The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-05-31
COMMENT AND OPINION.

sess more advice than intelligence" He was
thinking of President Cleveland, most likely.
-Pittsburg Chronicle.
THE Illinois Prohibitionists will fall in line
with the Republicans this year unless they are
bent upon helping Democrats to protect the in
terestS of the liquor men-Chicago Mail
DEMOCRATIC statesmen ought to master the
sign language of deaf mutes, so that their vehe
ment denunciaton of the President might not
crate harshly on mugwump ears.-National Re-
publican.
BRER MORRISON does not care to mention the
names of the Republican members who are sure
to vote for his tariff bill In this he shows some
thing more than his characteristic prudence.
Boston Record.
PLAIN-sPoKEN Senator Sherman and his tribe
should be nightly increased If they can by any
means hush UP the Blairs and others who vainly
suppose that mans wisdom Is measured by his
gift of gab.-Philadelphia Times.
IT is very easy for the shaggy headed An
archist to free himself from the oppression that
brushes him in this country A Storage ticket
to Europe would do the work with neatness and
dispatch.-St. Louis Post-Dispatch.
If the Chinese will only embrace Christianity
and politics they can have so much more pleas
ure in America The statesman's duty is always
plain and simple to him when the party at in
terest is a voter Washington Critic.
THIRD party farmers movements, or labor
movements or the alliance of class movements
control of demagogues and always prove a de-
fusion and snare of the devil-Minpeapolis
Tribune.
THE Republican party need but be true to
itself, not only to within its ranks again the
great majority of those who left it in 1884, but
also to retain that class of sturdy voters that
came so courageously to its aid in the same CAM
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. Press.
GLADSTONE is now likely to go to the country
after parliamentary victory instead of paria-
mentary defeat, and he has accomplished this
without single inconsistent statement and
without brag, or bluff. or buster. This time it
seems the stars in their course are contendng
on his Philadelphia Press.
A COMMITTEE of the Southern Presbyterian
Assembly declares that Adam was fashioned by
the hands of the Almighty out of nothing and
without any animal assistance. This is what
Spiritualists call naturalization, but, whatever
name it goes by, thank heaven the question Is
settled at last.-New York Graphic.
RHODE ISLAND may make its State police
success, but those delightful club grounds along
Narragansett bay ana Providence river will still
continue to produce baked clans of highly
spirituous nature for the relief of their members.
And everybody who is anybody in Providence
belongs to one or more of these clubs. Boston
Record.
81 DO not intend that single Republican
shall be found In this building at the end Of the
next twelve months" These dread words are
from Assistant Secretary Smith, Of the Treasury
Department at Washington, and not the most
exacting doctor of Democracy will question the
soundness of the party principle involved.-Bos-
ton Advertiser
A CONVENTION with open doors, whereat rep
resentative workingmen should discuss their
methods of dealing with the labor problem,
would give the public more nearly accurate
idea of the real character of the Knights of La
Dor than all the speeches and magazine articles
that Mr.. Powderly could make and write in a
lifetime. Brooklyn Union.
THE way the present House is proceeding will
be sure to win for it the unenviable reputation
of doing Its utmost to break down American in
dustries It's leaders and its committees appear
to have been formed with view to attacking
the industries of the country. If it does not
succeed it will not be the fault of the Carlisle
Morrison element.-Boston Journal
SENATOR WILSON of Iowa. boasts that the ga.
looms have been driven out of that State and
that, therefore, prohibition Is success. But
the liquor is still there in as large quantities as
ever The only difference is that the consump-
ton of beer. which cannot easily be hidden, has
been partially suppressed, while the fiery fluids
which can be drunk in secret have taken its place.
philadelphia Record.
Is it not nonsense to think that we can settle
the labor troubles Of our country while we per-
NIT gold, the metal that measures the value Of
all labor, to get dearer and dearer day after day,
while our executive who has the power to check
this advance smiles ssrenely at the threatening
wreck and ruin around us2 Be assured that the
silver question is at tho bottom Of our labor
question. National Republican.
The class of men who could be induced to
serve as constables proved to be open to bribery
in nine cases out of ten and the liquor traffic In
Massachusetts never was in such bad state as
while they were in authority. Rhode Island
may, perhaps do better; but intelligent observers
of the progress OF temperance legislation do not
look upon the State constabuIary experiment
with much favor Philadelphia Inquirer.
COLONEL MORRISON, who if he is cranked on
the tariff, is not fool, declared that the oleo-
margarine bill was in the House under false
pretenses and that for that reason, if for no
other, he should vote against it. And he was
exactly right in 80 saying, for the bill ia cheap
piece of demagogsm aimed at the farmer
vote just as some of the other dsmagogical say
ings and doings of the session have been aimed
at the labor vote, and on the theory that the
labor voters all Internal fools. -Philadelphia
Telegraph.
An Empty Honor in Pennsylvania.
Philadelphia Press.