The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1888-03-19
COMMENT AND OPINION.

Pc OR Badeau 10 trying to make Doodle out of
the dead lion. Let him beware lest he be placed
in the position Of the living jaekass.-Cinsinnatl
Emo uirer
IT is about as difficult to ind Tascott as it is
TO ascertain the Democratic position on the tar
iff There is an occasional clew, but that is all.
-Peoria Transcript
IF Mr. Gerry would only have the boy preach
and boy tragedians called in for their health,
and the health of the pub bic, he would earn the
gratitude of all the land--Puck.
NOTHING but the consultations of esoseric
Buddhism will be aole to soothe Bostons aelta-
ton at the kno Wedge that its favorite son was
more subjective than objective in the fight with
Mitchell -Providence Journal
THE Iowa Legislature is trying to strengthen
the prohibitory law Eternal tinkering is
of the features of prohibitionist legislation.
Maine has been at 1t for over thirty years. and
yet the law Is detective milwaukee Sentinel
ALL of the sixteen negative votes on the de-
pendent pension bill in the Senate from
south of Mason and Dxon's line. And yet the
Democratic press has the gall TO talS about the
Republican party sectional.
Tribune.
WHATEVER the true theory about the extern
sion of the engineers strike may be, it should
be plainly understood that the people will not
tolerate, and the law Is very likely to punish
any such general spread of the disturbance
would paralyze the transportation business of
the country.-New York Star.
THE Democratic administration had rather
apparently throw the money in the Treasury
into the sea than to waste it paying the govern
ment debt and stopping the vast outflow of in
terest II Is time to pull it up and ma Ike the
Treasury dispose of the money accordin to the
intention of OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES State Journal.
ANY party that could shake off the control
which liquor saloons exercise over the action of
caucuses could safely defy all the power they
can exert at the polls. Let its nom nations be-
independent OF the saloon power and represent
opposition to it and it would doubt lose the
''iquor VOTE" but it would gain much more than
it would lose.-New York Times
THE third-party Prohibitionists of Indiana
have nominated State ticket platform of
woman suffrage and no liquor: And now these
third party people will go blindly to work TO
help the Democrats 70 defeat the Republican
party, which is the only political party th-t has
ever done anything for the cause OF temperance
either in Indiana anywhere ese.-Chicago
Journal
UNLESS the Republican party makes up it's
mind to show some of its old-fashioned courage,
it matters little who IS nominated. IL has been
fed quite long enough the trapped siush
served by muewumps, free-trade college dudes
and sham civil-service reformers. Let US have
a candidate whose Rspublicanlsm is all wool
and yard wide. and who favors tariff on the
wool. To win with any other manner of man
would be a victory not worth contendiDg for.
New York Press
If the tariff message and the British treaty
are to constitute, We are told. the issues" on
the Democratic side for 1883. it would be just as
we'll for the advocates of such plan of cam
paign 10 study for brief period beforehand the
politics of the State whose electoral vote is to
decide the contest. For, il that subject Is not
studied and studied to earnest purpose before
the June convention in St. Louis. q repeti,ion of
some of the grotesaue biunders of the 1880 can
vass may restore the chances and revive the
hopes of the Republicans. othsrwise left face to
face with inevitable defsat-New York Sun
tDem.l
THE pension bill which passed the Senate last
week, granting pension TO exsoidiers and sail
ora who incapacifated for the performance
of manual labor and providing for pensions TO
relatives of deceased soldiers and sailors IL IN
form very much and in spirit entirely the same
as the bill introduced by Senator Harrison four
year ago which then for the first time embodied
the principle. The chief difference u that Har-
risuns bill provided for partial disabilities while
the present measure pensions only total disAbili-
ties, and there was an effort by Senator Plumb
TO strike out the word total in the present bill.
hut it was defeated at the urgent request of
members of the committee pensions who
feared that the bill thus amended would he de
feated. As passed. the bill represents the wishes
Of the g. a. II. men.-Indianapolis News