The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1888-01-31
COMMENT AND OPINION.

| move toward free-trade when the tendency in
| every free-trade country is to move toward
| protection. -Detroit Tribune.
Mr.. GEORGE WILLIAM CURTIS might send to Mr.
| Cleveland large print copy of the latters beau
| tiful essays on civil service reform. This would
| be a delicate mark of friendly interest. "
| York Mail and Express
| THERE is ono thing for which Mr. Thuebe's
contest against Mr. Carlisle viii always be
| memorable II forced the Democratic party to
| go on record as denying the right of petition.
-Philadelphia Press
| Is the time never to come when it will be
| understood that a lawyer cannot render even a
| technical service in a corrupt transaction with
| out sharing tho odium of it, and having to
answer before the tribunals of the profeSSic nj
New York Tribune.
Sixty millions of people pay the taxes only
one million use the telegraph. Let the million
pay their own bills and let the government at
tend TO its own business. which is the main
tenancs and protection of the liberty of it's citi-
zens.-Albany Express.
REPUBLICANS are not apt to believe that their
opponents are anxious that they should nomi-
nate the strongest man for their candidate, and
this disposition OF Democratic to boom
Blaine really means that he is the candidate
whom they least dread-Milwaukee Sentinel.
DEMOCRATIC organs all over the country con-
tipue to howl at Senator Chandler, of New
Hampshire, and the Senator just earnestly
continues his demand for fair elections and
honest count at the South. There never was
clearer case OF cause and effect. Philadelphia
Press.
WHEN men make such fools of themselves as
to undergo distress in order to keep labor
they might be working on their own terms. it is
no great wonder that the labor leaders should
do their utmost to keep up this idiotic spirit
New York Times.
IT is certain that the Democrats have not
heard the end Of this Carlsle-Thahe contest.
T he fact that both men are Democrats and the
rejected contestant a workingman, and that the
case was settled by evasion not investigation,
a fOrp0ffen NV ia Of hat pla
--Philadelphia American.
THE expsdiency of some vigorous Repu blcan
efforts to make break in the hostile array OF
the solid South ia no longer open to debate and
Virginia and West Virginia surely offer more
favorable points of attack this year on the tariff
issue than on any other issue which has
been Decentralization Journal.
GOVERNOR HILL has apparently locked the
wheels of the Cleveland triumphal chariot. Ii
is not big brake and the chain is liable to break
any day; but, as it stands, it is a very pretty
Democratic deadlock in State whose majority
next fall is essential to Democratic success and
in which every vote is needed to get majority.
philadelphia Press.
SOME of our exchanges affect to be very much
troubled over what they term the inconsistency
OF the Constitution. Well. the free-trade writer
on the Constitution has retired from the bust
ness. and if it is inconsistent to advocate a
policy which has for its purpose the building M
of the South and the development Of its indus
trial resources then are indeed inconsistent
Atlanta Constitution.
IHB sins OF the western Unlon We're they ten
times as grave, furnish no reason why the gov
ernmene should go into 3 commercial business.
None OF the facts which make it necessary that.
the government should carry the peoples mails
applies to the transmission of telegraph mes
sages. The American people not Socialists.
They don't want paternal government to tho
extent of having it administer everybodys bus-
ness at the general expense.-New York Tri
bune.
PR OBJECTION is for all who produce or all who
can produce at a profit when protected against
n IA man la hnT - "a fro do ~ fha jrh
who do not care who produces if only the prod
uct can be bought at the price of blood. The
price Of labor is the price Of blood. 1t is cheap
In Europe 1t is not so cheap here. The million
alre wants to employ London and Paris artisans
and he wants free trade. Shall we have it, The
men who work and find work for others must
answer.-Philadepha American.
AND just as the world grows wiser. broader
and better, the pulpit and the newspaper. now
the great educators Of the land, will grow moro
and more in harmony with each other 1t 10
this liberal growth that makes the Sunday news
paper Low tho most important of all newspaper
issues in the centsrs of population, and certainly
minister, churches and people never were better
than to-day There is good work for all; let
each perform his work in the generous charity
that is one of the first attributes of religion.
-Philadelphia Times
INTERSTATE commerce is under the control
and the protection of Congress- Against its
abuse it is the right and the duty of that body
to legislate. State is powerless to deal with
the evil because the matter is put by the consti-
tuition within the domain of Congress. If Con-
gross can not act, then the most gigantic and
ruinous abuses may bs practised with impuni.
ty Congress has the same power to control
great commercial combinations whose opera
tons ramify States that it has control inter-
state railway trafic.-New ork Herald
THE came misguided agitation and the same
demagogism which brought on the disorganiza-
ton of the past year likely to bring forth
new evils. The labor agltators will find that the
abolition of the contract system has done them
no good, and thew will hardly be content with
of 6lap thaa rpr
ment of convicts upon some useless work. such
as digging holes in the ground and filling them
what competition there would be if the convcts
were all honest s'sons of TOLL like them-no,
like their dupes.-New York World
Projection to American industry means such
dnties competitive products as protect the
full difference between the wages OF LABOR
abroad and at home on the Same employment.
and any protection beyond that plain and Just
standard must be in the interest OF monopoly to
assess the many for the benefit of the few. 1t
is the abuse of the true principle of protection
main rains excessive protective duties. aud
we have the logical fruits in food OF trusts or
combines by which the necessariss of life and
business have been arbitrarily advanced to cost
discussion. houest protection to Industry and
honest relief to our manufacturers by the en-
largement of the free list wherever IL does not
materially cripple general industries at home.
Times.
Mr. WArTERsoS, the President and all other
honest free-traders understand perfectly that
their policy means a reduction, serious reduc-
ton in the wages of workingmen. bat they also
believe that necessities would be much re-
luced that the wage worker could lay mp Just as
much. and havo stesdier work. This is a fatal
ielusion, ii tor no other reason than that ie
would At once smash hundred industries force
employees upon the land for o living and
cause drain of money from the country which
in fv years would place things in the same con-
1ition that they were in under a similar policy
u 1857. Notwithstanding that STEADY stream oe
gold was being injected into the arteries of busi
mesa bv California. Mr.. Watterson and his
friends will try another straddle next summer,
,r they will be hopelsssly beaten,-Sals Lake
Tribune.