The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-04-26
COMMENT AND OPINION.

Cleveland is for free trade This is very neat
way to attack him. Atlanta Constitution.
HAVING no party and few friends President
Cleveland grows lonely. Hence his contemplat-
ed matrimonial venture Minneapolis Tribune
THE United States seems to be in favor of Civ
ing Ireland homo rule but of Withholding it
from Dakota and Washington Territories. Pitts
burg Chronicle.
IT is questionable whether or not shorthand
writing has been Of benefit to the world. With
outit half of the speeches might have been lost
New Orleans Picayune.
INDIANA is still indulging in that loud laugh
which it raised when Alfred p Edgerton was
named for chief marshal Of the Civil-service re-
form procession. National Republican.
THERE is no mistaking John Bieelow's report
on the Panama canal. 1t states very clearly
that the ditch will be finished provided the sup
ply of time holds out-Philadephia Press.
RELIGION and politics don't go we'll together,
but when it comes to the Louisville postofice
Senator Beck and Congressman Willis believe
In baptism by immersion. Was hington Critic.
Mr.. GARLAND is conspicuouslv lacking in that
delicate sensblity which is essential In the Off
cial who regards public Office as public trust,
and it begins to look as if President Cleveland
lacked it lso.-Albany Journal
THERE being no longer any danger that any
body will tell the truth, the Crawford Dixie d.
vorce case will be reopened 1t is season OF the
year when good deal of whitewashing is neces-
sarily done. Philadelphia Times.
Mr.. PowpERLY may be sincere in his profess
sions. but, if so, he is powerless to put them
into practice. and his order must be judged by
what it does, rather than by what he says it was
intended to do-Milwaukee Sentinel.
Mr.. CLEVELAND wants the tariff revised sin
accordance with the pledges OF the national
Democratic platform" Suppose he sends a
special message to Congress explaining just what
these pledges amount to.--Boston Record.
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United States Of America, where the law is su
preme and individual liberty has been secured
by sacrifices of blood and treasure too great to
be spent 10 vain.-New York Mail aud Ex-
press.
Bur why should there be anysdispute on the
number of hours that should constitute days
work The sensible plan would be to pay by the
hour, not by the day, and to let every one labor
as many hours, or as few, as he may wish.-New
York Sun.
In case Mr.. Blaine does not desire again to
enter the field in 1885, it may, we judge, be re-
garded as a settled fact that Hon. George f.
Hoar will be a candidate in the convention, with
strong probabilities of his nomination. Milford,
Mass, journal
In the largeness of our liberty and easy-goicg
good nature Americans open to the
charge of being too tolerant. but If there is one
thing clearer than another in connection with
the present labor agitation it is that we will not
tolerate boycotting Philadelphia Inquirer.
HIGH lconse has proved the most effective
measure yet tried in reducing the evils of alco
holsm. by shutting out the worst class OF deal
ers and concentrating the business in the hands
Of more reputable men. The system is steadily
gaining in favor with thinking people, und will.
we believe. yet be generally adopted.-Pittsburg
Chronicle.
AGITATION and organization are free to all.
provided they conducted within lawful linn
it's. No man here possesses any rights which
infringe those of his neighbor That is the Sc
cret of ordered liberty, and the boycott is a fla
grant and insuferable invasion of 1t. Sooner
later, and the sooner the better, the boycott
must go.-New York Tribune
WHAT we object to is the demagogical tone of
the whole document 1.-THE labor message.l 1t
will do more to dscredit Mr.. Cleveland with
those who have had some belief in his purposes
even though they may not have admired all of
his performances than any OF his sayings or
doings since he became prominent in connec
ton with public affairs. Philadelphia Tele-
graph.
THERE can be no compromise over such funda-
mental principles as the right of an employer to
employ whom he pleases. aud Of q workman who
wants to work to be protected in the liberty of
working The more clearly such an issue is de-
fined the better, because the sooner will come
the defeat OF any group or organization OF men
who get upon the wrong side of that issue.-Bos-
ton Journal.
1T would be godsend to the foreign mail
service If Postmaster general Villas were sent to
Vienna. His successor might then be convinced
that it is not good policy for great government
to intrust valuable business letters to ocean
tramps and fishing smacks. Villas could not do
so much mischief at Vienna as he has done
during the last year at Washington Fran
cisco Chronicle.
SUCH commission as the President suggests
might serve useful purpose and help in the
general adjustment of the relations of capital
and labor by contributing to better under
standing of them, but what could 1t do for mon
who refuse to work because other men are al
lowed to work, or because some man Is not en-
poyed by somebody who does not want him?
New York Times.
The cheerful prediction of Congressman Dun
ham that the cholera will reach the Atlantic
coast In July and stampede Congress, might be
expected to give that body gentle reminder as
to its duty of providing for strict quarantine
But the nature of the congressional mind is
such that it regards it more vital to find out
whether or not Congress will be stampeded in
November. -Pittsburg Dispatch.
THE present distressful condition of affairs
cannot last long; both labor and capital must see
that there is nothing in IL for either but disaster
or ruin. Their mutual interests must bring
them together again and effect agreements be-
tween them, which shall make recurrence of
these dire and costly troubles impossible. Such
contests do not pay, and that Is fatal argument
against them Philadelphia Inquirer.
THE kind of arbitration which the President
suggests might suit Mr.. Martin Irons and others
who insist upon arbitration between each indi
vdual employer and the whole body of Knights
of Labor-that is, between each employer and
the employees of all other employers-but 1t will
not suit any system OF industry that has any
chance of becoming permanent or yielding any
useful results.-New York Evening Post.
THE eight-hour labor movement is found TO be
invested with many difficulties when practical
application is made of it. 1t is found that in
about an equal number of cases it will operate
to the disadvantage of the workmen. 1t will
probably be found with regard to this, as with
many other things, that general regulation is
impossible. Each class of workers and kind of
employment will have to settle it's own hours.
Chicago Mail
MoBs, riots, destruction and reigus Of terror
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