The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1888-01-03
COMMENT AND OPINION.

MOST American novelists are doing good work
in the short-story line. The result is agreeable
to everybody, and it maintains the reputation OF
America for the best short stories IN the world.
Baltimore American.
The whisky lobby inside and outside of Con-
gress will be on hand, active and vlgilant as u.s.
ever, strongest inside the Houses. 1t yields the
gravel at one end of the building.-W ashington
Republican
SAYS Prof. Goodwin Smith, in the Toronto
Mail: IF President Clevelands policy finds favor
and the United States advance in the direction
of free trade the maintenance of the protective
system in Canada will become morally impossi-
BILE Goodwin Smith is not fool; he knows a
e-trade message when he sees it.-New York
Tribune
THIS is likely to be the last serious disturb
ance that the Knights of Labor will ever make.
The order is fastening to its final dissolution
command recognition. Failing now it is done
for, and those whom it has oppressed will be-
come free men again.-New York Commercial
Advertiser.
anna; it is that through Nicaragua for which the
final surveys are just now being made, and
when it is completed and vessels flying the
stars and stripes are crossing in it from ocean
to ocean the only result of De Lessepss wasting
OF millions of francs and thousands of human
lives will remain mere scatch across the back
bone of the contlnent.-Boston journal
Mr.. CLEVELAND would have turn away
from that policy which has given us the COM
mercial independence of France and accept IN
its stead the commercial subsection of England.
As in England ard the colonies agriculture has
been crushed for the benefit of manufacturing.
so in this country Mr.. Cleveland would have
manufacturing destroyed for some supposed
benefit to agriculture. Republican.
JOURNALISM is not nowadays a matter of
scrap-book information. 1t may have been,
once upon a time, but that time is past What
journalism is to-day is the description and dis
cussion of the event which has just occurred,
and the only way to study journalism is to
work at it. The journalist must learn to write
and to think He must cultivate a state of
composition and style of thought. This he
cannot do by keeping a scrap book.-Omaha
World.
To disinterested observer then it seems evil
dent that Americans will not, Sir Charles
Trevelyan says, consent to grant an absolute
monopoly to foreign authors and their assignees,
so that they can fix the price of their books
without competition. But there is, we think, a
disposition to accord the foreign author some
viii not seriously augment the selling price of
foreign works in this country, and that will in
sure to American authors similar royalty In
other countries. Charleston News and Courier
THE italian question has been discussed
anew, but the outcome is distinctly unfavorable
to the restoration of Rome to the Pope This
much seems to be finally settled in the Italian
mind, which is not however, unfriendly to the
Catholic religion. With the beginning of the
year Leo enters upon the celebration of the
fftieth year of his ordination to the priesthood.
Catholics alike, and with the prospect of max
ing his pontiicate notable for the moderation of
his policy and for the rehabilitation of the
church of Europe.-New York Times.