The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1875-11-20
Current Notes.

Gen. Thomas Ewing is still nursing the
rag baby. He is making soft-money speeches
in Indiana.
The joy of the Democratic press over the
temperance OF the third-term spectre is
almost too great for expression. 1t comes to
them like the shadow of great rock in
weary land.
We cannot believe that the good sense of
the American people would permit them to
he provoked into war for Cuba by any pitch
of Spanish ughtiness.-London Times.
1t is simply aud impudently false tc say
that the state of Cuba affects the United
States at all; it neither touches their inter-
ests nor appeals strongly to their sympathies.
London Standard
The Cuban war will go on for an indefinite
time, for the public men of Spain would
rather see the Carlist insurrection continued
than suppress it by the aid of troops withheld
from Cuba.-London Ne,os.
There is wit in this paragraph from the
Vicksburg Herald: "We have long since
forgiven the North for licking us, but the
North has never forgiven us for being so in
fernally hard to lick"
In case OF necessity navy could be impro-
yised in the United much more rapidly than
in Spain, and from the Atlantic seaboard,
Gulf ports, and interior rivers a feet would
swarm in the Gulf of Mexico sufficient to
make a perfect Gordon around the island of
Cuba.-London Hour.
1t is uncertertain whether the American
peop'e would be at all disposed to incur the
inconveniences and losses of a war with
Spain, which would at least involve the ruin
of their commerce for a considerable time,
for an object which mauy may consider
visionary, and others undesirable. .-Liverpool
Mercury.
Not only ought we not to abandon Cuba to
its fate, thus corfessing our debility and i'm
potence to all the world, and exciting our
euemies to snatch our remaining colonies
from us, but so long as there exists single
Spaniard in our territory and single Gen.
one and shed the blood of the other in de.
Tending our honor and our right.-Mddrid
TEMPO Government OrgGn)
1t may be doubted whether the 'moral sup
port" which few ships of war are supposed
at Was hington to lend our side of diplo
matte controversy will be quite appreciated
by the American public. 1t would surprise
most people to learn that hostile proceedings
against Spain had been really contemplated
by our Government, and failing anv obvious
couse Of war, the necessity for a display Of
force is not quite apparently. Y. Times.
The fact is there never has been a time
since Grants election when the likelihood of
serious effort for third term was less than
now. The victories of Nov. 2. have not in
creased but have strikingly diminished that
LIKELIHOOD, tor all of them were in states
where the Republicans had expressly repudi-
ated the idea of second denomination of
Grant.-Sprinafeld Union.
The Republicans of the country are firmly
opposed to third term upon principle, and
this resolution it is not in the power of any
combination that could be formed TO change;
nor do we believe that President Grant is a
party, in any shape or form, to the alleged
movement. If there are Republicans who
have tbird-term Idea, they are not the
friends Of Grant or the party to which they
profess to belong.-Cincinnati Gazette.
Whether Cuba is likely to remain part of
the Spanish dominions is another matter. II
the connection could be severed in a fair and
honorable way it would probably be a great
advantage to Spain. Cuba does now but
dram her OF troops and money, and there
seems no likelihood that she will ever do any,
thing else as long as she remains Spanish
possession. 1t is not the power that loses the
island just now that will be an object OF pity
so much as the power that gains it.-London
Pail Mall Gazette.
1t is favorite amusement of paragraph
writers nowadays to poke sharp sticks at Mr..
Richard Grant White. What this amiable and
cultivated gentleman has done to make him
odious to such multitude of minor Journal
lists we have never been liable to discover, un-
less perhaps his pungent criticism of the
blunders and vulgarities of newspaper litera-
ture is resented as personal affront, which
Of course cannot be the case. He makes lit
tie mistakes now and then, as do the best
and wisest of men, bu. he has done good
service In the fine art OF criticism, and be has
always done 1t Ikea gentleman.-New York
! Tribune.