The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1874-05-30
Current Notes.

The Columbia Is. CO. Union Herald en-
Enthusiastically applauds Gen. Wilcox's sugges-
ton that Longstreet's corps be invited to join
in the next army reunion at Harrisburg, and
says, "Soldiers are proverbialy magnanimous,
particularly the kind that have seen service
in the bullet brigade" Thus ''the soldiers
reunions keep alive the hatreds of the war;"
The Philadelphia Press opines that the
one touch of nature which makes the whole
world kin is science, which causes the intel
lectual lions and lambs to lie down together.
intellectual lamb is good.
The Bowdoin faculty talk briefly, but to
the point. Better go on with only one stu
dent to a class and he submissive to authority,
than with ninety and nine rebellious ones,
who acknowledge no authority.-N, Y. Com
merciGl Advertiser.
The Bowdoin students get.a crumb of COM
fort from the Bridgton Neaos, which says it is
"glad to see students assert their manhood in
this positive manner, as it may have the ten
dency to teach college presidents that it is
not the easiest thing in the world to discipline
grown men by the same rules which are in
vogue in our primary schools"
Speaking of Memorial Day the Boston Ad-
certiser is Of opinion that nothing could in
dictate so certainly that the late rebels had
put away the passions of the war as their pay
ing honor to the memory of the brave men
who helped to conquer them; and nothing
could prove more irrefutabiy the absence of
vindctiveness at the North than similar hon.
ors by former Union soldiers to the memory
of the gallant dead on the other side.
The editor of Old and Neav thinks if the
enlargement of the currency had been called
dilution, instead of initiation, the parallel
with the process which waters whskey is SO
precise that it would make the matter very
Ineligible, even to the meanest capacity.
The comparison would be apt to strike the
average western mind with tremendous
force
20 The Boston Herald doesn't think ,,auol, of
the military drill at Bowdoin, but says while
the military drill is regular exercise of
the college the students make mistake in
rebelIing against it. If they did not like it
they had the privilege of leaving, and their
action in refusing to obey a rule of the col
lege was subversive of all discipline.
The New York Post insists that its dis
patch relating to conversation between
President Grant and Vice President Wilson
on political affairs was substantially correct.
The Washington Republican clamors for a
Third Assistant Secretary of State "to ad-
vance the interests of the United States with
the interesting populations of Asia and
Polynesia"
Speaking of strikes and strikers the New
York Tribune sensbly remarks: ':There are
too many people in want of work. to allow
those who are so lucky as to have it to reject
it and say no one else shall touch it. The
fact is, there is not enough work to go round;
and if those who have it are crazy enough to
throw it away, they are not strong enough to
keep the hungry thousands from picking it
up. The more they try it, the worse it will
be for Them"
The New York World is devoting its ener-
gy to warfare on the custom of giving costly
wedding presents which it calls "the penalty
the rich have to pay for vicarious nuptial
felicity" Well, the subject is less ex-
hausting than the free trade controversy,
and quite as entertaining these warm days.
Congressman Sawyer of Wisconsin, in
letter to one of his constituents, thus declines
a denomination cat the expiration of my
present term shall have served ten years in
Congress, and cannot but think that if it is
good thing to have been there, 1 ought not
to have it any longer, and, if it is a tax to
have it, then ought not to be asked to be
again a candidate"