The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-02-16
COMMENT AND OPINION.

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AN Augusta lady has ordered a set of false
teeth for her old pony.--Portland (Me.) Press.
THE Philadelphia News the other day headed
department "What Philadelphia Editors
Think It occupied one eighth of a column.
Puck.
SECRETARY WHITNEY is demonstrating how
gorgeously Democratic simplicity can outshine
Republican extravaganza in it's most glittering
development.-BostonA Advertiser.
ATToRNEY-GENERAL GARLAND will not give
his telephone stock to a charitable institution
he doesn't want to get any charitable institution
into scandal.-Phi!adelph Press.
NEBRASKA thinks she is soberer with high
license than Iowa and Kansas are with prohibi-
ton. Certainly the people seem better satisfied,
as whole with the system. Boston Record.
THE use of public Office to further private in
terest has seen its highest development in the
present mugwump administration. The mug
wumps defend it because it is their administra-
tion.-Rochester Democrat.
ATToRNEY-GENERAL GARLAND is going to en-
dow some charitable institution with his Pan
electric Stock on the same principle we suppose,
that Mantaini gave his note away-because it
was of no sort of use to him.-Boston Tran
script
No one in this country whose opinion is worth
anything questions Mr.. Gar!ands honesty or
integrity. But he cannot hold his stock and re-
main in his present Office without hurting his
own reputation and Gripping the administration.
Atlanta Constitution.
SAM JONES boasts Of converting Cincinnati
streetcar conductor. This is good as far as it
goes, but if he could convert streetralroad
president and make him regard public decency
so far as to abolish the smoking-car nuisance, ne
would be doing some lasting and real good
New Orleans Picayune.
HISTORY has her shortcomings and partialities,
but by them, as we now feel assured, Sherman
can no longer profit, nor can Stanton any longer
suffer- The future may be trusted to award the
crown Of our Republics honor to Lincoln. Grant
and Stanton. These three and not the least of
these was Stanton.-New York Sun.
AT every new attempt of the State to protect
ITSELF put forth through its lawful authorities,
these political bandtti echo the sneers Of Tweed,
and ask what any one can do about it. Yet even
Tweed wore prison stripes within few months
Of the time when he supposed there was no
power in the State that could compass his over
throw.-New York Times
OF military and naval pensions we cordially
approve. 1t must be remembered however, that
every additional pension means increased taxa.
ton, and while the people are quite willing to be
taxed for the benefit of their wounded soldiers and
sailors, it is not so clear that they are of the
same way of thinking in regard to other public
servants.--New York Sun.
HABITUAL criminals are increasing. Isolation
to such extent at least that young offenders
will not get within the influence of the DID, is one
of the first steps in reforming the young criminal
and correcting his habits. In any event it is use
less to look for his reform if he is thrown at once
into the company of thoseAbhose cases are hope
less, and vino are only too glad to take them un-
der their tuition as scholars in vice.--Chicago
Tribune.
If good men are turned out of Office on charges
which the President does not dare to expose to
the light, and il men are selected for very high
Offices OF trust who take stock in consideration
of their influence, and if the power of the gov
eminent is used to enrich them while they retain
the stock can it be said that non partisan voting
has thus far resulted in great reform2-New
York Tribune.
ONCE let the people know that they can re-
duce their own school taxes onehaf at a single
stroke, and yet draw enough from Uncle Sam to
have in all the 1923 900 year for schools which
is pow raised, and the disposition to cease rely
ing on their own resources would inevitably
prove as strong in South Carolina now as it
proved in the case of New England people fifty
years ago.-New York Evening Post.
THE political atmosphere of England is heavily
charged with combustible elements, and a
destructive cyclone seems inevitable unless It is
speedily purified. And the spectacle of few
thousand titled favorites eating so deeply into
the nations substance, while million of her
people are on the verge of starvation through in
ability to obtain work. and the names of another
million are carried on the pauper rolls, is, it
must be confessed, hardly calculated to allay the
rising storm. Chicago Times
THERE is no chance in America for Socialists
to ply their trade of riot and bloodshed. We ad-
wise them to remember that the people whom
they would call to arms against the the existing
order OF things are the very people who have
made it. and who regard it, with all its imper-
fections aS the most benefcent in the world
They had better migrate to another country,
where the will find larger field for their pecu-
liar inoustry.-New York Herald.
The United States does not owe pension to
every man who wore a blue uniform; and to
adopt the policy of making every discharged
soldier pensioner would not be an exhibition
Of noble generosity on the part of the govern
ment, but exhibition of cowardice weakness
and prodigality 1t is not easy to say where the
point lies. Opinions would differ radically 30
whether or not it was transgressed when the
arrears of pensions act was passed. In princi-
pie, we must insist, it is transgressed when leg
islators enact new pension bills contrary TO their
best Judgment and with view to the soldier
vote Minneapolis Tribune
The sugared commonplaces OF the Eastern
Congressman on the humanity Of man and the
right of the coolie to enter this country and
work as he pleases are hollow mockery to the
man who has been forced out OF work BY their
fatal competition. There are hundreds of these
idle men on this coast. many of them with fam
lilies to support who can trace their loss of good
paying situations directly to the competition of
the Chinese coolie Can it be expected that such
men will calmly survey the situation and be con-
tent to send on appeals and petitions to Con-
gresham Francisco Chronicle.
Two or three generations ago distilled liquors
were the common drink of the American people
At the present rate of progress, in two or three
generations they will be wholly banisEed from
consumption. Any legislation. whether for pro-
hibition or high license. that tends to interfere
with this temperance reform, is not merely fu-
tile but positively mischievous. When the law.
in undertaking to restrain the entire liquor traf-
&c, makes no distinction between distilled aud