The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-05-17
COMMENT AND OPINION.

THE Democracy breathes freely once more
jeff Davis has crawled back into the cemetery.
Philadelphia Press.
NOBODY ever heard of dumb Anarchist
Anarchism is. to very large extent mouth
Observation-Disclosures American.
EVENTUALLY new race of human beings
will have to be created for the especial benefit of
the jury box.-New York Graphic
IT is bad showing for the Democratic mem
bers of Congress to add absenteeism to their
other lacks and failipgs. Boston Herald.
SAM RANDALL complains of the absenteeism
of Democratic Congressman The absenteeism
of the whole crowd perpetually would be a relief
to the country.-Boston Record
THE wild talk of Parsons, the Anarchist lead
er in hiding, sums up to about this: Hold me-;
don't let me get at the police. 1t won't take
many men to hold me-. Buffalo News.
JEFFERSON DAVIS has been sick since his re-
turn home. A man who got rid of so much
bile and bitterness as he threw off during his
tour ought to feel better.-Boston Transcript.
THE whipping post would do more than any
thing else to quit the Anarchists Many out
law who is willing to face death without finch
ing recoils from the prospect Of public hogging
Atlanta Constitution.
The boycott favored by Mr.. Powderly is the
ooycotting of whisky Let that measure be en-
forced and the position of labor will be improved
as much AS by double and universal advance in
wages -Pittsburg Dispatch
1T is evident that not to have peace
with the South until we admit as damned
Yankees that we were wrong in that struggle,
and that the Union leaders conspirators
against holy cause.-Milwaukee Sentinel.
WE are inclined to believe General Blacks
assertion that the Pension Bureau has been
managed as political machine. How else could
the most conspicuous case of total disability
on its rolls have been placed in charge of it!
Cincinnati Commercial Gazette
ALL the victories that prohibition has won
have been on the non-political partisan basis
Almost every one of its defeats has been on the
third party basis. Men of cool judgment can
conclude for themselves which plan is more like
ly to succeed.-New rk Mail and Express.
THERE multiplying indications that boom
lies close behind the lines of business operations
AS long as the tariff-tinker the boycott and the
Anarchist strong enough to hold it back
however, they will certainly do it. Prosperity
means death to demagogues and disorder-Phil-
adelphia Press.
THE remark of George William Curtis that
the Democratic party did not afford material
for a Cabinet of men devoted to civil-service re
form" will be news to none but the mourning
band of disconsolate mugwumps. The hindsight
of Mr. Curtis and his lonely brethren is tremen-
dous.-Philadelphia Press.
Mr. EDGERToN was known AS spoils politi
clan before his appointment, and he has main
tanned aconsistent record since If civil service
reform has not degenerated into roaring farce
AS many believe it hast beEooves the Presi-
dent to Immediately call for Mr.. Edgertons res
ignation.-Albany Express.
ALL the prosperity and greatness of this coun-
try have been achieved under the rule of the
least possible government, and the least possible
interference with the initiative, the industry
the economy and the independence of the in
dividual citizen. That rule is at once the foun
dation stone. and the inspiring principle of the
whole American system.-New York Sun.
IT hardly seems possible that the Knights of
Labor organization can reconstruct itself upon
any permanent basis, with all its present ele
ments Its organizers have instituted assem-
blies without any regard for the character of ap-
plicants, and without any attempt to instruct
them in the purposes of the order. 1t would be
a wise policy to dissolve the order and institute
new one with policy based on the lessons of
the recent troubles. Milwaukee Sentinel.
No business man can at present calculate what
labor will cost, what terms 1t can be EN-
ployed, or whether some quarrel with which he
has nothing to do may not stop his works at any
moment. Does not Mr.. Powderly see that CAPT.
tai in such state of things prefers idleness or
other forms of employment, and refuses to en-
gage in productive industrys Does he not see
that organized labor is thus destroying the very
means of employment for thousands of laborers!
New York Tribune.