The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1873-10-04
Current Notes.

The Springfield Republican intimates that
if the next Legislature passes a licence law,
Governor Washburn cannot consistently veto
it, on account of the temperance plank in the
platform which Judge Hoar wrote, and upon
which the Governor now stands as a nomi-
nee.
The Journal of Commerce Democratic) is
responsible for the following item on the
eight-hour movement: Wages must go down
or work will not go on. The absurd eight
hour system must be abolished or manu-
facturers must fail. The time has now ar
rived for these letters upon business to be re-
moved. In everything else but wages there
is falling off, and the time has now come
for wages. Either there must be more work
done per day, or there must be less pay for
days work. From this alternative we think
there is no escape, and the failures in manu-
featuring establishments, which we are be-
ginning to record, are the prelude of general
movement for a reduction of wages to a
standard more reasonable than the present
one.
New York paper says that John Coch-
rane still leads the great Liberal airy. This
is mistake. The great Liberal army is dead
and John Cochrane is its tombstone.
Ign argus.
1.-The 'irredeemable paper currency of
which we hear so much once in while, gen.
orally from Democratic sources" says the In
dianapolis Journal, ''proves to be pretty
good sort of thing just now. Greenbacks
and national bark notes are alike taken as
quickly as gold or silver would be-
The Graphic expresses an opinion in re
gard to Clone, Sweet Home" which posi-
bly, many people cherish but do not express.
1t says, whether any one really likes that
lugubrious tune may well be doubted, but it
has become point of honor to profess an I'M
bounded admiration of it. The man who
boldly says he does not admire it is at once
set down as depraved person. who is un
worthy of home; and hence it comes to
pass that the American in Europe, even if
his only home has hitherto been a cheap
boarding honse, is expected on stated occa-
sions to set up on end and howl Mr.. Payne's
Vapld verses, as though they expressed the
tenderest emotions of his SOUL"
To call Congress together, says the Provi-
dence Journal, would provoke hundred
schemes OF finance, the best of which would
probably do no good, and the bad ones would
probably alarm the country, and further de-
press that confidence whose revival is the es-
sential need of the time.
Everything is grist that comes to the DEM
ocratlc mill. Even the financial panic is be-
ing converted by the organs and orators of
that party into a campaign argument. 1t
never could have happened under Democratic
rule, we are given to understand. They
have fOrOOttan ahOut 1897 -PbiIOdpInhiO
Press.
Transfers of real estate on the line of the
Northern Pacific continue to be numerous,
but they are chiefly by the shovel-full
We very readily admit the truth and the
wit of the remark that ''too many Cookies
spoil the broth y and now suppose somebody
says something else.
The Bangor Wing says: sit is hoped that
the Legislature will this winter take such
action as will teach railroad corporations that
their ostentatious demonstrations at the State
Capitol are recognized as insulting to the in
telligence and integrity of body chosen to
protect the interests of the public"
The St. Louis Globe condemns in the
strongest of terms the proposed issue of city
scrip by St. Louis. 1t denounces it as de-
structive of public credit, and as an inexcus-
able folly.
The Philadelphia Press notes as an encour-
aging sign of the times the fact that Mr.. Har-
rison Grambo, a Philadelphia banker who
failed some months ago, has within few
days past paid $4,000 of his Indebtedness,
and actually resumed business in the midst
Of the financial panic, thus affording prac-
tical rebuke to those alarmists who insist that
everything is tending toward general ruin.