The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-08-28
COMMENT AND OPINION.

THE first gun of the Maine campaign carries a
heavy shot.-Boston Record.
RUSSIA must learn that the Bulgarians are
pretty fond of home rule themselves. st Louis
Post-Dspatch
THE next national campaign has opened The
first guns in Maine are heard all around the con-
tinent.-New York Graphic Dem.
In this crisis in the affairs of the Anarchis.
party, the voice of Herr Most Is Is s1bdued and
muffied as If he were STD under the bed.-Pitts-
burg Commercial Gazette.
CLEVELAND is away on his vacation, Glad
stone is away on a similar errand, Alexander is
deposed Cutting is at large-but thank heaven
Bayard is on deck.-Chicago Mail.
SOME enterprising crank in Dakota has in
vented liquid mixture which he warrants as
sure for official corruption. He should call
it the Pan electric Panacea. Press.
THE Iowa Republican convention has renewed
its declaration in favor of prohibition. It is now
in order to organize Prohibition party in Iowa,
to smash" the Republican party.-Pittsburg
Chronicle.
ANARCHIST PARSONS challenges Mr.. Powderly
'to find man who can truthfully say that he
Parsonsl ever advocated the destruction of life
and property" That's easy one; where's the
jury Philadelphia Inquirer
THE wrongs and injustices Inflicted upon the
coored laborers of the South certain to react
upon and injure the white laborers of the North,
and the sooner these understand and act in &C.
cordance with this fact the better they will con-
suit their own Observation-Disclosures Sentinel
No nation can long survive the corruption of
the family. It is of exactly the Same impor
lance In one State that it is in another. Mar
riage, the fundamental fact in our American
social system, ought to be made like our cur
rency. the same everywhere. Chicago Inter
Ocean
IF the Democratic ticket in 1888 is to be
Cleveland and Voorhees," as we have seen sug-
cd In IL IL
have to include two planks on civil-service re-
form. Dan Voorhees, thinks that the mug
wump style Of reform is humbug, and says So
New York Sun.
WHEN restless men and women have no other
sentimental occupation that nearly concerns
themselves, they plunge with unfeigned delight
into crusade against the disordered appetites
and the depraved occupations of the persons who
drink and the persons who sell Intoxicating
beverages. Philadelphia Record.
The Democratic policy is hostile to labor be-
cause it would break down the legislation by
which wages in America are sustained at a
higher rate than prevails abroad; and it is hos
tile again because Its course of repression to-
ward the colored people of the South creates
mass of underpad and defenseless labor which
tends to crowd down the compensation of white
labor.-Boston Journal
Or all men. the Northern workman is most di.
rectly interested in putting the ballot into the
hands of the black laborer of the South so that
be may assert the rights of citizen, secure the
protection and favor of the law and maintain
wage rate approximately near that of the North
This IS the only means by which Northern work
men escape the disastrous competition of
wage slavery in the South Chicago Tribune.
PRICES are made in gold. Nearly the whole
currency in use is now believed to be redeemabe
in gold, and the smaller part the silver certifi-
fcates, has not yet been separated in purchasing
power from the other kinds of currency But if
any separation comes. this fat paper will fiuctu-
ate in value. and make false prices and cheat
the honest and industrious aud especially the
poor, just like any other iat paper New York
Tribune.
WHEN street-car officials say that they cannot
make both ends meet. il they pay fair wagesfor
fair days work, honest men know that they
simply mean that they cannot pay enormously
excessive dividends on stock deluged with water
The Broadway bribers were forced to admit un-
der investigation that they capitalized for mill