The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1888-02-06
COMMENT AND OPINION.

DRUNKENNESS is the most active partner of
destitution-Chcago Inter Ocean.
THE widow of Vice-president Hendricks ought
not to scold. 1t does no good, and 1t isn't n:ce
Boston Herald
IT will be a very cold day in this country
when, in time of peace, we again go into the
shinplaster business Cincinnati Enquirer.
TALK about the world being crowded! Kern
the entire population of the globe, seated in easy
chairs.-San Francisco Alta.
SOMEHOW other the fact seems to- nave
been lost sight of that Grover Cleveland was
elected on some sort of one-term promise.
San Francisco Chronicle.
ACCORDING to Mrs. Hendricks, the wife of the
late ce-president intellect is not appreciated
in the Democratic party. She must admit,
however, that fat is.-Philadelphia Press
MINNESOTA Republicans are organizing In
way that evidently means business. 1t will
take five figures indicate the Republican ma
jority in this State next fall, and the first one
will be worth more than a 5-Mlnneapons
Tribune.
PENNY postage is the most popular reform
which can be advocated in either House during
the present session. 1t should not be restricted
to every village and town at the earliest prac-
ticable day.-New York Tribune.
ACCORDING to Senator ingalls,, ''the Kansas
prohibitionists have all the law they want, and
the whisky drinkers have all the whisky they
want" The same quiet, happy, mutualy-sats-
factory condition of things appears to exist In
certain other prohibition States as well. The
Rhode Island experiment. in prohibition, for ex-
ample Is nat fallure.-Sprlngneio hepup-
lican.
If the Knights Of Labor are not really con-
tending for wages by their strike in the mines,
but for recognition Of their order power
which they have taught all employers and the
country to fear, sympathy will be rather with
the company which resists such tyranny than
conduct and show of force, such general loss,
annoyance, and distress. Philadelphia Tele-
graph
PRESIDENT CLEVELAND and the Democratic
party are using the surplus revenue collected by
the government a. a pretext for breaking down
the protective tariff In accordance with the tradI-
tional Democratic doctrine Of free trade. The
Republican party This WING Inn 70 coI hh AMY
be developed, adhsres firmly to the doctrine OF
protection for American labor and industry.
Albany Express.
TT is a common thing to hear the working pol
itician spoken Of in tone of contempt, and in .
connection calculated to convey the idea that
the "intellieence" of the community has no show
and wishes to repel rather than to attract them,
lest he cannot control them. But the real work
ing politician should longer be exposed TO
this snobbish SANDER, when he Is found inviting
and urging men of intelligence to unite with
him IN great numbers as they can command
and to take the building up of the party into
their own hands-New York Press.
THE battle of Banks for Speaker was the
for the control of the House. Colonel .Forney
presided as Clerk for many weeks. and finally
the House declared by resolution that after
three more ballots without choice, the candidate
RECEIVING the highest number of votes in tho
next ballot should De declared eiectsd regard
less OF the absence of a majority of the whole
vote. 1t was the first triumph of Rspubicanism
in Congress, and it was then regarded by it's op-
ponents as sudden food-tide of fanaticism that
would never again be heard OF in the national
government. The event il ono that merited
eommemoration. "a il was the first beginning of
the greatest political revolution of history
philadelphia Times.
THE moral sentiment OF the Prohioltionisfs
themselves does cot support them. for they as
sumo the innocence of the drinker-the princi-
nal in the act This makes the law against the
seller mockery of the principles of law and
morals Yet they take leave of common sense
by assuming that the secondary part Is the same
MS the guilt of crimes against psrsons and prop
erty, and by demanding: Would you tax mnr-
ders Would you license adnseryI Wonid you
Nave the State divide with the burglarl' But
law must be founded on morals Tho lack OF
moral foundation for law which makes crime