The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-04-16
COMMENT AND OPINION.

WHAT this excitable country is waiting for Is
to see Jay Gould go out to ST Louis and make a
speech to the strikers. philadelphia Inquirer.
EIGHTEEN Union veterans have been displaced
and no soldier appointed during the reform
changes in the indianapolis postoffce. This is
slightly monotonous. Boston Record.
SOME day the Chaplain of the House of Repre-
sentatives will be declared out of order. He has
no right to argue a case in prayer when there is
no question before the House. New Orleans
Picayune
AS matters now stand, the supporters of home
rule for Ireland probably include large major
lty or AmericanS-a fact of great Importance to
Englishmen who would make no mistake in their
Irish legslation.-Boston Transcript
SECRETARY LAMAR is said to be proud man,
but nobody thinks for an instant that his pride
is due to the possession of such subordinates as
Sparks and Black. He is from the South, and
was born proud Minneapolis Tribune.
OUR fight is for the millions of honest people
in all the walks of life, to whom this strike has
brought distress in many shapes, and TO whom
It's continuance will bring disaster and ruin.
We are for the stricken many against the strik-
ing few.-St Louis Globe Democrat.
IT looks very much as if the people had de-
cided to SETTLE once for all, the question whether
the boycott shall be tolerated.; and the case of
Mrs. Gray seems likely to become as famous
the case of Captain Boycott 1t may become
good English to speak of grazing boycott
-DToOklyu UNION.
The party will find it impossible to make the
efficiency and Democratic fraud upon which the
people have given verdict, and the fact cannot
be concealed by trying to make of Mr.. Cleveland
a scapegoat and load upon him the sins OF his
party. Philadelphia Press
THE eagerness of Democrats in Congress to
take advantages OF every opportunity TO make
the United States do work that properly belongs
to the several States is most discouraging to all
who believe in the essential principles and who
are proud of the historical continuity of the
Democratic party.-New York Sun.
ALL that is required from the President is the
acknowledgment that his fair promises were all
humbug, and that the Republican partvs re-
forms in the civil service are being undermined
In the interest of spoilsmen and place beggars.
His latest move is complete confession and so
long as he confines his nominations to places
that are legally vacant, the Republican majority
may rest content with having smoked out the
coon.-New York Tribune
THE evil of the day is in selfish management
and watered Eock, side, and. on the
other, in the domination of labor associations by
men who love power for powers sake. and who
have no realization of the rights of men or Of
the American idea of citizenship. The farmer
cannot be credited with either the vices or the
faults OF grasping corporations, or of tyrannical
organizations. He fights his own fight in his
own honest straightforward way, and because
he does this be is more deserving of sympathy.
Chicago Inter Ocean.
CONGRESS has authority to enforce them
the demands of the Knights. 1t has no ma
chinery with which to do SO, If it had the au-
thority 1t is not an administrative body It
has no instruments of administration at its com
mand. 1t was not intended for such work, and
the Constitution which creates Congress and de-
fines and confers its powers made no provision
tor such work In promising and preparing to
undertake it. the House justiies the belief
ri UnpH1 hats
work When it fails to do SO, the workingmen
will logically be indignant, not merely with the
men who deceive them, but with the Constitu.
ton and the authority of law.--New York Times.