The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-03-19
COMMENT AND OPINION.

BISMARCK has suffered another defeat. A
little more and he will be down again with
toothache. Chicago Mail
THERE is a report afoat that Jefferson Davis
is to lecture. Is this the way he repays q
nations clemencya-Pittsburg Chronicle.
BEER MORRISON, the great tariff statesman, is
beginning to see that his new bill will go to meet
its horizontal predecessor, so to speak.-Atlanta
Constitution
Mr.. EDMUNDs may be the iceberg" he is said
to be, but it will have to be admitted that he is
making it very hot In the vicinity of the execu-
tive mansion. Tribune.
ENGLAND is very wealthy, but stalking money
by the hundreds of millions on an unknown
policy is calculated to make the boldest tax
payer waver in his allegiance. -Pittsburg Dis
patch.
The quick destruction Of great English built
steamer like the Oregon by common schooner
suggests the thought that British ship-building
may not be so absolutely perfect after ll.-Phil-
adelphia Press.
JUST about this time every year the papers are
full of exortations to s'elect decent men to the
council" and shortly after election we find the
same old gangs manipulating municipal affairs.
Minneapolis Tribune
EVERY good mans wife is an important factor
in his success in life, and the moral effect upon
him of her loss must be regarded with apprehen-
sion, as the possible beginning of the end of q
heightened career.-New York Mail and Elk
press
WHEN workmen attempt to boycott the board
ing houses of town they attack so stubborn
survival Of the nomadc period OF human devel-
oprEent that while all the world may wish them
well it will laugh at their endeavor. Brooklyn
Union.
WHEN the administration elects to be repre-
sented by Mr.. Trenholm in the most impor-
tant Office. after that of Secretary, in the Treas
ury, it Is plain that there is no intention OF
olyax s~r. %A4 NSfxv Mas Nn~ly
Times.
NORTH does not kick because he gets big feed
Of the corn that he hauls but South. having
been worked all day without feed, is hardly to be
chided or logged because she pokes her head
into the wagon body to get mouthful Of oats.
Charleston News and Courier.
EVERY other day the cable reports Mr.. Glad
stone al just about dying, and on the days when
these reports fail Mr.. Gladstone turns up in Par
lament to make things lively for the little fell
lows on the other side The race is sometimes
to the man who chops the most wood at Hawar
Philadelphia Times
II the stress is kept up much longer. sensible
workingmen will be joining with business men
and railroad corporations in resisting the ire
sponsible tyranny Of the Knights of Labor, who
are doing grievous injury to the cause of labor
In this country by their misguided and obstinate
action at st. Louis and elsewhere..-New York
Times.
RAILWAY science has outgrown the idea Of
cast-lron schedules OF maximum rates, framed
b- persons not interested in the roads. But
IL ere is nothing to prevent the adoption of
rule which would prevent the accident of com
factor to be considered bv q company in fixing
its rates. There should be some uniformity in
rates.-San Francisco Chronicle.
WHEN it is borne in mind that s'Bshop" Ober-
ly has for some years been the manager of Dem
ocratic politics in Illinois-chairman of the com
ksa%. a.
Tertiary, the adviser-and that Bishop
Oberly mas achieved reputation the very oppo-
site OF that of a spokesman. the nature of his
appointment as Civilservice Commissioner will
be appreciated-Chicago Tribune.
The President cannot escape the fact that, by
his own confession he has practically violated
the law which guarantees right of preference
to Union soldiers in the distribution of patron
age, and given offices to Democratic civilians in
contempt or the patriotic sentiment which ac-
cords special honor to the men who fought the
country's battles in its time of greatest need and
peril-St. Louis Globe Democrat.
THE granting of passes to legislators and the
giving of retaining fees to many of them who
are not already the paid servants of railroad cor
pcrations with other forms of influence, s'too
ments to the representatives of the people to let
these matters alone unless forced upon their at
tention by their constituents in a way that can
not be mistaken. Chicago Tribune.
ALL the signs of the times betoken funda-
mental changes in the order of society and gov
ernment Radicalism is to be the great de-
termning force in the future of English politics.
The Conservatives recruited from the Wings
may win a temporary and ilusory triumph at
the next elections But the country is on the
highroad tor radicalism and republication, and
is marching fast.-New York Tribune
MUNICIPAL government is as bad as bad can
be IL some of our cities, notably in tine metrop-
oils. But even in the metropolis it has always
Its obvious advantage over imperial rule, in that
1t is always the rule Of the people, and always
within their reach and control Popular mis-
government therefore, Is always preferable to
imperial misgovernment; and history demon.
strates that the chances of misgovernment under
the one system are at least as great as under the
other.-Aibany Express.