The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1888-03-17
COMMENT AND OPINION.

WHEN the star-eyed goddess OF reform chances
at Garland IN the Cabinet and Benedict in the
Public Printing Office. oh, how tired she must
feel-New York Tribune.
BROTHER WATTERsoN is of the opinion that
the Randsll bill is the worst thing that has been
injec ed into legislation since tbs government
was formed. This shows that the Randall bill
Is q very good thing.-Atlanta Constitution.
No. Constant Reader. the new German EN-
peror is not an editor. Yes. it is true he begins
Disqualification eve" Enperors frequently
arrARate to themselves the editors prerogative
in this way.-Pittsburgh Chronicle Telegraph.
The idea that the tariff promotes trusts is so
preposterous that Chicago mugwump
organ is hardly pardouable for utterlng it,
Pretty soon she Herald will be- telling it's read
era that the SPOTS the sun last July caused
the recent epidemic OF measles in Kokomo.
-Phiiadelphia Press.
JUDGE GREsHAM's decision in the Wabash
case deals a blow at the pretensions and pros.
poets of the striking engineers. The chances
for the success of the Brotherhood az q conse-
quence Of this Judicial utterance, appear dscid-
edly more shadowy than they seemed to be
three or four days ago.-St Louis Globe Demo
crat.
The general public has a dseper and mora
Wit al interest in the uninterrupted railway cone-
munication of the country than any one rail-
2 road company. than the employees of any one
railroad can have. They cannot but look with
satisfaction upon any agency that prevents its
being seriously interfered with.-Ohio State
Journal.
- MAN is entitled to no special consideration
because he was not born in America And the
great mass of foreign born people believe this.
IL is only the profession al foreigner who believes
anything else. and the professional foreigner,
like the professional temperance man, or any
other kind of professional agtator. is humbug
unworthy of serious consiaeration.-N York
Press.
The so-caled negro problem is purely mat
ter of business and nothing else If the negro
race has anything III it-any pride-any man
hood-it will create society CT its own outside
of5which it will not desire to go. But what is
the use OF discussing the matter2 Such discus
son as Mr.. Cattle INDUCES IN, instead of helping
the negroes, merely Sharpens old preiudices and
aFonses new ones.-Atlanta Constitution.
IT does not seem TO the Herald that there
would be the least discredit to the organizations
in declaring the fight defeat. and retreatng.
like any great commander-like the successful
Wellington in Spaln-to safer ground The
Brotherhoods have much to lose that need not
be risktd in this battle. And the chief pos
session of this kind is the high esteem of the
public for that industrial body which. since 1877,
has not been mpted in to a general cessation of
its useful and responsible toi.-Chica2o Herald.
THE present strike was deliberately planned
and catered upon, with view compelling
increase of wages. 1t did not occur by raason
of certain number of men qntting work at the
same time. many individuals acting each
for himself. but by reason of organized de
termifl ation to force from the company conces-
sions which it could not or would not willingly
make. That is the cold truth in the case and
il cannot be changed or concealed.-St. Louis
Glohe-Democrat
given
views are lin harmony with those of his party"
but this announcements does not come from
Judge, Gresham 1t is greatly to his credit that
he has. said nothing that can be construed into
an Endorsement OF high taxes for surplus. When
Mr.. Joseph Meii selects a candidats. he is not
In the habit of making mistakes and in this
his indorsement of Judge Gresham oppo
nen1 of high taxes holds good until Judge
Gresham himself repudiates it.-St. Louis Re-
publican
A DEFEAT means that organization on the
part of wage Is of very little value. that
better relations between capital and labor
not TO be obtained by strikes or by combined eff
fort on the part of workingmen. II the corpo-
ration yields or compromises, then organization
vndica4es itself and will receive q i'm pulse.
When yau get down hard pan, therefore, you
find that the question be decided is whether a
big corporation can crowd organized labor TO the
wall or whether organized labor compel the
corporation to listen to its demands.-Minneap-
oils Tribune.
LOCAL option is the only form of prohibition
that seems likely prevail anywhere in this
country, save exception IL is founded
rule by a majority. and ite foundations are
therefore deep enough to defy the elements and
broad enough to sustain the weightiest super
structure. General Fisk does not favor the
high-icense features of the New Jersey Law.
But ii the majority demand the licensing of
dram shops anv where. valid objection
TO imposing large license fee step toward
the reduction of dram-shops. numerically, at
least Il has proved that wherever adopted.
This paper has more faith in wise laws to regu-
late and restrict the traffic than in arbitrary
laws for its total suppression. Philadelphia
Telegraph.
THEiss raised in the strike of the engineers
and firennen of the Chicago. Burlington & Quincy
road IS claimed by the strikers to be purely
question of wages. The company refused to
pay upon a certain basis which IFS employees con-
tended for, nd the present trouble ensued. The
railroad company attempted to handle It's own
traffic but did not succeed. aud subjected many
merchants TO Inconvenience and loss If ap-
picAtlon should now be made to the courts by
some Of tnese innocent victims for writ Of
mandamus upon the railroad company. and the
writ should be granted, the question might be
forced q solution, and relief be Afforded from
The parayzing effects OF thu existing disturb
ances and uncertainties.-Phila9eluh Record.