The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1888-01-02
CON MENT AND OPINION.

THE Reading strike has illustrated the danger
of this un- American organization to it's members
as no other of the great strikes has done. and it
will doubtless accomplish corresponding
amount of good in bringing about rebellion
against such tyranny.-New York Commercial
Advertiser.
Mr. TERENCE " PowDERLY is right in his
impulses, wrong in his views and unsuccessful
in his undertakings The Reading strike will
probably end Mr. Powderly as factor in the
labor problem. and convince thousands that no
wrong exists that labor Capitalization will not
exaggerate.-St. Louis Republican.
SOMEHOW the American rough does not throw
snow-balls at public men, and neither do the
people boot a statesman simply because ne
differs with them in politics. Undoubtedly the
reason of this difference is found in the fact
that the English very highly civilized while
the Americans are barbarians.-Denver Repub-
lican
THE Knights of Labor organization have
some time past, but this blow is the severest
they have yet felt and indicates that the work
ingmen are beginning to reason and act Tor
| themselves and will no longer follow bllndly the
lead of the agitators, demagoGueS, and walking
delegates. Chicago Tribune
PERSISTENT as England always has been in
urging us to adopt her free-trade theories. che
| herself in many respects adopts in practice the
| protective tariff principle-in cases where she
finds it necessary to protect her interest against
| foreign competition. Free trade is fine thing
| in theory. but never vet in any country has 1t
/ proved fine thing in practical effect, and 1t
| never will.-Chicago Journal
| OF the nine counties in Michigan which have
held local-option elections this month, all have
| been carried against license. The vote cast
against license is largely in excess of that given
in the same counties last April in favor of the
| prohibitory amendment, which is fresh indica-
ton that temperance men can poll their largest
| vote when they get into close quarters with the
| saloons. as they do under the local option sys-
| tem.--Boston Journal
As all children cannot be, and do not want to
be- artisans it is difficult to see how the State
can logically be called upon to tram artisans
and deny special technical training to clerks and
physicians Such training is essential to enable
them to earn an honest living at once upon leav-
| ing school, and if this duty is fairly to be i'm
| posed on the State and not on the parents. why
| may not the additional duty of finding employ
| ment and keeping them at work be added?-Bos-
| ton Advertiser.
No railway company afford to allow its
employees to dictate in regard to what persons it
/ shall serve in carrying freight 1t might just as
| well permit its employees to enjoy the privilege
| of excluding passengers from its trains against
| whom they entertained any personal objections.
| The principle for which the strike was made, If
| admitted, would warrant the employees OF the
| road in forbidding the transportation of any
passengers who do not belong to the Labor party.
| milwaukee, Sentinel
| THE crime of the suppression of the negro
1 vote at the South by fraud and by violence is
| distinctly offense against the well-being of
| the country as slavery was. though not so helm
| Gus. 1t must be dealt with. or later.
| There can be no escape from it. any more than
| there was from the slavery question And the
later question will never be settled until it can
| be said that "there is not precinct in this
| Nation where a Republican cannot cast his bal
lot and have it counted cast. matter what
| the predominance of the opposing party."-New
| York Tribune.
| BUT there is another and all-sufficient reason
| against Mr. Lamar. He is not eminent law
| yer. He never was distinguished a lawyer.
| He never was heard of a lawyer except where
| he lived. For thirty years or more he has, we
| understand, been practically unfamiliar with the
| courts. The most partial friend of Mr. Lamar
| would not claim that he is learned lawyer.
he is a professional politician His habits of
| thought and life are far from Judicial. An es-
| Unable gentleman, scholar Of considerable
| cultivation, doubt, but no lawyer as we use
| the phrase in connection with the essential re-
| ouirements of this post.-Albany IN. Y Law
| Journal.
THE country is free, opportunity is free. and
choice is unhindered everywhere within the law.
Any set of men who undertake to impair free
dom of opportunity and choice in this country
will finally come to grief. There is no question
about that. If body of men may restrict the
choice of to employer, 1t may In
exactly the same way, and with equal reason,
compel an employer to take on superfiuous
hands and pay them, whether there is work for
them or not One coercive act involves the
| other. Such tyranny should be met on the
threshold and put down, or it will destroy every
| great public enterprise in the country.-Ph1la-
| delphia North American.
| EVERY man can quit work WHEN he sees fit
And every man who desires to take his vacant
place do so the very next minute II he sees
| fit. The law allows it and the courts must
| award it. and the Governors, and the mayors,
a nd the sheriffs must that individual rights
are protected and that property is guarded
against mobs. That is the simple answer to the
ponderous ..iudustAial problem that the half
baked philosophers and statesmen have been
worrying US with during the past ten years
This is still free country, in spite of the alleged
sscrisis," and man shall not be forced TO wofk
at wages that does not suit him by any sheriff
or constable in the land, and he shall not bt
hindered from accepting work at such wages as
he agrees to take by any league or union. Q.
mob in the land.-Nebraska State Journal