The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-07-28
COMMENT AND OPINION.

PRACTICAL prohibition will only be possible
with higher and better public sentiment the
liquor question than yet prevails. -PittsDurg
Chronicle.
II any New York editor still has his skeleton
closet locked, it is because none of his esteemed
contemporaries know the combination
delphia Press.
"Do you know the nature of an oath. ma'am?"
inquired the Judge. ''Wel l reckon orter,"
was the reply; my husband drives acanal-boat."
Merchant Traveller.
''THE courtesy of the Senate" had to stand O
painful strain on the vote to refuse an inquiry
in the Ohio senatorial contested election case.
Philadelphia Ledger.
INDIAN COMMISSIONER ATKINS appears to be
a ripe subject for investigation by the Civil.
service Commissioners. They should take off
their kid Gloves Paul Pioneer Press.
HONE rule is political certainty, but the
struggle is not at all over, and while there is a
days fighting to be done there must be no lack
to the means by which it has to be waged.-Dub
lin Freeman'S Journal
In its practical results the boycott is nothing
but measure enabling capitalists to retire from
business in time to enjoy their fortunes and
compelling their penniless employees to shift for
themselves. Brooklyn Eagle
PROBABLY the testimonial that Mr.. Gladstone
would receive with most satisfaction from this
country would be treaty exposing dynamite
conspirators in America to the tender mercies of
the English law Philadelphia Inquirer.
The mugwump papers occupy an important
political field. 1t is their mission, and they
take to 1t con amore, to circulate lies that are
rejected by the Democratic press on the ground
OF intolerabe meanness.-National Republican
THOSE complaints of the drought in the West
must be erroneous. There can be no scarcity of
water there when a single railroad corporation
puts three million dollars worth in its capital
stock, in addition to what was there before
-Pittsburg Dispatch
A POLITICAL platform is good deal like the
platform which the orators speak 'front.' is
taken down after the campaign. President
Cleveland has not done away with his altogether,
however. He still keeps the nails for his party
to sit on. Washington Ratchet.
THE abolition of work cannot be brought
about by propaganda of loafers and If it were
they would be the first and greatest sufferers
They are dependent for support upon the honest
and misguided workingmen, who have not
stopped working, but have contributed a part of
their earnings to keep in idleness the apostles of
lazness. -Chicago Tribune.
WE are surprised that the trial has attracted
so little public attention. If the prisoners are
condemned and are punished as they should
be, provided a case is made out against >them
anarchism will receive a severe blow. If they
are not convicted and punished we may lool, for
more mobs and dynamite. This trial is big with
consequences to this whole country. st. Louis
Advocate.
Mr.. CLEVELAND has not played it badly, by
any means, for man unknown to the people
and without any familiar knowledge of public
life; he has managed to maintain the support of
the feeber mugwumps and to use the spoils of
Office to build up sort of personal following
among federal Office holders, but with the mass
of Democrats and with tho strongest individual
Democrats he has not been able to do anything
Milwaukee Sentinel