The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-01-09

/ IF rear Dc gO0Q SOIL TO SOW Se0QS or aQVerCS-
| ing In. somebody will reap bountiful harvest
| of cash, even if there never be case of hydro
| phobia.-Brooklyn Union.
| GOVERNOR Hills campaign cry is: ST am
| Democrat" No allusion of course to acertain
| gentleman who rooms lover Weeds hardware
| store. "-Pittsburs Chronicle.
| THEY say that Whitney is the best judge of
| horsefesh in the Cabinet This explains his
wonderful qualifications for the s0cretaryship of
the navy.-Pittsburg Chronicle.
ARIZONA is worried with debt of 1920 900.
She has that much wealth in outstanding Apache
scalps, but it seems to be a bad season for col
! lecting.-St. Louis Post Dispatch.
| MORE people die in one year from trichiniasis
| than In twenty years from hydrophobia. Yet
the owners of hogs pay no tax. buy no muzzle
and have no hogs shot down.-Milwaukee Senti-
| nell
| AT his present rate Of progress, President
| Cleveland will be qualified by the close of his
term, to fill the chair of Journalism" at almost
any fresh-water college in the country.-Minne-
| apolis Tribune
| DAKOTA may be cheated out of her rights, but
| she will have the satisfaction of knowing who
cheated her. and pent-up resentment, like pent-
| up water, flows with rush when it once gets
| loose.-New York Tribune.
| THE exchanges record the death of a man who
lived in Philadelphia l20 years That is not I'M
reasonable. One hundred and twenty years in
Philadelphia is not more than sixty years in New
| ANin'-Atc" L OIh 0EdpulC.
| THERE are people in Ireland who protest
| against home rule. There people in Russia
| who prefer czarism to constitutional govern
ment. There were slaves in the South in the
old time. who professed to prefer'slavery to free
| CONGREGATIONAL Republican.
SOMEHOW or other it does not seem to be in
| dlcative of Democratic harmony that the only
| prospect of defense on the floor of Congress
| for the policy of the only President the Demo
Gratis have elected for twenty five wears, should be
| from the Republican side.-Pittsburg Dispatch.
| CONGRESS must he left to decide it's own
course, and the people must hold its members to
| account Ii the men who know what the con-
| sequences of silver coinage will be would exert
| the influence that rightfuly belongs to them
they could stop it. If they will not, they must
bear those consequences-New York Times.
THE most comfortable sort of political ambi-
| ton is that expressed at the meeting of the
| Woman's Suffrage League yesterday. None of
| the ladies wanted to be President of the United
| States, but one and all wanted some other woman
to be- The disappointment which follows in a
case of this kind is of the mdest and least pain
| full sort-Boston Record.
No one can foresee what 1886 has in store for
America, but in the light of national experience
1T is sure that we have only to continue the same
| policy toward industry and resources which the
| Republican party maintained to enhance the
| purchasing power of money and produce that
| remarkable condition of things reduction with
4 out depression. Chicago Inter Ocean.
THE important decision Of the United States
| Supreme Court in the Mississippi railroad cases
completely disposes of the pretension that State
Legislature may not pass laws prohibiting I'M
just determinations in freight charges 1t
| shows, too, that II the State Legislatures do
| their duty, there is need of invoking the
power of Congress-. philadelphia Record.
AMONG good citizens of either party there
| ought to be substantial agreement on one
thing-that the will of the people shall be upheld
and enforced, and that any device by which that
| will may he thwarted shall be set aside as
| promptly as possible. Free government is not
possible unless good citizens of both parties ad-
here to this principle-New York Tribune.
TECHNICALLY he Mr.. Cleveland is right in
| saying that the responsibility rests with Con
gress; but morally and politically he is bound to
| do all that he legitimately can TO prevent Demo
| cratic rule from being failure. The President
| of the United States. with his Cabinet about
| him, ought to be something more than high
| sheriff wi tn bureau attachment Boston Her
/ aid.
RUM is more formidable enemy to the wage
| workers of the United States than all the cor
poratons and monopolies of the country COM
bined. and more to be feared by them than a
| thousand jaw Goulds and Vanderbilts The DOW
erful machinery of the Knights of Labor could
not be possibly better employed than in carrying
on perpetual boycott against the saloons-Chi-
cago Times.
| Now that the Dolphin has proved herself so
MIR, Whitney to remember his action of last sum.
| mer, when he succeeded in making such fuss
over mole hill and caused hundreds of poor
families to be without support If You have a
conscience, Mr.. Secretary, we wouldn't be in
| your shoes for two hours for peck of buzzard
dollars. Minneapolis Tribune.
In the impression of this paper, the prope,
thing to do with the liquor traffic is to recognize
| that it has existed ever since Noah made such
sad exhibition OF himself in the presence of his
boys. and that it will continue to exist until Ga
| brie blows his trumpet in the morning. Mean
while, would it not be wise to make the liquor
traffic pay the expense of some of the gigantic
evils which it causes!-Cincinnati Sun.
PoLYGAMY in Utah is essentially the same as
under Judaism or Mohammedanism and the
glttering pretense of free suffrage does not alter
the fact that the condition OF the Mormon
women is one Of slavery. The suffrage was not
conferred on them either as a privilege or
right, but to strengthen the political power OF
| the Mormon hierarchy. and for that reason they
| should now be deprived of it.-Chicago Tribune.
THE real advantage of the debtor, present and
prospective, lies in policy that will maintain
the national credit at the high standard to which
| it has been brought in the last twenty years
| and thereby guarantee low interest rates in al
directions. We do not need any more currency
| but we do need the chance to borrow money al
the smallest possible price, and that chance
never exists where initiation has sway.-St. Louis
| Globe Democrat
| IHE school OF experience is not pleasant one,
l but we got valuable instruction from it in the
matter of irredeemable paper money. Perhaps
we may be forced to seek final settlement oil
| the silver problem in the same hard way If we
do, we may be sure that we will abide for time
by what we learn. In the meanwhile it will
be as we'll to await propositions for compromise
from those who stand in the way of the right so.
lution.-New York Times
THE good intentions of Mr.. Hewitt are not
| doubted. Most of the free-trade brethren mean
well. and for this their simplicity should
be treated with indulgent charity. They have
got hold OF sort of parrot jingle about mar
kets- the-world," and they got it off like Mark
Twain's Punch, brother, punch with care" etc.,