The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1869-07-13

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The True story OF Paus's shrpwrcek.
1t seems Bates College made Speaker Blaine
an LII. D., and we do not know better use to
which ayoung and enterprising college could
put the power of comforting upon ezpectant
mankind titles and honors. We have not
studied the origin Of this mysterious power,
which an association of schoolmasters has to
garnsh mans baptsmal name with all sorts
Of cabalistic letters, until his acquaintance
fairly ceases to write to him, lest by emitting
these significant initials, or putting them at
the wrong end, or in the wrong order, they
may commit some INDUSTRIOUS breach of eti-
quette. Doubtless they have such power,
since from time immemorial they have exer-
cised it. Perhaps it comes down from schol-
astic age, when all men who could read were
exempted from the liability to be tried like 9TH
er men for their crimes and were regarded as
sacred order by the great unlettered public.
Perhaps it is an investiture in the college
charter itself in some such awful language as
this: Receive ye authority to create Masters 9f
Arts, Doctors Of Lases. Doctors Of Diuinity,
and a. Hsads Of doctors sacred and pro-
fame. sati4s
To give a young college authority to D. D,
and LII. D., ad Rbituna and to forbid its exer-
else would be like giving an urchin bunch of
crackers on the 4th of July and forbidding
him to fire them off. 1t must fire off its titles,
and if it does so Overwhelmingly, if it casts
this kind of cheap bread upon toe waters, it
may come back in donations to its funds after
not many days. Thisis kind Of twice-bless
ed charity that blesseth him that gives.
We suppose man must stand whatever IT.
tie is put upon him,-that he can not elec tion-
eer for that kind of one that has the pleasant
est sound and may be the most easily written.
He might wish to be Master for instance, but
il the college saw fit to dub him Bachelor, be
would be doomed to perpetual bachelorhood;
or he might fancy an LII. d.. when the wise
pundits OF the university might decide to Gre
ate him D. D, and so he would have to be
did for the rest of his life.
In this case the title was well selected. Doc
tor of Laws seems fitting designation for our
distinguished M. Co. who in the Legisla ture
and in Congress has been engaged in doctorins
the laws for the last fifteen years. Most clear
ly he ought not to have been made doctor of
diptnity, for however well posted he may be in
his hunaGnities, it is evident that he is little
at fault in his IDENTITIES, since he seems to have
misled us in his famous quotation of the New
Testament at tie Bangor Convention 1t was
not: "Unless ye abide in the ship We cannot
be saved" but: "E1oept these abide an the ship
ye cannot be saued.i' The quotation was a
most apt one for the Constdbularies, and if the
Constabulary Ministers had been as diligent
in studying their new testaments as they seem
to be in launching a political party with
chance to steer it, they might have made
point. la..,.
The situation seemed to be not altogether
unlike the present one. Paul with that ad-
mirable courage and spirit which showed that
he was man Of genius and power, as well in
storm at sea as in mob on shore, had as
sured the distressed ships company, that not
soul on | GARD shonld perish. The sailors,
who did not share his hope, began to look out
for number one, and under cover of casting
anchor out Of the foreship were about to run
away with the boat. Paul, who had watched |
their plotting, and who knew how the common
danger would be increased by losing the help of |
all the men who had any nautical experience or
skill, gave a hint to the soldiers, who formed |
the bulk of the passengers, of the treacherous
purposes of the sailors, and they fooled them
completely by cutting away the boat and COM
polling Jack to stick by the wreck and do his |
duty. Paul leaned strongly upon the soldier |
element and used it 'effectually to save the |
lives Of all concerned. isHs e.4eae
The similarity of the situation at Bangor
consists in the fact that now, as then, tie sol
d'ers are largely in excess among those who |
are in the Republican ship. The Temperance !
men from their propensiries to water, fly |
represent the sailors Just what their coun-
sells were we ought not to say, but the editor
of the Machias Republican, who claims to be
Good TenaplGr, says that some Of them went
to Bangor with the wish SO to influence the |
action of the convention as to compel the |
Temperance men to form new party. He |
thinks the idea of throwing an anchor out of |
the tore-part of the ship, with four good an
cbors already out at the stern, was really a
''color' to cover a desertion. So that when /
the committee came in with resolution for
the enforcement of the prohbitory law, it was
an efectual cutting away of the boat in which |
the "shipmen" were meaning to run away. |
1t was perfectly effectual, for the little squad,
that in spite of Paul's wise strategy will still
attempt the fury of the waves upon Mr.. HIGH |
born's raft, will be sure to meet their political
death, while their nautical skill viii never be |
missed in managing tho ship. ''..'
We have already, spoken of the disadvan- |
tages the Temperance cause will meet with in |
losing the support of the Republican party. |
But the dependence has been mutual Not
little of the prestige and power of the Repub-
ican party is due to the fact. that the great
mass of the intelligent and sober men of the |
State have stood shoulder to shoulder in its |
ranks. 1t has fought its battles and kept up |
its majorities, while some of its less self-con-
trolled voters have been led away from it by |
the seductions of the rum-shop and the sug-
gestions of the bottle. But on the whole such
agencies have been too plain manifestation
of which side was weakest in argument, and
the great mass of cleanly and decent men have
taken note of such methods of propagandism
and voted with the party that most complete
~ disused them. ~ 4
We do not forget that this steady support of |
these best classes deserves consideration, and |
if the Temperance men have coerced their po-
itical associates to permit and maintain legis-
lation, the whole promised good results OF
which have not been realized, mainly because
the public sentiment supporting it was moth
ing more than that of bare majority, and not
always SO much as that, the political power
maintained by the steady support of the Tenn
perance men, owes them confidence and co.
operation in every possible measure that prom |
Uses to lessen the evils or diminish the tempta-
tons of intemperance.
1t is therefore with profound satisfaction |
that we note that every Republican newspa- |
per that holds the confidence of the Temper
ance men and all the men whose names, whose |
examples, whose counsels, and whose influ- |
ence have given conspicuous ali to the cause |
through the discussions of the last twenty |
years, have expressed their satisfaction at the |
position taken at Bangor by the Republican I
party, and their determination to maintain an |
association, by which all the substantial pro. |
gress of the past can be maintained
AS to the restless and short sighted few,
whose object is evidently an Independent po-
Iitical demonstration wherein they can be con-
spicuous, if they can make themselves the |
dominant power in the State they can shape |
its legislation will lose all claim to die
tate measures or laws to the political power |
they have causelessly deserted and tried to de- |
stroy.
TIE Secretary of the Navy will this week |
issuea circular, directed to Commandments of |
Navy Yards throughout the country. 1t is in