The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1875-02-26

WORK Win tne Old Time zeal Iof Cne OLD Time
victory.
We need not urge upon our Republican
| friends the necessity of united and hearty ac-
| ton, or the importance of using every hon
orable means to bring out full vote. The
fact that the enemy is hopeful and that he is
willing to avail himself of the corruption fund
of the groggeres and those parties who most
| frequently appear in our police court, is
sufficient incentive to earnest effort.
SartOrial Rights and Wrongs
1t is now more than forty years since Car
| lyle wrote his amazing volume on clothes in
Babyonish dialect which appalled, public
not yet accustomed to it. Judge True of the
| Augusta police court, has just delivered an
| opinion which must be accounted a continu
alton of the great clothes theme first ade-
quately treated in Sartor Resartus. Judge
| True is not so dscursive in his handling of
the subject as his illustrious predessor,-had
he been, what plaintiff or what heirs of a
plaintiff could ever receive justice before his
tribunal? Carlyle, in the quiet secusion of
| scholars life, had opportunity to consider
| tions-in fact to make mere''cotton or woolen
hnlls" quite Insignificant matter beside the
customs, observances, forms, ceremonies, ,insti-
tutions, and the very bodies of men, nay,
| time and space themselves, which he regards
as clothes of the most important sort. What
a world OF grim humor What mad whrling
about of metaphors and symbols! What re-
condite German mysticism! What demoral-
ization of capitals and yoking up and consol-
| idation of our plain English words into brist-
ling Germanized compounds! Who that has
once read can ever forget that solemn pro-
mitigation of the articles of faith of the
'.dandiacal body" including articles four and
| six, viz:
A. There is safety in swallow-tail.
6. 1t is permitted to mankind, under GER
tain restrictions, to wear white waistcoats.
Or that lawless imagining of world out of
clothes, and the sudden disappearance of the
outer integuments at royal reception or in
the House of Lords? Hear him and forbear
| to blush, if you can!
| Lives the man that can figure a naked
Duke of Windlestraw addressing a naked
House of Lords? The imagination, choked
| as in mephitic air, recoils on itself and will
not forward with the picture. The Wool
| sack, the Ministerial, the Opposition Benches
-iWanduml i,yandum!
And so he goes on to consider Sin how far
the scAREcRow. (sic) as Clothed Person,is
not also entitled to benefit of clergy and trial
| by jury; nay, consi dering his high function
| (for is not he, too, a Defender of Property,
| and Sovereign armed with the terrors of the
| Law?) to certain royal Immunity and Invi-
olability, y,"-and ends with this sharp, sarcastic
thrust at the official world: 80 my Friends,
we are lin Yorick Sterne's words) but as tur-
! KEYS driven with stick and red clout, to the
market; or, if some drivers take bladder
and put peas in it, the rattle of it terrifies
the boldestv'
No wonder the English cynic uses an inn
aginary Prof. TeufeEdrockh for a stalking
horse in the PRONUNCIATION Of such wild fan
| cies as these!
But Carlyle is prophetic. He foresees Judge
True and his anti-Sartorial decision. He be-
| walls in his chapter on Tailors the dsrespect
shown by ungrateful mankind to the MEM
bers of the most useful of professions. We
| quote:
| 'sUpwards of century must elapSe, and
still the bleeding fight of Freedom be fought,
| whose is noblest perishing in the van, and
| thrones be hurled on affairs like Pelion on
| Ossa, and the Moloch of Iniquity have his
| victims and the Michael of Justice his mar
| tyrs, before tailors can be admitted to their
| true prerogatves of manhood, and this last
wound of suffering Humanity be closed"
And it is even so, though Andrew johnson
once drove his goose drawn car by devious
ways into the very White House. Judge
| True has put back the clock of the
world another fifty years for the tailors. A
rural SWAIN hight Patterson had an Augusta
tailor cut for him a suit of clothes. "Irgdn-
duna! infandump they didn't ''set wellw
Animated by that overbearing spirit which
characterizes this licentious generation in its
| dealings with artists in cotton and woolen
fabrics, Patterson sturdily demanded indem-
nity and redress. But Dolliver proudly stood
| by the immemorial usages and institutes os
tailors-''base is the knave that gives redress
aohere the clothes are made out Of the shop"
| On this rock Dolliver planted his feet Hence
the notable cause-Patterson VS.. Dolliver.
Judgment Ior plaiIlGlu lor SUN eApehu
ed in making the necessary changes.
Wrath of Dolliver and CONSERVATION of
| tailors. Doliver writes to the Kennebec
Journal and gets snubbed, laughed at, shut
| up short. 1t is understood that he will reply.
| Neither he nor his brethren will submit to be
held accountable for 'sfit'' if an unreason-
able public will wrest from them the material
for the inchoate garment when only dimly
shadowing forth the ultimate form which the
artist would have given, and so render it i'm
possible for him to realize his aesthetic idea.
Rouse, ye tailors! Aur armes! or, if you
have no stomach for war, reverse the exult
ant saying of st. Simon and comfort your
selves with exclaiming-"The past, at least,
is ours"