The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-05-24
COMMENT AND OPINION.

WE may be pretty sure Americans will not
be maudlin and weak in dealing with such an
enemy as socialism. London Times.
IRELAND has endured the existing misrule so
long that it can still afford to wait one year. or
ten, if by so waiting its freedom comes moro
| completely and ungrudsingy. -Boston Adver
tiser.
The essential trouble in all controversies be-
tween capital and labor can never be cured by
| legislation, and when mon are taught to look to
| legislation for remedy, the true means will be
| neglected. Milwaukee Sentinel
THE sharp, resolute language of Judge NAL
| lory's charge will tend to undeceive these turbu-
| lent Socialists and their ignorant followers, aud
| show them that. while America grants freedom
to ALL it does not give license to any one.-Phila'
| delphia Press
No matter how fair the eight-hour law may be
| in principle even it's most dogmatic advocates
must admit that any law must sooner later
fall into disrepute, the enforcement of which
threatens the material interests of the whole
country with paralysis and bankruptcy. Wash
ington Post.
THE experience of those who have had much
| intercourse with their fellow men must have con-
vinced them that personal honesty is something
altogether independent of religious conviction,
and that there are proportionately just as many
truthful atheists as truthful believers In re-
| vealed religion.-Boston Herald.
EVEN one New York alderman in Sing Sing is
an encouraging spectacle, hut 1t is not enough to
restore popular faith in the administration Of
| justice in this city. There are others not less
| guilty than Jaehne and until they shall be con-
vcted and sentenced as he has been justice will
| not be satisfied. New York Herald.
| MARTIN IRONS. having aroused the mob spirit
/ in the breasts OF ignorant and passionate men,
should not be surprised if he now becomes its
victim. 1t is certainly symptom OF returning
reason on the part of the foolish strikers that
| they have come to recognize in men like Irons
their most dangerous enemies. -Chcago Times
| THE knights of Labor and all other industrial
ORGANIZATIONS must respect non-members and
| their rights. When that respect is everywhere
| displayed the employer who boycotts his men
| because they belong to labor organizations and
| for no other reason will be made to feel the
heavy hand Of public condemnation. Brooklyn
| Eagle
| If he (Cleveland) had had only little more
moral courage, enough to keep his pledges to tho
country in spirit and letter. he might have COM
| PEELED his denomination; but his half way policy
has left him with nothing stronger than the sat
| sfaction of the mugwumps. That will not count
| in the next Democratic convention. -Philadek
| pha Record.
| CONGRESS will make a great mistake If IL ais
| lows Greedy alone to be benefited by its action.
| There are meu who went with him ard suffered
with him, who, lying at deaths door, were res
| cued when he was, and will never recover from
| the hardships experienced any more than he
| will Do not they also deserve well OF their
| eountry?-Bos ON Herald.
INSTEAD of indulging in fanciful dreams about
| the reformation of the Anarchists, Socialists and
Communists, it will be found much the better
course to break their heads whenever the occasion
iustfes It. The men who come to our shores TO
preach the gospel Of dynamite should bs warned
| in advance that the only place ready to receive
them in this land of law and order is the peni.
tentiary.-Atlanta Constitution.
WOULD it not be wise for the Knights Of
Labor to shut down on all strikes and devote
| their resources to carrying out the orders in
| tial purpose2 Wouldn't 1t be better IL the
money that is now used to support thousands OK
idle strikers could be put into CO operative en-
| terprses where the deplored conflict between
| labor and capital would not exist. and where the
great aim OF the Knights would be fully realizeds
New York Sun.
| THE testimony given by Irons himself before
| the congressional committee shows that he is a
| man in whom not particle of confidence should
ever have been placed by his fellow workmen.
His own testimony shows that he ordered a
| strike which threw Ave thousand men out OF en-
ployment because he thought the discharge Of
| one incompetent man on another road was a
slight on the order of Knights. A man OF this
kind can neither be trusted with the executive
management of an organization of this kind nor
with its money --Philadelphia Times.
THE eighthour movement is failure. Had
| it been inaugurated with any measure OF wise
discrimination in dealing with the various
necessities of various industries, 1t could have
accomplished much; but when 1t was made
! general demand for eight hours work and ten
| hours paw its failure was as certain as the set
| ting of the sun in the West In the meantime.
| tens of thousands of laborers have thrown them
| selves ont of employment the employing power
of the industrial enterprises has been crippled by
| the prostration caused by strikes, and who must
| paw the cost2--Phadelphia Times.
TaERE is nothing that could we'll be worse in
| equity CT morals than the combination OF a few
| great corporations. creatures OF the State, i'm
| posing an extraordinary and oppressive tax upon
such q necessity Of life and commerce as coal
| because they have been able by virtue OF their
corporate power aud wealth to seize the coal sups
ply and the means Of transporting It TO market