The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1888-03-10
COMMENT AND OPINION.

CorToN ties on the free list; hoop iron dutia-
able What folly! And this is revising the
tariff. York Press
The duty of a common carrier to take all the
freight that is offered lies at the POUNDS ton Of
society. and it may be set down once for all
that TINS country will insist on its discharge.
whether railroad presidents 'grand chiefs
Press
If the Democrats insist as they seem deter
mined to insist, on making the soldier question
exists IN the United States enough LOYALTY to
the Union and to the soldiers of the Union to
sweep the Democracy out of existence on that
issue alone.-CnIcago Inter Ocean.
DOES the issue between the Brotherhood and
the railroads relate merely to pay or to the dis
cipllne of the service7 That certainly is a fair
mined on careful inquiry by board of arbitra-
tors In a manner just to both parties. Let a
sort be made to arbitration and the threatened
injury TO business be observation-disclosures Tribune.
The issue of the Chicago Tribune which con
tanned campaign biography of Mr.. Gresham
has been scattered the country very pro-
fusely. and the public will find it hard TO disco
clate our erratic and historical Chicago contem-
porary's freetrade propaganda and its Gresham
boom. This is not Mr.. Greshams fault but
only his misfortune. Many mans prospects
have been ruined by the zeal of friends not of
his own choosng.-Minneapolis Tribune
GRANT. who tonight against every attempt at
Southern reactionism. is good exemplar for all
Republicans. He conceded principle for
history for Cancellation. He never wavered from
his convictions that the cause he fought for was
right. everlastinely right" But he was always
longing and looking for the New South" TO
come to the 'front.' and was ready to help it to
overthrow the Southern Bourbonism that is
largely kept alive by men who began their
after the fighting was over. He extended 1.-The
open palm" and not 1.-THE clenched fist."-NeW
York Mail and Express.
THE action of the New Jersey Legislature
shows that the adoption of tenn perance princi-
pies by the Republican party is not mere par
tisan measure. but further advance in the line
of march toward the highest liberty which it
has steadily pursued since it organization. 1t
freed the land from the oligarchy of the slave
holders; it freed the negroes from personal
slavery; it delivered the people from the bond
age of Democratic rule, with it's dwarfng of
ideas and its letters of conservatism. and now
it proposes to free them from the shackles of
the rum power. Let the people trust in the
Republican party.-Philadslpnia Inquirer
THE best present measure is high license and
be called the average temperance sentiment of
the country undoubtedly inclines. In the Re-
publican party that feeling is so strong that the
measure may become the party policy, as in
New Jersey But its adoption will not be
fastened by the declaration of its friends that
while they think it onght to be adopted, they
Will yet support the party regularly. even if It
be rejected or POSTPONED. The party managers
will naturally say that they are sure of the
anti-saoon vote whether its policy is adopted
not. and, as its adoption would ALLEVIATE the
liquor vote, they will retain both by postponipg
decisive aciiOn.-Haroer's Weekly