The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1888-04-27
COMMENT AND OPINION.

You can brighten any potentate in Europe
just now by stepping up behind him and shout
ing ongzhay!"-Springteld Union
IT is very doubtful whether the death of Mr..
Conkiing has really made so much change in
the situation as some suppose. At all events IL
is useless speculation; for it was not the fear of
Mr.. Conking that induced Mr.. Blaine to with
draw from the canvass.-Philadelphi North
American.
THERE is a prospect that the fractional eur
srency bill will become law. Ii so. it should
! con tain provision for the retirement and re-
placement of the little notes whenever they
in. to avoid their falling into the dirty and
disrepuGable state of their war time prede-
cessors, the postal otes.-Philadelphia In
quirer
THE proper arena for the fight which Glad
stone and the home-rulers are making, is on the
other side of the Atlantic. IL is part of
American politics. and there is no duty incum-
bent upon the American citizen to share in it.
Still less may any foreign born contingent seek
citizenship for the avowed purpose OF sharing
in it.-ChlcaRo News.
THE man who only few years ago informed
his ignorant countrymen that public Office
public trust is chiefly engaged nowadays in
distributing public Offices among Democratic
place-hunters in such way will help to
tend his own tenure trustee. The voice
the voice of the statesman. but the hand Is the
hand of the spokesman. Press.
HAS it come to pass that the regularly con-
stituted State authorities have given up their
province of preserving orderl Is it really neces
sary for Mr.. Carnegie to hire hundred Pinker-
private citizens corporations hire at will
bodies of armed men to do what should be pro-
vided for by the gevernment?-New York
World.
NOT less untrue in fact or less demagoeic in
purpose 10 Mr.. Morgan's avermens that the
average income of American labor is but 1865
per year; the falsity lies in the suppression of
the whole TRUTH the average income OF the legal
profession is less than that is the average
income of the school teacher. And. moreover.
the income or labor is increasing both actually
and in relation TO what it will purchase.-Chi-
cago Inter Ocean.
THE people of Louisiana might better accept
an announcement from the Democratic leaders
every two four years who their rulers will be
for the next term This plan would have the
obvious merit of saving the expense of holding
election and would be great economy OF
might as well be exercised without election
as with The result is precisely the same
in either case.-Detroit Tribune.
IT is very hrmiliating 20 this country to have
to accept lessons in international law and d.
pomacy from Mexico, vet that is the position
in which the United States finds itself through
Secretary Bayard's ill-adyised efforts to secure
an indemnity for Cutting. Senior Marsca the
Mexican Secretary of State, has the decided adj
vantage In the correspondence in the matter,
and convicts our misft Secretary of State of an
other blunder.-Pittsburg Chronicle.
THE fact that pension certificate issued
30 Col. Bill Morrison without solicitation or de-
sire his part when many needy private
soldiers can not get their claims allowed by the
Is the Pension Bureau in the habit of doing
such favors to Democrats whose influence is
desired in the promotion of Commissioner
Blacks ambition to secure the nomination for
the vice presidencyl-St Louis Globe Democrat
1T gives outsiders a low opinion of New York
politics to learr that the high-license measure,
which has beer pending before the Legislature,
is in danger of being defeated by the iudiscre-
ton and intolerance of the Republicans in max
ing it a party scheme. In the Western States
lin Democratic Missouri and Republican Hi
nois. Nebraska and Minnesota, the subject has
been considered and adjusted without being
allowed to involve politics-and 1t is a dscrsdis
to New York that it cannot be treated in the
same way in that State-St Louis Republican.
SOME of our Northwestern Republican friends
have been afraid that the Republican protection
policy in Congress would prevent the reduction
of taxation. They need not be anxious. Tho
Democrats are dealing ont all the obstruction
there Is They have the majority. They have
had through two sessions of the last Congress
and five months of session IN this They have
if they can before the fiscal year closes The
Republican party is the only political organi-
cation which has reduced federal taxation or
which Philadelphia Press
THIS talk about defeating a presidential can
didate who happens TO be nominated in build
ing constructed by the hands of men who are
not mem ers of labor union il sheer nonsense
BY election day the whole trifiing controversy
will have been forgotten. The labor not bond
ed 10 union is more numerous than formally
united labor. The latter belittle themselves
and what earnest purpose they may nave o. I'M
potent and absurd threats of the kind. Ii IS
child's play Grown men can not be governed
by the petty motive thus presented. Such a
controversy might be worthy of notice at q pre-
cinct primary in aldermanic election, but
il has no place and can have nc weight IN
presidential election. Having made their ar
Auditorium building. the Republican national
committee are not 20 be frightened oy 90 ADJ
surd bueAboo into reconsideration of their
Yanas.-Chicago Times