The Portland daily press., 1875-06-11
Current NotpS.

Inc Vl.:e-President is a shrewd observer,
and Las been an exceptionally successful
prophet. In the present condition of politics,
!. requires no extraordinary foresight to see
that the way Of success lies in The path he
has pointed out.-BOstOn AduertiSer.
The Toledo Blade says: "Witk a reasoDa-
bly, full vote, which will be given, the Repub-
licans can carry Ohio next fall by handsome
majority. Everything is favorable for such
result, and Republicans in sister States may
confldently look for the redemption of Ohio
eam Democratic corruption in October"
Vica-Presicent Wilson shows his usual sa-
gacity and foresight in insisting that the Re-
publican party shall put itself into condition
to include the entire opposition TO the Dem
ocracy OF the Union. In no other way can it
succeed at the next presidential election
Boston transcript.
That hopeless donkey, Mr.. Raphael
Semmes, again sends his dreadful bray across
the roof-trees of the world. Mr.. Senmes'
present grievance is, that he should be ex-
pected to come up to Philadelphia next year,
and join in ''singtng peaEs" to Constitution
which implants a ''brand" on the forehead of
the South. This brand, as we learn from the
context, is the Fourteenth Amendment,
first instance, and then surrounded with
black lines "as a seal of disapprobatioa."
Until this is done, no centennializing for
him. We trust the gentlemen of the COM
mission are fully alive to the magnitude of
crisis. To so on without Semmes is clearly
out of the question.-SprinafeId RepubE-
can.
After looking over the field within our OBJ
servation we have come to the conclusion
that the present is transition period in the
history OF the press, and that numerous
changes may reasonably be expected to occur
In the next five years.-BOStOn Herald.
On the subject of strikers, the Boston Id
oertiser says: In this country every man
must stand on his own feet. and be the mas
er of his own will. There is labor enough
and fair remuneration for those who are well
disposed and can adapt themselves to circum-
stances. But industry is already too heavily
ourdened to take upon it the risk of being
abandoned at any critical moment. not by the
iesire OF those who are employed upon it, but
1t the dictation of a foreign body which they
nay not dare to disobey. 1t is to interfer- |
ence like this that the present unsatisfactory
condition of labor in this country is to be- |
argely credited, and little improvement can
)e hoped for till it is oveicome by the inde- |
)endence of workmen themselves.
The Rev. DR.. Manning, Secretary of the
london Tract Society, delivered au address
eeently in Cincinnati, before the Western
Tract Society. In it he referred to the
chool question. Since his arrival in this |
country he has visited many schools, and he
,ould not speak too highly of the discipline
md order which is maintained in them. But |
whenever he had asked, How do you deal
With the religious question ?" the answer has
'een, 1--WE can not say anything about relig-
on. We have children of all classes-Jews,
nfidels, atheists and Catholics-and it would
lot be right If we're permitted to teach re-
igion." "Most reluctantly have come to
he conclusion that that is the only aterna-
i've if we would keep the lightning blast of
eomanism out of the schools. 1 have ac-
epted this with great reluctance as the sou-
ion of the public school questions here and
n England"