The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1888-01-09
COMMENT AND OPINION.

VERY few men know when they've got enough.
But the most of us know when we haven't got
enough.-New York Epoch.
THE next twenty five years of the life of this
Republic are to be the happiest and most pros
porous it has ever known.-Portsmouth IN. H.
Times.
PERHAPS one reason why Mr.. J. Russell
Lowell thinks Mr.. Cleveland is such high
type of Americanism' is that he has
suited the records at Buffalo.-Detroit Tribune.
IT does look little though the G. o. P. is
bracing up That was good bugle blast blown
by the New York Republican caucus, and it
seems to be going over the country in great
shspe.-New York Press.
Every man, woman and child in this country
bought goods in Great Britain last year to the
extent of 81 80 each. Would it not have been
better that this trade should have been kept at
homel-Cleveland Leader.
A GOOD bankrupt law would be very good
tktng for Congress to pass this session, but it is
too near the presidential election to expect that
body to do anything that has not got some pol
itics in it.-Pitts burg Dispatch.
THE senior Senator from Indiana is the only
man in the country who thinks he convince
the Senate by the same methods he would en-
ploy in addressing petit jury in an assault and
battery case.-Philadelphia Press.
IT is impossible to make American State
out of polygamic theocracy The latter must
be reformed out of existence. Then Utah will
become an American State without any tricks.
Having nothing to conceal ana no concealed
ends to gain, she viii adopt the open and
straightforward methods common TO American
politics Salt Lake City Tribune.
SAM JONES should preach sermon REV
renee" There many people who would like
to know his ideas on that subject, if he has any.
When Mr. Jones jocularly reiers to Diety as
walking around with his hands in his pocket
he is guilty of what would be considered bias
phemy in most men. However, Mr. Jones may
intend to be very reverent. Therefore, we
should like to ascertain his conception of rev
rence.-Kansas City journal.
THE boycott is an extinct institution It was
not founded on common fairness, and public
opinion did not support it. There are reasons
to believe that the power of strikes is weaken
ing. This is owing to the fact that strikes have
often been indefensible. that they have at times
been disorderly and destructive, that they have
entailed heavy losses upon employees and en-
ployers and have resulted in serious inconven-
fence to the public.-Kansas City Star.
CARLISLE claims majority of 825. Thnbe
has proved enough fraud to show his own cleo
ton by ESQ majority. To all this Mr.. Carlisle
makes no answer. 1t is evident that he has
answer to make. He not elected to Con-
ship He evidently relies a partisan major
ity to keep him in his seat, right or wrong, on
technical pieadings or by the mere force of
numbers, in the face of all the evidence against
hirn.-Chicago Journal
THE DID, old story is told again.' although
probably not Eat o'clock in the morning"
Assistant. Treasurer of the United States
Charles j. Canda has resigned to slip into vice.
presidency in a national bank. Thus the public
officers 60 one after another from the federal
Treasury into national banks and from the
bench of the United States courts into snug
railroad corporation sinecures. And none Of