The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-01-25
COMMENT AND OPINION.

WHAT the Republican party press needs is
that homely but admirable quality known as
-sand.-Albany Express.
THE Goldfish controversy between England and
the United States should create no uneasiness in
aristocratic circles.-St. Louis ost-Dspatch.
THE days when labor strike of some sort is
not reported from the Pittsburg district are
scarcer than ham sandwiches at picnic Of tri-
chiniasis doctors.-Bufalo Express.
The adoption of high-icense laws would in all
probability effect as much in the way of prohibi-
ton as the present laws do, and avoid the re-
sponsibility of the States for the property thus
rendered of little or no value.-Phiadelphia
Times.
WILL Iowa and Kansas modify their probib-
itory laws prepare to foot the billsa Is the
enthusiasm of Prohibitonists so radical and
cheerful that they will down with the
cash which the experiment requiresl-Chicago
Tribune.
of the United Statesq Why. then. should con
tract be declared unlawful which provides for
future payment in this coin. and why should
citizen be punished for making such contract?
philadelphia Record.
The trade unions weapon with the exception
of the boycott. is legitimate agitation, and when
any movement toward violence is made it will
throw the great body of workingmen of Chicago
or any other American city upon the side Of law
and order. Springfield. Republican.
at is not church you want" wrote Mark
Twain. as secretary to Senator Jim Nye, to the
house subscriptions what you need is nice
new jail" That is the substance of Vicioria's
message to Ireland.-Boston Record
NOBODY has ever charged that Mr.. Payne even
knew that his seat was bought. His son and the
Standard Oil Company and John Mclean did
the job Ii there is corruption, these men and
Dave Paige know when. whore ana bow it was
DONE Mr. Payne's "break" is worse than his
silence.-Memphis Avalanche.
IT would be fine fun to see a champion wrest-
Ter tackle buzz saw, catch as-catch can, or a
pugilist stand up to a steam hammer for few
rounds. Let some matches of this kind be ar
ranged. that we may be able to form some judg-
ment as to what advance has been made in this
branch of science. -Pittsburg Chronicle.
THE trouble with some of the trade unions in
the past has been that they have been content
to submit to the leadership of men whose mental
range was insufficient to grasp the vast problems
submitted to them, and who, however good their
intentions may have been, were thus made
Quately fitted for the trusts imposed upon them,
Boston Herald
A LOCAL OPTION system, which permits each
city or town to decide for itself whether liquor
shall be sold, and imposes heavy license fee
where the sale is permitted, would maintain
prohibition in the villages of Iowa and end the
present reign of free rum in the cities, while the
present state of things is disgrace to the State
New York Evening Post
UNDER the pretense of offensive partisan
ship" the best and most useful Republicans are
certain 10 be branded "rasc;,ls" and turned
out. 1t is reasonable, however, to believe. that
the country will, when the opportunity is pre-
scented to it at the polls. punish the evasion of
the law just it would have punished its re-
peal-Philadelphi Inquirer.
Conscious that the American people are not
such donkeys as to be fooled in the long run by
an eighty cent dollar, Senator Van Wyck now
asks for law to fine every workingman or re-
tail or wholesale merchant who may have sense
enough to insist that he shall be paid in a hun
dred cent dollar for his services or his goods Ia
not this pretty poor business, even for silver
manl--New York Herald.
THE silverites are playing their game OF bluff
| in manner worthy of the palmy days of that de-
lectable game on the Mississippi river. What
they are driving at is the prevention of any re-
peal or amendment of the Bland bill. aud their
idea is that if they make their demands big
enough they will succeed in extorting sufficient