The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-10-18
COMMENT AND OPINION.

EUROPE is working night and day in keeping
the peace and manufacturing magazine guns.
st Louis Post-Dlspatch.
We rather like these repeated fishing trips of
the President. When he is fishing we know
that he is not doing anything worse.-Philadel
phia Inquirer.
THE Attorney general says he greatly enjoyed
being in Arkansas. An indulgent country is
perfectly willing for him to resume his great en-
joyment.-PittsburgC Chronicle.
THE entire tariff plank of the last Republican
platform is permeated by the spirit of protection
to American industry, and that spirit is to-day
the most potent one controlling the party.-Phil-
ad elphia Inquirer.
Mr.. PowDERLY, being sure of his tenure of
office for two years at good salary, should at
once proceed to earn his money by trying to
teach his followers to let well enough alone.
Philadelphia Times.
So the London Times thinks torpor has fallen
on American politics Would that it had. What
this country needs more than anything else is a
torpidity of politics and corresponding activity
in business. Philadelphia Inquirer.
HIGH license is gaining friends daily. The
more the question is examined the stronger
grows the belief that high license, with strict
enforcement of the laws, is the best method of
regulating the liquor traffic. --Pittsburg
Chronicle.
WHEN woman unsexes herself and becomes
demon incarnate. the scaffold is the place for
her. When Mrs. Parsons fully makes up her
mind to become a candidate for the gallows she
may rest assured that the gallows will be ready.
Atlanta Constitution.
THE Issues between the two great parties are
many and important. The mere matter of which
shall be in Office is small one; but the question
as to which shall guide the policy of the country
on the tremendously important questions that
are before US is very great matter.-New York
Mail and Express.
IT is about time that Northern labor should
learn that it has to pay heavy cost whenever
there is bloody shirt" anywhere in this Re-
public. Disorder and lawlessness at the South
make labor cheap in that section and so deprive
Northern labor of the wages it might otherwise
obtain.-New York Tribune
Now that the mask has been laid aside the fol-
lowers of the mugwump leaders see how
grossly they were deceived Instead of move
ment towards higher and purer politics they find
that the mugwump bolt was solely an attempt to
lead section of the Republican party into the
free-trade camp.-Philadelph Press
SHOULD war break out in Europe it would not
be safe to attempt any forecast of the result to
either of the contending parties by comparison
of former victories or defeats. The improve
ments which have been and are now being made
IN destructive weapons render all such caicula-
tons valueess. Philadelphia Record.
To the outside observer it is apparent that the
struggle now begun in Chicago for an eight-hour
day instead of a ten-hour day for workmen in
the pork and beef packing establishments of
that city must end in the defeat of the strikers
unless they make the strike general in all
the other pork and eef-packing cities.-Phia
delphia Record.
IT is easy to foresee the early downfall of
leader who makes his organization an object Of
common ridicule. After hearing Mr.. Powderly
no friend of the Knights of Labor, and they
have some friends among the intellectual classes.
can follow the proceedings of the order under
his presidency without a deep sense Of humilia-
tion-New York Evening Post.