The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-04-23
OMMEN AND OPINION.

1T should not be forgotten, in these times. that
nearly all the adult males OF this country are Ia
boring men."-New York Mail and Express.
IT is a very simple rule, but few of the strik-
ing wnrkiIgmen seem to understand il: They
may strike at any time, but they must not hit
any Observation-Disclosures Inquirer.
GLADSTONE declares that his political under
takings have never cost him a nights sleep
and we believe him. It is the other fellows
who have lost the eep.-Philadelphia Press.
THE experience of the country with congress
sional campaign committees has not been very
happy, and the sooner they can be abolished the
better for both parties and for the Nation. M
waukee Sentinel.
CoULD the boycott be boycotted9 IF the news
papers should shut out all mention of things of
the kind. and the telegraph should join in the
action, the result would at least be interesting.
Boston Record.
EVEN if Miss Folsom should not wed the Pres
ident she can congratulate herself upon the pos
session of one of the largest and most influential
booms that has been developed in a twelve
month.-Washiugton Critic.
MOB law must not be tolerated in any shape or
disguise. Let the strikers refuse to work as
long as they see fit. That is their affair. But
they must not be permitted to prevent every
body else from working. New York Graphic.
THE strikers rely greatly on the justice of
their cause. to be sure, but they keep their brick
bats and pistols ready all the same to assail men
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to earn an honest living. New York Evening
Post.
THERE is one lesson that the strikes are teach
ing the laboring men. and teaching them at q
vast expense. That lesson Is that the public is
in sympathy with them only when they are in
the right, and that without popular sympathy
their cause is hopeless. New York Commercial
Advertiser.
THERE is one point that ought to be very thor
oughly impressed upon the minds Of those who
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of no question or debate that every man has the
absolute right to work for his living and to dis
pose of his own labor on whatever terms he
pleases.-New York Times.
THERE will be wheat enough, according to
present Indications. to give US cheap bread at
home and furnish all that Europe can be induced
to take from this country. In the course of
thirty days the harvesters will be at work along
the southern limits of the great American wheat
belt. Atlanta Constitution.
So 1T seems the Pan ~electricl scandal is 20 re-
main to blight Mr.. Garland's ambition to be ap-
pointed TO the Supreme bench and to do damage
to the administration and the ADMINISTRATION
party in the next national campaign. 1t is the
unhappiest piece of business the administration
has become involed in.-Brooklyn Union.
THE Democrats who oppose civil-service re-
form are bound, by all rules of fairness and
sound policy, either to pass a bill in the House
repeating the civil service law or to support the
only other policy. Put up or shut up.1 If they
can't or won't do this they should give the Presi-
dent hearty support. Memphis Avalanche.
BLATANT demagogues, mercenary agitators,
adventurous politicians and beer-shop idlers who
pose as labor representatives will declare for dis
turbance and excuse lawlessness, but the sim
cere friend of industry will prefer to advise in
the words of truth and soberness. Labor dis
turbance cannot last, and if labor shall end it by
manly justice it will have the victory. -Phila-
delphia Times.
THE prestige of the Order of the Knights Of
Labor has suffered from the way in which the
strike has been conducted. 1t takes long disci-
pine to bring about the desired subordination
and obedience throughout such an unwieldy
as Mir. Powderly failed to secure ready obedi-
ence. in inferior hands his order might prove
only a rope of and.-Washington Post.
If there is to be arbitration to prevent strikes,
now is the time for 1t. There is a vast mischief
being done through apprehension. Thousands
and tens of thousands of undertakings are aban-
doned, because there is fear of strikes. An ar
bitration that would NINA the peace would
be worth hundreds of millions to the country.
Cannot we have a settlement on some solid basis
in time to save the summers work?--Cincinnati
Commercial Gazette.
In an interview yesterday a boycotter declared
that a boycotted firm must not only yield but
bear the expenses of the boycott, which
amounted to $3.50 on a single day. Black-mail
Is the extortion Of money or valuables from an
Otuor Uv putting uim IN leaE OIL the loss OF repu-
tation or property. It differs from highway rob-
berry in that highway robbery is extortion
through menace to life or limb.-St. Louis Re-
publican.
1T is the most cruel and base of all crimes to
deprive a man OF his lawful opportunity to earn
bread for wife and children. If men want to
stop work themselves, that is their right, and the
law will protect them liz it. But they become
criminals of the worst sort when they try to rob
any other man Of his freedom to labor. He who
Rt0alg or mur1ara for nri vafa 0rAad nr pauSnoa
is more deserving of lenient treatment or of
sympathy than he who tries by crime to rob a
neighbour of the right to support his dear ones.
New York Tribune.