The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-06-24
COMMENT AND OPINION.


VIII not separate cells and separate ropes do
just as wella-New York Tribune.
In stock speculation, always buy at bottom
prices, and then be prepared co the bottom
drop out-Boston Commercial Bulletin.
SOME of the Democrats at Washington threateu
to excommunicate Randall. 1t is not wise man
who boycotts his own brains.-Boston Record
THE Chicago mob is no more ct to vote at an
election than so many freshly-imported savages
from Burmah or Fiji Islanders. Washington
Critic.
No conscientious Prohibitionist should cell
corn without a guarantee that 10 will not be
used in making whisky.-St. Louis Post Dis
patch.
THE London papers are all against Gladstone,
but the fact is that in Great Britain the plan
people do not read the London papers-Phlla-
delphia Press.
THE Randall Democrats who have been ex
PEELED from the Democratic household may be
permitted to come into the Republican mansion
II they will share rooms and beds with our re.
turning mugwumpsL Republican.
AFTER all. knowing the tone of the Indiana
Democrats as we'll as the country does. it would
be fully as much to the Presidents credit Ii they
continued to denounce him. 1t is too much to
hope that they are rising to his level, and we
hope that he is not descending to theirs.-Boy
ton Record.
MEN who have been chosen to Congress as
Democrats, and who persist in voting against
even the consideration of this Democratic meas
ure, should 60 to the party of which they are
the allies. We sincerely hopea that after to-day
there will not be any Democratic member OF
Congress who ought TO 60 out from among his
present associates to join their opponents. New
York Star.
THE principle of adding to every pension bill,
or to an other bill involving an extraordinary
pendture, provision for tax to meet IL Is al ex'
cellent 1t will, If sternly applied. check the
recklessness of Congress, because it will awaken
public attention and cause the voice Of the usual
ly silent taxpayer to be heard in the land
New York Times.
THE demagogues in national, State and munic-
ipa politics will go fishing for votes in any pool
where they can be found, and in the Knights OF
Labor pool, in which there many of them,
there is certain to be great deal of fishing done.
1t is to be doubted if the General Master Work.
man can keep the polticiaNs hooks out OF IT.
Philadelphia Inquirer.
If Dir. Randall and Mr.. Morrison had been
statesmen even III the smallest way. they would
have done something toward the adjustment OF
the tariff to existing conditions during the ses-
sion now drawing to a close. Being merely poll
ticians. they have done nothing except to waste
time and make it more difficult than ever to SCI
cure effective action hereafter. New York Com
mercial Advertiser.
THERE is funny theory of politics current
nowadays, to the effect that members of Con-
gress are responsible for their votes to the Presi-
vented this theory, and wanted to make things
hot for people who did not vote with particular
regard to his policy" We doubt whether hs
example will encourage other Presidents to try
it.-New York Mail and Express.
IT is evident that the river improvements Of
the future must be a much larger and more
costly scale than anything than has been at
tempted in the past, but it is pretty we'll set
tied thai the country at large does not propose
to foot the bill The States needing the levees
rvfn haxo - ,1ild and f6nxx {fn~
to neglect the matter in the vain hope of shift
ing their burden upon the government-Atlanta
Constitution.
THE entire theory that at the bailotbox one
man is as good as an0ther-the ignorant and
most vicious as good as the wisest aud best--is
mistake. There should be a proper, discrimi.
mating qualification required from every voter,
for suffrage Is not natural right-it is the high
est privilege that citizen can enjoy or exercise.
and it should be conferred upon no one. native
or foreign, unable to intelligently exoioss5 II
philadelphia Telegraph.
COULD another Democratic House be relied
upon to defeat free-trade legislation The Re.
publican Senate would become the sole guardian
of the protective system. 1t would be q pre-
carious state of affairs for the country, and re.
act disastrously on our business interests. The
tariff is the principal issue in the coming con.
gressional elections. The free-trade views oil
the President necessitate the election of Re-
publican House of Representatives,. -Albany Elk.
press
HOLMAN has been renominated by his ad.
miring constituents. who are many of them,
cast in the same mold as the fellow who refused
to vote for Blue Jeans Williams when he found
out that the latter had actually made use of the
baths in the Capitol at Washington. 1t was not
often that Williams offended in that fashion but
the Hooser was determined that no one extrav.
agant enough to compe, the government to pay
big bill for towels and bath-soap should have
his support for Congress. Francisco Chron.
icle
WHEN it shall be admitted that the South
merely tried to exercise right that the com.
mon Interpretation of the Constitution gave IL,
then it must also be charged that all who i'm.
peded the efforts of the South were REASONABLE.
More monstrous than the doctrine of secession.
was the Southern attempt to force slavery upon
peoples who considered it curse, and Ii was out
of this that the crime of attempting to maintain
secession grew. 1t was an offense that must be
held through all time to be hateful Milwaukee
Sentinel
1T is ridiculous enough that the Roeerses havs
risen to such a moral height as to declare, with
the solennity of legal document. that their
statesmen partners have defrauded them But
there is no antic that these adventurers can cut
which does not remind the country that the At
torney general of the United States holds stock
in a speculative enterprise which he received
from these people for the benefit they expected
to get from his official position and influence;
and he continues to hold il, to the damage of the
administration in which, also, he is partner in
the sense that what discredits him discredits it.
Brooklyn Union.
IT is not to be doubted that the Republicans
appreciate the blunder of the Democratic lead
ers, at its full value. BY their failure to accom-
plish auything. to attempt any thing. In the
direction of tariff revision. the Democratic Con-
gressmen have not only played into the hands OF
the high tariff men, but storing up vast sup
plies of political material to be used against the
Democracy in the next campaign. The Repnb.
lcans in Congress, who are now working With
all their might and with so signal success TO
stave off tariff revision, will not hesitate here
after to charge the responsibility for its failure
upon their feeble and fatesing antagonists, and,
what is worse, will fix it there. Charleston News
and Courier.
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