The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-10-06
COMMENT AND OPINION.

II this thing goes on no cashier will be trusted
unless chained to the wall-Philadelph ia Times
LABOR politics appears to be little more
tyrannical than the machine politics of the old
parties.-ChicagO Journal
THE Prohibition party is the only one which
does not suspend political campaign work on the
Sabbath. -Ptttsburg Chronicle.
THE third party people are forever laudng
and magnifyiug the progress of prohibition in
the South and yet they know very we'll that the
county option law is the only form of prohibit
DRY legislation that exists in any Southern State
minneapolis Tribune
BEHIND the American law stands the Ameri-
can people, by whom and for whom the law is
and was created And in the conflict which the
Governor and Attorney general of Pennsylvania
are about to wage for the law they will hear the
encouraging voice Of the people behind them
Chicago Inter Ocean.
WE are sure that the people of this country
begrudge the workincman nothing which he can
honestly possess himself of. The higher his
ambition to make something more and some
thing better of himself the more willing the peo-
pie are to give him every possible encourage
ment. New York Herald.
If President Cleveland were to casually cast
his eye the States and Territories and note
the result of congressional patronage peddling
he would find that Democratic disaffection is
most lively whore the peGdling has been most
active This hint ought not to be lost sin
phia Record Dem.
MORE poor men than rich become famous,
partly because there are more poor people in the
world. Then, there various kinds of success
even failures that are successes-all of which
lead toward progress by different roads Let
not the rich be discouraged therefore, but rather
hold on to their wealth for one week longer and
mediate. New York Star.
JOHN SHERMAN contends that enough silver
shall be put into the silver dollar To make it
equal in value to the gold in gold dollar. 1t is
not often that we can agree with anything that
the Ohio statesman says. out so far this state
ment goes he is solid an honest dollar.
Pity all the Democrats were not as honest.
| Charleston News and Courier
THE people tolerate the saloon: they do this
reluctantly, recognizing it as one of the necess-
ties of our large cities. As point from which
emanates either principle or policy, they will not
be- patient with its existence. The saloon has nc
| right in politics 1t ought not to be there. and
| the party that uses it for this purpose flies in
| the face of the sound sentiment Of the commu-
nity.-Boston Herald.
| THE salooE-keeper has just as good a right as
| the clergyman, the lawyer, the banker any
| other citizen to take part in political campaign
| as citizen. But the saloon, a distinctive
element, force, or factor in campaigns, is dis
tinctly Democratic device. 1t is, however. sane
titled by the Endorsement of the holy mugwumps
| when they let themselves loose to make a
| Cleveland cam paigu. National Republican
THINGS are getting Strengthened out, and the
| North may congratulate itself if jeff does not
| demand salary from the United States Treas
| ury for his services as President of the right
| eous Southern Confederacy. 1t is rather tough
| on old Tecumseh Sherman, though, to find,
after all these years of honor, that he is only a
| scoundrel, and liar and a murderer. and that
| Jeff Davis is an honor to his sex.-Milwaukee
| Sentinel
| THE Methodist Church, as an organization, has
| been kept out of politics in this State thanks TO
| the good influence of Bishop Merrill and such
| ministers as Mr.. Richardson, but it has been
| only by a severe struggle against such ministers
| as have poor sense of the sacredness of their
calling and enjoy the sensationalism and emo
| tionalism of active poIitics-ministers who, de-
MED the excitement of other games, revel in the
excitement of practical politics.-Milwaukee
| Sentinel.
THE Democracy of the North is undeniably
opposed to prohibition. If that of the South be-
| comes committed TO the idea, it must eventually
| seek allies throughout the country. 1t will re-
fuse to accept any alliance offered by the Repub-
lican party; but how will it be if the Prohibition
party Of the North continues to grow until it be-
| comes a serious factor in politcs9 This is a
| question Democrats must consider with many
misgivings. but which the Prohibitionists can
contemplate with complacency. York Star.
| IF educated persons engage in manual labor,
/ they do so with great reluctance. They are al
| ways looking for a chance to engage in some
| employment that does not call for physical OK
ertion AS they do not wish to continue long In
an employment that requires manual labor, they
| do not seek to become skillful Their ambition
| is to do something else During the past few
years we have heard much about education as
| cure for all human ills. We have the education,
| but the ills remain. We must seek some other
way of getting rid of them. Chicago Times.
| GEoRGETsM as everybody knows who really
| knows anything about it, has only one idea. and
| that is the confscation of the land of the farm
ers and lot-owGers AMI its cultivation and occu-
| patton by State tenants. All titles to real estate
are to be wiped out. and all realty TO be turned
over to the State. which in turn shall rent it out
to the highest bidders. This is Georges grand
scheme. and he offers no other panacea for pow
State serfs, to drive them off their farms and