The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-03-13
COMMENT AND OPINION.

HIGH tariff for liquor licenses means protec-
ton for the public.-Boston Advertiser.
Mr.. EvARTs's silence on the silver question is
clearly the greatest effort of his lfe.-Pittsburg
Dispatch.
Mr.. CLEVELAND evidently enjoys the fullest
measure of his own confidence.-New York
Mail and Express.
EVERY well-regulated newspaper Office should
have on hand, for instant use, an obituary on
the Morrison Educational Republican.
SENATOR EDMuNDs's ability as an excoriator
of recalcitrant presidents has not falles into in
nocuous desuetude -Pttsburg Chronicle
WE observe with regret that Wall street has
concluded not TO disband on account of the con-
tinued coinage of silver. Atlanta Constitution
IT must not be forgotten that the man who is
willing to work has some rights as well as the
man who refuses to work.-New York Graphic.
WHENEVER a public man wishes to pose as a
statesman, he strikes an attitude-no matter
what-on the financial question. Philadelphia
Inquirer.
THE man who will invent kind of strike that
will not strike women and children harder than
anybody else can make money just now.-Phila-
delphia Times.
WHETHER license is right or wrong, It carries
tho towns in central Illinois. 1t is doubtful if
prohibition would receive half as much support.
Chicago Mail
A FREE press is quite as independent in a re-
public as is free speech, and is even more effect
ual in reducing damagogues to their proper
level.-Boston Record
THE Democrats who are now Familiarity con-
nected with the Rogers family will soon find
themselves astraddle of some very warm wires.
Atlanta Constitution.
THE offices are the peoples and the people
should know why they are taken away from GER
tain men and why they are given to others.
-Philadelphia Inquirer.
Mn hauy haw Nj Sc 10
be virtuous Republican, stalwart mugwump
and q halfway Democrat ell at the same time.
st Louis Post Dispatch.
If the Agricultural Bureau can find way to
raise cold tea on the Smithsonian grounds, Con-
gress will be liberal in the matter Of appropria-
tions.-Philadelphia Times.
THEY do these things differently In France
Sonbrie, the organizer of the strike among the
iron-workers of Decazeville, has been sentenced
to four months imprisonment Springfield Re-
publican.
THE Democrats lack of leadership In the SEN
ate is one cause of the present indecision of the
party-a cause the exact force of which cannot
be estimated, but it would be hard to exaggerate
it-Brooklyn Union.
If Mr.. Powderly is right in saying that en-
ployers will meet the workingmen half way, and
if he and such as he can eventually control their
organizations, the outlook is very favorable
one.-New York World.
Mr.. CLEVELAND Is no more a Napoleon or a
Caesar than he is a Charles /; he is rather slow
wtted lawyer from Buffalo, with a robust neck
and profound belief in himself as a man of
destiny.-Hartford Courant.
DEATH is whiting the Republican majority
in the Senate down TO very fine point. It is
still great enough, however, to make pretty
fair barrier between the Constitution and the
Democracy. philadelphia Press.
By the time the Democratic party has in
dorsed the Hennepin canal swindle, the Msss-
sippi Improvements fraud and the Eads canal
iobbery, it will have little room to talk abouE
State rights. -Atlanta Constitution.
IT seems to us that if Mr.. Powderly's advice
had been followed by the Knights this great
strike, which is costing their organization
thousands Of dollars every day 1t continues,
might have been ayoided.-New York CONNER
cial Advertiser.
CONGRESS might very safely, we think, estab-
lish new precedent in Senator Miller's case by
adopting q set of resolutions and dispensing with
the usual display Of tombstone oratory. Reso-
lutions or even formal tributes of respect, cost
less, and will answer every purpose Charleston
News and Courier.
THE Liberals now appear to have no doubt of
Mr.. Gladstone's ability to carry the country,
should the home-rule and land appropriation
measures be rejected by the House Of Lords.
From this distance it looks as if the Liberal ma
jority would be largely increased by an appeal to
the country.-New York Star.
PRESIDENT CLEVELAND has been pushed by
dishonest advisers into fatal aud .lawless at
titude. They knew it was lawless. His first
duty is to put them out of his Cabinet. his coun-
sci and his confidence, and then to open those
''glass Doors and let the public know how the
government has been conducted-New York
Tribune
Bur the Pan electric scandal in the first year
of Democratic restoration is a startling portent.
The Democratic difference with the President
upon the silver question il another significant
illustration of the situation The party Is swiftly
making its record for the campaign Of 'S8. Its
sole great advantage, to which 1t owed its sue
cess in 1884, was It's candidate, now the Presi-
dent Its true policy after the election was
plain. It was complete Identification with the