The Portland daily press., 1874-03-14
Current Notes.

Current Notes.
Will some one tell us? Once a week a
sheet blank on one side and heavy on the
other, called the Republic comes TO this Office.
What is its purpose?
The present license law of Indiana which
provides that liquor dealers shall be licensed
upon the petition of a majority of the voters in
the ward or township at the last election,
and give ponds to be responsible for any in
jury to the family of any person to whom they
sell rum, does not work well. The law re-
quires no money as license while the one
it succeeds does, and from it $150,OOO was
realized annually for the school fund.
Neither has it succeeded in reducing the
humber of licenses since half of the voters
could be obtained or their names forged
which has generally been done. In passing
ii may be remarked that money obtained for
the license of liquor dealers should 60 to sup
Port poor houses, prisons, and insane asy-
lnms rather than schools.
/ The New York Times in discussing the
nloiety question and remedies for present
abuses, says ''as remedy, free trade is pro-
HooSN III oiC qudlICis 1udL, VI COuTSGs In
that quarter free trade would be dragged into
a discussion of predestination or pedo-bap-
tism, and proof would be afforded that pro-
tective duties are one form of original sin
and the sign of total depravity."
The New York Evening Post says that the
Emancipation Proclamation was perhaps az
much the work of Mr.. Summer as it was of
| the good and kindhearted President by whom
it was signed. That measure Mr.. Sumner
had at heart at the beginning of the war; he
never ceased to proclaim the necessity of it;
he urged it in public and in private; and we
know from conversation with Mr.. Lincoln
himself tnat year before his own mind was
determined Sumner was in the habit of rid
ing cut with him to the Soldiers Home al
most daily, in order to press upon him the
urgency of this great step.
The man who '.drowns the shamrock on
St. Patrck's day, does his best to drown the
teaching of his Church and the good name of
bis country. The Irishman who could put to
such a use the dear little plant that st. Pat
rick used as type of the great Thrse-in- One
tho aefy ffiaisy-slseaata aveitaetsH av 1s,s
fellow men. 1t is an insult to St. Patrick. to
Catholicity, to Ireland and to her people. to
has been the bane of too many Irishmen.-
Boston Pilot.
General G. 7. Beauregard has written
letter to United States Senator Gordon, urg-
ing the Democrats in Congress not to stand
upon the order of giving reet to Louisiana in
its distress, but to accept that plan which may
be the most effectual, While he believes in
the old Democratic doctrine of State rights
and non interference in local affairs, he thinks
that the case of Louisiana is exceptional ;that
Il it is not absolutely without Republican
form OF government, the form is so perverted
that Congressional interference cannot be
precedent for future entertainments.
How is this? Mr.. Sanborn, one of Gen.
Buffers soldiers, forwards to the Treasury
Department, tire names of Geo. Fox and
Francis Warden, partners of the firm of A.
I. Stewart & Co., as delinquent tax payers,
when the collector of internal revenue, in
which they are assessed says that these gen.
tlemen promptly paid their income tax for
this period.