The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1888-01-07
COMMENT AND OPINION.

IT was cold day for President Cleveland
when he met John Sherman.-Philadelphia In
quirer.
GREAT SCOTT, bre.r free traders. don't drop
too quick. We want to see the whites of your
eyes in a fair fight, just once.-Hartford Post.
The Petersburg Index-Appeal admits that
1.-THE Democratic party is not an angel" NO,
but 1T has two wings.-New York commercial
Advertiser.
THE Hoosiers are entitled to credit for one
thing; they are making the temperature exceed
ingy uncomfortable for the telephone monopo-
ly.-Minneapolis Tribune.
WITH PIG lawyers out of 800 members of the
House of Representatives, it is to- be hoped that
these gentlemen will remember that they are
retained for the people, and must abjure the
profitable fees of big corporations.-Pittsburg
Chronicle.
THERE isno better way of abolishing the strike
nuisance than to show that it does not pay. and
she report quoted from in this article lCol.
WrlghtsI shows this clearly that there is
room for a counter showing. With all the light
now thrown upon the situation it is safe TO say
that the striker must go.-Atanta Constitution.
FREE-TRADE dreamers will continue to write
sentiment and slush, which should come under
the head of raw material" until put in verse
and set to music, but the incontrovertible facts
and unanswerable arguments presented in
Senator Sherman's speech will remain for all
free-traders to butt their heads against De
troit Tribune
THE Republican party is not impoverished in
materials for leaders, and it had better learn
now than later that it has no indispensable
members. Whoever may fall OUT the place
will be filed promptly 1t has never been other
wise with party or people since the world began,
and there is no reason TO suppose it will ever be
otherwise. -Philadelphia North American.
MEN who in the full vgor of their mental
powers have been recreant, even for day. TO
the Union cannot be fully trusted with the care
of the sanctuary. Even if they can be relied
on in the future, the past cannot be blotted out,
and there should be no spotted careers ended on
the Supreme bench of the United States. Poll
ticians should not be appointed. 1t is the place
for jurists.-Boston journal.
CLEVELAND would not have been President
but for frauds in the Mississippi election and in
other Southern States having majority of Re-
publican voters, who were prevented by terror
and violence from exercising the franchise. To
elevate Lamar to the federal Supreme bench
will be to justify fraud, to canonize violence and
to approve the barbarous and bloody methods
of Mississippi in political acknowledging Jour
nal
HE is manifest ass who holds that we should
make money by letting sheep co. and buy
ing our wool abroad" There appears to be
surplus of wool as it is. The only way in which
free trade in wool could make wool any cheaper,
would be to have orr farmers raise it for less
That is, therefore, their apparent desire. But
would farmers do it2-Nebraska State
journal.
IT is singular that Pope Leo, who. unham-
pered by the temporal sovereignty has enjoyed
full political and religious liberty under Hum
berts government, and who has exercised a po-
Gtical influence the affairs of Europe greater
ton. perhaps, should at this stage of his career
surrender to the influence of what Cardinal
Newman might call "a reactionary and intoler-
ant faction. Chicago Herald.