The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-07-12
COMMENT AND OPINION.

Mr. CLEVELAND must not forget that the peo-
pie have veto, too.-Boston Record.
MIGHT not our Canadian cousins be properly
characterized as belonging ocodfsh aristocracy2
Philadelphia Inquirer.
CANADAs industry in Selling American vessels
may make it necessary for something to seize
Canada before long.-Pittsburg Dispatch.
CONGRESS should propitiate tho Mexicans by
giving them Geronimo They can have him if
they will collect him. Louis Post Dispatch.
THE editors chief recreation in summer time
is found in the perusal of circulars and pamphlets
describing the beauties of various resorts
Lowell Citizen.
IT is not so much that the Grand Old Man is
left that he has gone ahead little faster than
the rest England will catch up to him by
and by.-Philadelpha Times.
THE Voice. Prohibitionist organ, says that
the Republican party will soon be dead. This
kind of prophecy about fits the caliber of the
(Dem.
If there had been as much disputing among
the Union generals at Gettysburg twenty-five
years ago as there was during the recent reunion,
the historic battle might have ended differently.
Philadelphia Press.
WHEN the time comes for a general uprising
of law-loving and keeping Americans In bshalf
of the enforcement of the laws the demonstrn-
ton will be infinitely more formidable than any
'army with banners" could make.-New York
Mail and Express.
THIS is a free country, and it is the duty of
all good citizens to endeavor to keep it Free If
a workman prefers to take his chances outside
OF the unions. it is his privilege to adopt that
course, and he should be protected in the exer-
else of his liberty of choice milwaukee Senti-
nell
THE complaint is not that the President vetoes
appropriations for public buildings genera ally.
but that he approves of them for such small
places in the South as Fort Smith, Ark. and
San Antonio, Tex, and vetoes them for build
ings in fair-sized Northern cities-Boston Jour
nal
THE veto is Clevelands strong card, because it
is the only thing he can do that resembles origi
nality. He is working it to the fullest extent
for the reason that he has somewhere imbibed
the impression that he can thereby convince the
country that he is four-ply statesman of new
brand.-Denver Tribune.
IT is as certain as anything human can be that
Ireland will secure home rule before very long
And the longer that the contamination of it is
deferred, the worse will it be for those people
who in hide bound ignorance and from selfish
motives, protract the agonies of the struggle.
Charleston News and Courier
IT is but calm, mild statement Of notorious
truth to say that the civil service law, whose
central idea is non partisanship, is so perverted
that Democrats only can get places. AS for the
competitive feature of the law, it is now under
stood to mean that any Democrat who can make
65 per cent is better than any Republican who
can make 95.-National Republican.
THAT an inquiry so honorable in purpose and
object should have been defeated by Republican
votes is deplorable and extraordinary but it is
not more than the debiitated political con-
science and blunted sef-respect which reconciles
Mr. Payne to occupying seat by title which
is tainted with the well-supported suspicion of
debauehery and crime. Philadelphia Press
THE real representative of labor ought to make
it plaln-so plain that it can never again be
questioned-that the law of the land upon which
rests our entire social and commercial fabric has
no more certain defense, no more reliable Sc
curity, than organized labor affords. Once that
fact is made clear and vindicated beyond cavIl,
the cause will become invinclble Elk
press.
1T really seems as though the President is de-
termned TO veto every measure that has not a
party bearing such the Porter bill, and that
his judgment is pitted against that of Congress
in matters of ordinary legislation. He appears
to use the veto, or rather to abuse it, for the
mere purpose of exercising an authority that has
heretofore been reserved for extraordinary occa
siops.-Milwaukee Sentinel
THE Republican anti saloon movement, if
urged steadily and carried from State to State,
holds out brighter promise for rational friends
of temperance than any other in existence and
it bids fair to be adopted eventually by so many
State organizations that the question of compell
ing the national organization to incorporate il in