The Portland daily press., 1876-02-16
AhOut Rlaiue.

[ 1t is really too bad about Mr.. Blaine. He
has just been telling Congress that the Dem
ocrats were opposed 10 legal tenders when
they were considered necessary to save the
credit of the government, and enable it to
put down the rebellion and save the Union.
But when the rebellion is put down and the
war over, the Republicans want to get back to
hard money and the Democrats-a majority
of them-want more legal tenders and no
hard money. This ,rehearsing history must
be stopped. 1t is provocative of partisan
/ yscrlmmages and not craftsmanship. Messrs.
Blaine, Garfield, Hoar, Hale & Co., will
please take notice that no more modern his
/ tory can be taught this centennial year. The
country won't stand it. They may talk about
Geo. Washington and the naughty British,
but the independent journals, which have
recently taken the job of managing all crea-
tion in general and this country in particu.
lar, want it distinctly understood that no his 1
tory lest than twenty five years old is to be
alluded to in any way this year, and it is
high time those Republican fellows stopped
this sort of thing.-Sprinafeld Union.
The Chicago Tribune says of Mr.. Blaine's
speech: 1t is admirable reading. 1t is ex-
pressed in good, clear, and strong English; it
is historical and pointed in its applications of
history: it is firm in its adherence to the
doctrine of good faith under all circum-
stances. 1t describes the present condition
of the country, and explains the causes;
points out the inevitable results of inevita-
pie laws; exposes the consequences of The
proposed annihilation of the national banks
and the proposed expansion of the currency;
and, vindicating the national honor and
pledges, insists upon such legislation as will
h U yrad hrin ho 10, do
to par.
On the general principle of the necessity
OF return TO specie payments Mr.. Blaine is
both right, and strong in his reasons for the
right. He shows, with invincible logic, the
imperative need of our speedy recovery
of the universal measure of wealth. He
shows, also. in hostility to the sciolists and
charlatans who clamor for the assumption by
the government of the power to issue paper
money, the absurdity and the danger of such
a resort. The means of economic payment,
which is all that any substitute for real money
should ever be, can only be safely furnished
by agencies that are in full sympathy with
the pulse-beats of economic society," Banks
are such agencies, but governments are not.
Banks are an outgrowth of trade, in which
the conveniences of economic payments
institutions, exercising different functions,
and controlled by peculiar influences to pc
culiar ends. To invest them with the option
of creating fiduciary money is quite as dis
turbing and foolish as it would be to invest
the brain with the circulation of the blood.
or the heart with the duties of alimentary
digestion.-N. Y. Post.
Blaine looks surcharged with tremendous
nervous energy, so irresistibly impelling him
that the steam-brakes couldn't slow him
down to 300 revolutions per minute. When
there is nothing to work it of, it seems to eff r
vesce in boyish exuberance of spirits; or he
darts hither and thither across the hall, up
and down the aisles, or through the lobby,
with incessant activity. His habitual air is
that of a man intent upon overtaking to-mor-
row, and driving ahead at such tremendous
speed that nobody would be surprised if he
did it, Washington Letter.
James Gillespie Blaine is his full name,
and it would look very we'll attached 10 an
annual message.-St. Louis Globe Democrat.
The first horse to show in front of the
crowd on the track is Blaine. He has New
England and the Northwest. He is invad.
ing the South and the Pacific states, and
threatens brush in New York. With
the help OF jeff Davis as rider, he is max
ing the running lively. Bully for Blaipe.--
Cincinnati Commercial.
Messrs. Blaine and Hendricks are to be the
STANDARD bearers" in the presidential cam
paigD, and Mr.. Blaine will be elected, having
237 electoral votes to 1872 for Mr.. Hendricks.
At least that is the conclusion arrived at by
half dozen "observers' who write their OBJ
servations from Washington to the Boston
Journal.