The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-08-03
COM ENT AND OPINION.


BRER MORRISON still sings "Silver Threads
Among the Gold" though in rather tremulous
voice.-Boston Record.
EX-GovERNoR TILDEN abaudons his own
party and appeals 10 the Republicans to make
provision for coast defenses.-Boston Journal.
IT is called the long, hot month of August be.
cause it usually includes the last week in July
and the first week in Septem er.-Philadelp hia
Inquirer.
THE crowned heads of Europe are boycottng
France; but if historyis correct, France has been
known to boycott the crowned heads.-St. Louis
Post Dispatch.
IF Mr. Tiiden should die before 1888, there
would still be found demented enthusiasts ready
to nominate one of his old shrts.-St. Louis
Post Dispatch.
EscRIToIRE BAYARD-hes such little secre-
tary he ought to be called an escritoire- Escri-
toire Bavard says the rights OF fishermen must
be maintained. Philadelphia News
LORD RANDOLPH CHURCHILL is all cheek and
no check. In England they make such man
leader of the House of Commons Here he -four
ishes as drummer -Philadelphia Press.
LITTLE has been heard of that Democratic low
tariff committee of twenty-s six which was TO pre-
pare an address to the country, and the chances
are that the address will be dropped. Boston
journal.
ATTORNEY GENERAL. GARLAND is said to have
great presence of mind under trying circum-
stances. That is probably what accounts for
his presence in the Cabinet at this time. -Cleve
land Leader.
COLONEL WILLIAM MORRISON leaves the tariff
in just the same condition as when he began to
NEEDLE with it last December. This is where
Colonel Morrison and the tariff diffcr.-Phila
deipha Press.
A WRITER says that the overtaxing of chill
dren is one of the evils of the age. Some of the
property holders of Burlington think that the
overtaxing of parents is about as ad.-Burling-
ton Free Press.
IF the President is really longing to draw his
snickersnee in defense of his ideas of civil serv
ice, he can find a head-also Hedden--to be-
gin on without coming so far East as Vermont
Boston Record.
IT seems that George A. Jenks's private bust
ness was too great to permit of his remaining in
the Interior Department but not too much so to
keep him out of the Department of Justice.
-Pittsburg Chronicle
HENRY GEORGE writes one book after another
to prove that property is robbery and that the
only right way for men to live is to hold all
their property in common; but he takes care to
copyright his books all the same-Philadelphia
Record.
IT is not surprising that the most intelligent
and consequently the most effective witnesses
against the Chicago Anarchists have been tho
newspaper reporters. Their business is to see
things and tell things just as they are.--Spring
field Republican
AS with Cleveland so also with Tilden, the
ideas and policies on which their reputation for
wisdom and craftsmanship rest and will rest so
long as they are remembered, are better sup
ported by the Republican party than by their
wn.-Boston Advertiser
WITHIN two years it is believed that there
will be no coal used in the mills at Pittsburg,
Pa, and this fuel will be then entirely displaced
by natural gases This will happen in other
places also. All of which ought to make coal
cheaper for ordinary people But will it9-New
York Mail and Express.
EVERYBODY knows that if Cutting had been
British subject he would not be in jail to-day in
a Mexican rat-hole, and war would have been
necessary to his surrender. Great Britain
wouldn't care, and we don't care, if he WAS the
most unmitigated scalawag in either hemisphere
when arrested; he is entitled to the protection
of his government Tribune
IT is by no means certain that if the President
had been permitted to direct Congress the Dem
ocratic party would have been much better off
than it now is; but so far as present circumstan-
ces are concerned. it is evident that the blame
must be laid, not on the President for re-
fusing to direct Congress- but on Congress for
refusing to be directed. -Pittsburg Dispatch.
HAVING slapped John Browns face when that
heroic prisoner was at the mercy of Virginia
chivalry, Lieutenant Green was rewarded by an
appointment as Indian agent The report that
he gets drunk and in various other ways dis
But the assertion that the administration means
to get rid of him for his misbehavior is not easily
to be credited.-New York Tribune
IL Mr.. Cutting has been imposed upon. the
most abundant reparaton will be exacted If,
on the contrary he is merely miscellaneous and
disreputable adveuturer, who, having defied the
laws and outraged the hospitality of Mexico, is
now endeavoring to profit by the errors and mis-
representations growing out of the imbroglio,
we assume that most sensible and fair minded
people will be glad to see him treated accord
ingly.-New York Star
IT is very probable that before long the so.
called STANDARD dollar will be worth no more
than sixty five cents. and the country will be
fortunate if this huge blunder of making So
called dollars out of metal that is continually
falling in value costs it in the end-nerely to re-
deem these sham dollars, aside from mass of
other expenses for coming storing and cartinc
them about the country-less than eighty mill
ions of real dollars.-New York Herald.
THE truth is that behind all the philanthropic
preambles and constitutions OF the knights of
Labor there lies the fixed determination to use
violence to gain their ends whenever they think
it can be done with impunity, or, as Powderly
calls it, 'seffectually." But every such utter
ance, we think, increases the determination of
all good citizens that neither Mr.. Powderly nor
any of his followers shall be permitted to be
'effectual' on American SOIL If they want to
revel in boycotting. they must start for some
still unsettled region, and boycott each other.
New York Evening Post