The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-03-24
COMMENT AND OPINION.

SAM JoNEss Cincinnati Job continues to crack
at the joints and sag in the mddle.-St Louis
Post Dispatch.
WHEN the Morrison bill is killed we shall have
the Courier-J ournal s'shooing' great many
Democrats out of the party.-Atlanta Constitu
ton.
THE New York Evening Post describes truth
telling as "a luxury" The sensation fingers in
its mind-the one connecting link with the Bry-
ant period. Utica Herald.
If Congress would pass law suspendng the
coinage of the silver dollar, it would do more to
establish confidence than could be accomplished
in any other way.-Cincinnati Commercial Ga
zette
THE Knights of Labor are beginning to hoy
colt beer but it is only certain unpopular brands
and only in places where there is plenty Of the
unboycotted article to be had.-Philadephi
Inquirer.
THE uncomfortable feeling which the scandals
connected with the conveying of Senator MIllers
remains across the country have caused ought
surely to facilitate the work Of reformation.
Minneapolis Tribune.
WE wish the gentlemen in Congress who are
SO concerned about illiteracy at the South would
take less superficial view Of the situation; if
they did the Blair bill would die an early death
Louisville Courier-Journal
MEN and brethren, the oldest among us are
liable to live long enough to find out that gov
eminent of the people and by the people is bet
ter Lndn government OF tue committee and by
the committee.-St Louis Globe Democrat.
THERE can be no President elected without
New York. There can be no candidate nomin-
ated without New York This is the sum and
substance of political wisdom, and we commend
it to the special attention of all whom it may
concern.-New York Sun.
If the free-trade heresy gets as many set backs
during the next four or five weeks as it has en-
countered during the past thirty days its friends
in the House of Representatives will have to
haul it off for repairs. National Republican
BEFORE an Indiana mob lynched its victims it
took them out into the country and allowed
them to pick out the trees on which they wanted
to be hung. Law may be dead but chivalry
survives. in the Hoosier State at least.-Phila-
delphia Times.
THE Michigan Prohibitonsts will run q full
State ticket this year. 1t won't be elected, of
course. but they believe it will help to elect a
Democratic Governor and that is something.
The Prohibtionists have got to do something to
attract attention. and by standing on their heads
they are bound to succeed. Philadelphia Press.
CERTAIN it is that the boycott which ramifes
so far. and is omnous, threatens TO arrest
the progress of prosperity and give the country
another setback. The chances are that the
difficulty will be overcome but there is surely
one unpropitious sign of the times, at least one
dark cloud in the industrial heavens. Chicago
Inter Ocean.
WE have not observed that any friend of Mr..
Garland has ventured to call DR.. Rogers liar,
or has succeeded in impeaching his testimony in
| any respect Crank, visionary. bad poet. or not,
If Rogers tells the truth there is black stain on
Mr.. Garland's reputation and on the fame of the
Democratic administration which hesitates to
throw him out-New York Sun.
THE fair minded laboring man knows better
than any capitalist can tell him that the latters
| right to conduct his personal business as he
chooses is coexistant with the laborers right to
| organize and strike. What the American labor
ers strike for is to secure fair treatment from
their employers, and the absence Of fairness
from the boycott makes it really an object to be
condemned. -Philadelphia Times.
If the public are going to be let into the secret
| of one-half Of the executive business, why
should it be kept from the other half. which is
| the most interesting onei It is joint affair.
If the Senate part of it is public business, then
the Cabinet part of it is also. But after ALL the
most unanswerable argument against the open
| session for combinations Is the food of bun
combe talk that would be poured out upon an
| afflicted public to the detriment of the public
business. Let the country be spared that calam-
itY. Chicago Tribune.