The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-12-13
COMMENT AND OPINION.

THE President is reform" talker but a
"spoils" actor.-Cleveland Leader.
PRESIDENT CLEvELAND's twenty months of
Jeffersonian simplicity has given him the govt
National Republican.
MAYoR-ELEoT HEWITT, of New York. recon-
mends the works of Henry George as sure
cure for insomnia Memphis Avalanche.
WHEN the millennium comes the men who
know the least about the finance question won't
do the most talking. 1t isn't in sight yet-De-
troit Tribune.
BULGARIA, Roumania and Servia are organic
ing union. They will probably insist upon
Russian agitators working only eight hours q
day.-Pittsburg Chronicle.
| II the Indiana Democrats would succeed in
soaring the Republicans they must readjust the
lion s skin with view to better concealment of
ears.-National Republican.
| THE President forgot the Mormons altogether
in his message. Is this because Miss Rose Elz
abeth no longer assists in the preparation of his
literary effortsg-New York Mail and Express
| LADY COLIN CAMPBELL is probably preparing
TO come over to this country as dramatic star.
She has been getting the right kind of adyer-
Using for that sort of thing-Atlanta Consti
tuition.
THE one important preparation that Congress
should make for the next presidential election is
the only one that is likely to be neglected 1t is
the regulation of the electoral count-Philadel-
phia Inquirer
Mr. BAYARD ought to be able to find some
healthy Democrat for the Mexican mission 1t
cannot be that "incipieDt pneumonia and UNI
bilical affection" are epidemic in that party.
Boston Record
IT is strange that nobody has suggested to
President Cleveland that he might get rid of
the rheumatism by carrying horse chestnut 10
his pocket-a copy of his recent message for in
stance. Philadelphia Press.
'TAKEN from Life is advertised in the
amusement columns of the Indianapolis Journal.
IL is supposed to be q photograph of Joe" Ne
Donald taken IN the act OF erecting a presiden-
tia lightning rod.-Louisville Commercial
THE Catholic Church will act wisely if 1t de-
poses the over-active priest. Society, as a
whole, can LOOK upon the church in politics with
less anxiety than the churches themselves So
ciety has its remedy. milwaukee, Sentinel
REPRESENTATIVE BREoKINRIDGE, of Ken
lucky. says he has not read the message but
therefore be all right Mr. Breckenridge is OBJ
viousy an advocate of the faith cure in states
manshp Philadelphia Press
THOSE who 90 West now find their way i'm
peded by wire fences, mountain ranges and "bad
lands" The Go West" mandate should be
changed to go South The South is the pres
ent storehouse of booms and the land of specu-
lative promise. Philadelphia Record
A BEGINNING must be made somewhere. This
seems to be the auspicious time. Too much
Reaganlsm In the bill may make 1t unpalatable
for many thoughtful and experienced men; but
even the rankest Reaganism could hardly be
worse for the country than the uncontrolled rail
road administration of men like Gould. st
Louis Globe Democrat.
THE truth is, we are witnessing in Ireland the
gradual disappearance of rent The land is no
longer able to support anybody but the actual
cultivator To make this process peaceful. and
as fac as possible harmless to all parties, ought
to be the chief concern of the government. But
the love of "the strong hand' is too much for
the bulk of the Tories New York Evening
Post.
TARIFF reform must proceed slowly, it cannot
De advanced faster than the people are prepared
to travel IN this direction, and if everything else
were favorable the fact that agitation in the
present Congress can lead to no practical result
would be an all-suficient reason for permitting
the subject to rest. The worst possible tariff is
better than a state of uncertainty, precisely as
political tyranny is better than chaos. Brook
Ign Citizen DEM
THE vote of these Massachusetts cities is EN-.
phaticaly an anti-saloon VOTE and not Prohi
bition vote and it confirms the wisdom of the
movement which temperate Republicans have
set on foot within the past year, and the chief
end and aim of which Is TO effect just what these
municipalities have done for themselves The
Massachusetts city elections, Ia fact are a strik
ing demonstration of the timeliness and sound
policy of the antisaloon agitation and orgxuiza-
tion-NeW York Tribune.