The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-05-13
COMMENT AND OPINION.


THE great woman question-"What did she
have onT-Lynn Union.
THE Poles in the United States are getting
reputation as fragrant as the polecat -National
Republican.
THE Irish question: Has the registered letter
mail come in from America yetl-Pittsburg
Chronicle
THE strike in behalf of ten hours pay for
eight hours work is already picturesque ruin.
New York Graphic.
THE working time of Congress has been in
creased from three hours to four, with pay for
forty eight hours. -Pittsburg Chronicle.
THE Knights of Labor organization has swal-
lowed everything and some of its contents are
giving it fatal dyspepsia. Milwaukee Sen
tinel.
THIS administration lacks both craftsmanship
and leadership 1t learns nothing by the past
and has no plans for the future. National Re
publican.
IF any man knows a good and sufficient reason
why Canada should not receive a little talking to
by Uncle Sam. let him state it now or hereafter
hold his peace.-Philadelphia Times.
If Mr.. Cleveland gives half column to the
veto of private pension BILL he will want a spe
cial supplement to hold what he has to say when
he handles the great river and harbor scheme.
Boston Record.
THE wrath of the ST. James Gazette at the
urday, discloses the fact that if there is one
thing that organ of Toryism hates more than an
Irishman, it is an American. Dis
patch.
WE hear very much boasting just now of
young BLOOD" both in business and politics.
We began to notice the absence Of old brains"
from both some time since. Which accounts,
perhaps, for good many things.-Dayton TO-
Democrat.
IT is believed in Washington that the mug
wumps have forced the President to 60 on
strike in self-defense It is thought that the
political horizon will soon begin to glow with
more pronounced Jacksopian tint-St Louis
Post Dispatch.
THE blunders and crimes of the Knights Of La
Dor have greatly injured them an organize
ton. and they Can recover from the losses of
pubic regard and support only by adopting the
better policy suggested to them by Mr. Powder
ly's letter. Philadelphia Inquirer.
The moral support given to home rule by the
American Republic makes it impossible for Eng
land-and we say it advisedly-to rule Ireland
again by brute force: That day is past; and is
past forever. The dawn Of the day Of freedom
is at hard. Charleston News and Courier.
The incongruity of the Anarchist crusade
with the conditions of government In the United
States belongs to the very alphabet Of freedom.
and it will be our own fault if we have anything
to fear from those to whom that alphabet is
written in strange tongue.-Brooklyn Union.
to which Mr.. Powderly looks forward with so
much hope, will only convert it into an organi-
cation thoroughly American in principle and
method, it will more than regain lost ground and
fully atone for all past mstakes.-St. Louis
Post-Dispatch.
THE strikes have been bonanza to men who
have been out of employment. Thousands of
them have been able 20 step into good places and
the unfortunate strikers are now walking the
streets looking for job. 1t is one of the chances
of strikes and will bear cruelty on many women
and children.-MilwaukeeS Sentinel.
THERE have been intelligent strikes but it
goes without saying that there have been unin-
telligent ones also. and these latter it is which
have had the bad effects 1t is meet time for
both capital and labor to reflect upon their err
rors and put an end to them before things grow
worse than they are.-New York World.
THERE is nothing the cause of labor needs so
much as the distrust of the gift of the CAB. and
now that the funds of labor organizations are
growing there will be terrible competition for
the handling OF them among the restless, windy
demagogues who hate honest toll, in all the shops
in the country.-New York Evening Post.
The number of foreigners who hold the dis
reputable views of the Anarchists is limited. In
attempting to overthrow our institutions they
are inviting their own destruction. They will
be swept from the face of the earth by the de-
cent and law-abiding, who outnumber them a
thousand to one.-San Francisco Chronicle.
statesmen who imagined they could boycott the
Ohio Senate by running away from it appear to
have been largely and voluminously mistaken.
The sovereign Commonwealth of Ohio would, no
doubt manage to worry along somehow if every
Dem ocrat within her borders were to slip across
the line. Philadelphia Press.
THERE are not per cent. OF the people vino
have any personal interest in the eight hour
rule except to deprecate it for putting letters on
the productive capacity of the country. That it
should be stuck up here like tyrants hat on a
pole for people to- comic slavery by making
obeisance, is impertinence and an absurdity,
Cincinnati Commercial Gazette.
To the minds of Democratic editors and their
mugwump allies the utterances Of the arch-rebel
lDavisl are of no consequence, but TO those who
have not forgotten the war of the Rebellion, its
causes and its cost any such assertions in regard
to the institution of chattel slavery and the
principle or secession are nothing more nor less
than treason, and therefore extremely odious.
Cleveland Leader.
WHEN the Knights of Labor have compacted
their great organization, and have had time to
think and plan, We believe ''strke" will mean
the removal of tody of disconnected workmen
to free homes the public lands; an organized
migration, whereby they will exchange servitude
for independence. and do this with the help of
their fellows, and as part of great, well-consid
cred plan.-New York Herald.
THE policy which has allowed public displays
of the red flag, the publication of journal in
confessed sympathy with Anarchy, and protect
ed communistic orators in exciting the people to
riot is that of the city politician These are the
men on whorn they depend for official position.
Neither money, talent. nor political influence
will DO spared to assist these men to evade just
punishment for their crimes. Vigilance and
courage on the part of the best citizens will be
necessary to procure the condemnation Of these
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