The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-11-23
COMMENT AND OPINION.

If Mr.. Cleveland is wise man he will not
trouble Destiny" again-Denver Tribune.
IT costs money to advertise but it costs more
money not to advertise. -Phladelphia Call.
WHAT shall it profit President if he gain a
whole world of mugwumps and lose his own
party?-Dallas News Dem.
MORRISON cares nothing for his poor, I'M
worthy self, but he shudders to think of the fate
of his unfortunate country. minneapolis
Tribune.
WE observe that Jefferson Davis has been
talking again. For an alien Mr.. Davis is taking
bold liberties with the American right of free
speech. Philadelphia Press.
WHEN the second name of the States shall be
called at the next national Democratic conven-
ton, it will be found that Arkansas will not
respond to the mugwump name of Cleveland.
Pine Bluff ARK Commercial
THE representatives in Washington of the
ribald and licentious press stick to it that the
chief magistrate has been as innocent as q lamb
in his real estate speculations 1t is their ghoul
ish instinct-see Harvard College speech-that
prompts them to this.-Cincinnati Commercial
Gazette
IF Mr. Randall should be nominated, and
surely his nomination is not less likely than was
Mr. Clevelands, he will go into Office with 225
electoral votes, and. what is better, he will hang
out sign as soon as he gets there which will
read: democrats for Office. No Republican or
mugwump need apply."-Macon Telegraph.
By this unjust discrimination lin the Benton
case the President has emphasized his own
partisanshlp AS ruler In a manner too plain for
a misunderstanding. He has expressly indi-
Gated that Republicans in Office are to be Judged
by one rule of fidelity and Democrats by anoth-
er. Anything more demoraIizing than this it is
not easy to imagine. Boston Advertiser.
THE calm and confident manner in which the
Austrian minister spoke shows that there is not
likely to be any war over the Bulgarian ques-
ton. 1t suggests understanding with Ger
many as well AS with England and Italy, a COM
bination which could not be resisted even by
Russia 1t is likewise guarantee of the future
states of the enancpatod Principalities which
they will not fail to remember at a future day
Brooklyn Eagle.
WHEN the inducements to enterprise and labor
no longer exist, enterprise and labor will not
progress beyond the mere daily demands of sus-
tenance. The world would be reduced down to
the scanty margin between famine and bare sub
sstence, as there could he no incentive to 60 be-
yond that point. 1t would be a hand to mouth
state of existence. The morrow would literally
have to take of itself, as there would be
nothing IN shop, storehouSe or magazine to meet
its demands. 1t would eventually be the primi-
tive existence OF savagery. Every incentive to
human progress would be destroyed; every hope
for the future would be extinguished That
would be the result of the leveling processes of
socialism. Chicago Tribune.
THE President has. no ,bt discovered in
that he has need of even greater circumspector
than he conceived to be necessary in March,
1884, but the reassuring fact is stated that Mr.
Fairchld instead of Mr. Manning is being hon
ored with the Presidents confidence at this time
Mr. Manning. with his extreme banking preju-
dices, grievously Ihisled Mr.. Cleveland by get
ting him into financial bunder as serious as
the political misstep was unfortunate, at the very
outset of his career-in causing him to seek, not
accept an occasion for a self -committal opposed
to the clearest drift of economic events on both
continents and directly contrary to the inter-
ests and wishes of very great majority of his
party.-Courier Journal.
THE removal of the legal license for saloons so
often has the effect of giving license to all men
to sell liquor that protested friends of temper
ance ought to stop for once and consider the
question of permitting the saloons to remain,
subject TO more stringent regulations-particu
larry to q higher license fee than is charged now
in Kentucky. 1t can be proved that prohibition
has proved a failure wherever it has been at
tempted. 1t is beginning to appear that local
option ia not performing what is claimed for it.
In the cities whore high license has had fair
trial the number of saloons has been decreased,
while those remaining have been placed under
conditions less productive of evil and have been
made to pay a larger share of the cost of crimes
due to intemperance. Louisville Commercial