The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1888-11-28
COM MENT AND OPINION.

IT is safe to say that American citizens in
love with the old flag, and in full sympathy with
American ideas. will represent the United
States in all foreign courts early in next year.
Chicago Inter Ocean.
CAPITAL needs no organization and labor will
have accomplished much when it learns that
wild and reckless action, under the name OF
strikes, must react for harm. while cool and
wise action, and resort to strikes only as a last
recourse, should be their course.-Portlsnd
Oregonian.
IF 1t be true, as q few politicians and journal
vote 10 absent from the polls oy reason Of apa-
thy. then not the less dees justice demand that
representation should not be given to a popula-
ton that does not share in the act Of choosing
representatives Chicago Inter Ocean.
THE acquisition of Canada would add nothing
to the wealth of the United States, but would
add a population not in sympathy with the form
OF our government or with the spirit of our in
situations. The Canadians are Englishmeu,
not Americans, and IL would take long years to
Undue them with American idess.-OmAha Re-
publican.
THE fact that his order 1.-The Knights Of La
Dor has lost two-thirds of its membership un-
der his [Powderly'sl management, and that q
rival organization has gained twice its strength,
bad no influence upon the delegates when the
thumb-scrsws were applied to them. His sue
cess is now a matter of but slight importance to
the masses of the working people of the United
States.-Nsw York Sun.
HARRISON carried every ono Of the eight
States bordering en- the great lakes by plural
tiles aggregating about 2l3. 600. He will PROB
ably show that their confidence was not mis-
placed by doing all that he can to help lake
through the Improvements of rivers
and harbore upon which the government has
been working, in a putteripg way, for many
years. Cleveland Leader.
If this Democratic conspiracy to count ont a
Congress elected by the people should be
pressed to a test, the free people of States
demand that the government shall find q rem
edy and apply it without delay. The time has
come to put a stop to Systematic defeat and de-
faDce OF the Constitution and the laws in States
subject to national authority. New York
Tribune.
THE idea OF Southern men boycottine North
ern merchants because the latter are Repub.
licans ia absurd. There ia no sentiment in
business. When men open their purses they do
not consult politics. The States of the Union
are bound together in close commercial ties, and
the men who are settling in the South, helping
her to develop her products and buying her
goods, have no empty sectional prejudicc.-Au
gusta lGa Chronicle.
Don't wait, rich man, till you are dead. Give
your children enough to keep them in harmony
with their environment, and to enable them to
realize any good motive they may have for the
use Of money. and then establish industrial
schools, to make manual labor q dignifed pro.
fession. 1t is a thousand times better to bene.
fit mankind than to svade your trustesship by
leaving q fortune to somebody who may have
no sense Of responsibility for ito use.-New
York Press.
A FREE government and the deliberate and dis.
loyal training up of enemies to q free govern
ment cannot 60 together. One or the other
must stop. We do not believe that a handful
Of wretched alien conspirators can prove them
selves stronger for attack than our system IL
strong for defense. but We are certain that We
are gaining nothing by ~delay-thst there 10 no
good to be found in the perversion of the young
that the time to assure our future il not to-
morrow or next year, but now.-Chicsgo News.