The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-08-12
CONNIE AND OPINION.

WE are quite willing the dynamite bomb
should go anywhere except off. Boston Post.
THE President evidently thinks the fine senti
ment, Public Office is public trust" should be
kept under glass case for display and not for
daily use. milwaukee Sentinel.
The great Alaskan glacier moves only quar-
ter of mile year. 1t ought to come down
East and get an appoin tment in the State De-
partment philadelphia Press.
SECRETARY BAYARD declares that he intends
to act with firmness and vicor, but thus far his
unsupported statement is the only evidence of
such an intention.-Sr Louis Post Dispatch.
IT might not be strictly legal. but it would
teach both sides a useful lesson if our govern
ment would rescue Cutting at all hazards and
then lmprison him for life.-Philadephia In
quirer.
PROHIBITION never has prohibited, and never
can prohibit. 1t merely serves to arouse the
''old Adam in man. and that is an element of
human nature which no law can circumyent.
Brooklyn Eagle.
THE administration. having no choice but to
deal gently with our Canadian neigh5ors, be-
cause first-class power is at their back seems
trying to equalize matters with the public by
Bullying Mexico.-Cincinnat Commercial Ga
zette.
THE American soldier was not and is not mer-
cenary. and the American citizen is not men.
dcant 1t he is disabled or infirm, his pension is
an honor to him; otherwise he does not want it,
and it is time for the politicians to find this out.
Philadelphia Times.
LESS than 200 of the 4600 men who went ont
strike the Missouri Pacific system last
spring have been restored to their places This
seems to indicate that people who contemplate
strike should make sure that it is not boom
erauC.-Philadelpnia Inquirer.
POLITICAL issues in New England have al
ways been more or less mixed IN with the tenn
perance question. and this is notably so in
Rhode Island just now. which may account in
great part for the apparent failure to enforce
the new anti-liquor law.-Philadelphia Tele.
graph
PROHIBITION is in working order In Rhode
Island. but drunkenness is on the increase The
sale of liquor has been checked in reputable ho-
tells, but surreptitious sales have been increased.
Dealers have become lawbreakers and drinking
men sneaks. This is hardly desirable state of
affairs. Philadelphia Record
IT is asserted that Mr. Powderly collected 81
OOO 900 from the Knights of Labor to fight Jay
Gould in the courts during the late Southwest
ern railway strike. The question now agitating
the order is. What has become of the moneys
This would appear to call for another explana-
THERE are a great manv people in this coun-
try who believe in the policy of encouraging the
development OF American industries by protec-
i've duties, and great many people have pros
pered by engaging in industries fostered by these
duties. Those papers which denounce such per-
sons as plunderers OF the people, as robber
barons, allies OF the Communists and An
archists. and do more to help them recruit their
ranks than all their own puny organs.-Louis-
vile Commercial.
WHEN the energetic umpire goes to umpire
goes 20 umpire, He has lots Of things to occupy
his tme-py his time. In every crowd there is
an umpire jumper-umpire jumper Who insists
that he'll decide for the home nine-the home
nine. And the crowd the umpire dearly loves to
bother--loves to bother. And question his decis-
ions every run-every run. So taking one con-
sideration with another-with another. The UNI
pire's life is not happy ore-haRpy one.--De.
troit Free Press.