The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-06-07
COM MENT AND OPINION.

No Congressman has yet offered to contribute
his salary to any labor organization. -Philadel-
phia Times.
"BLEsT be the ties that bind u.s." as the South
remarked when she changed her railroad gauge.
st. Louis Post-Disparch
A YEAR without strikes would mean year
with something in bank to every economic laborer
in the land. -Philadelph1a Times.
WITH l6 900 miles of Southern railway changed
to the Northern gauge. and jeff Davis in perma-
nent retirement at Beauvoir, everybody will
admit that tie era of sectional love is at hand.
Minneapolis Tribune.
1T was not an anonymous newspaper scribbler
but United States Senator who accused Com
missioner Black, to his face. of most offensive
partisanship--and the Commissioner could not
deny it. Black is one OF the Presidents great
est Observation-Disclosures Inquirer.
THE Knights of Labor demand in their latest
declaration of doctrines and purposes single
rate of interest for all sections Of the country.
We wonder that they do not also demand a uni
form rate of local taxation and an equal daily
distribution of sunshine.-St. Louis Globe Dem
ocrat.
CONSIDERING the great strides that democra-
cv is making in England, the Prince of Wales
has acted wisely in having the little princes
taught the duties of seamen. When royalty
shall have been abolished they will be able TO
earn a respectable living as captains of merchant
steamships. -Philadelphia Record.
HOWEVER helpless General Black may once
have been. he clearly is not helpless now; or il
he is he is drawing his SIS, 900 salary as Com
missioner of Pensions under false pretenses.
The capability of earning such salary as that
cannot co-exist with total physical ncapacity
No sophistry can explain away the incongruty
which nheres in the fact that the same man is at
the head of the Pension Bureau and at the head
of the pension list.-Boston Journal.
THE question of the constitutionality Of the
law of Pennsylvania prohibiting the manufact-
eure of oleomargarine is before the Supreme
Court of that State. If 1t can be shown that beef
snet manufactured into substitute for butter,
is poisonous. the right to prohibit it under the
police powers of the State is clear But if such
proof cannot be produced land so far none has
beenl what constitutional grounds are there for
the nterdiction2-Brooklyn Eagle.
THE Mormons knew when they adopted DO
lygamy as tenet of their religion that it was
contrary to the law of every State then in the
Union They became law-breakers deliberately
and with their eyes wide open to the fact that
they were law breakers. They have had abund-
ant time to reform. but they do not propose to
reform They are defiant, and there is nothing
to be done in the case but to treat them as other
law breakers are treated. Philadelphia Times
IT looks very much as though the Knights of
Labor organization would break into irrecon-
cilable fragments and furnish another and tire
mendous "object lesson" to the great mass of
the laDOrlng Classes In tnlS country. VINO are not
connected with any labor organization whatever.
ana who believe in the old-fashioned American
liberty of every man to sell his own labor to
whom he pleases and for whatever price he is
willing to take.-New York Mail and Express.
THE spirit of democracy in England has
grown more during the past year than during
the last decade, and more during the last decade
than during the last fifty years. 1t is no longer
question outside of Tory clubrooms that large
amendments to the English Constitution must
be made. The question IL what shall come first.
Gladstone maintains that it shall be Irish home
rule 1t remains to be seen in what way the
politicians will obstruct the issue.-Springfeld
Republican.