The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1889-09-02
COMMENT AND OPINION.

STRIKES there have been in America I'M
der protection as there are strikes also in
England under free trade. But laborers
here are never known TO be in revolt against
their employers for the last penny of n beg.
carly slxpenc an hour for piece-work.
New York Tribune.
ENGLISH dispatches report that Ian.
cashire co~tton-mills are stopping or run
largest mills in Blackburn have shut down
owing to the dizziness of trade. The places
referred to may be found on the map of
free-trade England, where raw materialss
are admitted free.-lowa State Register.
TIE Ohio Democrats seem to lave been
so ignorant of the origin of trusts as not to
know that the idea was imported from n
country which has not had a protective
tariff for forty years, and where. as COM
pared with our country, the number of gen.
uine trusts is as much greater as is the pro-
portion of free-traders In her population.
Boston Advertiser.
In case of war with Canada the United
States would have one great advantages
over the Dominion. A general amnesty,
with liberty to return TO their native land,
could De accorded to the colony OF Ameri-
can embezzlers over the border, and before
returning they would, OF course. be true to
their natural instincts, and despoil the
Canadians by stealing everything within
reach.-Boston Transcript.
THERE Is no great danger in individual
efforts to break the record, but races across
the Atlantic between passenger steamers
are dangerous in many respects. There ara
rules of the road at sea as well As on land.
and these are liable TO be disregarded when
neck-and-neck, or stem-and-stem, racing
takes place. After all, while speed is a de-
sideratum. safety is vastly more important.
st. Louis Globe-Democrat.
IT is obvious that if a national bank.
ruptcy law be desirable, and that it is NAV
be inferred from the universally with
which every commercial nation except our
nu-n has auoIlnd Ifcalf nj tie ua
one, no better time than the present can
be found for its consideration. A bank
ruptcy law framed In time of panic or conn
mercial depression is likely to be little bet
ter than an act for the protection of debt.
Ors.-Chicago Inter Ocean.
ENGLAND used protection until all her
manufacturing industries were superior to
those of other nations, and adopted free
| trade. expecting other nations to follow her
example. We are following her earlier ex-
ample in continuing protection, because we
need it, because it enhances our prosperity.
When we get so full of manufacturing in
dustries that we have to send abroad for
bread and meat We viii follow ~England's
later example. Not till Observation-Disclosures
Press.
The State Press.
PRESIDENT HARRISON sounded a KEYNOTE
| at the laying of the cornerstone of the SOL
diers' monument that brings him mighty
near the hearts of the pe~ople.-TipJon Ad.
| vocate.
INDIANA soldiers during the rebellion
thought they had just a little the greatest
Governor in all the States. Now they can
boast their State is to have the greatest
monument of all the States. When the
PATRIOTIC tests are applied Indiana comes
out MISUNDERSTANDING Standard.
WE would like for some one who is al
ways den0uncing the 'robber tariff to
name a time when labor was as high and
the necessarIes of life as cheap as they are
now. In other words, when could a labor
ing man buy more with his labor than he
can nowf-Crawfordsville Journal.
THE monument tothe soldiers of Indiana,
| whose cornerstone was laid Thursday, is
in strange contrast to history as taught in
| the Becktold textbooks. The monument
soldiers in a recent war for the preserva-
| ton of the Union. The textbooks scarcely
refer to that war.-BrazilR Register.
1T was the highest degree of patriotism
which prompted the boys to go TO the front
in the trying days between 1861 and 1865,
| signed to teach will loose much of its value
if it be understood that it commentaries
the services of any other than the soldiers
tha s .o4gh hs1 IL tn9 = LATE ~ WAT AIR Inc people OF
I theirs alone, that they ave contributed to
build SO grand a Observation-Disclosures
| News.
WE are in favor of the best school-books
that arc published. and of getting them as
cheap as possible; but we would not sac
rifice quality to cheapness. We think this
will be the result of the introduction of the
new books, though when the result of
handling is counted up the c~heapness will
be largely illusory. What may be saved in
the direct purchase of the books will prob
ably appear in the tax bills. We shall
thus save no money in the end, and be hui
initiated by the fact that the children of In
diana are using inferior books.-Brookville
American.