The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-07-27
COMMENT AND OPINION.


WHAT is the good of Democratic majority
in the House. anyway?-Galveston News Dem. J
THIS is the season of the year when you can
get what you do not want real cheap.
Orleans Picayune
LETTER addressed "g'big' safely reached
Little Chebeague for which place it was intend
| ed.-Augusta me Journal.
Now what the bereft depositor wants is an ex-
tradition treaty that will bring home some OF his
vanished money.--Detroit Tribune.
PRESIDENT CLEVELAND seems to find it a
good deal easier to live down to his party than
to live up to his professions. Philadelphia
Press.
IT is reassuring to find that Secretary Bayard,
in his little speech at Albany. admitted that he
was an American citizen. There are those who
had begun to doubt it-Boston Journal.
SENATOR PAYNE is somewhat in the condition
of the wild turkey that old farmer fired at He
has got away. but he will be likely to roost
quite low in The Senate for the rest OF his term.
-Pittsburg Dispatch.
THERE is not much room for doubt that the
course of America in the late elections has re-
tarded rather than FASTENED the dawn of liberty
in Ireland. Our sympathy should have taken
less active form. louisville Commercial.
Mr. LOGAN has made one of the gravest mis-
takes of his life. He has not been consistent
with his own record in this matter. We do not
question his motives or his honesty; but we re-
greet his failure to realize the feeling Of the coun
try.-Mnneapolis Tribune.
SENATORS are very angry because the new
treaty got into the papers before it got into
their hands It Is natural enough; and yet,
reading it in connection with editorial criticisms,
they can the more easily and quickly form an
intelligent judgment upon it. They must see
that New York Graphic.
THE sentiment which condemns pirates should
condemn Anarchists, and he vino would approve
of hanging the former should be in favor of hang
ing the latter. If the Anarchists who are now
on trial in Chicago are found guilty and punished
as If guilty, they deserve. it will be a blow to
their cause from which it will take many years
for it to recover. Denver Tribune.
THE Democratic politicians are willing to let
the President do as much talking about civil
service reform as he pleases, as long as he con-
tinues to refrain from doing anything to give eff
feet to his talk. When the President gets
through the list Of private pension bills he will
find time to attend to the violations of his civil
service order.-National Republican.
TRUE civil-service reform is that which seeks
| rather to economize in the multiplication of of
| fees and reduce improvident expenditures for
| their maintenance. AS to partisan politics. on
| which the country has thrived from the very be-
| ginning as no country was ever known to thrive,
it may be safely left to its shifting and self
| purifying courses, nrestricted-henceforth as
| heretofore. Washington Critic
III was the general verdict of those who had
| been submitted to the jury last evening without
argument, it would go very hard with all the de-
PENDANTS, and could scarcely fail In resulting in
| the conviction of six of them on the capital
| charge. The State will take up the whole of
| next week in producing further testimony. and
| the trial will not be ended for month to
! come-Chicago Tribune.
| THE only really hopeful and practical move
| ment that is under way in the interest of the
| cause of temperance is that which originated
| with some of the most earnest friends and adj
| vocates of temperance in the Republican party,
| and which proposes for the Republican party a
| total separation from all the interests that are
| included inthe phrase, s'the saloon and cease
| less war against all, that is implied III this
| phrase New York Mail and Express.
AS for Mr.. Sherman his temperate and cogent
| exposition of the duty of the Senate has made a
| strong impression on the country, and has sus-
| tanned the general judgment of his clear vision
and sound sense. Such men Of force are not so
| easily killed off, Both Sherman and Logan have
AGNES that either is not fully able to take care
| of himself will wake up to find himself grevous-
| y mistaken. Philadelphia Press.
| If the contemplated [anti-saloonl movement
| should be carried out, and it seems to be grow
| ing rapidly and steadily throughout the country
| the result would inevitably be to drive good
| men out of the Democratic party and bad men
| out of the Republican party. 1t is safe to say
that the sentiment OF the fresdes and the social
circles of the land favor progressive temperance
| reform, and this is what the new movement
| contemplates. This great living issue must be
| met Perhaps the national conference at Chi
| cago will point out the way to meet t.-Albany
| Journal