The Portland daily press., 1873-10-10

Last years Liberal Republican State Com
mlttee does not propose to add to the funeral
aspects of the campaign in Massachusetts oy
issuing ans address. They have held TWO
meetings, and voted to hold their tongues.
'.When you have nothing to say, say noth-
ing" e..
| tell YOU, my countrymen, whether you
are Democrats or Republicans, that the peo-
ole of this country ought never to cease to
agitate this question until their money is as
good as gold. and then they are ON a sure
rock, an eternal foundation. In all ages and
in all countries it has got to be an axiom in
financial matters that gold alone is the stan
dard of value, and the planetary laws that
govern the universe are not mere fixed and
absolute in their sway than that law which
demands that everything shall be measured
by the gold standard, and the very moment
you make your paper money as good as gold
coin, then you have got currency that you
may live by, die by, and leave to your chill
dren without fear or favor.-Sendtor Sher-
man.
The Daily Gate City, ublished at Keobuk
Ia, does not believe in the predicted great
public upheavar' which is expected to sweep
the Republican party out of power. 1t init
mates that when election time comes round
it will be found that the people don't up
heave worth cent"
The Brooklyn Eagle is not so sanguine in
regard to the results of the Evangelical AL
lance as are most people, for it says that
''when the Protestant sects lose their indi-
viduality, they will, in large measure, lose
their Professionalism. And such union as the
devotees of harmony hope for is not only not
desirable, but it is for several good reasons
impossible. The most the alliance can do,
and the most probable that its projectors an
ticipated it would do. is to make the various
bodies agree to differ, and each in its own
way make war upon the devil rather than up
on its neighbor.
There is point at which human endur-
| ance ceases to be virtue; and ifany man in
| the United States may be said to have been
| tried TO the top of his bent, and bounded to
death by journalistic gad-fies, that man is
President Grant.-Chicago hater-Ocedn.
The New York Herald says no person
would be foolish enough to argue that be-
cause man has political convictions he is
on that account unfit for the Office of Chief JUS
tice. Every citizen who has heretofore filled
that position had been previously in political
life, and most of them had been recognized
leaders in support of the administration from
which they received their appointments
Let it be understood, then, that resump-
ton is now practicable, commercially and po-
litically. The country sees its feasibility, and
is determined upon its realization. Whether
business and all our financial inter-
ests are injured and lacerated in the pro-
cess depends largely on the attitude OF the
banking interest. 1t is possible for the bank
ing power to hang back, to be Indifferent, to
be lightweight on the whole performance;
or it is possible for it to bring willing and
capacious mind to its solution.-Sprinafel
Republican.
We have thus far counted up 9999 labored
explanations of the cause of the panic, not
one of which resembles the other any nearer
than Boss Tweed resembles one of Ra-
phaePs cherubs. Press.
The churches will stand in the rank of
takers whom the old saw catalogues with the
thief, until they shut their contribution boxes
to largesses which they know to be stolen,
refuse to build seminaries in the name of the
Lord with cash supplied from the till of the
devil, and decline to fellowship the rich cheats
who devour widows houses, and, for a pre-
tence, make long prayers. Honest men and
women win be morally guilty of misprision of
felony, while through weak good nature, or
lack Of courage, or flabby sentimentaity,
they condone the ofense of the genteel
swindler by continuing their friendship with
characterization Union.
With all due respect for the exalted pur-
pose and character of the alliance, we would
suggest that Christian communion, even the
fullest and freest, Misunderstanding, or even
praying together, is not what is expected
from them at this juncture. 1t is not simply
to find out that they are brethren that they
have come together. That ought to go with
out saying. Enlisted soldiers do not spend
the time of battle in assuring each other that
they have the same captain.-N. Y. Tribune.