The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-08-09
COMMENT AND OPINION.

Mrs. CLEVELAND having joined the church,
| why doesn't Mr.. Cleveland join the Democratic
| party?-Ch1cago Herald.
RECENT presidents give reason to suppose
| that, If Geronimo were to be caught on Mexican
soil, he would claim the protection of the United
| States government Boston Record
ONE Of the reasons why the President signed
the oleomargarine bill is that it passed by a
| large majority of Congress. So were the pension
bills which he vetoed. Boston Journal.
AS member of the next House. General But
| ler with health and strength spared, would be a
conspicuous and active man, though which side
he would worry most is hard 20 tell.-Philadel-
phia Telegraph.
MF. TILDEN did nothing to sustain the Nation
| in the war of the Rebellion. His influence, pow
erful even then. was insidiously and constantly
against the administration which put down the
Rebellion. Express.
WHEN a merchant takes an article of goods
worth 81, and marks it at 81. so, he wants to be
understood as selling out regardless of cost 1t
is the purchaser who must regard cost in such
cases.-New Orleans Picayune
THE Chicago Anarchists would like to have it
appear that the Haymarket meeting. at which
the murderous bomb throwing was done. was
held for the purpose of conducting prayer
meeting st. Louis Post-Dispatch
WE doubt if prohibition will ever be national
issue; but the agitation which is going in the
several States will accomplish good, even if it
will. we believe, finally succeed in restraining
the traffic in liquors and robbing it of many of
the evils which now attend it-Denver Repub-
lican
THERE is one cheerful side at least to the river
aud harbor improvements-that the charge of
fraudulent contracts cannot lie against them,
however unwise the undertakings may be in
themselves. They are under the charge of army
engineers who must be credited with having made
clean records in such matters. -New York
World.
MEXICos responses to us have been OF the
most conciliatory nature possible. She is will
ing to do anything and everything that is right.
There is no possible cause for quarrel in it.
There are, of course, upon our Southern border,
as everywhere else, a lot of boys who would like
free fight They should be promptly squelched.
1t Is Canada that want at preSent-not Mex
ico.-Cincinnati Enquirer
IN his address of last year, Mr. Curtis spoke
eloquently of his hopes concerning reform under
Mr. Clevelands administration, and held up TO
the general view the dear promises made by tho
President. The columns over which Mr.. Curtis
presides have borne testimony to the steady vio-
lation of these promises, yet in this annua! adj
dress the infdeity of the President is quietly
ignored. milwaukee Sentinel.
PROHIBITION is not political question in
Iowa, but only question of the enforcement of
the laws of the State. There prohibition is the
law, enacted in the regular manner, while here
it is merely question Of partisan politics.
Preacher Haddock's judgment may be question
ed, but his right to advocate the enforcement of
even an mpracticable law cannot be denied, even
while we deny the propriety of church societies
organizing for political agitation. M ilwaukee
Sentinel.