The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-12-17

union denouncing the verdict against the An
archists as an outrage and substituted anothee
declaring that the trades Of the country are de-
pendent on law and order for continued exist
ence and support New York Times.
AMERICANS are evidently thought in Germany
to be terribly desperate characters. The Reichs-
tag is considering bill to prevent 1.-THE Ameri-
can duel" which means, they say, settling diff.
hculty by drawing lots to determine which OF
two disputants shall commit suicide. Strange
how much more these foreigners know about ne
than we know about ourselves.-New York
Star.
1T is simply ridiculous to talk about raising
the rank and pay of the minister resident in
Buenos Ayres, when consul at 81, 900 per an
mum would suffice to do all the work The thing
is sood-humored job to give poor old Bayless
Hanna lift We like Bayless, but this s no
reason why we should increase the salary and
the grade of our agent in little one-horse re-
public on the other side of the world.
Courier-Journal.
THE War Department should have the courage
to condemn by its reports the squandering of
money, so that the burden of responsibility for
bad appropriations may rest exclusively upon
the logrollers of Congress. If the executive
branch OF the government should do its whole
duty In this respect much greater part OF the
river and harbor bill money would be expended
upon hsrbors and streams where it is needed.
New York Times.
THE Knights are the strongest of the aggre
cations OF labor organizations in Lumber, but ia
financial standing, conesiveness and general dis
cipline the Engineers Brotherhood are the first.
The new Trades Federation starts out hopefully,
and II 1T takes lesson from the experience Of
labor societies in the past eight months and
avoids the mistakes made by the knights, it can
undoubtedly be power for good TO It's member
and the cause of labor generally st Louis
Globe Democrat.
No such direct testimony to the narrowing
and degrading effect of the sole pursuit of wealth
on tho human soul has been given since John
Bunyan told the story of the man with the
muckrake in the midst of the glories of the Pal
ace Beautiful. Mighty questions are clamoring
for solutions the right to vote freely and without
caiolery or threat In any State of the Union. the
upholding of our honor and the freedom of our
citizens against treaty violations by foreign
powers the condition of labor, the construction
of navies, the spread of education Mr.. Gould
is deaf and blind to them all. In politics he is
Gould man, every time. Heisin political search
OF good paying investments" for his companies
"every time"-Chicago Inter Ocean.
THE question whether Dabney was one of the
Andersonville assassins does not cover the whole
ground. jeff Davis obtruded himself recently
upon the people in false and infamous letter in
relation TO the treatment of confederate prison
ers in the North. There has always been
reason to believe that his Internal malice was
behind the murderous treatment of national
prisoners in the Southern pens. Joe Brown
certainly as our correspondent says, knew all
about Andersonville and the Georgia prison
pens are not much better now than during the
war. AS for General Black, of the Pension
Bureau, he has the merit Of having been
brave soldier, and We would be sorry to speak
more unkindly of him than the circumstances
called for.-Cincinnati Commercial Gazette