The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-09-01
COM MENT AND OPINION.

Mr.. BLAINE's speech at Sebago Lake explains
itself without the need of diagram. Baltimore
American.
THE Bulgarian thrones getting to be as un-
certain as street-car seat. No one is sure of it.
Boston Record.
MANY of Bayard's appointments have been un-
fortunate, but none of them have hitherto been
accused of what may be called Sedgewickedness
st Louis Post-Dispatch.>
sis Life Worth Saving?n constitutes the sub
lect of an article in popular magazine Well
1t depends upon circumstances. We should say
that an Anarchists life isn't.-Chicago Journal
THE Democratic convention in the FIRST con-
gressional district of South Carolina didn't run
much risk when 1t unanimously Endorsed civil
service reform as enforced by Mr. Cleveland.
Denver Tribune.
PARSONS, one of the convicted Anarchists of
Chicago, denounces Mr.. Blaines tariff utterances
very bitterly. Parsons by his conduct has proven
himself to be good deal Of the mugUump.
Philadelphia Press.
There is a popular prejudice in this chival-
rous country against hanging women, but there
is no reason why some of the female Anarchists
should not be allowed to cool off in the peniten-
tiary. City Times.
Mr.. BLAINE's remarks on the subject of free
trade would make good reading for Democratic
constituencies but there is great danger that our
esteemed contemporaries of that Tx won't print
them.-Philadelphia Inquirer.
WHEN it was discovered in the South that the
law prohibiting all who served in the confederate
army from holding commissions in the United
States army had never been repealed, the war
with Mexico spirit fzzled out at once.-Chicago
Mail
OUR Democratic friends will find issues multi
plying as the presidential year draws nigh, and
they will find themselves hopelessly disabled be-
fore the fight begins unless they put their party
right by condemning all attempts TO aggrandize
the executive at the expense of the legislative
department-National Republican.
UNDER present conditions millions of pounds
of the article oleomargarinel are sold under
false pretenses. The deception and fraud prac-
ticed in its manufacture and sale furnished the
only justification for the present ridiculous law.
1t is only another instance of the manner IN
which fraud and deception overreach them
selves. -Philadelphia Times.
If the Democratic party is beaten in this State
this fall there will he an inquest held to de-
termine the responsibility for the defeat. We
do not believe it will be beaten in the State. but
there is a liability that it may be, and the re-
Gently very large number of chances which It
apparently had for victory have been somewhat
reduced. Brooklyn Eagle (Dem.)
THE Mexican youth who have Hospitality over
whelmed Mr.. Sedgwick have completely healed
all lingering ill-feeling which may have existed
between the two republics since the release of
Cutting. We have doubt that with the kind
will return from Mexico with most remarka-
bic diplomatic reDort.-New York World.
IN the language of Blackstone: Every free
man has an undoubted right to lay what senti-
ment he pleases before the public; to forbid this
IS to destroy the freedom of the press; bnt if he
publishes what is improper mischievous, or lille
gal, he must take the consequences of his own
temerity" 1t would be difficult to more explicit
~ express the rule fer the liberty and RESPONSE
bility of the press than in this sentence of the
great commentator Chicago News.
The Democrats always count upon Indiana
as one of the States sure to give them majority
In all important elections, being assured of help
from Kentucky iii cases of necessity. It is rea-
sonably certain, however. that with fair vote
and honest count the Republicans would
nine times out of ten carry the Hoosier State.
They are going to make big effort to do So this
fall and have ali their guns loaded to the muzzle
with the best kind Of Notwithstanding
Chronicle.
A protective tariff is the only agency yet dis
covered for keeping American wages above those
paid in foreign countries; and whatever tends to
weaken and destroy that safeguard is therefore
directly nimica to the interests of all classes of
workingmen. This view of the case is the prac-
teal one. Whatever the doctrinaires may assert,
the fact is that protection conserves and pro-
notes the welfare of all those who labor for a
living, or, in other words, a majority of the
whole people of the country; and policy which
does that is good one to support and perpetu-
ate Globe Democrat.