The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-12-20
COMMENT AND OPINION.

SOME Of the hardest work in the world 10 don9
by those who run labor-saving machines. New
Orleans Picayune.
ANOTHER great discovery of diamonds in KEN
tucky A man got five OF them on the first deal
Philadelphia Press
+ TENNYsoN may as we'll stop writing poetry; he
cannot suit the American market any more
Philadelphia Inquirer,
RUSSIA may not be civilized. but its cotton
factory operatives strike with considerable ve
hemence. -Plttsburg Dispatch.
AFTER long struggling Ohio has got rid of her
whisky system. This is another rousing
Republican victory Press.
THE President is evidently waiting for Min
lister Manning to get sober and report the fact
before sending his name to the Senate. Chicago
Journal
THE Congress of the United States has got TO
be so important body that the people really
ought to be at some pains in selecting members
of it-Cincinnati Commercial Gazette.
THERE is no provision for struck iuries in
criminal cases. Ii there were, satisfactory
jury might easily, quickly and certainly be oh
tanned whenever necessary..-New York Herald
Mr. BECK is a very plain-spoken man, appar-
entity, and Is IN great danger OF getting himself
disllked He does not seem to understand that
the Senate is chiefly the creature Of the big COR
porations.- -Cincinnati Sun.
THE hold that some admirers think Mr.. Cleve-
land has the Democrats is childs touch
compared TO the grip he has on the mugwumps,
whether they like it or not In other words. we
think that brother Cleveland has got em.-New
York Sum-
PRoHIBIToNIsTs will please observe that the
members of the Ohio Supreme Court who OPP
posed the legality of the Dow law are also mem.
bers Of that party which was so ably assisted by
the Prohibitonists at the last election. Pitts
burg Chronicle
UNDER our present financial system nner-
chant can borrow on Endorsement while the
farmers acres avail him nothing. What is need
ed is change in the banking laws by which
merchant and farmer may be placed on an equal
ity.-Atlanta Constitution.
THE speculation of the exchanges has legiti-
mate basis. and Is legal, at least, in form and
method. But there is not ''skin game of red
and black, or of thimble rigging. that is not
more honest and more business-like than these
bucket-shops New York Star.
MANY of the laborng men of Boston own
small areas of the earth's surface on which their
homes are located. This may be one of the
reasons why they refused to vote for labor
candidate, whose cause was espoused and advo-
Gated by Henry George.-St Louis Post Dis
patch.
THE Republicans should either revise tha
tariff as it needs to be revised, or they should
fight down all attempted revision of it by tha
Democrats with whom revision has no other
meaning than free trade and industrial and
financial ruin for the country -Philadelphia
Telegraph.
REPUBLICANS would not complain OF purely
political changes in Office if they were honestly
based on their real grounds. But it is exasper-
at;ng to see the old spos system" running on
the high and holy reform racket Hypocrisy is
always and everywhere detestable. National
Republican.
THE raking up of medieval statute In order
to prosecute the leaders and representatives OF
the Irish people, for the sole reason that they
are such leaders and representatives. Is dis.
graceful to English civilization. 1t is relapse
into the barbarism Of the period when the statute
was enacted-New York Times.
JUDGING from the current pumber of Harpere
Weekly, that journal of civilization has paired
off with itself the question OF the significance
OF President Cleveland as q civilservice reformer
1t is still enamored with his civil-service reform
words, but it has become disguised with his civil
service reform actions. New York Tribune.
THIS country is firmly placed the founda-
ton of honest democracy, and it will stand
many corrupting influences in the abundance of
its vitality and latent virtue; but IL must cFdm.
BILE sooner or later if its government is poisoned
at its fountain head, the ballotb box. The prog
ress of the money power in elections has become
too marked to be disregarded The corruption
fund has become already an important and
threatening institution, and it must be deter
minedly put down-New York World.