The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-05-28
COM WENT AND OPINION.

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MOST of the mugwumps indorse the Presi-
dent, but condemn the administration. Ma
tional Republican.
UNLESS there is showdown" pretty soon an
odor of fish will always linger about the mem-
bers of the present administration. -Minneapo-
lis Tribune
1How far this organization is responsible for
the present depression in business is a good
question for the Knights of Labor to discuss in
their convention.-New York Tribune.
GEN. DURBIN WARD. of Ohio. being dead. the
Democratic party of that State might atone for
its bad treatment of him through many years by
building a monument to his memory.-Wash-
ington Critic.
THE Mail reports that its evangelical friends.
Jones and Small, have gone back to tobacco
chewing and cigarette smoking They are the
last men we would have accused of using good
intentions for macadamlzing purposes. Chicago
Mail.
THE Democrats and Republicans of Ohio pro-
pose using separate congressional districts in
electing Congressman and if the Prohibitonsts
should use third set OF districts the complied
tions would be symmetrical and complete-St
Louis Post-Dispatch.
hitting man to marry his dead wife's sister, all
because of the old idea that husband and wife
are one, and that relationships follow. The
action makes remarkable illustration OF the
So long as the Mormons live under theoc-
racy, administered by hierarchy. 30 long they
cannot be loyal citizens of the United States,
cannot yield undivided or supreme allegiance
to our laws; and so ought not to be allowed the
privileges of citizens. New York Mail and Elk
press.
THE Irish immigrant assimistes American
doctrines and institutions quickly and thorough
ly. and there is nothing either in his normal dis
position or in his view of life which inclines him
In the least degree to approve or do ything but
frown upon, the brutal turbulence and crude
economies Of the Anarchist faction.-New York
Tribune.
PROF. BELLS affidavit denying Wilbers
charge of bribery was to be expected, and Bells
word, as the men stand, will go further than
Wilber's if it is simple question of veracity
between the two. 1t is difficult, however, to ac-
count for Wilber's deliberately damnine his own
character, if his last statement is devoid OF
truth.-Springfeld Republican.
THE Anarchists would have the laborer drink
to mis- fill for they do not want him to save
money lest he have toe much at stake in the
order of society. They want him to be poor, and
miserable, and hot-headed. and regardless Of
consequences, so that he may become savage
In the day of social upturn and general ravage
for which they are working.-New York Sun.
THE best guaranty for wise action by labor
organizations will be supplied by counter organ
izations of employers. When workmea are put
on their mettle, and every mistake which they
commit is followed by prompt punishment, they
will be more careful in their behavior than they
are now, when no one opposes them and politi-
clans vie with each other which shall be the
first to lick their boots.-San Francisco Chron-
icle.
THE fate Of Martin Irons ought to be warn
ing to other reckless labor demagogues that there
will come time when they will be found out
and unmasked. BY the same token, the expert
ences of the workingmen with this agitator. who
has been living upon them and using them for
his own purposes, ought to be warning not to
trust mon who urge them into strikes. unlawful
co iduct, disorder and violence. Chicago Trib-
une.
THERE will be warm times in the Paris mar
ket when the Panama stock gets to tumbliug. It
is probably more generally held In France than
any private stock OF this generation. There are
at least 100 900 small shareholders. 1t was at
at one time considered legitimate Investment
for trustees of estates, and one trembles to
think of the suffering and the money stress that
will follow collapse OF the company.-Spring-
field Republican.
THE leaders among the Knights of Labor feel
aggrieved at the refusal of the locomotive en-
gineers to make common cause with other work
men. But the event has signaly vindicated the
wisdom OF the locomotive engineers in minding
their own business. They are pursuing intel
ligible ends by intelligent means, and 80 much
cannot be said Of the more ambitious and less
uCAHit0 pIVJoCIS VI tA0 AulRHts VI AdOOr.-IN6W
York Times.
HAD the workers of the Southwest iealously
retained and guarded their own freedom. had
they refused TO be forced into strike which
their own judgment did not approve, had they
counted it disgrace to countenance or tolerate
any offense against the law had they held it
criminal. as it is, to rob any other worker of his
freedom to choose and to work, the terrible
losses which they have sustained would never
have come upon them.--New York Tribune.
LABOR needs generalship. It has power
enough, but can never use its power with any
good effect, SO long each small knot of work
is left to disregard the interests to assail
the rights of all labor in narrow effort for local
or private advantage. If organization iG to be
made in any respect more useful than entire in
dividual freedom, the first necessity is that the
use of the organization against the rights and in
terests of labor shall be prevented. New York
Tribune.
WHAT we need is law which shall surround
marriage with exactly the same legal conditions
and follow it with the same legal consequences
in all parts of the Union, so that no American
citizen shall ever be less Or more married in one
part of the country than in another, and no
American shall find it easier or more difficult to
get divorce in one part of the country than in
another. An amendment providing for this
would of course, make polygamy unlawful
as amendment specially directed against po-
lygamy. York Evening Post