The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-02-13


strikes as that reform in that city should begin
with the week days.-Washington Critic.
WHEN you succeed in making your adversary
mad in politics. so that he takes to calling you
hard names. it is good evidence that you have
scored point against hm.-Albany Express.
THE Democratic newspapers of the better
class have done themselves credit and given evil
discussing The telephone scandal -Brooklyn
Union
observation-disclosures, Thou shalt be be whipped
with wire,' attest Shakspeares prescience. The
administration may be whipped with wire IN
less Attorney general Garland retires to Arkan
sas.-Boston Record
THE eight-hour rule is an illusion. If every
body would agree not to work more than eight
hours day, the rule would work long as
greed and hunger refused to assert themselves,
and no longer. Union.
THE London mob attacked shops that dis
played the royal arms That is the old story of
Paris. The elements in England are mixing in
a way that promises events of extreme interest
Cincinnati Commercial Gazette.
The Senate has planted itself on solid ground
in disavowing any authority to inquire into the
Presidents reasons but insisting that it is en-
titled to all the papers and documents in the files
of the departments. Chicago Tribune
THE fact thatILondon's greatest labor outbreak
occurs simultaneously with laboring mans
elevation to the Cabinet ia remarkable coin
cidence, but the circumstance has no particular
signifcance.-New York Commercial Advertiser.
THE moral effect of rejecting the nomination
of District Attorney Dorshiemer, on the ground
that he edits partisan newspaper, would have
been SO good that it is a pity the New York poll
tican and editor declines to make o test case
Springfield Republican.
IF the President has malignant and merci-
less foe, who would goat over the ruin of his
reputation and rejoice to see him appear too
IGNORANT RI his dut or f0O VIII
to regard them faithfully, that enemy could not
wish to see him treaGing more fatal path than
that on which he has entered-New York Trib
une.
WHAT do we educate all the wage-earners for
in the public schools, except that they may
learn how to hgure out their rights aud how to
work in the elections and the legislatures to
procure these rights? They are there now. Even
the corporations lobby quails before the Knights
OF Labor this year, they say. Boston Tran
script.
THE theory of party government is that if one
party fails TO do the best thing, the other may
be looked to for correction of its blunders. In
long periods this Is the practical result even in
the political field and as to political measures.
1t is oftener the case as to county and judicial
Offices which are matters Of party, but only to
lesser degree of political interest-Memphis
Avalanche.
IT is a serious question how far this defiance
of the law is to be permitted, and how long mon
may organize themselves into gangs of murder
ers for the punishment of supposed criminals,
but certain 1T is that we have reached IL we have
not passed, the limit Let mobs be punished for
their lawlessness until they understand that gov
ernmeut is something more than revenge for
supposed wrongs-Chicago News.
A JUDGMENT against the Bell Telephone Com
pany with Mr.. Garland still in the Cabinet will
not be satisfactory to the country. A judgment
against it, if he retires, will vindicate him in all
respects except that he must always be considered
coarse-fi bred man, without that delicate sense
Of honor which American and English lawyers
have learned to prize as highly as woman es-
teens her virtue. Post DEM
IT has long been the boast of Englishmen that
Socialism has not tainted the sober. phlegmatic
laboring classes of their country, and that the
arts OF agitators are powerless, even in London,
which is nation OF over four millions, rather
than city. Yesterdays scenes indicate that
there Is such thing as Socialism in England,
and that it has organized agencies we'll as
dangerous tendences.-New York Tribune.
The danger Of saddling an enormous burden
upon tho Taxpayers for the benefit of applicants
who have no just claim and for tho enriching Of
claim agents pension lawyers and lobbyists, re-
mains equally menacing and ought to arouse the
public to bring some pressure to bear on the dema
gogues in Congress in time to save the national
Treasury from its threatened spolation upon the
pretense OF patriotic gratituGe--Chcago Trib-
une.
AE uuIcStEiCteN Immigration mas given us
three times as many insane Of foreign birth,
five times as many foreign paupers. and seven
times as many foreign convicts in proportion to
their numbers as there are among the same
classes of our native population If we would
not have the scenes of Trafalgar square repeated
in American cities we will do we'll to oppose any
scheme looking to organized emigration of
these classes. Chicago News.
Go to the coke regions yourselves, gentlemen
Look at the facts with your own eyes. See
whether any mistaken or flint hearted manage
ment is using unworthily the great power which
whether you want to be personally responsible
for starving or freezing to death women and
children in this winter season, in order to add a
little to the profits which you draw from the
manufacturing community and the consumers
of coke.-New York Tribune
DR. MENIERE Announces tn no 40
one result of his studies point'of distinction
between the sexes, which has not we believe,
been heretofore generally recognized viz. that
the human organism is essentially alkaline"
but that woman is less alkaline than man"
This alleged hypo.alkalinity, or extra acdity of
the gentler sex has been perhaps noted already
by philosophers and students Of the domestic re-
lations. but it's existence has not been before
placed upon a sound scientific and somatic basis
Medical Record.
An attack upon editors and reporters from a
lawyer comes with bad grace The reporter. as
rule takes the greatest pains to verify his
facts. Indeed, his reputation depends upon his
accuracy Any reputable newspaper in a large
city spends thousands of dollars every year in
hunting down rumors which prove to have no
foundation in fact and in verifying the truth of
reports sent into the Office. 1t is not too much
to say that it does more conscientious work ia
this respect than the average lawyer does in the
preparation of a case.-San Francisco Chronicle
THERE ought to be everywhere recognized the
principle that the use Of forms of law to do
wrong is more deadly offense against society
than the doing of the same wrong in disregard
of law. Robbery by lawless violence hurts only
the persons concerned; robbery by chicanery of
law hurts them and the entire social fabric be-
side. the public and the government The Great
ure who takes the law in his own hands" to do
q wrong is a criminal But the creature who
sells his knowledge of the law to defeat its sa-
cred ends, and to do wrong, is not less but