The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-05-27
COMMENT AND OPINION.

THERE is plenty of work before Congress
and very little behind it.-Philadelphia In
quirer.
THE Indiana Democrats will retire some Of the
weaklings they now have in the House, and the
Republicans will try to retire the rest of them.
National Repu blican.
If Mr.. Bayard is going to arbitrate the fishery
business, we hope he will not let CAnada ap-
point one arbitrator, and Minister West another,
they to choose third-Pittsburg Chronicle.
MARTIN IRONS will have to declare boycott
on the dissatisfied members of his own lodge in
Sedalia, Mo. We do not see any other way for
him to geteven with hem.-Pittsburg Dispatch
The saloon men are not permitted In the
Knights of Labor. Nowif the Knights of Labor
were not permitted in the saloons, the elevation
of labor would be insured. Dispatch.
SENATOR LoGAN's book is enjoying genuine
boom. The old warriors critics startled
by his facts that they have not so far found
time to sheer at his grammar-Philadelphi
Press
INDIANA would supply long-fe want if it
would fence in Holman. In any situation where
breadth of view greater than the intelligence
of Hooppole county is demanded, he is misft.
Chicago Mail
WHEN you find clergyman whose words have
weight with workingmen, you will find that he
has been poor man himself, and has known
what it is to his breat by the sweat of his
brow.-San Francisco Chronicle.
rod for fools back, and club for the Anarch-
lists head is undoubtedly the manner in which
the late Solomon would revise one Of his popular
proverbs York Commercial Advertiser.
IF the DemsoSatic party has other objects in
view besides the welfare of gift enterprise in
that case its members in the committee and In
the House, had better cast adrift Messrs. Rog-
ers, Garland, Harris & Co.-.New York Herald
DIRECTOR HOLMAN is believed to be sure of a
denomination for Congress. Holman would be
an invaluable Congressm if he would get in
his objections at the right place; but as it u.s. he
is GOOD deal of nuisance Philadelphia In
Quirer.
In all the plans for the elimination of the
color line from politics the Southern Democrats
have never yet tried the simple plan Of electing
a negro to any important place-that anybody
except the New York Times mas ever heard Of
Brooklyn Union.
DEMOCRATIC economy consists of cutting down
appropriations one year and passing urgent de-
iciency" bills for 81. 000, 900 the next It Was a
Democratic economist who discovered that he
could make his blanket longer by cutting piece
off one end and sewing it on the other.-Phila-
delphia Press
He [Morrison] has betrayed petulant desire
to commit the Democratic party to his whinsi-
cal bills, his only purpose being to make himself
solid with the free-traders of Illinois. We may
expect therefore, to have these fruitless tariff
discussions as long as Mr. Morrison is allowed to
Constitution
Book learning does not solve the great every
day problem of making living 1t is something
to be able to read and write, but the way to make
people self-supporting is to teach them how TO
work intelligently. With this knowledge and
habits of industry and economy, men will reach
the point where they will master book learning
if it is in them to do it.-Atlanta Constitution
In spite of the industrial commotion which
reached climax on the LIST of May. there were
fewer business failures last week than in any
corresponding week since 1882 This ought to
convince faint-hearted people that the vitality of
this Republic is great enough to survive much
more serious shocks than any probable combina-
ton of strikes, lockouts and iots.-Cleveland
Leader.
THE rights of tho working people-by which
we mean their right to receive out of the fruits
of their labors enough for the needs of body
mind and soul-are no longer condemned as the
vaporings of the disconnected and the unruly;
they at last employ the thoughts of the states
men of all countries, and to their ascertainment
the church is now devoting her universal. ma
jestic and persuasive powers. York Star.
Mr.. MATTHEW ARNOLD, who is on the whole
the most absolutely wrong headed man of mod
ern times, has come forward to speak his mind
ON the Gladstone BILL and remarks that 1.-The
more intensely the Irish desire separate Par
lament the more it proves that they ought not
to have one" The logic of the remark is not
wholly clear. but the probability is that Mr.
Arnold merely wishes England to be consistent
and since for generations the plan has been to
do to Ireland whatever that unhappy land did
not wish it seems to him logical TO conclude
that it cannot be right 90 yield any proposal
which is to the liking of the people most affected
by it. as long az those people are the Irish
ton Courier.