The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1873-10-08
Current Notes.

The st. Paul Press charges that ''the Chi
cage Tribune is edited by an Irishman with a
shovel, who performs his duties by loading
into the concern whatever matter first comes
to hand" A paper published by the aid of
the shovel and the hoe ought to be a journal
of culture.
Duluth comes up smiling and says "Jay
Cooke was only remotely connected with our
metropolis
The New York Mail wishes Mr.. Beecher
would repeat his Battle of Business" in
New York, where the ground is covered with
the corpses of the slain victims of the might
est ''battle'' fought for these many years.
st. Louis editors, at present, have their
Shreveport exchanges hung over clothes
line and read them through field glass.
The New York Herald pauses in the JUL
us Caesar business long enough to remark
that the victory over the panic is due in a
great measure to the wisdom of President
Grant and now we suppose it will be proper
to say that the President is very selfish man,
and wouldn't give much to subjugate an inn
poverished country anyway.
The people of Alfred, Me-, propose to
make a novel contribution to the Centennial
LAniulIl''n dO l. nitduCiphlos III lOtO3 IL buCy
can keep it till that time. 1t is an old wo-
man, born on the 4th of July, 1776, very
near the hour of the signing of the Declara-
ton of Independence. 1t is proposed to take
her to the Quaker City in palace car,
though she has never yet ridden by rail. If
she should die now, wouldn't there be mourn
ing IN. Y. Mail.
Mr., Allen, the Methuselah of Ohio politics,
is said to eat with hayfork in order to Sc
cure the vote of the Changers.
The Jackson (Mich.) Citizen points out the
various lodges of the Democracy to obtain
power in the different States, and particular
ly their falling back to old principles in Ohio,
and says: "Crushed under the obloquy of a
record which is as black as it is full of failures,
lsorganized by trading coalition which was
as destructive of all vigor as it was of all vir-
tue; they can make no telling issue, frame no
sensitive policy, discover no idea to reolgan-
ize about and find nothing to rally on. They
hadn't the wit to separate from the character
which weighed them down, making worse
blunder, and they have not the sagacity to re-
treat from this blunder without falling back
into the old offensive rut. And so they drift
along, only to take new scourging every
time the people get chance at them"
The conservatism which once controlled
Boston has become enervated by wealth and
family pride, and now utters feeble protests
against the march of progress which neoessi-
tates the overthrow of hindrance and STUN
bling blocks in the shape of the obsolete ideas
Of half century ago.-Prouidence Star.
The Methodist says Intelligent Protestants
would not wish the religious opinions of their
children to be tempered with by the young,
aa1 oto cnft
The Independent compares the Evangeli-
cal Alliance with the Infallibility Council and
wants to know which of these two councils
most nearly represents the spirit, most clear
ly comprehends the mission, most wisely adj
dresses itself to the service of Jesus Christ of
Nazareth %
The Christian Union thinks panic is not,
after all, so Objectionable phase of the men,
tai faculties, provided it does not become gen.
eral. If it demonstrates weakness in one
quarter, it brings out unexpected strength in
another.
Harper's Weekly says of President Grant !:
"He has not only not assumed extraordinary
power, but he has sought to avoid even the
opportunity of exercising lawful authority,
as in the case of emergencies in the Southern
States. If there has been fault, it is not his,
but the laws"
A panic is really mental rather than an
economical phenomenon, and has to be dealt
with by remedies addressed to the magma
ton, which is the plain truth of the matter,
although it is obscured by a good deal of fl
nancial can't No matter, therefore, what
currency we may have, there must be lodged
somewhere in our banking system the power
to meet panics by temporary expansion, and
it must be power capable of being used
promptly and with decision.
Gov. Washburn of Wisconsin, says he is
firmly convinced that $4,000 salary will give
better Congressman than $4,000. He also
says in the same speech:
That the thought of a third term has ever
entered the mind OF the President do not
believe. He has too much good sense not to
know that such a thing is simply impossible.
1t is true that some toadies and pap-suckers
have made the suggestion, and am glad they
have done SO, as l think it will tend to help
along an amendment of the Constitution in
creasing the term of the President to six
years, and making him Ineligible thereafter.