The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-11-18
COMMENT AND OPINION.

STRIKES are not won by brag, nor does ii fill
the hungry mouths of starving wives and chill
dren.--New York Tribune.
IT may be singular, but it is nevertheless
true, that children must be fed though the
parents strike. Philadelphia Times.
THE Republican papers are full of kind words
fer Virginia and North Carolina While yet
the lamp holds out to burn, The vilest sinner
may return. Minneapolis Tribune
FRANK HURD and William r. Morrison know
how to sympathize with that other distinguished
Democrat Hon. Paddy Ryan. who was knocked
out at San Francisco. Cleveland Leader.
DEMOCRATIC paper suggests that Carlisle
and Hill would make a winning ticket in 1888
M Carlisle doesn't appear to have been SO ter-
rbly winning in the late election. Chicago
Journal.
THE Panelectrie syndicate having been
thrown out OF court it only remains for the
President to throw its leader out OF the Cabinet
Then things would begin TO consiet-Pbiladol-
phia Press
SPTRITUALIsM and mugwnmpery growing
side by side in Boston. The President seems to
have sighted the spiritualsts. but it is not too
late for him to make amends for this neglect
st. Louis Post Dispatch.
SOME one ought to send tie Gear a copy OF the
treaty of Berlin. That instrument provides
that Prince shall be freely elected by the neo-
ple of Bulgaria and confirmed by the Sublime
Porte.-Pittsbure Chronicle.
WHEN the aggregated wealth of our great
cities is imhuei with honesty enough to accept
its share of the taxation that protects and main
tains il, it will be entitled to much more respect
than at present.-Pittsbnrg Dispatch.
IT is of the first Importance to the Knights OF
Labor that they shall. show that their organiza-
ton has not been used by mercenaries to inhu-
ence the result at the ballo.-box IN Mr.. Nor
rSons district or elsewhere. -Philadelphia
Record.
Trrr- fn$n a.
seat, Mrs. Lady" 1t is apparently useless try.
ing to eliminate ''lady" as form of address from
the phraseoloey Of the day. Mrs.. hoxevar
adds new horror to it in ears polite. Bosl0a
Herald
THE people are opposed to revision of the
tariff by the Democratic party, and we doubt IL
they will not prefer to endure the inequalities Of
the existing law for twenty years rather than
permit the free traders to revise the tariff
Philadelphia Inquirer
2HE fact that Mr. Murphy does not think the
destruction of the Republican party the frsa
necessary step in a work Of reform does noe
make him Republican partisan His work is
not POLITICAL but personal-not destructive, but
constructive-uot for the overthrow OF parties,
but for the salvation Of men.-Cincinnati Com
mercal Gazette.
DURING the great railroad riots in 1877 Mr..
Vanderbilt called the leading workmen in his Al
bany shops and other branches to him and said
to them: Tell our people that their interests
my interests. and that they cannot better
themselves by making me poorer When busi-
ness affords it will increase their pay Mean
time hope they will stick by the road and be-
lieve they will" And they did.-New York
Herald.
The tendency of modern labor is to diversii-
cation. Each man is brought IN to know how
to do one thing but not many things. If be can
get that thing 70 do. very we'll; if not be ia COM
paratively helpless, and free land is q Tantalus-
gift to him. When the labor leaders study these
difficulties they will find that the Republican
party. in enactng the homestead Jaw and max
ing land virtually free TO all, has long ago done
what they propose. New York Tribune
IF workingmen do not want to submit to dis
cipline. there is no law compelling them to be- :
come knights Of Labor or join union. II they
ordered to do by the officers whom they have
elected to exercise authority over them Mr.
Powderly is not forcing upon his subordinatea
any qualification of his own taste for power hO
is not subjecting them to any form OF restraint
which thoy could not have foreseen before they
enlisted as Knights. Washington Star.
Mr.. CLEVELAND should not fail, therefore. to
advise Congress to express precisely in the form
OF law just what an ofhceholder mustn't do in
politics In this way his wishes upon the SUBJ
ject can be put in such form that officials will not
be IN danger OF Misunderstanding them and them
II they should become law there will be no
further trouble, to Democrats or Republicans
There would be another advantage in having
Mr.. Cleveand's ideas thus stated Congress
would have an excellent opportunity to express
its opinion upon the matter.-New York Sun.