The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-04-05
COMMENT AND OPINION.

LABOR and capital are both great but neither
is greater than law.-New York Tribune.
THE utterances of Mr.. Powderly have been
timely and intellectually benefciaL-New York
World.
WHaT splendid Mephistopheles was spoiled
when Jay Gould took to selling rat traps!-New
York Journal
THE public would not be astonished to know
that Geronimo is calling out his reserves.-St.
Louis Post Dispatch.
ONE of the social phenomena Of the times is
the sudden disappearance of tramps. They have
all turned strikers. philadelphia Inquirer.
Mr. IRONS is Just as much the wrong man in
the wrong place as Mr.. Powdery is the right
one in the right place. Philadelphia Inquirer.
If the question of abolishing the secret execu-
tive sessions of the Senate left to the ne VS.
papers it would become a thing of the past
Boston Journal.
Mr. MoRRIsoN's tariff bill is expected to come
in on Monday. The indications that even
its own parent will pot recognize the infant. It
has been changed in its cradle Boston Record.
THERE is much less money idle in the country
now than at the beginning of the year, as shown
by the statement of the banks of all the leading
trade centers. and the country will be fairly
prosperous if given half chance. -Pittsburg
Chronicle.
If the European powers are determined to
fight again over their longstandipg quarrel, it
is comfort to know that the United States has
got large surplus of provisions and munitions
to sell them at the highest market rates.-Pitts-
burg Dispatch.
THE ill-health of the statesmen of Washing
ton may be attributable to overwork; but if a
sanitary investigation were held might it not
have something to say about the effect of late
hours, terrapin and seven kinds of wine?-Pitts-
burg Dispatch.
SPEAKER CARLISLE is credited with the deter
mination to make the Democratic campaign this
foil ttvMr fha fow Vt1of hS4
campaign this issue in the House Of Repre-
sentatives is not encouraging to outside fighting
Boston Advertiser.
WHAT no coercive organization can effect. the
moralization of the world upon the broad gen
eral basis of human brotherhood and fraternal
obligation alone accomplish. Perhaps Mr.
Powderly recognizes that fact already; we think
he does. Brooklyn Eagle.
TT is critical moment in the affairs Of both
| the employers and wage-earrers of the country
and the future welfare of both classes-of the
| whole people. indeed-largely depends upon the
next action OF those most nearly concerned
| Charleston News and Courier
MEN who by strikes and violence hinder the
| return OF business confidence and activity are
fools and should be suppressed as quickly as
possible by their fellows who are endowed with
sense and an earnest desire to make the best of
their opportunities. Philadelphia Times
PROMPT recognition of the uselessness of fur
ther proloneing the struggle is now the manly
and honorable course for the knights TO pursue
They may bear defeat without discredt, but the
continuance of a guerilla warfare would remove
them at once beyond the pale of public sympathy.
philadelphia Record.
HIGH license is the best temperance law for
country parishes. They make the rum-sellers
pay the parish expenses and keep money In the
treasury. The drinkers reimburse the rumsell-
err That is indirect taxation that works no
hardship to the poor who want to keep sober
New Orleans Picayune.
WOULD there be any more improperly in
Congressmens making their speeches generally
IN the form of prayers to the Almighty, than
there is in their Chaplains discussing public
questions and subjects for legislation in the same
way, and with view to attracting the satten-
ton of the Nationa"-New York Sun.
CHINESE outrages are as reprehensible as the
which the perpetrators of the former are brought
to justice and the immunity granted the perpe-
traitors OF the latter are pretty fair index of
the state of public opinion in the sections where
these crimes occur Philadelphia Press.
WE are entering on troublous era in which
the proper relation OF corporations to the State
and to the citizen must be determined. To cope
with these problems wisely and without costly
friction we need the aid of the finest gifts. No
work can be more dgnifed. because none can be
more useful York Commercial Advertiser
The carriage is curse to the man in middle
energy necessary to walk as mis- business re-
quires. The street-cars have done more harm
than good to a large part of the race. A walk
of four or five miles ought to be possible and
profitable to most men and some women.-Mil
waukee Sentinel
LABOR has boycotted labor fully thousand
millions for 1886, and when will the confidence
so wantonly destroyed be restored and the chan
nels of industry again send out enlarged de-
mands for labor? We appeal to intelligent work
ingmen to boycott the suicidal boycotters who
are simply making labor boycott labor.-Phila-
delphia Times
IF the labor organizations meet with disaster
it will be due either to the noisy idiers in the
organization or to the noisy politicians without.