The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-03-29

piah was in any danger of being forgotten Car
rollton will bring it to mind and emphasize the
lesson.--Boston Advertiser.
THE most effective statement which Mr. Gar
land could make before the House committee
would be that he burned up the Pan-electrie
scrip month ago.-Boston Herald.
IF Pensions Commissioner Black ever makes
another annual report he may be safely war;
ranted not to inject another stump speech into
the bowels of it-National Republican.
PUBLIC opinion will settle the difficulty much
more quickly than the courts and public opinion
is fast crystallzing around the conviction that
the great strike is unjustifable Philadelphia
Inquirer.
We hear a great deal about the tyranny Of
capital What shall that be called which takes
the country by the throat and stops all business
simply to compel recognition or demonstrate ita
poweri-Boston Advertiser
TIE "vote-the-ticket-w without scratch" prin-
no principle OF politics or morals that will rer-
NIT an honest man to vote for thief, know In
him to be such.-Cincinnati Sun.
EDUCATIONAL or property qualifications would
nowhere be felt strictly along the color line, foI
illiteracy and poverty would deny the right Of
suffrage to very large class of whites rs we'll 90
to larger class Of blacks.-Brookiyn Union.
LET Mississippis good citizens cease regret
ting and bestir themselves to punish murder
ers, and she will no longer lag behind ali he's
sister States. nor be the American Abruzzi, the
land of UNPUBLISHED murder. Boston Transcript
In this season of grave industrial disturbance
the grand master Of the Knights of Labor proves
himself to be much wiser. safer and more
moderate counselor than the stock jobbing presi.
dent Of the Missouri Pacifc.-Phiiadelphi
Press.
NEWSPAPER men and bonanza kings have no
business In Washington unless they totally sur
render their profession of money making
al -. ~trAA
choice between political preferment and private
pro6t-Albany Express.
Jay Gould's ill-timed threats will strengthen
the hands Of the strikers, win them sympathy,
and make the final settlement more difficult
MIR. Gould ought to be muzzled. The Knights
OF the Southwest are behaving dangerously and
badly; but Jay Gould remains the most iangers
Gus man in the country. Minneapolis Tribune.
II is to be hoped that Mr. Powderly's version
OF the aims and methods of the order is correct;
as nothing could be clearer than that it will DO
to the best interests of the working men in COM
mon that their organized efforts should be address
ed to methods of arbitration, to peaceful law-obr
serving protests, to the ballot.box-Louisville
Courier-Journal.
WE may trife with any other thing more safe
~ than with the law. Its execution should not
be suspended for day, or an hour. 1t should
be in force always. and no power should be per-
mitted to set itself up within the State greater
than. the State itself. First and last the de-
mand of every American citizen should be for
the Phiiadelphia Telegraph.
BLACKS testimony shows that he made the
charges in his report without knowledge Of tho
facts, and that, since the investigation was
ordered, he has been ransacking the files of his
Office in the hope of discovering some proof to
sustain them. His report was piece of reckless
partisan SANDER. and he now holds an extremely
disgraceful attitude as public oficer.-Milwau-
kee Sentinel.
We do not doubt that the eight-hour plan
would work as we'll Certainly it would make
the lot of the toiler pleasanter 1t would encour-
age love of home and its pleasures, because it
would give workingmen more time to spend with
their families; it would save doctors bills ~
overworked men, and we believe it would do
much to elevate all people who do manual labor
for their daily bread.-Denver Republican.
1T 1.-THE railway strikel is not an effort to right
specific wrongs or redress defined grievances,
but to demonstrate the power of the order and
to compel recognition of that power. As sueh
it is not only premature but it has the fatal Woo
Of tyranny and injustice It proposes to exhibit
power regardless of right for the purpose OF
striking terror into the hearts Of employers.
Having discarded other forms of tysannz- the
American people are not likely to submit to this
particular form. New York Times
THE public will watch with good deal OF
anxiety the effect of Mr.. Powderly's manifesto.
If the Knights of Labor organization will heed
its wise utterances and accept his guidance and
leadership. it has bright future, and may &C.
complish much in elevating the condition of tina
wage worker. If, on the contrary, 1t rejects his
counsel, compels his retirement and follows the
leadership of men who believe in precipitatine
strikes and boycotts for every petty grievance.
the dsintegration OF the order must assuredly
follow.-Philadelphis Times
If the government is to interfere at all It must
assume the function of the State in chartering
the corporations. Then any stoppags of carry
trp hxa Lie nV~sa hAn ovxak -
for the United States courts-the revoking of d
charter whore the carrier is clearly at fault the
suppression of violence where there is an inter-
ference by strikers or others to prevent the car
riers from performing their functions But all
this means q great shaking up Of the accepted
relations of the States and the national govern
ment-Milwaukee Sentinel
THE circular Of Mr.. Powderly points out not
only the path Of duty to the Knights. but also
presents reasons for taking conservative course
in language so simple direct and convincing as
to need no further argument This remarkable
document marks the turning point for the work.
men in the unequal struggle 80 abruptly entered
upon two weeks ago. If its counsels are needed.
the difficulty will be speedily adjusted upon q
basis involving no injustice to either party.
Pressure in the contrary direction would not
only retire careful and judicious leader, but
perhaps imperil the existence Of the order it
self.-Philadelphia Record.
IF mans greatness was achieved In profess
sional or social lfe let his friends devise and erect
a monument, paying for it out of their ownpock-
cts, and avoiding. as deadly insult to the ihem-
Org of the departed, any effort to increase the
purchase money by what is politely called ''solic-
ting subscriptions" but really is the most an
noying of beggary. By this plan we might have
fewer monuments and smaller ones but it would
be possible to mention the mighty dead of Secent
date without awakening memories of engaging
assaults by subscription papers. York
Hour
EVERY MAI has an undisputed right to control
his own labor, but, if this principle is true, it
portunities of labor of another man; otherwise
the second mans right is no longer undisputed.
And if men voluntarily surrender their own in
diyidual right and unite to maintain common
right, such surrender and union give them no
authority or charter to interfere with the per-
sons or property of others who have not been o