The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-07-15
COMMENT AND OPINION.

Why doesn't somebody get up a fresh air
fund" for Congress. and send it to the country!
San Francisco Alta.
THE defeat of Gladstone and home rule is
brief inglorious victory for the British mug
wumps. -Philadephia Press.
THE South is in the saddle It ntrols the
President and the trend of his administration.
To this important fact the Northern people will
in time become fully alive.-Albany Express.
CALM but effectual settlement of the fishery
trouble would be Secretary Bay ARDS best meth
cd of showing that he is fitted for the United
States Supreme bench.-Philadelphi Inquirer.
HIGH license is not paid by the dealers in
liquor. 1t comes, every cent of it, out of the
pocket of the consumer and tends to make the
business cleaner and more respectable. -Phila-
oelphia Record. 9ma z'
DE LEssEPs's confident views about the Pana-
ma canal show that he would make good man
to engineer the Hennepin scheme. He evidently
has some of the enthusiasm of the Chicago
citizen-St Louis Post Dispatch
THE triumphant success of Mr.. Beecher's first
matinee should put an end, once for all. 10 the
foolish notion based on Dixey's failure, that
there is anv prejudice on the part of London
audiences against American actors.-The Hour.
THE Legislature of Ohio represents the State,
and the two houses have asked the investigation
of the auction of the seat that was purchased
for Mr.. Payne Shall State, under such cir
cumstances, speak in vain9-Cincinnati CONNER
cal Gazette.
Elk GOVERNOR ST. JOHN is willing to run as
third candidate for Congress in Kansas dis
trict. He would not be elected, but then he
might help the Democratic candidate, which is
the reason for his being before the public to-
day-Boston Journal
EX-SENATOR MCDONALD says that he has no
ambition to enter the Cabinet. The ex- Senator's
indisposition tn enter is only equaled by ex Sen
ator Garland's indsposition to get out, and the
great pension vetoer's ndisposition to lift him
out.-Albany Express tRep)
WHEN the Presidents coachman was asked
why he wore such a shabby suit he leaned down
from his seat and whispered in the of the in
terrogator: Somebody connected with this ad
ministration must represent Jeffersonian SIM
plicty, be hockey. Republican.
WE are indebted to a recent interviewer for
the Information that Attorney general Garland
has 'lost the elasticity of his senatorial days
He has also lost the popular respect which used
to go with said elasticity" But he still retains
his telephone stock.-St Louis Globe Democrat
THE lamented Horace Greeley, in discussing
specie resumption, said 1.-THE best way to resume
is to resume" and from this terse utterance Mr..
Bayard might learn the lesson that less talk and
more protection for the fishermen would con-
vince the people of his MISUNDERSTANDING
Chronicle.
In is well known and disgracefu fact that
large amounts of money change hands as the re-
suit of almost every match game [of base BALL
between notable players. The effect of such con-
tamination cannot but be frightfully demoraliz
ing upon the rising generation, who naturally
take such great interest in athletic sports Phil
adelphia Telegraph.
WHEN Mr.. Blaine was Secretary of State he
rather strongly intimated, In communication
to the British Secretary for Foreign Affairs that
this country still considered the Monroe doctrine
quite orthodox. Has Secretary Bayard really
recanted. and does he accept the peaceful con-
quest of the Isthmus of Panama" by Francel
Philadelphia Inquirer
Nor simply because it is lawless and because
'scabs" must be protected in their right to work
when they want to work. but also because it new
er accomplished anything good for the strikers
violence should be avoided. It is rank folly for
men to destroy their chances of getting back 20
work by using violent methods. which never help
them in their strikes Milwaukee Sentinel.
THE clerks are not attemptingsa conspiracy to
cripple the railway mail service They are de-
Tending their manhood aud their horror against
an upstart of dlctatorial and nsincer9 methods.
Whatever may be thought of the methods which
the clerks may assume their object is meritori
Gus. There is no government SO powerful that
it can afford to treat its employees unjustly.-Al-
oany Express.
RUSSIA is massing its troops in Bessarabia
and 1t occupies very threatening attitude 1t
may be that before six months are gone Irish
and English regiments will be fighting shoulder
to shoulder with the armies of Austria and Tur-
key against the soldiers of Russia. The ques-
tlOn tDen may Dc one OF Sucn vital Importance
to the British empire to cause all questions of
domestic policy to be for the moment forgotten
Denver Tribune.
ANY attempt to form an independent working
mems party is sure TO take in only the narrow
est and least intelligent of the laboring masses
and those who fond of agitation and aspire
TO be leaders. Such party will always be in
helpless minority, and while it will be able to ac-
complish nothing or it's own account. IL will, to
a certain extent. weaken the efforts of working
men to secure legitimate ends through the regu-
lar channels of political action. New York
Times
If Mr.. Garland would even now resign, it
would he easier than it is at present for his
friends to convince the public of the correctness
of their opinion that. while he has shown him
self wanting in constituencies on the point of
honor, he is not corrupt in his personal charac-
ter. That is the utmost that Mr.. Garland can
ever hope for in the way of vindication, and the
surest road TO that is through resignation, even
at this late date.-New York Commercial Adj
vertiser.
To pay bonds with 75-cent silver would be an
act of financial dishonesty-of Reputation, in
short. But to exhaust the reserve which the
government has solemly pledged itself to hold
for the redemption Of United States notes, and
to hold in gold, would also be financial dishon-
esty-distinct and naked reputation. Those
who vote for Mr. Morrisons resolution, there
fore, vote to repudiate obligations Of the Nation