The Indianapolis journal., 1886-02-06
COMMENT AND OPINION.

THE administration Is likely to become en-
tangled in the silver threads among the gold.
Chicago Mail
THE only bill which congressman does not
fear is the little bill he introduces for buncombe
Boston Record.
THE offensive partisanship' dodge must be
pronounced unmitgated failure.-New York
Mail and Express.
If the grand old man keeps on his present
course little while longer we shall insist upon
being permitted to cali him Mr.. OGladstone.
Philadelphia Press.
ATTORNEY GENERAL GARLAND it is said. sum-
marily dismissed servant girl the other morn
ing when she asked him if he would have Pan
cakes-Rochesrer Post Express.
ONE regrets to learn that quite number of
leading Democrats in Maine do not speak as
they pass by each other. This is the only out
come of party victory to them.-Boston Jour
nal.
GENERAL LOGAN bluntly but completely an
| swered the plea that Senators ought to keep the
| secrets of executive session when he said that
| the Senate had no business to have any. secrets
from the country. New York Evening Post
A FEW more experiences similar to that which
| the people of England are now going through
will shake faith in the belief that the best thing
under the sum- in the way of government is
responsible M inistry.-San Francisco Chronicle.
THERE seems to be good grounds for believing
that the Bell Telephone Company obtained ia
patents by means of fraud, but this is no reason
why Democratic Senators should have their
pockets full of Pan-electric stock.-Atlanta Con.
stitution.
| THE Madison Democrat home organ of Col
| Villas thinks we have reached pretty pass
when the appropriation of few hundred dollars
by man in public Office is allowed to interfere
with his appointment as a postmaster -Milwau-
| kee Sentinel.
WHATEVER is done to elevate the tone of pub
| lie service will be done in the nominating con-
| ventions. This should move those who wish to
see each election raise the public service to a
higher and better plane to bestir themselves.
Memphis Avalanche.
IRELANDs hopes are high. and Gladstone, by
accepting the premiership at this juncture has
| encouraged them. II is evident, therefore, that
| the present session of Parliament will mark an
important epoch in the history of English legis-
| lation.-New York Herald.
| GOOD intentions are honorable in any man. but
| what need is there of always incorporating them
into discussion OF President CleveIands official
acts Can not he stand or fall like other sinners
| without dragging In this everlasting proviso iE
| his behalf.-Albany Record.
ORGANIZED charity is very well, and achieves
many noble works of benefcence But while
charity is organizing the sufferers from pnching
| want are starving and freezing. Personal effort
and direct aid are the surest means OF extending
| help.-Philadeiphia Record.
| WITHIN the last few months several hundred
| thousand dollars of gold bullion have been ship
| ped into San Francisco from British Australasia.
| This doesn't look like silver is chasing all the
| gold out of the country by upwards OF consider
| able.-Portland (Ore.l News.
| ANYBODY who has anything to sell can get ab
| the silver dollars he wants. People who have
| nothing to sell can't get any. The government
is not coming silver to give away, and, no matter
how much is coined. people who have no money
now and nothing to sell for money won't get any
| of it-Louisville Commercial
| To abolish legal-tender function from paper
ia t0 of To
| of credit currency subservient to metallic
| currency but to abolish the legal-tender attri-
| butte of metallic currency is simply to abolish
money itself in all exchange and to reduce trads
| to obarter.-Louisville Courier Journal
| THE questions for the people are whether the
Attorney general of the United States is TO make
his fortune by bringing patent suits in tho name
| of the government; whether the Secretary of the
| Interior is to back him up in so doing. and
/ whether party which chooses to sustain sucn
public officers is fit to be continued in power
Boston Advertiser.
| WE want to understand public affairs and dis
| cuss them. AS Sydney Smith said there are no
| political discussions in Turkey, no criticisms on
| the government, but it is a land full Of revolM
and instructions. Railroad directors hold
secret sessions; so do the guardians Of Mormon
ism. But there is nothing in the history of men
of these descriptions or in governmental secrecy
| of any kind to warrant the closing of the doors
OF the American Senate.-New York World.
| IN the temper of the Home Rulers themselves
Mr. Gladstone will probably find the chief oosta-
Gle to a settlement of the Irish question, out mn.
| less they materially aba.e their demands. ana
meet the new government in spirit OF modera-
tion and fairness the real grievances OF the irish
are likely to remain unredressed Tot anotner gen
| Grafton 1t remains to be seen whether. in their
| wild pursuit of the ignus fatuus or independ-
ence, they will sacrifice the opportunity now Of
| fered to secure substantial benefits for Ireland
| Chicago Times.
THE truth is that the Democrats oppose the
| admission of South Dakota because 1t has given
| a Republican majority. Before the war no free
| State could be admitted TO the Union unless .
/ slave State came in at the same time. The
| peculiar institution has been wiped out in
| blood, but the old principles still rule In the
| Democratic party. Until there is Democratic
/ Territory ready to be admitted along with
Dakota, its rights TO statehood will not be
acknowledged by the Democratic party.-New
York Tribune