The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-08-18
COMMENT AND OPINION.


THERE may be very little left CT Senator Ma
hone, but what little there is is alve.-Richmond
Wing.
THE Blaine fight against Edmunds exists only
in the Imagination of the mugwumps and their
Democratic pes.-National Republican.
THE jurors in Chicago have it within their
power to show to the vagabonds and conspirators
in and out of America that their war against
civilization will no longer be tolerated in the
United States kansas City Journal.
THERE is one consideration that ought not to
be overlooked If we have war with Mexico
the war articles in the magazines will be pro-
tracted for century at least.-Pittsburg Com
mercal
THE people are in undivided sympathy with
every movement which will benefit the working
classes. They only ask that the means used
shall be fair, honorable and manly New York
Herald.
WE fear that our Prohibition friends are lack
ing iii tact and knowledge of the world They
should take more care to commend the celestial
loneliness of prohibition without insisting so
hemently on the total depravity of everything
else.-St Louis Post Dispatch.
MORALS cannot be expurgated altogether from
politics. and selfish politicians and nations at
last brought up to the captains counter to settle.
1t ought never to be allowed that man must be
something of knave to be acceptable statesman.
-Pittsburg Chronicle Telegraph.
to Cuttings circulation of the libel in Mexico be-
fore his arrest and as that fact is IN dispute. the
government must first officially and conclusivey
ascertain the truth. and special commissioner
has been wisely summoned to that duty.-Phila-
delphia Times.
OF all the public men in this country who
might aspire to walk in the footsteps of James
Buchanan none could be named more liable to
do So or to aspire to do so, than Thomas +. Bay
ard, whose sinister movements at this time
should be watched with special closeness Chi
cago Inter Ocean.
PRESIDENT CLEVELAND is undoubtedly in a
position to fish during these long vacation days.
but is the Democratic party in condition to cut
bait while over 30. 900 Republicans remain in Of
fce2 That is where the doubt comes in, and as
the party is ION trial." it ought to be given the
benefit of it.-New York Herald
IF the Cutting case serves no other purpose
than to attract attention to the absurdities of
the libel laws-all of them relics of period
when it was considered crime for man to
speak unexpectedly of person in power-the
Texas editor will not have achieved his notoriety
in vain-San Francisco Chronicle.
AS the post of Naval officer of Philadelphia is
a highly salared sinecure, its incumbent Mr.
Harry Plumer, has abundant time and oppor-
unity to traverse the State and set up delegates
to the Democratic State convention. Still. we
told that this is a civiservice reform admin
istration. -Phiadelphia Record (Dem.)
If the United States Senate continues to
maintain its reputation a stronghold of mon
opoly. and refuses as in the Payne case, to in
vestigate prima facie case of fraud in the cleo
ton of one of it's own members, it may not be
many years before the Nebraska plan will be
employed to nullify the present method of con-
sttuting the American House of Lords Chicago
Tribune
THE Prohibitionists, in their capacity OF as
sistant Democrats, have no reason to complain
of lack of appreciation. The Pennsylvania De-
mocracy is reported as contemplating with glee
the purpose of the Prohibitonists to run candi-
dates for the Legislature in every district, the
Democrats hoping in this way to control the
cessor.-New York Tribune.
SIMPLY as matter Of dollars and cents. It Is
wholly mpracticable to make payment from the
public treasury for all distilleres, breweries
etc. closed by a prohibitory statute; but the
federal courts of Iowa and Kansas say such COM
pensation must be made. As long as the de-
cision in regard to compensation for property de-
stroyed remain unreversed by the Supreme
Court, the burden is on the ?rohibitionsts to
show where they will levy the enormous taxes
needed to pay the bill of damages and carry out
their pet notions Chicago Tribune
THE discreet Irish patriots that are setting up
an Irish republic by whangdoode speeches three
thousand miles away know better; and, knowing
better, they regard Mr. Michael Davitt's moral
batteringra ram with very natural emotion- OF
Ecorn. Thcy know that the establishment OK an