The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-03-26
COMMENT AND OPINION.


THE prayers with which the House Of Repre-
sentatives is opend seem to form the most rigor-
ously reformatory feature of the present session
of Congress. -Pittsburg Dispatch.
A WOMAN who would deliberately sacrifice the
purity of home for the sake of the ballot could
never be safely trusted with it, even if there
were no other arguments against it-Chicago
Tribune.
KNIGHTS Of Labor are no more above the Law
than other people, and have no more right TO
kill" engines. burn bridges or stop railroad
trains and run them upon side-tracks. -New
York Times.
EDITOR PULITZER, of the New York World.
thinks that imperial rule will finally be hailed
as a godsend." If Editor Pulitzer thinks we'll of
imperial rule he should have remained in Europe.
Atlanta Constitution.
WHEN the Agricultural Wheels turn in the
same direction as the knights of Labor, which
they threaten to do, there will be fewer lawyers
in Congress and more representatives OK the
people.-Pittsburg Chronicle.
A GREAT deal has been said about cheap money
lately, but 1t there is any kind afoat that can
be rented by the year for less than s per cent,
the Georgia farmer would like to get its post
Office address. Macon Telegraph.
THE actual loss caused by the idleness of Co.,
600 strikers is so distributed as not to admit OF
accurate computation, but in the aggregate ID
can be compared to few other industrial losses
than those caused by war.-Brooklyn Union.
Gro. WILLIAM CURTIS announces that he Is
satisfied with the administration. This is why
the great national Democratic bosom sweils with
pride. 1t has been the one great ambition OF
that party to satisfy George William. National
Republican.
MUNICIPAL corruption will always be an ever
present municipal evil until bribery is punished
as we'll as made punishable, and the bribers no
less than the bribed are compelled to expiate
their crime at hard labor in the penitentiary.
Philadelphia Press.
MEANWHILE the hard, substantial. fact of the
situation is that the woman'ss suffrage movements
not only lacks the support Of any considerable
number of the women of the country, but has
the emphatic opposition of a vast majority OF
them.- Philadelphia Telegraph.
THE bon-ires lighted in November, 1884,
throughoughout Mormondom, In honor of the
election of Brother Cleveland" as they called
him. were not out of place, after all, notwith-
standing the fine words injected into the Presi.
dents first annual message against polygamy.
-Pittsburg Chronicle.
Governor Murray from his post in Utah. the
Mormons will not care how many fine sentiments
against polygamy he allows his sister, Rose
Elizabeth, to insert In his messages to Congress.
The Saints are cunning enough to know how
little words count against deeds. Cleveland
Leader.
If employers and employees desire to consume
or burn their accumlations in waging q destruc.
tive social war. let them start the flames in their
own fields and keep off the public highways. An
effective arbitration law should provide the
means needed to quench at once q conspiracy to
interrupt railroad travel and traffic. Chicago
Tribune.
THE Democrats in Congress are becoming
frightened at the size of the appropriation bills
and are casting about for ways to institute
economy where it will be most useful in the
next campaign. How the business interests OF
the country may be affected is a problem thai
does not enter into their calculations. -Philadel-
phia Inquirer.
WE are In favor Of full and free discussion on
all public questions, and we are opposed to all
monopolies. whether it be a monopoly Of all the
tyranny, as by the strikers, or a monopoly of all
the railroads as byJay Gould. There has been
hardly a word said against Jay Gould since the
strike began which we do not indorse.-St. Louis
Giobe-Democrat
WE offer to every foreigner the privileges Of
full American citizenship, and surely that is
carrying national hospitality far enough. To
those foreigners who do not choose to become
citizens we are under no obligation to offer any
thing, and certainly We should not permit them
TO become our rack-renting. non resident, alien
and lords.-New York Commercial Advertiser.
The right of another man to stay in Your en-
ployment on his own terms. or, in other words,
the right of trades-unions to billet laborers on
any one they select, for as long as they please.
which is now the central doctrine of the labor
gospel, is one which civilized communities will
no more accept peaceably than they will accept
the Koran and the Mormon Bible.-New York
Evening Post.
WHEN Mr.. Gusts GEORGE William goes in to
destroy parties because the world does not SO
quickly see what seems SO luminous to him, he
lacks that patience which great ideas need.
When he resorts to querulousness, he does in
fact become a Miss Nancy. is in fact unmanly,
and the idea goes on in it's inevitable course OF
realization not only without his help, but in
spite of his unintentional but real opposition.
Milwaukee Sentinel.
A LONG drawn-out railroad strike, especially
at this season, when it is vitality necessary that
freight should be handled promptly, is a hard
ship to thousands Of business men in scores Of
cities. Ii there were no means of settlement
save by wearing each other out, the prolonga-
ton Of the strike might be justifable. AS 1t is,
with the example of successful arbitration in
New York. 1T is little short of a crime.-San
Francisco Chronicle.
IT begins to look as though the Governors who
failed to secure agreement between the contend
ing parties might soon be called upon to face the
question OF protecting property and enforcing
the laws. It is a serious question how long A
dispute about the discharge of a single man is TO
be allowed to paralyze the business of half a
dozen States and Territories. If Governors re-
ally govern there should be a reasonable limit to
this sort of enforced paralysis. Philadelphia
Times.
THE attack on the executive session has not
come too soon. There is nothing parallel to that
custom in the history of legislation, if we except
the Council of the Doges OF Venice. hundreds Of
years ago. It is q thing unheard of in modern
times. England, France. Germany would not
dream of hiding from the people the methods by
which the public business is transacted. 1t ia
obnoxious to the very spirit of free government.
and needed only to be understood in order to be-
come odious. Senator Logan has taken the lead
in a very popular and wholesome innovation.
Washington Post.
UNDER the ordinary rule there is naturally, on
the part of the employer, q constant desire and
effort to get from the worker the greatest
amount of work for the smallest amount Of
wages, while, on the part of the worker, the nat
ural effort is to get the greatest amount of wages
for the smallest amount of work. Each party is
against the other. the interest of each being pit
ted against the interest of the other. But where
the system of nroft.sharing ia annliad these