The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-07-13
COMMENT AND OPINION.

Mr.. GLADSTONE must now regret that it ID
impossible for him to hold general parliament
airy election in the United States.-Boston Rec
ord.
MEANTIME, we observe with rage and chagrin
that the Canadian vulture is still yankiug tbs
tail feathers off the proud American eagle. -PhiA
adelphia Press.
Mr.. CLEVELAND will go down to history az
the first President who ever went out of his way
to cast sur upon the widow of gallant Unioa
soldier. Minneapolis Tribune.
WHAT we need in this State is strict execut
ton of the Iliquor law as it stands and
when we have accomplished that it will be timB
enough to 60 still further.-Boston AdvertiSes.
THE higher and really very grave issue Id
whether the President shall confue himself to
the execution of the laws or, usurping the funca
tions of Congress, proceed to make the laws
Washington Critic.
THE British constituencies have organized po-
litical chaos by their votes on the home-rui0
question. Parliament will be as great do.
nothing body our Congress until this question
is Standardization Herald.
CHAMPIONS of economy and Treasury watch,
dogs are necessary public functionaries. But
they are a disagreeable lot of fellows, all the
same. Mr.. Cleveland should be sorry to bG
bracketed with Holman, of Indiana. Franz
cisco Chronicle.
If Attorney general Garland can interpret the
signs of the times he must see in the popular
of the satisfaction with which the country
would hail his tooong postponed resignation
New York Evening Post
SEVERAL fuflgrown Democratic papers ara
dsputng as to the meaning of the tariff plank
in the Democratic national platform of 1884. No
one knows what it means, but it was fabricated
to deceive protection Democrats during the
Cleveland aign.-Boston Journal
LET sermons be made voluntary, and LEI
preachers resolve to preach only when they have
message to deliver-or, to use the Quaker
phrase, when they ''are moved by the Spirit
and their occasional dscourses will doubtless be
vastly more fruitful of good than the perfume.
tory sermons they now deliver Sunday after
Sunday to bored and listless auditors. Chicago
Times.
DEMOCRATIC papers are making much ponder
Gus fun of General Logan just now in regard to
his attitude on the Fitz John Porter case the
private pension vetoes and other matters. But
there is not one thing that General Logan has
said done, or so far as we know, thought
herein of which any truthful, courageous and
patriotic American can disapprove. -Minneapo-
lis Tribune.
IT would, indeed. be we'll if the Constitution
were 80 amended as TO enable State by it's Leg.
islature to impeach its Senators, and upon lind.
inc them guilty deprive them of their seats. Is
Senator is guilty of corrupt practices after en-
tering upon the discharge of his duties as SEM
ator, the people of his State ought to have tho
in his place. denver Republican.
Mr. GLADSTONE, as some one has said OF him,
is never so sure to excel himsslf as when he Is
confronted with difficulties that would utterly
crush weaker man. Such an opportunity he
has now In view OF the weakness OF the coz
ltion and the unalterable determination of the
opposition plainly manifested, it would not ba
surprising if there were to be another general
election within year. hiladelphia Record.
WHAT sort of reform" administration Ia ir
that has waited month after month for Garland
and Goode to tender their designations? Does
any intelligent Democrat believe that this inef-
ficiency, lack OF courage, or lack Of Something
else, would have been displayed for such pro,
longed period and toward two such subordinates
Garland and Goode by either Grant or
Hayes. or Garfield, or Arthur No sensible and
well-infermed man can believe this.--New York
Mail and Express.
How does it sound. laborine men of the North.
this statement that certain colored workers on q
plantation in Arkansas, having struck for higheE
wages. have driven off other men who were will-
ing TO work. and have so resisted tho authorities
THAT riot has resultedl Is IL disgracefuH
Does it place in sharp relief the fact that coored
rioters were really trying 10 rob other colored
men of their right to work. But in all this there
is only imitation of the Missouri Pacific strikers,
the Chicago strikers. and the Third -avenuo
strikers If the behavior Of colored men appears
outrageous To white workers at the North, how
does tho conduct of their own tra6es-u unions
sometimes appear 10 other peoplel-New York
Tribune.