The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-05-03
COMMENT AND OPINION.

JEFF DAVIS ought to be happy. He is the
only American who ever lived to enjoy his own
funeral. Philadelphia Press.
JEFFERSON DAvIs's speech calls to mind the
fact that he has never resigned the presidency of
the confederacy. Chronicle.
''THE day steals up the sky" remarks news
paper poet The day would make an accom-
pshed New York alderman.-Boston Post
To demand ten hours pay for eight hours
work is to ask for charity. Is the American
workngman beggar9-New York Tribune
JEFFERSON DAVIS has learned nothing, has
forgotten nothing, and he is of the many
who have lived too long. -Philadelphia Times.
WHAT does it matter that the Knights of La
Dor all believe in moderation and peace. if they
practice violence and lawlessness?-New York
Tribune.
THE heated term is fast approaching. and it
will be great oversight to let jeff Davis go
much longer without a muzzle-New York
Graphic.
MATT ARNOLD says he is coming to America
next month for the rest he so much Graves. He
probably means the rest Of our money.-Macon
Telegraph
If il had not been a very uncommon country
the chief of the conspiracy SO destroy it would
not now be living to glory in and defend his
treason.-Boston Record.
A FAcETIoUs reader of the Journal calls at
tention to the fact that Abraham Lincoln made
wool free when he issued the emancipation proc
clamation.-Boston journal,
ONE of the most gratifying signs of the times
is that the people of the Pacific slope are grow
ing ashamed of their record on the Chinese ques-
tion.-Philadelphia Inquirer.
JEFFERSON DAVIS was told yesterday, at
Montgomery, Ala, that he was the best type of
Southern manhood. We had always supposed
tina. the Davis type was pied twenty years ago.
Boston Record.
HAD the Southern people been actuated by the
Carthagenian spirit, they would load him [Davisl
with curses, as the author of their calamites, in
the want of mower to Danish or behead him.
Philadelphia Record.
IF the Knights would succeed let them do as
the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers have
done-which is to compel their own employment
by making themselves the best obtainable en-
ployes. Philadelphia Telegraph.
SToP the strikes The Knights owe this to
the business interests of the country They owe
it as good citizens. They owe it to their order
to free it from the odinm with which these agita-
tons are loading it.-Chicago Mail.
The most striking and offensive thing in JEFF
Davis's speeches is the entire absence of magnap-
unity and failure TO recognize that he is alive
simply because the American people spared his
life long after he had put his neck within the
halter.-Boston Transcript
The factious and sectional opposition of the
Democratic party and the Democratic admins
tration TO every measure that tends to build up
our foreign commerce will not be forgotten oy
the merchants of the country, nor by the people
at large. in 1688.-New York Mail and Express
THE Nation with big N is pledged TO protect
the rights OF all citizens. black or white. rich or
poor, and whenever a conspiracy Is organized TO
prevent the State authorities giving all persons
equal protection the United States can doal With