The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-05-06
COMMENT AND OPINION.

THE funeral knell of free trade at the South
was rung some time since, but we won't be cans
tious, tits pleasant sound-ring it again.-Ma
con Telegraph (Dem.)
If jefferson Davis had fought on the field he
would have been as silent as Grant and Lea
Bullets sometimes change q mans style oI
thought Philadelphia Times.
IT should be so shameful thing to follow
red flag in this enlightened republic that no mas
not fool or a villain could be enticed into suef
demonstration. Chronicle.
No one wants to see injustice done TO corpora
tions; but we advise the administration to stand
by the people on this question of land reform
1t is very live question.-New York Herald
THE charge that even the best Kentucky
whisky is highly adulterated is sustained by thl
fact that it has utterly extinguished the chiva rJ
of Louisville Democratic politicians -Brooklya
Eagle.
ONE thing should be made certain. The lands
of the West should be reserved for settlement
by the actual cultivators whose bone and sinea
have made this country what 1t is.-Pittsburl
Dispatch.
| ENOUGH trades and employees will accept the
| eight-hour system to give it fair trial If d
| works well. it will be sure to extend. A month
| of experiment is worth a year Of argument
Boston Herald.
| WITH the process of dsintegration going on az
rapidly as the process of growth, there is littN
prospect that Socialism will ever become dan
ger to society, that it will force its sway upoa
an unwilling world.-St Louis Post Dispatch.
MANY OF the fellows engaged in riot around
McCormick's factory yesterday In all probability
never had a square meal until they reached Chi,
cago. They are kicking now against state OF
things which their forefathers never enjoyed.
| Chicago Mail.
ARBITRATION and profit sharing were moi
adopted in England and France until employers
confessed that it was necessary, and until the
| employed also found out that only by these
| methods could they get protection from them
selves as well as from their employers Brooklyn
| Union.
| THE Indian who cut the top from his blanket
and stitched it to the bottom, in order to make
it longer, found when he had completed the job
that he had lost only the seam in length. It IL
to be hoped the eiGht-hour philosophers win
have no harder experince. Cincinnati CONNER
cial Gazette.
ALL honor to the bravery of the confederate
| soldier. All honor to Southerners like Alexans
der Stevens. ALI honor and respect to the men
who are seeking to reunite the sections as heart.
years ago. But give only contempt to Davis.
Denver Tribune.
WHEN workingmen 60 in for big wages for q
| long days work they will always have public
| sympathy on their side, provided they keep
within the bounds OF wisdom; but when thsy
| propose TO stick to big wages and shirk the big
| work. they will always find themselves in the
| minority. Atlanta Constitution
The workingmen who are American citizens.
and who have and perhaps are engaged In the
| labor agitations, have most sacred and re.
| sponsibe duty to perform. It is to put the full
strength of organized labor the side OF the en-
forcement of the laws. They have everything
| to lose and nothing to gain by anarchy.-Cincin,
| natl Commercial Gazette.
CAPITAL must use the weapon that labor has
invented for it, and meet strike with strike for
| apparently in that and in no other way is Just
| OAAceful n Tn
| be reached The relations of capital and labor
| must be re-established upon solid. just founda-
| TONS or common ruin must overtake the people
of this country. Philadelphia Inquirer.
THE Anarchists have been allowed to get the
| upper hand in the Chicago riots The only
standpoint from which to answer the 'sargu-.
ment" of the Anarchists is the crank OF Calling
| gun, and great mistake has been made in Chi.
| cago in allowing the Anarchists to do the first
shooting. They should not be allowed to fire
| more than one round out of six.-St Louis
| Globe Democrat
| A STATE of war exists between labor and cap-
ital. and treaty of peace must be made between
| them which shall give to each secure guaran-
| tees for the future. They cannot go ON forever
| wranging and fighting. Both are suffering
| enormous losses; both are victims of organiza-
| ton without law; both are suffering from sui.
| cidal mania, and until that mania passes both
must continue to suffer- Philadelphia Inquirer.
| If the Secretary of State had privately sound.
| ed the Austrian government before appointing
| Mr.. Kelley, tine unpleasant incident which oc-
Cured would have been avoided we should have
| minister at Vienna, and Baron Schaefer would
| be still comfortably settled at Washington. Az
| it Isl there is unpleasantness all round-all be.
cause Mr. Bayard thought he saw chance for
| little swagger and ill bred bombast-San Fran.
| cisco Chronicle.
| THE men who faunt these alien flags In the
| faces of Americans are in America and in enjoy
| ment of American liberty by grace of the Amer
lean people, whose national hospitality to the OBJ
pressed of all lands has been and is, unexampled
| in its generosity IL i'll becomes them to unfurl
| foreign flags and especially the flag of anarchy,
| whose presence here is threat to the people and
| the institutions of the country.-New York Com.
mercal Advertiser.
| AS to the larger class, who now work ten hours
and do not strike or propose any change, they
| are to DO compelled to pay for the products OF
/ eght-hour industry fifth more than before, In
order that the eieht-hour workers shall have
| more leisure. But has an hundredth part OF the
| laborers of the United States the right, If they
| have the power, thus to extort whatever they
please from the res.s Is not this another case OF
attempted despotism of the few over the manyI
New York Tribune.
| WHY is not every person connected with the
| distribution and authorship OF the infamous an
/ archlstc proclamation hunted down and brought
| before the courts to answer for his conspiracy
1 against the peace OF the city2 Why are she
| leaders or this mob OF aliens allowed to incito
| them on to their riotous work. The law-abiding
| people of Chicago are asking these questions,
and they look to the authorities to enforce the
| laws which these scoundres are defying. Ii liz
time there was an end to this communistic devil
ishness .-Chicago Tribune
| EVERY mill that shuts down Injuries the en-
ployes much more than it does the owners, and
the former feel the injury much longer after
work has again been resumed 1t is because OF
this great interest which every workingman has
4 in preventing such depression of industries rs
| continuance of these troubles would bring that
| makes it so important for every one to aid in
| the work of speedily reaching clear under
standing The thing which the country cannot
| stand, and. above all. which the working people
cannot afford is continued agitation OF this sub
/ iect--CinciBnati Sun.