The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-09-27
COMMENT AND OPINION.


| THE broad road to Canada runs through Wall
street. -Philadelphia Inquirer
| AS matter of economy it would pay several
| times over to buy Canada from England. -Phlla-
| delphia Times
| Now if Bayard really wants to punish Aus
| tria, let him send Sedgwick to Vienna pitts
| burg Chronicle.
IF Charles Dickens had written his incom-
| parable novels in our day and country. he would
have called Criah Heep and Pecksnff reform
| ers."-National Republican.
THE 'Wheel" was not an agricultural but
| so-caled labor party" It's failure was due to
| three lacks-lack of issues, lack of brains and
lack of votes.-Little Kock ARK Gazette.
GOVERNOR FORAKER, of Ohio. is about the
| only Northern possibility the Republican
ticket who could carry South Carolina. The
| only difficulty is that the earthquake came two
years too soon.-Washington Critic,
IF laws were all that is necessary, and they
| could be enforced, the world might soon become
like the abode of the blessed. All that would be
necessary would be to pass formal law that no
one should do wrong in any way.-Boston Ad-
vertiser.
The tendency of too great prominence of
the issue of prohibition immediate and the
only policy is to discourage this gradual cduca-
ton of the community by operation in mod
crate methods OF temperance reform.-New York
Mail and Express.
PRESIDENT HAYEs's order, nine years ago, was
effective in keeping Republican office holders
| from party manipulation and out of nominating
conventions. President Cleveland can have him
self laughed at or respected in this matter just
| as he shall select. Philadelphia Press.
THE disposition of enlightened men to separate
municipal affairs from general politics is much
| stronger and much more real than managing
| politicians are willing to believe, and if oppor-
tunity is given for its expression at the polls the
| result is likely to astonish those who have
| planned otherwlse.-New York Commercial Ad-
vertiser.
JUDGE TAYLOR, of Indiana, in a speech at
Huntington, few nights since, gave concise
and correct statement of tho position of the
| Democratic party as could be presented. He
said it stands before the country to-day true to
| its lifelong instinct to make itself strong in
the weakp esses of men, to appeal always to their
appetites prejudices and cowardice. instead of
| their nobler parts and qualities. Toledo Com
mercial.
| people happy, India having never had any
other system, ought to lead all other countries in
| comfort Instead it leads all others in misery.
| Ii the communal system of owning land would
make the wage of labor higher than individual
ownership then in Russia, where communal
ownership prevails, labor should be better paid
| than in the United States. In fact the wage of
| labor is in SONS cases five times higher in the
| United states than in Russia. The country
| where there is most ndivdualsm and most cap
| italism pays the highest wage to labor of any
in the world, and elevates labor into the position
| of having the fewest grievances and the most
demands. 1t is a great pity that the theorists
cannot get within sight of the facts on both the
silver problem and the labor problem, as thew
ought, if rightly understood, to throw good
deal of light on each other.-Frank Lesie's
Weekly