The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1888-01-12
COM MENT AND OPINION.

WITH Lamar confirmed as Supreme Court
Judge there will nothing remain to prevent
jeff Davis from re-entering the councils of the
Observation-Disclosures Inquirer.
w. c. GoUDY. of Chicago, is the last person to
join in the clamor against the power of the press.
Mr.. Cloudy has lived to little purpose if he has
not found out that the press is powerful just ex-
acty in proportion rs 1t Is honest and right, and
TO more.-Pittsburg Dispatch.
kill your sheep and sell em for mutton"
say the free-traders to the farmers. That is
the free-trade policy throughout. kip
American industries and their products for the
benefit of foreigners. But the American people
will not do iI-Chicago Journal.
THAT ths,Speaker should put at the head of
the committee on civil service reform a member
who has advocated the repeal of the reform laws
and should constitute the majority of the com
rnittee of the enemies of reform, goes to illus
trate the intensity of the Democratic devotion
to reform ldeas.-Boston Journal
PRoHIBITIoNIsr ST.. JOHN announces that his
mission Is ITO kill the Republican yarty." Evil
IDENTIFY the great apostate has read the
story of the Indian who tied his lariat around
his waist and lassoed the locomotive of light
ming express train.-PhiladelphiaP Press
IT should be borne in mind that the Reading
Railroad Company has never actually paid out
of its own pocket any part of the increased
wages received by its miners. It reached into
the pocket of consumers for the money, taking
thereform for every dollar paid to the miners
three other dollars for itself.-Philadelphia
Record.
spite of all objections If he is it will be blow
to the Supreme Court, and in the future planta-
ton lawyers may readily seek its high judicial
honors without oven admission the bar
The country viii soon be full of constitutional
lawyers of the Lamar stripe.-kansas City
Journal
THE gross amount asked for public buildings
by the various Senators amounts to $40, pa, 600,
which is about eleven days receipts of the gov
ernment. If any fault is to be found with the
amount 1t is because II Is too small, and that it
might well embrace provisions for other public
buildings where they are imperatively needed
San Francisco Chronicle.
THE people of this State have not yet reached
that emotional stage when they willing
yer elevated to the Supreme Bench for the sole
purpose os demos strating that treason in the
past and participation in the Mississippi shot
gun plan of neutraliZng the colored vote
objections to a candidate for the highest Office
Milwaukee Sentinel.
THE Utah Legislature contains in the lower
house three Gentiles and twenty-one Mormons,
and in the upper two Gentiles and ten Mormons
This Is not encouraging but IL 10 a fact suggest
i've OF the hold which the Latter Day Saints
have the Territory in spite of the reports
concerning the effects of federal legislation out
;here-Plttsbutg Chronicle
THE tribal system Is complete failure, and
can no more succeed among red than it
could among white men. So long the Indian
is supported he will not work. Neither would
a white man. The Indian work and sup
ment aid should be given only as the incentive
TO self-support. and not a substitute for it
-Philadelphia North American
IF MIR. Cloudy is desirous OF doing missionary
work and reforming the existing condition of
things there Is rich field in his own profession.