The Portland daily press., 1874-05-29
Current Notes.

The Chicago Inter- Ocean charges that Sen
ator Thurman owns $1,000 in United States
bonds. Which goes to show that he has even
more sense than was suspected.
The st. Louis Globe thinks that possibly
the smallest pinch of salt ever dropped on the
tail of the grangers with intent to capture
them, was the bill to provide for deadheading
the agricultural reports through the mails.
Gen. Steadman of Ohio tells Washington
people THAI the Democracy or Jne Empifo
state of the West' are for initiation and will
so declare in August in state convention. Is
gentleman George" who set the party
crazy over greenbacks in abundance in 1868.
about to reappear?
The New Haven Register, democratic, ac-
counts for the attitude of the democrats in
congress upon the civil rights bill from the
fact that "the Ethiopian has not changed
his skin.''
Amasa Walker writes to The Springfield
Republican giving the following reasons why
our trade with Canada has fallen off: sour
redundant currency acts like protective
tariff to the people of the provinces, and for
that matter, to the people Of every other
country who produce any commodity that
would naturally come into competition with
our own. We had very fourishing trade in
the shoe line with Australia, and it was con-
stantly increasing at rapid rate. 1t is now
almost annihilated A reciprocity trade with
the Dominion is highly desirable, and with a
high standard of value, would be large and
profitable; but, with our present monetary
system, itmust be much less than it ought.
Our mechanics and manufacturers are pass
ing over the boundary, and establishing their
several trades, because they can benefit them
selves by so doing. This is not theory, but
fact, and is the result of the short-sighted
policy of our Government in forcing the peo-
pie to use currency which for the purpose
of home production is not worth, at furthest,
more than 65 cents on the dollar"
The Stakeholder thinks that an aristocracy
or what promised to be one-js threatened
with strangulation in its cradle. 1t refers to
the railway managers as the strangled and
the grangers as the means. The affair isn't
settled yet. When it is the parties may have
changed positions.
The same paper states that in the United
States, railway managers are independent Of
of the shareholders, for managers or direct
ors ''re-elect themselves through prox-
les procured by them, mainly through
devices for which speculative stock market
furnishes machinery"
The Rev. Thomas K. Beecher contributes
to the Elmira Gazette his views on the tenn
perance question. He says he has never
known agenuine case of drunkenness to re-
suit from the use of lager beer. He recon-
mends an inspector of beverages in every
town, who shall condemn such as are de-
leterious. When this is done, he continues,
1--WE shall then probably have gone as far as
it is possible for human society to go in pro-
tecting its members against bad habits. Pro-
foundly satisfied that stimulus has salutary
part to play in Christian civilization, and
that alcohol is natures readiest and almost
universal stimulus, the problem would seem
to be SO to use it as to gain from it all the
good that can be gained and avoid all the
evil"
1t is the opinion of the Cincinnati Enquir-
err that "people who amuse themselves with
Presidential possibilities make great mis-.
take when they fail 10 include VIM. Allen of
Ohio in the list"
James McHenry, the English capitalist, is
a believer in large freights and small profits
for railroads. ga railroad" he says, "does
not wear out any sooner than it would rot
out"
The Illinois Republicans are in quandary.
The State organ wants the coming conven-
ton to endorse Logan's financial notions, but
a majority of the Republican papers don't.
Some of them want the veto openly endorsed,
subject at all. The situation in that State is
described as feverish.