The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-04-17
COMMENT AND OPINION.


Chicago Mail
THE white-robed angel of peace which is hover
ing over East st, Louis has a bowie knife down
its back and revolver in each boot.-Pittsburg
Chronicle Herald.
If Jay Gould were running for President of
the United States. he could not find out more
unpleasant things about himself than he is find
inc now. Philadelphia Inquirer.
PROFESSOR HUXLEY says that Gladstone and
home rule will send Great Britain to the devil"
Good gracious! we didn't know the great evoluter
had devil.-Atlanta Constitution.
1T is problem worthy of the most patient and
searching study whether any means of individual
ownership In land can be devised which will pre-
vent the gradual accumulation of land into
fewer and fewer hands.-Boston Herald.
ONE of the hereditary legislators of Great
Britain having gone to prison during the past
month and another having shot himself yester
day, the abolition of the House of Lords may be
considered to be getting along as we'll as could
be expected. Boston Record.
: IT is altogether improbable that Mr. Glad
stones bill will pass the present Parliament, but
it has begun the agitation Of question which is
not likely to cease until the parliamentary sys
tenn Of Great Britain undergoes some radica
changes Sentinel.
THE essence of the whole matter is that Eek
ecutive business" like anysother, is the peoples
business, and they have right to know how it
is DONE If that right is refused them by the
present Senate, they will find means to enforce
it, and they will not take great while in doing
it-New York Times.
THE true standard of protection is that which
gives the greatest good to the greatest number,
and whenever political leaders get enough
OF Craftsmanship into their heads to devise such
a measure tariff-revisi0n will come, and bring
with it increased trust and prosperity in business
circles. Philadelphia Times.
WE cannot forecast an immediate future of
fron itrrf ov %hA Int I'D
her millions of Irish and rish-American popu-
lation. should England once more undertake. to
compel by severity and force the consent she
will not be generous enough to propitiate by
justice and fair dealing York Star.
If the Knights wish to maintain the strikers
in idleness, nobody but Knights can make any
reasonable objection. They can pension these
gentlemen in East st. Louis and maintain them
in luxury if they like; but this is the best pos
sible policy for the organization to pursue to
cause rebellion in its own ranks-Brooklyn
Union.
lie opinion will compel men to be temperate.
The few exceptions will be disciplined by the law
or taken in hand and treated as the victims of a
disease. When society reaches this stage there
may be high license laws. but there will be no
such thing as legal prohibition. Atlanta Con-
stitution.
MANY municipal rulers of all kinds, in all
countries. have been to the full as guilty as the
New York lot. Only with US are municipal off,
GERS elected at the same time and in the same
way to be found who labor successfully TO bring
the guilty to justice. We wash our 3oiled linen
In public but we wash it. it seems.-Philadel-
phia Press
WE are all workingmen, except very small
fraction Of the population, and all interested,
in one way or another, in getting the most for
our labor. Truly speaking the order which
claims so much is only small fraction of the
workingmen of the country, and even that frac-
ton sadly deficient in discipline and organza-
tion.-Louisville CourierJournal
ONE effect of the crimes Of which the Carroll
ton massacre is one of the most recent has been
to call forth from colored men of the South Pc
titlons praying Congress to set aside territory
for them, as the Indian Territory is set off for
the Indians. Of course such remedy is out of
the question, but its suggestion by some of the
colored men themselves shows the oppression
under which they believe hey suffer at present.
New York Mail and Express.
THE temperance sentiment 10 the country is
plainly strong and growing 1t can be evoked
on the simple merits of the question with power
full effect, but every attempt to link it with poll
tics prevents its free expression and reacts dsas
trously upon the experimenters. If the Prohi-
bition press will realize this truth and act upon
it, the cause of temperance will receive inn
petus such jas IL has sought in vain through the
third-party method.-New ork Tribune.
IT may be that organized labor is to prove
valuable force In this contest, but before it
work with effect 1t will have to gain wisdom
enough to avoid such deplorable and disastrous
mistakes rs that which brought about the situa-
ton in the West, for this has led to the practi-
cal triumph for the time being Of the monopo-
list. It has succeeded in placing Jay Gould pal
pably i'll the right, and arraying public opinion
on his side, which is certainly not an advantage
for the knight of Labor.-New York Times.
The flight" is no longer against the managers
OF the Gould system, but against the men who
are now working for these managers and the
other men who would gladly 60 to work if they
were not afraid Of having strikers set upon them
and try to disable them-as eight strikers as
saulted one man at Atchison, Kan, the day be-
fore yesterday. This is the sort of thing to
which Mr.. Powderly is now giving countenance,
and there is no excuse for him, as there is for
Martin Irons, since Mr.. Powderly is not fool
New York Evening Post.
SO long as the strikers could direct against the
railroads public recognition of the justice of
their cause, the contest was watched everywhere
with the most intense interest and with strong
sympathy as we'll as admiration for the strikers.
But as soon as it becomes apparent that without
some form Of coercion upon other laborers the
ascendency of the strikers cannot be maintained,
the sympathy of the community is transferred
from them to the side Of the coerced. When the
armed presence of the law reveals the fact that
1t was needed, opposition to 1t must soon cease.
The success Of any strike is defeated as soon as
a necessity for troops is evident-New York
Sun.
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