The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-03-11
COMMEN AND OPINION.

CONGRESS appears TO MAKE haste slowly. This
is the result of the new rules.-Atlanta Consti
tuition.
LET labor by all means do the best it legiti-
mately can for itself, but let it not be as blind
Samson pulling down the pillars of the temple
upon himself in reckless desperation.-New York
Graphic
THE one demand of the Democratic party for
a reduction of the national revenues is fatal to
the demand of the Knights of Labor for liberal
appropriations for internal improvements.-Mil-
waukee Sentinel.
THE revised tariff bill ought to be amended SO
as to impose duty on foreign cablegrams, in
order to give the homemade article better
chance and encourage American induStry.-S
Louis Pest Dispatch.
country. 1t is safe to say that it will not be toll
Grated for any length of time. Those who prac-
tice it may work their own ultimate downfall
through temporary success. Chicago Inter
Ocean.
PERHAPS this social monstrosity Mormonsm]
has caused other result so monstrous as the
deformed moral nature of those women who are
really content in polygamy because they believe
that eternal happiness is purchased by earthly
beastiality
THAT which is done nightly and enjoyed by
hundreds of thousands of men and women in
capable Of an impure thought and as truly right
cons as any man who ever wore surplice or spoke
from pulpit, cannot be, and is not, wicked.-Min-
neapolis Tribune
THE business men of the country ask Of Con-
gress uniform bankruptcy law to the end that
those who sell goods may know the conditions of
the credit that is asked for. With thirty-eight'
different laws in as many States, the risks are
too great.-Boston Herald.
sCHooL-boy knowing the rules of addition
and subtraction could tell the Democracy that
they cannot successfully reduce the present rev.
enue one half and increase the expenditures four
81 Fc,1N h11nd Will ha Old
with fifty millions-Phladelphi Inquirer.
IT is easy FOR everyone who knows what phi
lanthropy means to sympathize with just
strike, but for an American to look favorably
on the justeSt strike complicated with San
archy" is wholly to forget what are the elenen-
tary conditions of obtaining justice. -Philadel-
phia Press
If the New York police had given The Grand
street roughs the other day one dose from Cat
ling, it would have been worth more to the peace
and security of all classes in the city, from high
to low, than anything which can be effected by
countless numbers Of muzzled police. Spring
field Republican.
The people of the United States have never
been able to make out, from the messages and
interviews OF the President, on which side he
stands in the controversy between the people and
the corporations This is as good an opportunity
of bringing out the facts and forcing every man
to take his position as can be found.-San Fran
cisco Chronicle
THE readiness with which an advance in
wages is granted in different lines of labor is an
indication of better times, which argues down
the croakings OF the pessimists. 1t has taken
the country some time to accept the fact that an
era of smaller profits and less rapid returns has
set H. but the lesson is now pretty well learned.
Boston Advertiser
THE South is FOR free trade, the free traders
frequently say; yet Virginia and Alabama object
to free iron, West Virginia to free coal, Louisiana
to free sugar, and South Carolina to free rice,
There is sometimes grain of truth in political
argument. and sometimes the truth is wholly
eliminated Philadelphia Times.
IT would have been better party tactics
whatever it would have been in other aspects
for the administration to propitiate the SEN
ators by a friendly partnership in Office patron
age, and pitch the battle in the House, where
the Democrats not only have their strongest
men, but have also the votes to back up their
speeches York Commercial Advertiser
ORGANIZED labor has not shown superauman
sagacity or impartalty; it has formed leagues
and chapters by the thousand, only to see them
crumbs to pieces because they were not found
equal to task requiring wisdom and fairness
more than human. Labor cannot escape from
the binding influence of sslfshness any more
than capital 1t is as likely 30 err in one direc-
ton as employers are to err in the other. Die
tation by either ends in wrong and in loss. The
impartial decision of trained arbiters who hear
both sides. is infinitely moro Likely to DO correct