The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-07-31
COMMENT AND OPINION.

SOME spectators are so unlucky that If they
should buy at bottom prices. the bottom would
Immediately fall out and leave no margin.-New
Orleans Picayune.
SENATOR CocKRELL has introduced bill to
compel army officers to support their families.
bill to cashier officers who fail to do this would
be ter.-Pittsburg Chronicle.
WITH the first gun fired On the Rio Grande,
there will be fifty thousand patriotic American
citizens ready at moments notice to rush to
the field-as suffers. Antonio Express.
WITH Lord Randolph Churchill as the leader
of the government in the House Of Commons,
the coalition would soon go to pieces by reason of
"big head" and bad temper. Boston Herald.
ALL in all, we are unable to say who is prop
erly to be considered the happiest in the
world, but the choice certainly lies between the
country editor and the country minister -Bos-
ton Record.
= If dy-papers could only be made as deadly as
ice-cream, and ice-cream made harmless and
nourishing as hy-papers, the world would be
heap happier in this kind. Of weather-Minne-
apolis Tribune.
By all means, let the friends Of Hennepin in
the Senate rally to the support Of that job for it
is the logical. artistic, inevitable and supremely
impudent climax of river and harbor jobbery.
New York Sun.
THE master painters have boycotted the wall
paper manufacturers who interfere with their
trade. Now let the wall paper manufacturers
boycott tho painters who interfere with the wall
paper trade. and the wheels of commerce will be
likely to roll right along in the usual ruts.-Pitts
burg Dispatch.
IT will not avail those Republican Senators
who voted for confirmation of Thomas to claim
that the President is alone accountable, as they
have had every charge against Thomas presented
to them. Their course was deliberately chosen,
and they will have to bear their full share of
public censure.-Philadelphi Press.
HOPE springs eternal in the mugwump's
breast, and it is one of the numerous mugwump
peculiarities to make large assumptions, and,
after many repetitions of them. to claim them
for established facts. It is worth while now and
then to pin one of these assumptions and to ask
for little evidence in support of it.-Boston
Journal.
1T is profoundly to be hoped that Mrs. Pres;-
dent Cleveland Is not the real writer OF the silly
| letters over her name that are being 80 numer-
ously published in the newspapers. If she is,
the invaluable services of Private Secretary La
mont ought to be applied to the revision of the
correspondence from the other end of the White
House. ALBANY Express.
THE self-assurance of Lord Randolph Churchill
in accepting the position of Chancellor of the
Exchequer and the management of the finances
of the British empire is only eQualed by that Of
the son of Phoebus, who, according to ancient
mythology, undertook TO drive the chariot of the
sun and almost succeeded in burning up the
world. Philadelphia Record.
THE trouble with the President is that he has
not acted up to his promises He promised TO be-
vast deal more careful in selection of public
officers than other Presidents have been, and to
regard party interests, personal influences and
political services much less or not at all. Every
proof that he has not kept his pledges in that
respect is naturally CALLING to him and his sup
porters, but is not the truth due to the people?
New York Tribune
THE simple issue joined at Chicago is whether
the government shall put down incendiaries
and murderers, or whether they shall put down
the government. Social order must either be
| destroyed, or its banded enemies. Mercy for
such miscreants is a crimes against society.
Strangulation and the stamping-out process
are the only sure remedies yet found for such
insane destroyers of civilization Frank Leslie's
Weekly.
THAT the Sandwich Islands are In the market
need hardly be said. We hold them at present
in fact though not in name, by virtue of the
reciprocity treaty which puts their trade in our
hands But that treaty the Democrats in the
House are trying to overturn, and, if they ac-
compish it, European protectorate for those
islands will speedily follow. That accomplished
we shall have supineiy surrendered the control
of the key of the Pacifc.-Boston Advertiser