The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1888-02-07
COMMENT AND OPINION.

Mr. CLEVELAND will go on the retired list be-
fore wool goes the free list.-Detroit Trib
une.
ELEoTIo conspirators are beginning to find
thar Ohio and Indiana are unhealthful fields for
their peculiar line of trade.-PittsouTg Dis
patch.
Mrs. HENDRIcKss declaration that 'intellect
is not appreciated in the Democratic party"
comes dangerously close to offensive partisan
ship-Pittsburg Dispatch.
SAM JONES sometimes breaches whole SER
mon in a few sentences. For INSTANCES: ''There
is great difference between singing 'Hallelu-
jah. 1t is DONE and having courage to go out
and do it. We sing all right, pray all right feel
all right. but how few dare do all right Pitts
burg Commercial Gazette.
Two of the Indianapolis tally-sheet forgers
have been sentenced to the penitentiary. and the
Democratic organ of that city has been sold.
So the evidence accumulates of the de1noraliza-
ton and nneasiness of the Bourbons OF tbs
Hoosier State. They IN good trim for being
soundly beaten next fall.-Clsveland Leader.
Mr.. WHITE is a citizen by double claim-by
long residence and Naturalization and by
vice--honorable service, and wounds received in
the war for the Union. He was elected by two
thousand five hundred majority. To unseat
ord in the war on barren technicality would be
disgraceful.-New York Herald.
If inquiry could be made to the who
are leading the press of the country to-day, it
would be found that large number are grad
yates, the late Daniel Manning was, from
the printers case, and that their experience in
handling type has been no disqualification for
the advanced work which opened to them when
they were prepared for it.-Boston Herald.
IF anybody give good reason for asking
that the widow of the late Vice-president Hem
bricks be granted pension, the country is
ready to receive it Was Mr.. Hendricks a
union soldierl Was he q friend of the
union soldier2 There are too many histories of
the late war lying around with pages open and
marked to make it profitable to his friends to
discuss the matter great length-Detroit
Tribune.
WHEN mountain hamlets like AshevilIe, N.
c.. come in for half million each for a post
office, the prospect of tho surplus melting away
rapidly snow under a June sun is rather
more brilliant than agreeable. All things con-
sidered, it will probably be just well for the
Democracy to wait before reducing duties or
extending the free list, whether there
will be dollar OF the surplus left after their
appropriations are all made.-Philadelph Tel
egraph.
IF the employees had observed the contract
and acouiesced in the former scale of wages,
and had then represented to the company that
the rate of wages was unfair and inadequate,
and that Pennsylvania miners were VIGOROUSLY
underpaid and their condition sorely stratened,
and the alleged action of coal companies in oc-
casionally arbitrarily raising the price of coal
had been clearly set forth. the movement would
have commanded public sympathy which.
a wanton violation of distinct and voluntary
agreement, it certainly does not now command.
Public sympathy is naturally with the laborer,
but it is his misfortune that his action is gen.
orally controlled by designing or an unwise
Observation-Disclosures Weekly.