The Portland daily press., 1873-09-30
Current Notes.

The Nation says no dog was ever so much
alarmed by the clatter of the saucepan as
hundreds seemed to be by the possession OF
really valuable and dividend paying securi-
ties; and no horse was ever more reckless in
extrlcating himself from the debris of a
broken carriage than these swarms of acute
and shrewd traders in divesting themselves of
their possessions.
Referring to the subject of New York
preachers sermon, last Sunday evening
.sHow much are you really worth ?' the
| Christian Register presumes that lowing to
| the prevailing financial panic, many of his
hearers were unable to give very definite
| answer"
The "Anonymas' is the contemptuous
term applied by the Western press to those
untortunates, once known as Liberal Repub-
licans.
The people of Minnesota and Wisconsin do
lot propose that the Mississippi shall be lock-
ed and barred against them as channel of
wheat export by the arbitrary decree of jun
ia of railroad nabobs in New York, and they
will not submit to this outrageous attempt to
dictate to them to what markets and through
what channels they shall ship their produce.
st. Paul Press.
The financial crisis is now compared to As
modeus, cause il lifts off the roofs of cash
iers houses, and lets the directors and the
public look in. But the lame devil must
needs be an accomplished ocullst to restore
sight to many of the long blinded trustees
and directors.
An over scrupulous and infinitely lazy
Portland man smokes only fine-cut tobacco
of a Sunday, ayerring that putting plug in
to shape for the pipe with dull knife, and
he owns no other, is labor and consequently
violation of the decalogue.
The New York Herald is now belaboring
what it calls "C@sarism in finance to which
it attributes the panic of last two weeks, and
denounces Capitalization in business as in
| government. 1t says one man has it in his
power by the aid of capital and courage to
check the business of the country at almost
any time.
Those terrible and somewhat mysterious
oranges are now held responsible for the
financial crash. The Chicago Times says its
London Eamesake told the whole story when
it said: ''It is an effort of fiscal system to
get rid of its dishonest elements;' and the
Western thunderer adds SIT is, then, an hon.
est and earnest reponse of the fiscal system
to the farmers movement, which is an effort
of the political system, that includes the fis-
cal system, to get rid of its dishonest ele-
ment."
Senator Morton accuses Senator Thurman
of record-garbing and gross misrepresenta-
ton, adding: ''If there is any excuse for this
sort of business. 1 do not know what it is. 1
can stand it certainly as long as he can. 1t is
Letter to be the subject of such misrepresen-
tation than the author of IT."
The Commercial Advertiser proposes that
hereafter no cashier or treasurer should be
retained in office who has not been through
the rudments of Latin far enough to enable
him to know the difference between naeum
and tuhm.
The amount of currency is not diminished,
and it has not gone out OF the country. If it
is drawn from banks. it is in privste hands,
and it must speedily, tempted by lower prices
of merchandise and stocks, come into circu-
lation again. So it would not be at all sur
prising If with lower values, money should
before long be more plehty than it was be-
fore the crash,-Hartford Courdnt.