The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1888-04-16
COMMENT AND OPINION.

WE want no class-rule in this country Give
us one flag and teach the children of the public
schools one language Inquirer.
ga DEAD fall for Democrats" is what the
Philadelphia Record called the direct-tax trap.
They have fallen into it in good style. Boston
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framing appropriation bills in Congress, but by
the time the deficiency bills counted in the
economy is not quite so apparent.-Pittsburg
Chronicle.
letter ITO the public" regarding his salary. 1t is
always pleasant TO a man of Importance do
mig his full duty TO the human race.-New
York World.
was in the days when Mr.. Douglas WAS disci-
pinned, creature who crawls in the dust when
ever Southern caucus gives its orders.-New
York Tribune
berg wedding is off while the brides mother
and grandmother still favor it. The combina-
ton is too strong 20 be broken even by Bis
marck.- iladelphia Inquirer.
THE country will continue to live from hand
to mouth just SO long az Democrats given
power to disturb its industrial interests The
sooner the people understand this the better for
the country.-National Republican.
THE defeat of the bill by the tactics of the
rebel members from the South and their North
ern dough-face allies, was as monstrous an act
of reputation as would be involved in a refusal
to pay the interest principal of the public
debt-Chicago Journal
THE high-license law in Pennsylvania will be
m aintained by broad and unequivocal affirm
alton in the platform of the next Repu blican
State convention. and no Republican candidate
for the Legislature WILL good party man.
have the right to go before the people unless he
stands fairly on that plank.-Philadeiphia Bull
letin.
FREE trade can be reached only when it is APP
parent that the protection system is obstacle
in the way of our prosperity. The free trader
may urge that we are prosperous in spite of pro-
fhar Of bu ia
characteristic of sensible people that they do
not drop substance for what may be only
Observation-Disclosures Sentinel.
THE protests against Mr.. Matthew Arnold's
opinion of the United States are largely hum
buR IF we not IN the mind to reform when
the truth is told Us. the least said about il the
better. Mr.. Arnold did not tell the half IL we
are to be the model people We wish TO be consid-
cred. we must keep humbug within reasonable
bounds.-St. Louis Republican.
WE are indebted to the New York Evening
Post for the information that s.the tariff not
really an issue in the campaign" Of 1884. This
not the fault Of the Republicans. who tried
to make it ar issue, but the Democrats, who
lodged it. bat it will be diicult for the dodge
it again. and they give evidence OF that degree
of stupidity indicated by the absence of any in
tent to dodge it--Chieago Journal
IT is said that the petitions for postal sele-
graph are more numerously signed than any
petitions that have ever been sent in to Con-
gress Nearly one million names are appended
to them. Nevertheless. all the good results
probably be secursd-at much less cost and risk
by putting the lines under the jurisdiction of
the Interstate Commission.-BostonJ Journal
THE internal revenue system necessary as
war measure is radically wrong 10 times of
peace. A tax on tobacco burdens the people as
much tax on potatoes or corn.
A tax on every bushsl of corn, which
a farmer converts into a fluid for medi-
ciaal, mechanical or chemical purposes. is
q real drain upon the resources of the psople.
The attitude OF the free-traders is unwise, i'm
H~sn tfa AIAov V0rtz EraS
In the forthcoming presidential contest it will
be square stand up fight betweeu the British
policy of free trade and the American policy of
protection. Ii remains to be seen whether the
masses of Irish-American workingmen will fight
upon the side Of England or on the aide Of Amer
lea. But the result is in their hands, and IL 10
for their folly 70 make the battle Waterloo,
their wisdom, patriotism and valor to make it
Fonrenay for England.--Nsw York Press.