The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-03-22
COMMENT AND OPINION.

JAY GOULD is not abuormally sensitive, and
vet the railroad strike has seriously affected his
system. Post
1T looks very much as if Ferdinand Ward
were going to have good deal of company this
summer.-New York Graphic.
GENERAL BLACK should not have made charge
in official report which he had not the data
to sustain right in his hands. -Springheld Re-
publican.
1T is our firm belief that whatever may dis
tribute the negro population where they are
massed in large numbers will be blessing to
them and to the country Avalanche.
IT is pretty generally conceded that the Presi-
dents phrase s'lnnocuous desuetude" pales by
comparison with Mr. Bayards 'sconsuetudinary
privilege in his letter to the Chinese minister
Boston Journal
IF Confucius comes across the Pacific and dis
covers the absence of expressions of regard for
his people, he may be dismissed with the brief
but all sufficient reply "The Chinese have no
votes. ALBANY Express.
Now that the question of dress is disposed of,
il Miss Cleveland will write letter to show
that she has not backslidden on the temperance
issue. the reforming minds of the Nation will be
| relieved. -Pittsburg Despatch.
A CITIZEN of Burlington has appended to his
will bequest of 800 to the newspaper man who
will write, at his DEATH the nea.est and best
obituary notice. his wife to constitute the COM
mittee of award.-Des Mones Leader.
On the strength of opinions honestly OK
pressed by the leaders of the workingmen of the
country it is hard to see how any friend of labor
can hesitate to favor arbitration bills such
now pending in this and other State legisla-
tures.-Boston Advertiser
THERE has been small prospect at any time of
adoption by Congress of the enormous scheme
of a government postal telegraph through the
purchase of the inflated stocks of the Western
Union company. That prospect is now more dim
than eyer.-Philadelphia Record
THE Washington correspondents, after having
killed the Blair educational bill several times
in the Senate, pursued the same tactics toward
it in the House. Now they have begun to
hedge, and we conclude the bill stands some
chance.-Springfeld Republican.
IT is to be hoped that hereafter Miss Cleve
lands line will be as sacred in Washington So
ciety as Mason and Dixon's line was among the
politicians in the days before the war; and that
it will never be passed save in the sanctifed Sc
clusion of the nursery.-New York World
IT is very evident that the various railroad
corporations, now known as the Southwest or
Gould system, have not, through their manage
ment, been reasonable, either toward the public,
their patron and master, or to the laborers their
employees and associates.-New York Star.
WHATEVER may be the truth, independent
men will say that the Senators are afraid of the
daylight. And as to the real public interest we
suppose sane man denies that that requires
the greatest possible openness the part of the
Senate as we'll as of the President-New York
Times.
dragged away and dumped into some hole, and
the white-winged dove of peace settles down in
Carrollton, and all is we'll Unpatriotic is the
Northern man who would lift aloft the bloody
shirt and disturb the serene happiness of the
whites of Carrollton. Milwaukee Sentinel.
IT is our theory that all public officials are the
servants of the people-hired men, engaged at
stipulated rates of pay to work for the people.
If this view be correct, what occasion can there
befor secrecy in determining whether it is proper
to hire Smith to run postoffice or wise to en-
gage Jones to collect taxes2-National Repub-
lican.
So long as the great labor organization of the
country employs lawful means only and ap
peals TO common sense and natural right, its
orderly movement toward better return for the
labor of its hands will elevate the masses and
make our institutions more secure by removing
those breeders of revolution-sullenness and dis
content.-W Washington Critic
THERE is no sense in undertaking to do bus
mess with men who are not as good as their
word. Apart from any question of morality, or
justice. or fair dealing between man and man,
the thing is practically impossible. 1t cannot be
done, and all the strikes in the world cannot
force employers to try it moro than once or
Philadelphia Inquirer.
THE administration can afford to disregard the
demands of both the mugwumpians and the
thugwumpians Genuine civil service reform is
that which recognizes the fact that honest eff
cient Democrats are entitled to the offices under
Democratic administration. To this complex
ion it must come at last, and the sooner the bet
ter for the country and for the administration.
Atlanta Constitution.
IT is of no use to lay up bronze or marble in
| monumental splendor ito Grant,. Unless great
act OF expiration is done here there will be no
monument of any kind, and even if one were
built it would be looked upon as a symbol of
and M a If II a. Naxu
York and New Workers do such acts of repent
ance and restitution as will fit them to be the
builders of hero's grave.-New York Star
THE right and the policy of restricting Chi
nese immigration we do not question. Weshould
be glad to have every Chinaman now here re-
turn to his native land But the people of the
United States cannot afford to violate treaties,
and to encourage the spirit of barbarism which
prompts the mobs that plumber and murder the
Chinese who are here, and who are entitled TO
the protection of our laws.-Milwaukee Senti-
mel
THE President says he asked for Mr. Murray's
resignation because he had discovered that the
Governor was exceeding his authority in the
Territory, when he really had done nothing of
the kind. When will Cleveland learn to be
manly and remove officials on account of their
politics only, without endeaving to find some
cause for their removal, and attempting to make
them retire from Office in disgracel-Pittsburg
Chronicle.
THE final result will be that the negro race
will be so distributed as to be brought most
thoroughly under the enlightening influences Of
the most advanced race At present these in
f1uences have ceased or almost ceased to operate
wherever the negroes are massed in large num-
bers This is true, while 1t is also true that the
progress Of the negro in many parts OF the
country and in general has been wonderful.
Memphis Avalanche
DIR. ROGERS protests that he had no idea Of
corrupting these great and good men; but he ac-
knowledges that it would have been great
thing for the Pan-electric company if Congress
had passed the postal telegraph bill, and that ne
had this IN mind when he distributed the stock.
Congressman who accepted giftstock under
these suspicious circumstances will not find it
an easy matter to convince the country that
they were acting honorably New York Trib-
une.