The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-05-18

leans of Chicago-the direct opposite of the
truth, the production of bad hearts and disor-
dered brains.-Irish World
IT will not be the men who order the strike
who will go hungry next winter. but the wives
and children of those who obey them.-Boston
Post.
THE importation of German and French wines
ought to be prohibited in order to make those
governments open their ports to American pork
Denver Tribune
JEFFERSON DAVIS apparently wants to be re
corded In history the last man who believed
in the rightfulness of a government founded on
human slaverv-Boston Advertiser
In must be conceded that ex confederate M.
| Cs better express the average public sentiment
of the North upon pension bills than Northern
Representatives. -Boston Transcript
IN various States of this Union the cyclone
cellar will be considered henceforth more I'M
portant that zinc frill on the mansard roof or
yellow paint on the conservatory. -Washington
Post.
NINE thousand Anarchists are said to have
clipped in to raise the 81 900 required bail for
John Most This averages the price of two beers
apiece, and to that extent currails the develop
ment of the spirit of Iberty.-Boston Record.
Mr. GLADsToNE's opponents will triumph over
him, if at all, by the brute force of an empty
negation and with all its faults of prejudice. and
sowness, and dullness the English electorate
will never allow party with such plain form
to grasp and hold power.-New York Times
BUSINESS at the factory in New Haven where
the Winchester rifles are made is alleged to have
fallen off one-half in consequence of the labor
troubles at the West. This is good deal better
than 1T would be for labor troubles to produce
increased demand for such goods.-Boston Her
AID
A DISTINGUISHED American philosopher once
defined misanthrope to be "a man who has
found the world little too much for him. and
it is probable that Mr.. Most and his fellows will
lind 1t even moro too much for Anarchists than
for other classes of misanthropes. Charleston
News and Courier
THE fundamental fact in the case is that no
dog ought to be tolerated in city at ALL That
should be the canon. An exception might be
made in favor of dogs which had been inoculated
by the Pasteur method and rendered proof
against hydrophobia, upon due certi6cation of
the fact.-Brooklyn Eagle.
1T would almost seem as if periods of indus
trial depression and social trouble were coexiSt-
ent with unusual disturbances in the natural
world. Whether or not it IS simply coinci-
dence; the fact has often been noted and the I'M
usual commotion in the elements at present,
taken in connection with the unrest and turmoil
In labor circles, furnishes food for reflection
Philadelphia Record.
He mr. Holmanl knows that an income tax
is the most odious of all systems of raising reve
nue., and that if Congress finds that further pen
sion legislation must involve a resort to this
hated tax it will hesitate to assume the RESPONSE
bility For it is safe to cay that the party in
Congress which revived the income tax would
be swept out of power at the next eection.-New
York Commercial Advertiser.
AMERICAN labor owes it to itself to help itself
and its first duty is not to disturb the national
industry and commerce by unreasonable strikes,
but to show that it has the self denial thrift and
temperance which alone can lift it to higher
plane. While the enormous leak in the wage
fund represented by the drink-b bill continues to
drain away the earnings of labor it is impossible
vanced by those who pay the bill.-New York
Tribune
THE humanity Of the people Of this country
needs and will take no teachings from the most
elegant or eloquent apostles of European Mill
that are symbolzsd by the accursed red flag of
riot rapine and murder Such elements of
trouble and danger have no business in our sys-
tenn, any more than poison has in mans stom-
ach. They will be got out by just such methods
as may seem most effectual to the average intel
ligent American-New York Mail and Express.
HIGH license has been effective in Missouri in
reducing the number of drinking places and in
decreasing the drinking habit. The tax on drink
ing places ranges from $3.50 to ST. 500 per year.
In Illinois high license has had similar effect
the tax in that State being $500 to 81 000 Be-
sides lessening the evil at both ends the license
system brings into the State treasury larger
revenue 1t is believed this system has been
productive of more real good than the prohibi-
ton laws of Kansas and Iowa in lessening drunk
enness and in relieving the distress caused by
this evi-Cleveland Plain Dealer.