The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-03-03
Her Majesty took the bottle and left the room.
but has not mentioned the subject since The
Kings beard is now almost white.
COMMENT AND OPINION.

One OF the honest soldiers present duties is to
Jump on the pension demagogue Philadelphia
Times
TT has been discovered that q man can fall in
love on very small salary but marriage re-
quires at least $40 per week.-Philadelphia Call.
THE frmness of the President is shown by the
way he cleaves to Cortland. Andrew johnson
had the same kind Of frmness. -Milwaukee
Sentinel.
THE decrease in failures, the increase in the
bank exchanges, and the large volume of BUSH
ness continue the leading features of general
trade.-Albany Express.
A ST. LOUIS paper the other day printed an
cultural on Temperance in Missouri" Like the
famous chapter on Snakes in Ireland" 1t VISA
very short.-Pittsburg Chronicle.
SUPPOSE Grant, or Hayes, or Garfield had
from Congress, is 1t not certain that the Demo
cratic Senators would have denounced the act in
vigorous languagea--New York World.
SHORT of treason we can think of nothing
more offensive and reprehensibie than the
Hewitt proposition to go abroad for marine en-
gines. 1t will get rough handling when it comes
before the House, for it merits no courtesy.
National Republican.
THE Iowa Senate has passed bill limiting the
time which lawyers shall occupy in their
speeches to courts and iuries. Yet we are told
the sacred cause of reform is making no head
LABOR troubles are prominent feature of the
situation in almost every sort of industry, but
In many recent instances employers have yielded.
which Is evidence of an improvement in the
prospects of their business Philadelphia Press.
THERE is no doubt that New York's own Ev-
arts has more backbone than he has beer credited
with. A tremendous pressure has been brought
to bear on him by the Wall-street spectators To
compel him to denounce silver. but New York's
own Evar is still there.-Atlanta Constitution.
THE new house rules do not seem to accom-
plish all that was promised by the distribution
of the appropriation bill among the several com
mittees. Out of the fourteen such bills, only
two have been reported, and there is little pros
pect of getting action upon these. Boston
Record.
IT [the country wants its Attorney general
proved innocent of wrong if he be innocent, and
if he be not innocent it wants him proved guilty
and removed from his present high office This
procurer of justice must not only have clean
hands, but he must be known without doubt to
have them.-Philadelph Inquirer.
THE less interference by the Legislature ia
the affairs of citizens, the better it will be for
the citizens. There is too much legislation al
| ready. A bill to limit telephone charges would
open food-gate through which would pass q
series Of bills to regulate the price of everys thing
else in the State. Louisville Commercial
THERE is a well-founded belief that if unhap-
PLY married men and women spent half as much
to be miserable half the divorce courts in tina
country would be out Of employment Very
often people find what they look for in this
world. whatever that may be.-Philadelphia
Times
THIS pension swindle can easily be defeated if
pains are taken to convince our Representatives
that they need have no fear of their seats in the
event of speaking and voting against measures
which will largely benefit claim agents. and are
not probably desired by majority of soldiers.
much less majority of the people.-Boston
Transcript
WHATEVER the party thought or thinks OF
Conkling, one thing is very certain: He has
proved his ability to exist without it. Since his
retirement he has not drawn upon ii for any
thing. 1t was decreed that the party would bs
all the better without him. He has demonstrated
that he. of tie two, was the sufferer by the
partnership. the gamer by its dissolution.-Chi-
cago Mail
WHATEVER people thought of Mr.. Conklings
political aims. there was never q doubt as to the.
sincerity of his beliefs or the cleanliness of his
methods. His was always healthful and ex-
hllarating infiuence-One that begot strong an
tagorism in his opponents, and put to shame
SUCH things meanness and disingenuousnesS
in his allies. 1t was an evil day for American
politics when he vanished from the arena
Washington Post
THE Postmaster general in order to keep UP
false pretenses advertised for scandals about
oficeh holders who were to be removed, and who,
| under tie hypocrisy of the administration, had
to have charges preferred against them. The
lying thus gathered up, and upon which good
deal of action has been based. fills many pigeon
holes. 1t is the exposure of this mass of malig-
nifty that is dreaded by the executive depart
| ment-Cincinnati Commercial Gazette.
LIQUOR saloons have political influence closely
| proportional to their number. If there is vast
number of such saloons in a city, each has hang
ing about it some worthless creatures whom the
proprietor use politically at party primaries
| and at the polls. The power of CHS large army
OF men, not only to control nominations within
party but to influence the votes of others and to
do dirty work for q party, is very great. The
Democratic party can use this power, and no
other can New York Tribune.
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