The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-04-08

WEwAH 10 the name OF a Zuni Indian p~riestess.
She ought to be hired to edit a political organ.
Politics Is the science of wewah.-Philadelphia
Record.
THE country perfectly understands that an Of
fensive partisan is a Republican. The Demo-
Gratis are all inoffensive offensive partisans
New York Sun.
Ii the secret session is not abolished before the
end of the Forty-ninth Congress its abolition will
be demanded by the platforms of both parties in
1888. National Republican.
1T is an easy matter to arrange for arbitrations
if parties are agreed to arbitrate; but in what
way is it possible to enforce the award of arbi-
Observation-Disclosures Record.
BEHIND the closed doors of the Senate there is
a vast amount of intrigue and personal plotting
concealed, which would be practically impossi-
Bile if the business were done puolicly.-New
York Times.
IT is remarked that about the only point upon
which the Democrats in New York appear to be
entirely agreed is upon the desirability of hav-
ing Mr.. Conkling reinstated as a Republican
leader.-Boston Journal.
WHILE we deprecate all violence at the hands
OF Knights of Labor, we yet welcome that or
ganization as a power to bring into play some
just opposition to selfish monopoly. North
western Christian Advocate.
THERE has been gross mismanagement of the
labor interests in ST. Louis and the Southwest.
1t WAS shown at the beginning of the strike, and
IL udo UCCu oAuIOlL0u SIuC6 ht 0FtTv OUpOTbuUlby
when a mistake might be made.-New York
Star.
THAT laAoring men have a right to organize
no sane man will deny, but when their organiza-
ton turns its power on the destruction of prop
erty it becomes a criminal, and good men can
not give it the aid of their approval. Western
Christian Advocate.
THE sentiment in favor Of free coinage of sill
yer is rapidly growing. 1t needs no prophet to
toretell that when the Bland act Is changed it
will be to substitute it for what may be called the
partial bimetallic system, genuine bimetallism.
San Francisco Post.
EVERY word Of it [~Ingalls's speech has a sting
and every line of it is a lash. There ought not
to be a mugwump living since it's delivery, ard
if there Is one ne exists merely to beg that he
may be permitted a speedy death and a decent
burial. York Graphic.
Mr.. HARRIsoN's seat in the Senate is earnestly
desired by Mr.. Mcdonald and other Indiana
Democratic politicians, but there is good reason
for the confident hope that its present occupant
may have occasion to use it for at least another
term.-Washington Post (Dem.).
ALL gwum appear to be in the habit of
writing their names out in full Perhaps it
does not follow from this that all men who write
all the George Van der Heyden Smiths to be
careful. N York Mail and Express.
HI lesson of the strike to workmen contains
a clear warning against ill-advised proceedings of
this kind. The loss is immense and very certain,
the gain quite uncertain. TO workingmen of
any class, urged to strike. for reasons no matter
how plausible, our advice is. Don't!-Washington
Post.
IT will be adding one mistake to another If the
defeated strikers attempt to ascribe their failure
to the power of money. Public opinion Is more
powerful than capital, and it would have forced
the corporations to yield to the demands of the
workingmen had they been in the righs. -Phila-
delphia Press.
The government can save the Indians money
by taking charge of it and allowing him the in
come, and can insure him an abiding place by
protecting for a score of years his title to a
very plain that the Indians surplus and unused
lands cannot be withheld from settlement much
longer York Times.
A PHYSICAL and mental wreck ought not to
have the Office of Pension Commissioners and
the man able to draw the salary attaching to the
commissionership ought not to draw 500 a
month as pension. While changes are being
made, and reforms instituted, it looks az though
there is something here that needs attention.
-Pittsbnrg Chronicle.
THE taunts Gould throws at the strikers are
calculated to incite riot and prolong the trouble
in the Southwest. The law ought to make pro-
vision for locking up railroad stock gamblers
who at critical lines use incendiary language
and endeavor to provoke violent outbreaks that
they may speculate on the miseries of workmen
and the necessities Of the public. Chicago
Tribune.
WE do not see why Congress cannot tax oleo-
margarine as we'll as it can whisky. beer or to-
sbacco. AS to the policy Of the measure, it would
serve the double purpose Of protecting a great
and important agricultural interest from injury
aRd possible extinction, and protecting the peo-
pie from a deceptive, nasty and deleterious COM
pound, salable only when its real character is
unknown.-Boston Herald.
A DEMOCRATIC President is to-day hampered
by the Republican Senate. A Democratic House
finds its incentive to act as the principles of its
party would dictate weakened by the same OBJ
stacle. The responsibility is divided, with the
old result that things GO wrong. 1t is essential
to successful party rule that the government
should be in control of one party, and that con-
dition of things does not exist to day.-New
York World.
OPEN sessions would certainly help Senators
to arrive at a true realization of their RESPONSE
bility to the people. Ard they would increase
the dignity OF the body by doing away with the
strange anomaly of calling certain of its meet
ings secret sessions. while they are invariably
reported with especial fullness in the news
papers of the following day. By all means let
the people know openly and honestly how their
business Is transacted in the Senate. Washing
ton Post.
ACCORDING to Grand Master Powderly, there
are about 300. 600 Knights of Labor in the whole
country. According to the census, there we're
IL, 900, 600 wage-earners in 1880, and there
probably are now 49, 900, 600 Why should less
than two men in one hundred of all the workers
in the country claim the right to exclude from
employment wherever they please ninetv-eieht
in one hundred Ought anybody to grant to the
two that power to wrong the ninety-eight9-New
York Tribune.
THERE is no revival of business. The outlook
to-day is not even as t .v0rable as a year ago,
outside of Wall street. at least; but mark the
anomalous difference. Then all the wage move
ment was in the direction of lower rates. with
employers in the initiative: but now it is all the
other way, employees being everywhere in the
initiative of wage agitation. Everybody is at
last finding ont that the situation cannot 80 we'll
afford higher profits or higher wages than in
1885, the year of greatest depression. louisville
Courier Journal.
If the present ruling organization, the knights
of Labor, cannot stop a struggle that ought