom.
Using. Milwaukee Sentinel.
THE order of precedence is again disturbing
the court ladies at Washington. If by one con-
sent they should all insist upon taking the lowest
seat instead of the highest going up as they
were called, they would be justified by the high
est authority. -Philadelpha Record.
If Congress is going to protect people against
bogus butter, and the makers of the cow article
against the makers of the bogus, it should, for
consistencys sake, not to speak of the public
welfare, extend its protecting arm against other
and more noxious bogus articles of food and
drink. Chicago Times
UNCLE RANDALL. is engaged in his regular an
nual effort to convince skeptica country that
the Democracy is the great friend of American
labor. The utterances of the administration in
favor of free trade make Uncle Randall's peform-
ance this year a little more spectacular than
ever, philadelphia Press.
How to improve our business relations with
our southern neighbors is problem deserving
all the time and consideration our statesmen can
give if. When we capture the custom of South
America. there will be an end to overproduction
and hard times in the United States for half
century. Atlanta Constitution.
THE principle of government restraint must
prevail in the end. The people are stronger than
the corporations. The creator Ia greater than
the creature. The master should command the
servant. And it is high time that these truths
had a practical demonstration in the regulation
of railway traffic. New York World.
A GOOD way to dispose OF Land ommissioner
Sparks's egotism is for the House to adopt the
Senate bill which sends questions which may
arise as to land titles to the courts. This would
be sad and severe blow 10 Sparks, but the coun-
try would be deal better satisfied than under
the existing system of wrangling and blunder-
ing-St Paul Pioneer Press.
THE organization into one body OF all labor.
skilled and unskilled is a foolish dream. The
Trades Federation may be needfu In order 70
show that workingmen acting in concert are not
necessarily FOOLS At any rate the Trades Fed
Grafton demonstrated that fact whom it voted
down resolution offered by Chicago labor