The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-03-18
COMMENT AND OPINION.

ST.. PATRICK is unanimous in support of Irish
home rule.-St. Louis Post-Dispatch.
STRIKERS are powerful, but they cannot make
capitalist carry a business that does not
pay.-New Orleans Picayune.
THERE will be moro friends of labor of the
demagogic variety in the field for Office next fall
than were ever seen before boston Herald
THE high-license movement is rapidly gaining
ground throughout the country as the proper
solution OF the [liquorl question. -Washington
Critic.
BRER MORRISON will figure in history as q
political humorist, not as political economist.
This is good thing for posterity. Boston
Record.
The thoughtless careless voter is the man
whose responsibility for bad public officers is
heaviest and least excusable.-New York
Tribune.
If there is a city in this country without
more than about a dozen living men.--Phiadel-
phia Times.
/ WHEN Shakespeare drew the portrait of Jack
Cade, he must have had prophetic instinct in
his mind as to the existence in these latter days
of Herr Most-Philadelphi Record.
ABOUT the only great and exceptional glory
thus far achieved under the Democratic admin
istration is the dining of Minister Phelps by
81. B. NJ Victoria --National Republican.
NEW ORLEANS is receiving congratulations
from all quarters upon the double hanging OF
last Friday. 1t was bigger thing for the Ores
cent City than the alleged exposition. Mime
apolis Tribune
THE Cunards claim that they have never lost
a life from accident at sea. The vessels of this
line have been very lucky, but it Is luck more
| than good management that saves them at times.
Chicago Mail
THE landowner in this country Is the ideal
citizen. the hope and bulwark of the Republic.
q vary mr. ou1 fho inAi time ara
that the number of landowners will annually in
crease. and that landiordsm will never become
permanent or prominent feature in This coun-
try.-Atanta Constitution.
CONGRESS is proceeding with laborious and
painstaking sowness, which promises to carry
US deep into the dogdays, and even then to
reach an adjournment without doing anything
worthy of mention. Seriously, we have never
seen the great art of how-not to do-it so power
fully illustrated. Washington Post.
MANY of the preachers touch upon the subject
of strikes and deplore the consequences of an
ever-impe nding conflict between workers and
employers; but they have no new remedy. They
urge kindness and brotherhood, which would be
sufficient If they could be brought to bear-but
there's the rub.'-New York Mail and Express.
THE condition Of society where the laboring
classes are learning their rights and their power
is much moro hopeful than where they are kept
under until they rise in blind but destructive
| revolution. Better the industrial disorders of
France and the strikes of this countey than the
enforced quiet of labor in Germany and Russia
-Pittsburg Dispatch.
THE spectacle of Democratic Congress re-
fusing to repeal the civil service act and yet
condemning Democratic President for his fail
ure to completely ignore 1t is worthy OF pano-
ramic treatment. 1t illustrates the artistic pos
slblllties OF spectacular craftsmanship more viv.
idly than anything we have had since the show
began Philadelphia Press
IT is the idea of the administration organs that
by splitting their lungs in calling Cleveland re-
former they can make the people believe he is
one And this is true, to degree. But it can't
last always. Sooner or later even the President
| must be judged by the facts, and the sentence
will be all the more severe because of his long
| trading on false pretenses. Only the truth can
| eLdure. even in politics. milwaukee Sentinel
WHEN the word goes across the ocean by tele-
graph that the eight hour system has been
adopted in all the cities and towns of America,
and that there is demand for one million of
new laborers it will be the signal for an ava
| lanche Before the end of 1886 hundreds of
thousands of laborers will have poured into our
| ports, because of the terrible depression of the
labor market all over Europe Chicago Tribune.
THERE need be fear that our respectable
workingmen are going to countenance, much
| less take part in the Socialists schemes but
| there is always danger that if such workingmen
| forget what is due to law and order the Social
lists may, in their name, Kill, rob and burn.
Were it not for that possibility the rawlings of
these beer befuddled wretches would be worthy
of no attention whatever. -Philadelphia In
quirer.
THE strikers have so little ground to stand
upon in continuing their fruitless effort to
one railroad by blocking the business of others
connected with it, that the effort can hardly
last much longer It's failure will be sautary
lesson to the Knights of Labor who ought to
learn that they waste their strength when they
resort to irrational means for attaining an OBJ
ject however jrstfable the object may be in
itself York Times.
THE people are not willing to accept the doc
trine that bankrupt roads in the hands Of the
United States Courts are the only ones that can
be kept open to the Of the public. 1t may
not be long before 10, 900 men desiring to engage
in dog fight with their corporate employers on
account of a triAing and contemplate dispute
between two men must do so without blocking
trade and traffic on public highways. 1t would
be good thing to have back Of all railroads tho
same power which has recently opened the Texas
q Pacific Chicago Tribune.
GRAND MASTER PowDERLY and the executive
committee of the order, who seem to have very
just and expedient ideas upon the subject with
which they have to DEAL have been most unfor-
tunate in failing to have their ideas adopted.
Their lack of influence has been most conspcu-
ously exhibited in Philadelphia; for when Mr..
Powderly arrived here, a few weeks ago, there
were no strikes of great Importance, and few of
any kind Since his arrival, however, strikes
and boycotts have been almost as plentiful as
blackberres in June. Philadelphia Telegraph.