The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-03-01
COMMENT AND OPINION.


| is coming to- -Philadelphia Inquirer
If there were not seventy-seven million dol
lars in this Blair bill, its unconstitutional char
| acter would be apparent Philadelphia Record.
BETTER far to abolish the West Point and An
napolis academies altogether than to cripple
them as the Democratic House is trying to do.
Chicago Mail.
THE closed doors of the Senate's executive ses-
sion will shut out good deal of the sympathy
of the people in it's controversy with the Presi-
dent-Providence Journal
| AN esteemed contemporary remarks IT, Mr.
Garland had only taken care, how much better
off he would be- But he didn't take care-he
took stock. Philadelphia Press.
Mr. GARLAND is still quiet This is the main
| trouble. If Mr.. Garland was inclined to be q
| little more restless the Democratic party would
| feel better. Atlanta Constitution.
THE national Senate yesterday passed bill
| authorizing banks to change their name, loca-
ton and capital. This is only fair. Bank CASH
| iers have been doing that right along. Boston
Record.
THERE are Democrats in Wisconsin so dis
heartened by the course pursued by Postmaster
general Villas that they predict that the Repub-
licans will carry the State next fall by $4,000
Boston Journal.
THE American workman Is every day becom-
| ing more intelligent and more thoroughly alive
to the necessity of taking hold of whatever will
advance his own interests and those Of his family
Philadelphia Record
IT is curious that the author of the motto,
public Office is public trust" should be the
first man to propose to hide away from the pub
lie the records OF how that trust is being dis
charged-New York Tribune
Upon the whole the Democratic outlook is not
cheerful The Republican party, in splendid
fighting trim, Is prepared to move on to victory
in the congressional elections of this year. and
far more important victory in 1888.-National
Republican.
FEW railroads on the American plan will un-
doubtedly cause the almond eyes of the country
men of Ii Hung Chang to open wide, and will
teach the heathen Chnee undreamed of ways
thatare dark and tricks that are vain."-St Louis
Post Dispatch
WE don't see any more articles in our Demo
cratic exchanges on the wickedness of Vrginia's
attempts at reputation. 1t was a monstrous
thing when supported by Malone. but loses all
| its odious features when countenanced by Lee
Milwaukee Sentinel.
Our forests are being cut away with ominous
rapidity. When they are gone and ali the mis-
cradle consequences of their destruction are
visited upon the country. the folly of maintain.
ing tariff barrier against Canadian lumber will
be realized-Boston Advertiser.
Is secrecy Democraticq Is concealment Demo-
cratics Suppose Grant, or Hayes, or Garfield
had locked up the public records of the depart
| ments from Congress, is it not certain that the
D6mOcraLlC
act in vigorous langusge?-New York World.
THE State of Massachusetts, does not recognize
the right of the federal government to NEEDLE in
her common school system. Neither is the State
so poor that it can with self respect accept an
unconditional gift from the United States
Treasury in aid of its schools Boston Adver-
tiser.
appear Indifferent, and the scandal will blow
over. But the moral perceptions of the Ameri-
can people are not obtuse. and they will Meth
er forget nor forgive such grave delinquency in
one of the chief officers Of the government
-Philadelphia Press.
IT begins to look very much as il in Chicago
the man declared elected to an Office will be the
| one who has received the most votes for it, This
is a hard outlook for a number of citizens, be-
cause it destroys their business at election time
but it is very satisfactory to majority of the
community. Chicago Tribune
BUSINESS men should be men of enterprise in
the full sense Of the word. They are the ones
who set the examples for all other men to fol-
low, and if they not liberal and enterprising,
how can they expect other people to BET 1t is TO
the interest of business men to set worthy ex-
amples. Indiana Trade Review.
To say to the world, ~ have removed this man
from Office for cause-that is, because he has
proved unfit and unfaithfu as public servant, y
and at the same time to say, 'but will not let
the people or their representatives know what
misconduct is alleged against him. is to assume
the despotic power to destroy character without
question. York Sun.
THERE are. indeed. shapes Of direful ''portentp
in the literate condition OF the colored youth of
the South They are looking TO the federal gov
eminent at Washington for succor 1t is not a
question of constitutional construction. 1t has
passed beyond that into the higher and broader
| field Of common humanity and public safety.
| charleston NewsCourier
| THREE-QUARTERs of these rovels are not worth
printing. and it 10 an open question whether
| ideness or the reading of these trashy works Of
| fiction is the greatest moral evil Perhaps when
| the material problems In this country arc par
TALLY solved and the strain on all classes Of the
community 10 somewhat relaxed, we may hope to
see soma Reduction of the fiction habit As Il Is