The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1874-11-03
Current Notes.

Farewell, October! You have.been one of
the best months that ever was, and we
shouldn't mind having three or four like you
in every year.-N. Y. Mail.
If you want to know whether you grand
mother was cross-eyed, or where your great
uncle stood in his arithmetic class, just run
for Office, and you'll know it al.-N. Y.
Commercial.
Paymaster Carpenter U. S. N. informed a
New Hampshire court the other day where
he was witness that he took his Democratic
ticket and his whiskey straight. A striking
coincidence. -.l.
tits asserted that the ,yew York Tribune
folded an extra sheet filled with stale ISLANDERS
against Gen. Dix and other Republican can
didates for the sum of $4,000. This is high
toned independent journalism. Is. -
In noticing of the proposed change in the
Chicago Tribune nnder Mr.. Medill to an in
dependent Republican party paper-"agggres-
sively Independent" the Boston Globe says:
This is the only kind that can exert a
really healthy influence and accomplish
good. We trust that the era of sham indie
pendence in newspapers, which was an ex-
pedient of those sheets that came so near be-
ing stranded by the Greeley movement, to
save them from utter destruction is we'll
nigh past. 1t was morbid development
that must be cured, or it will kill those affac-
ted by it.
1t is proper, however, to say, as it is use
full to remember, that the people of the South
are not the only sufferers from the war into
which, without provocation, they recklessly
precipitated the country. That war not on
Iy cost us rivers of blood and thousands Of
millions of treasure, but occasioned wide
spread Generalization, substituting fraud for
integrity in the discharge of official duties and
fiduciary trusts. All wars leave their wounds
and penalties. Neither the wars of other
countries, nor the former wars Of our own,
ever inflicted such evils as those through
which we are passing Exhaustive extraya-
gance and luxury are among the worst "cank-
ers of long war."-Thurlo,o Weed.
The building of unnecessary railroads has
taken vast amounts of capital from public use
without being of the benefit that is expected
of them. In some portions Of the West this
is notably the case, while fortunately in this
state we have been comparatively free from
it. A writer in the Railroad Gazette discov-
ers that 6S per cent. of the $500, 100000 of
bonas on which interest has defaulted repre-
sents roads which will not develop and stimu-
late agricultural production. He instances
the southern part &c Michigan as having
been covered with net Work of roads with
| in few years, but the county being well
| settled befoie, fails to respond With any
| great increase Of production. 1873
1t seems to me that we must not travel foi
| single instant out of the direction of specie
| payment. but we must look right at gold as
to the place to which we must go-as the
place where we must end our journey. In
regard to that subject I feel great desire
| that there should be harmony among the
! people, and to that end we must make it &
| subject of popular discussion and set the
| newspapers which now waste three, four
and five columns every day in discussing Gre
nation, base ball, third term and other non
sense, and let them deal little while with
the practical industries of the country.
l There should be common understanding
aetween the Democrats and Republicans
alike toward the South; it should be deal
with according to the true PRINCIPLES of polit
ical ecoaomy. The people of the Soutl
should recognize the fact that in the sinew
OF the black NAV. they have the machiner.
that is to bring them out of all their suffer
ing. For the carpet1aaggers of the South
have the same feeling that Mr.. Schultz ha!
for the political thieves Of the north,-Isad
| FL. Bailey.