The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-01-27
COMMENT AND OPINION.

The worst thing about freeze is the thaw
Baltimore American.
APREsIDENT withouta private secretary would
be poor creature indeed.-Atlanta Constitution
Mr. PARNELL is simply waiting until Mr.
Gladstone gets tired of standing on one leg
Chicago Mail.
OHIO leads the sisterhood of States In the
urgent and perpetual need of investigation.-St.
Louis Post-Dispatch. -
So FAR Senator Harrison has wisely abstained
from making the admission of Dakota a party
question. Philadelphia Press.
GIVE Logan credit for one thing In the mat
ter of the peoples appointments he was willing
to let the people know their Philadelphia
Times
SEVERAL new machines for clearing snow from
railway tracks were announced last summer.
They were highly successful then, but none of
them seem to be working this winter. -Philadel
phia Inquirer.
The decision of the courts in Utah is spoken
of as blow at polygamy." But blowing won't
crush it. 1t will require something of the ener-
gy of pile driver to knock polygamy out.-San
Francisco Examiner.
The Ohio Democrats seem bound to be right
on cv-service reform one way or the other
Mr. Pendleton brought in tho bill to establish
the reform, and MIR. Seney brings in the bill to
abolish it-Pittsburg Dispatch.
SENATOR EUsTIs accuses President Cleveland
of 'incivism." This is terrible How can
man live who carries about with him bosom
burdened with haunting consciousness of in
Observation-Disclosures Tribune.
FRANCE is the great bi-metallic nation She
has been firm in her support of silver, opposed
both to Germany and England. But she has
stopped silver coinage, and we should follow her
example. Commercial Gazette
If Prohibitionsts had their own way they
would abolish local self-government and estab-
lish an absolute regime. The whole tendency of
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will ere long bring about the inevitable reaction
in Iowa and Kansas.-St Paul Pioneer Press.
Mr.. REAGAN is right in his opposition to
further pensions for the soldier until the people
have been pensoned. halt must be called be-
fore the surplus is scattered. The people de-
mand a reduction of war taxes, and this demand
can no longer be ignored. -Louisville Courier
Journal.
IT should not be an object of ambition with
American youth to get into the nursery of the
public service. Cultivate dependence on your
selves, young men, endure bravely your early
hardships. and so strengthen your characters to
mount the obstacles to successful career.
New York Sun.
THE highest value of philanthropy would be in
the provision of means by which discharged cor
victs disposed to lead better life might find
employment. It will do no good to reform con-
vcts if the fact of their having been convicts is
allowed to close against them all avenues of hon
est employment Chicago Inter-Ocean.
THE cheap silver dollar retains its power to-
day because it can he exchanged at par with
gold, but whenever the silver coinage exceeds
that of gold not even the government stamp will
prevent its depreciation in the money markets.
It is an easy matter to coin too many cheap dol.
lars at the rate of 2, 200, 900 onth.-Louisvlle
Commercial.
THE motive for the anxiety of the Democratic
senators (of Ohio) to keep control of the Senate
is to prevent gerrymandering of the districts of
the State in the interest OF the Republicans,
which will be surely effected, according to in
variable political custom in Ohio, if that party
controls both branches of the Legislature, the
State being now gerrvmandered in favor of the
Democrats. Washington Post
IF we are to have national system of educa
ton, national savings bank, a national tele-
graph system, national ownership of railroads,
and no money except what the national govern
ment issues, we will impose on the machinery of
government constructed by the fathers of the
Republic strain which it was never designed to
bear and which will make it necessary to
strengthen it in every part.-Louisvile Courier
Journal
The ways of capital are ant to be dark and
devious, but in the eyes Of the law they are
peaceful and we'll hammered We never hear of
the police being called upon to watch the ma
neuvers of capitalists. Those specious gentle
men generally succeed in placing the working
man in that false position. Labor on strike is
too apt to be outspoken and vehement and
places itself at a disadvantage at once-New
York Star
IT is possible that the ''gass house, in which
Attorney general Garland lives has proved such
an uncomfortable residence that it has convinced
Mr.. Cleveland of the necessity of occupying
more secret apartments By carefully closing
the blinds he may enable his partisans to aver
that he has got mis- great reform" safely housed
somewhere, while the unobstructed glass win
dows would enable the public to see that there
was nothing Of the sort inside. Milwaukee SEN
tinel.
ALIEN landlordsm has already secured an
alarming foothold in many of those States which
did not provide against 1T, and as the establish
ment of peasant class in the United States is
not merely an economical evil. but 9. political
danger. the duty of arresting it must soon be-
come imperative. There is more real public
danger in alien landlordism than in almost any
other matter now engaging public attention.
Alien fandholding Is taking strong root, and if
neglected will give this country great amount
Of trouble.-Chicago Tribune.
MoNoMETALLIsM seems to be the only safe and
wise course. BY our present legislation this
country is moving surely though slowly away
from gold. which is now our standard toward
silver. There seems to be no possibility of
arresting this movement. Congress cannot be
brought to repeal the present Law providing for
steady coinage Of silver: and although the
operation of this law is slow and gradual, Ii Is
sure. and. after few years more under it, silver