The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-09-14
COMMENT AND OPINION.

THE Indian question:: Shall Geronimo be
hanged?-New York Sum-
IT is painful thought but what if Mexico
should refuse to give up Mr.. Sedgwick?-ChicRgo
Times
ISN'T it about time there was movement in
stituted to reform the mugwumps9-Denver
Tribune
ALExANDERs fall seems to have occasioned a
tumble in the market value of 6fth-rate crowns.
-Philadelphia Times
A TALE of two cities: Envoy Sedgwicks per-
formauce in the City of Mexico and the pubica-
ton of his denial in the city of New York Phil
adelphia Press.
Now, when Democratic consuls complain that
they cannot live on their pay. their party must
realize that cheese pairing economy ultimately
bothers the cheese parers. Boston Transcript
WE get on reasonably well without an Aus
trian minister Why not send word for all our
foreign ministers TO pack their carpetbags and
come homer In these steam and lightning days
diplomacy has no need of these costly and cum
bersome Intermediates. -Philadelphia Record
The Prohibition candidate for Governor of
Pennsylvania has cast off his sleeps clothing,
and Is now Wolfe without dikg seeking to
Gevour the Republican flock. If he succeeds in
swallowing all he has bitten off he will have an
attack of indigestion to which all his present
troubles will be as nothing. -New York Mail
and Express
States this year, but this must not DE mistaken
for temperance. There it a wide difference
The temperance man is one who doesn't drink
himself, and is better for it The Prohibltionist
concerns himself about whether his neighbors
drink, until he becomes a nuisance. louisville
Commercial.
INDEPENDENT action by the workingmen is
nos and then successful for single season. but
not commonly even for that; and one striking
success always seems to have damaging infu-
ence upon the cause in general, by creating dis
seDtlons among ambitious ayitators all of whom
pull together bravely enough while there are
great difficulties to be faced. Washington Star
We think that the best thing to be done about
the Cutting case is to enter into mutual under
standing with Mexico to say nothing more about
it. 1t is true that Mexico shifted ner ground by
putting new matter into the after it had
been made up But she did this not because her
first position was wrong, but because she was
frightened by u.s. This is circumstance that
we ought not to push into too conspicuous light
New York Evening Post.
IF the energy, and devotion. and money that
is misdi rected in the effort to make prohi-
bition political issue, could be used for the
moral education and fertilization OF weak indi-
vduals, and toward the perfection of the tenn
perance sentiment in society. there would be q
still further reduction in the amount of liquor
consumed-a result which General Dow admits
has not been achieved by the prohibition laws of
Maine milwaukee Sentinel.
DURING the last five years it Is fairly debatable
if in the aggregate capital has not suffered more,
lost more by depression than labor; and if. as a
whole, the rich have not grown poorer and the
poor richer. If the exact loss and gain Of each
could be accurately ascertaiped have no
doubt that labor would have but little real cause
Of quarrel with capital. Both have suffered
from past depression. but there is reason to be-
lieve that the worst sufferer has Eot been labor
Philadelphia Telegraph.