The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-04-14
COMMENT AND OPINION.

RAvING rhetoric In poor arbiter between La.
Dor and capital Cincinnati Sun.
DENoUNcING Jay Gould to the laboring men
OF the world sounds big but it is not very ''ill-
field Republican.
other wants soda in a drug store. Then they ar
bitrate. They both take beer in a beer saloon.
New Orleans Picayune
THE only beauty about suicide is that it al
ways strikes the right party. If people could be
convinced Of this, probably there would be less
self destruction. Cincinnati Sun.
THE killing of officers, strikers and spectators
at Fort Worth and East ST. Louis is a blood Of
fering to be laid at the door of official timiditv
and incapacity. philadelphia Record.
MORE good might b., done, perhaps, If the
money thatnow goes to support strikes were con-
tributed to aid the workingmen that hard times
in the mills and the mines have thrown out of
employment Chicago Times.
THE bloodshed at East st. Louis is another
proof of the old saying that no men are so cruel
with arms in their hands MEN who not
soldiers Frightened men under no discipline
provoke disorder without being able to suppress
it-Boston Transcript.
THE Philadelphia firemen propose to join a
labor organization. 1t becomes now an interest
ing question as to whether not they will refuse
to squirt water on the red, roaring flames when
the store of man whom their organization has
boycotted catches fire.-Chicaeo Tribune
LET every sembance of the strike come to an
end. Then let them make known their griey-
ances. The people will be willing to hear. Mr.
Powderly has won universal respect by his fair
ness and moderation The workngmen will do
well to take heed to his counsels. Boston Rec
ord.
THE legislative restriction of the ownership Of
lard will doubtless present some grave difficult
ties, but 1t looks like vast improvement on the
land fn MIA rha oE II,
public lands solely in the hands of a few great
railway and cattle corporations. Dis
patch
Mr.. BEEcHER contends that the Ten Com
mandments did not originate on the top of
Mount Sinai AS Mr.. Beecher maintains that
the human family descended from monkeys he
probably believes that the Commandments origi-
mated in the top of a cocoa-nut tree.-St. Louis
Post Dispatch.
THIS strike has not received the approval of
public opinion, not because public opinion has
any quarrel with labor, per Sc, but because this
particular strike had no good reason for begin
ming, and was prosecuted in ways which, if gem
orally adopted, would make property and life
insecure, and would ruin the country-W estern
Christian Advocate
ATTORNEY GENERAL GARLAND, Isham G. Har
ris and others have Matched brood OF buzz
yards that threaten TO peck the eyes out of the
Democratic party, and the beauty of it is that
President Cleveland, the great reformer, thinks
that everything is all serene As the rats in
the barley-bin remarked. we are having good
time.-Atlanta Constitution.
CANNOT workingmen understand that they
are taking bread from their own mouths, and
money out of their own pockets by such be-
havior as they have INDUCED in recently? No
prejudice should blind them to fact SO i'm
portant to their own interest. Business men all
see 1t; and yet to them the disturbance means
only little difference in profits. Business men
see that widespread uncertainty az to labor