The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1875-05-24
Current Notes.

The Democrats of New Hampshire think it
unlawful to vote for Matt Head, though it Is
perfectly proper for them to vote for Alunk
Head whenever they choose, and he is fire.
quently candidate.
The resolutions adopted by the New York
Democratic legislature endorsing the Cuban
revolution and demanding its recognition by
the United States government are denounced
by the Poughkeepse Eagle as "the most su-
preme piece of gratuitous foolishness ever
perpetrated by a legislative body"
In all probability the world has already
passed through the heyday of legislation; the
era of brilliant schemes of reform, of gigantic
extensions of the suffrage, and of parliament
ary oratory, is gone; and the legislatures of
the future will be humdrum bodies, whose
greatest need will be a close attention to
business, and whose greatest danger will be
the possession of prerogatives handed down
from time when there were real parlia-
ments.-The Nation.
And after all, the much-derided protection
lists show no small confidence in their system
in inviting this international exhibition. If
European free trade is much superior as its
advocates say, and protection Is so inferior,
here is the opportunity to prove it; here is
the chance to open the markets of the west
ern world, whatever tariffs may now bar them
The BUYERS of the country from all parts of it,,
the men who in the long run make the tariff,
will be in Philadelphia during next year. 1t
our foreign friends can show that they can
make better goods for less money than our
makers. they will have fine chance to do so.
1t is evident that the protected industries OF
which Pennsylvania is the center, do not fear
the comparison, though they know that they
the protective ftsh tar ff-NestGo; York times:
1t would be bitter satire on Republican
government if, in the Presidential election OF
the centennial year, the party which labored
to destroy the Government should be intrust-
ed with its administration. Indianapolis
Journal.
The Louisville Courier-Journdl speaks of
Ethan Aliens great Jehovah and the conti-
mental congress- as coarse and boastful, and
says that Allen himself was ga primeval COM
bDation of General Dix and Sergeant Bates
1t was Ethan's great misfortune that be was
not southern man, and he was known to
regret it as long as he lived.-Chicago Times.
Truly Providence has chosen the weak
things of this world to confound the mighty.
What creature is more Insignificant than the
grasshopper? The Hebrew poet long ago
choose him TO express the abject decreptude
of old age. when even the grasshopper becomes
ga burden" to man. And now, the Great West
of the United States, the west which has so
long been paraded by us before the universe
as the grandest and most irresistible product
of our democratic civilization, has been
brought to its knees by the grasshopperl
The Spectacle Of the COVE rnor OF the great
state of Missouri, the fifth in rank of the
states of the Union, appointing day of fast
ing, humiliation and prayer for deliverance
from the grasshoppers, is one of the most Gu
rious aud suggestive imaginable. We have
heretofore read of the locusts of Egypt and
the white ants of Western Africa with sort
of languid, half-increduloCs feeling of superb
ority to those old world regions. And now
comes wretched little sllpjack of an insect,
and in the twinkling of an eye makes our
census ridiculous. and turns our pride into
panic.-N. Y. World.