The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-02-24
COMMENT AND OPINION.


COMMENT AND OPINION.
THE only picture that newspapers cannot palm
off for somebody else is Ben Buffers Once used
it is dead stock--Puck.
EVANSVILLE ladies have organized scomeS
home husband" club The length of the club is
four feet three inches. louisville Commercial.
1--WE are descended from the apes" says
writer Some are-and then again some of us
are assembled, as it were.-Burlington Free
Press.
THE Ohio temperance workers should be able
to understand by this time that it is excess of
coal oil rather than too much whisky which dis
graces their State.-National Republican.
WALTER BEsANT writes to London journal
that there is no cookery in America Walter
evidently did not remain long enough in the
country to study election returns.-Albany Ex-
press.
How fortunate that the founders of the Re-
public did not provide for the election Of Presi-
dent and Vice president by means of bill in
Congress. They would never be elected.-Phila-
delphia Inquirer.
WITH the Nation enforcing its laws in Utah,
and the church missionary work languishing,
it cannot be long before the colossal heresy in
America will totter and fall of its own weight.
New York Times.
THE railroads will soon be compelled to obey
the law, to cease their illegal determinations, to
abandon the business of mining and cornering
coal, and to confine themselves to the role Of
common carrers.-St Louis Dispatch.
TELEPHONE ROGERS forbids Attorney general
Garland from giving away any of his Pan-electri
stock, on the ground that to do so would be a
violation of their original agreement Thus the
sacred cause of charity loses donation of cool
$500. Philadelphia Press
In the millennium, may be. the mills will be
run for the benefit of the men ard women who
do the work in them, the managers being hired
col Knit hot hon x,nt
although the Knights of Labor sometimes ap.
pear to think it has. Boston Transcript.
WAsHINGToN's Birthday was invented for the
convenience of bankers, letter carriers, govern
ment and city employees. The honest mechanic
and the industrious worker on daily newspaper
have as yet no official information as to when
this holiday comes around Louisville Times
THE vice of American reformers of every type
is the constant struggle for new and radical legis-
lation, without any proper effort to secure the
enforcement of that already on the statute book.
OF this vice the temperance reformers exhibit
more than their fair Philadelphia Times.
EVEN supposing the absolute purity of every
body now in office, the conditions are such that
no real reform thrive in it. Secrecy ex-
cludes accountability. Time is now at work
surely sappng the Notifications of the de-
tenders of the concealmont policy.-New York
World.
THE Blair bin will paralyze local effort local
taxation will dwindle: the necessity for action
will not be so intense and what is row proposed
as temporary measure for federal aid will ten
years hence be deemed essential as permanent
policy IN order to save the whole system from
disintegration and decay.-Louisvile Courier
Journal
THE Liberal Premier, unhappily, cannot look
forward to much longer term of life; and it is,
therefore, not in mistrust but in all honor as
accounting him the only man in England pos
sessed of both will and power to do great act
of Justice that his Irish allies urge him to strike
while there is time.-New York Star.
A DELEGATION of Ute Indians has gone to
Washington for the purpose of negotiating with
the United States government for the sale Of
their reservation in the southwestern part of
this State. We hope they will promptly meet
with success. for, If the Utes desire to leave
Colorado. we shall not feel it incumbent upon us
to detan them.-Denver Tribune
WHAT Congress ought to do is to stop Tuning
and bullying and to consider what practical and
useful adjustment can be affected. 1t is not
good sense to waste great opportunities for pro-
noting a genuine bimetalism in silly and impo
tent threats because the President will not coun-
tenance or help conspiracy to drive this coun-
try into silver monometalism.- York Tri-
bune.
IT is plain that the distress 10 London cannot
be relieved by private charity or by the use of
big public subscriptions like the Mansion House
fund. The workingmsn want work, not charity.
The disease is too deep rooted for SUCH super
fetal remedies. The club men, the arstocrats.
and the governing classes had better act prompt
ly lest some of their number should furnish
bindings for future editions OF Alr Hyndmans
pamphlets. Chicago Tribune.
Mr. PARNELLs chief title TO the worlds re-
spect lies in the proposition that he is deyoting
himself to the cause of humanity-to the deiiv-
erance of people from oppression, and want,
and misery; but the fact that his own mother is
suffering theiharshest pangs Of restitution, and
that because she impoverished herself for his
present benefit will not look well beside his
present state or lend attraction to the profession
of philanthropy. Wv ashington Post
THE Chinese in San Francisco cannot and will
not starve. The merchants, already crippled
financially by the expulsion movement, cannot
be looked to to furnish funds for the deporta-
ton OF the helpless crowds. Neither the State
nor the federal governments appear to perceive
anything subversive of treaty obligations or the
laws of the land in what is going on upon the
Pacifc coast. Is there not, therefore, reason TO
apprehend that things are being allowed to drift
toward serious dangerl-New York Tribune.
ENGLAND cannot coerce ireland at the present
juncture of affairs. Ireland's mood is such that
she would retaate with frenzied violence
Neither does England appear willing to grant
lreland's demands. The present Parliament Ia
absolutely unable to solve the Irish problem,
and If a dissolution is resorted to the newly
elected members will find themselves face to face
with the same impossible alternatives. Political
chaos is regnant. and the only way out is through
even handed justice to an oppressed country
New York Herald