The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-03-31
COMMENT AND OPINION.


tna reform era National Republican.
1T is feared that the deities to whom Chaplain
Milburns prayers are addressed are the gods OK
the galleries. Boston Record.
THE man who invented patent insides for
country weeklies has died. but the man who
reads them is as well as could be expected.--St.
Louis Post-Dispatch.
WERE Mr. Cleveand's neck forty times as big
as 1t is, and his backbone three-ply, he will have
TO choose between the Democrats and mug
wumps.-Macon Telegraph.
ANOTHER contribution to the fund of new
political phrases-'the pterodactyl in politics.
Senator ingalls, is the father of the expression,
and it is meaty one Minneapolis Tribune.
THE free-traders are coming out of their fight
with the protectonists in state of designation
which shows very plainly that thoy have had a
liveiier time than they expected. Philadelphia
Press
THERE is a profound belief in Mr. Cleveland'a
theory that public Office is public trust Fur
thermore, there is a very general longing to sec
it put in practice in the of Augustus Es~
Garland Philadelphia Press
CONGRESS ought to look this Indian business
IN the face. These people should be educated
and civilized, but at their own expense. The
present system is Ubiquitous, and there is no ex-
cuse for its continuance.-New York Herald.
THE House labor committee is discussing the
question OF arbitration Ia labor troubles. But
Congress is the last thing to which the country
ever looks for relief in matters of this, or, for
that matter, any other kline. Philadelphia In.
quirer.
TEE New York Sun thinks that s.overwork il
the most ridiculous vice of which man can ba
guilty" That may be true; but there are q
good many men who can't help being ridiculous
however much they would like to help it.-Boa.
ton Advertiser.
GREAT strikes. which come of irreconcilable
differences, are as costly and full of suffering az
great wars, and will more and more be avoided.
When labor Is fully organized and intelligently
led, strikes will disappear and matters of con-
troversy will be settled by less expensive and
more reasonable methods. CONNER
ial.
In seeking to obtain fair wages and reason
able hours of labor, and to improve their cone
dition. the workngmen have nothing to feaE
from the widest publicity. Therefore we recon-
mend to the Knights of Labor as we'll as to the
United States Senate, to transact business with
open doors. and to do nothing which they ara
not willing the world should know.-Milwaukea
Sentinel.
ANY man who has reached middle age can re-
call dozen times when the country seemed on
the verge of ruin-and it isn't ruined yet. If wa
have managed to live under state OF things in
which Jay Gould has scrambled to the front, wa
need hardly shake in our shoes because Of the
labor movement which has men like Powderly
aud Arthur Among It's leaders.-Springfeld Re-
publican.
THERE is plenty Of silver in the Treasury, ana
the bond call would afford a good opportunity to
get few millions into general circulation. But
Congress will have to order the thing done
Both Cleveland and Manning are too deeply
committed to the antisilver cause to pay out
silver without positive orders. A brief joint
resolution on the subject would let them down
easy.-Philadelphia Record
ALL coercive treatment of employers tends to
drive the best men out Of business and to hand
it over to the less conscientious and more un f
scrupulous. good employer is better than a
bad one--at the same wages. We are glad to see
workmen getting better wages, but we fear THAI
the new forms in which force is used to gain an
increase will damage the cause they serve for the
moment-New York Advocate.
THE plans, as outlined by Mr.. Powderly from
time to time, are ineligible, commendable:
the threats made by Irons last week are q
menace not so much to society as to the labor
organization Had the suggestions of Mr Irons
been acted on, and general strike ordered the
consequences would have been disastrous; the
revolt of the public against such domination
would have crushed the organization like an egg
charlottesville Courier-Jonrnal
WE must leave it to the effects Of time, OF re-
Election, OF experience, to show the man or the
masses who is struggling against wrong that For
titude rs well as aggression is needed; that he
must accept compromises as we'll as exact rights,
and that great results cannot be achieved except
by the operation of complex causes in which he Is
only of the factors. He will learn this lesson
ultimately. federation, charity and sweetness
will come; but turbulence and warfare Ia the
very nature OF things, must preccde Education
has its dark and trident phase, as we'll as its
suaye and genial side. Tho one is as necessary
as the other-New York Star.
Mr.. CLEVELAND ought to understand that the
American people will bear with ignorance. with
mistakes-wth eraver faults, even-in their pub,
lie men; but they do not like hypocrisy. He
ought TO read Senator Harrisons speech from
beginning to end, and then he ought honestly
either to pull up his curtains and expose the
Representatives, Senators and others who have
led him too easily into very dirty waters, OF
else he ought to announce formally and ofdcially
that he has been humbugging the people, and
will hereafter do 80 no more. Let as come
upon an honest basis As Senator Harrison said
New York Herald.