The Portland daily press., 1877-11-23
Current Comment.

Jones to publish pamphlet entitled "That
mine of mine. ."-Worcester Press.
The colossal size of the silver swindle be-
gins to dawn on the public mind.
The extra session has been valuable chilly
as demonstration Of the Democratic capa-
city for mischief.
The circumstances attending the offer Of
| the German mission to Robert Ingersoll are
stated on good authority as follows: Several
weeks since Senator Oglesby visited Secretary
Evarts to recommend General Julian White
of Chicago for any diplomatic position for
which he might be thought fitted, and during
the interview the Secretary stated that the
Administration would be willing to bestow
the Berlin mission upon anv candidate that
| the Illinois delegation might present. The
delegation in due time met and after discuss
ing several names, including those of ex
Governor John Baker and G. B. Lawrence
of Chicago, unan .mously agreed to recon-
mend Colonel Ingersoll. The information
was conveyed to Secretary Evarts by Senator
Ogesby and Mr.. Ingersoll apprlsed OF the sit
| uation. Opposition however, Immediately
arose to the appointment, and on Saturday
Mr.. Ingersoll formally withdrew his name
| from the consideration of the State depart
ment.
Those Congressmen who have wasted the
most lung-power in screaming Fraud" are
| the same scrupulous moralists who are ex-
| erting themselves with the most violence to
| keep Judge Bedford from the seat to which
| he was elected by the voters OF Colorado.
Once upon time there was a man who
had deg, Newfoundland dog, a dog as big
as all indoors and of an unbounded stomach
| Against harboring this animal the good
housewife had long protested earnestly, and
she was therefore much pleased when her
husband came home one day and announced
that he had sold the dog for 800. Visions
| of the new dresses that that would buy
| fioated before her mind as she asked him
| where was the money. What, therefore,
was her disgust when he replied that he
hadn't sold the dog for money, but for trade,
receiving for him four pups at S25 each.
| This story reminds US OF the West, which
traded off its imitation heresy for a silver
craze.-Ne,o York World.
The South stands as one man behind the
President and begs him not to desert his
policy of making the Democratic party solid
for 1880. "Let the Republican Senate 60 to
the bow-wows," say the disinterested South
erners. "We will stand by you with our
voices and vote the straight Democratic
ticket every time. We can't leave our party,
you know; that would be ungrateful; but we
will praise you to your hearts content"
| Any man who says this is not a generous
offer is a 'Radical scoundrel," who is op-
posed to reconciliation.
1t cannot be denied that the President has
made removals from Office in cases where he
could not cite adequate cause, ouch as incom-
petence, neglect or malfeasance in office, and
it is an essential incident of thorough sys-
| tenn of civil service that there shall be no re-
| moval5 without cause. Here is the weak
| point in his position, and his opponents with
in the Republican party are disposed to make
the most of it.-AUiGnce
There is strangely misguided person in
the south who is devoting all of his energies
and no end of space in the newspapers, to an
effort to prove that he is the author of one
of Proctor Knott's speeches. It was not the
Duluth speech. but one on the finances. If
he got one-half so mad about a report that
he was the author of the speech, there would
be no difficulty in understanding the case.
As it is, it il doubtful if Mr. Kuott himse If
can account for the poor mans infatuatioD.
There ought not to be in the mind of any
poor man the least doubt as to. the precise
way in which the Bland silver bill, if passed,
would affect him. Suppose that he is now
getting one dollar day as wages in green
backs. His dollar bill is worth 979 cents in
gold. and has just so much purchasing power
for bread and butter and beef-steak. Let the
Bland bill pass, making the silver dollar legal
tender, and the laboriDg man will receive a
silver dollar for his days work instead OF a
greenback. That silver dollar will be worth
precisely 92 cents in gold, and has just that
purchasing power. That is to say, he loses
just five and half cents on the purchasing
power of his dollar by the change from green
backs to silver. Moreover, every man who
has dollar in the savings bank will lose 55
cents on it, for while he put in greeDback
worth 975 cents, he will be paid silver dol
lar worth only 92 cents. The only class of
people who would gain anything by the Bland
bill are the silver mine owners who have
silver to sell to the mint. For 412 grains OF
silver they can get but 95 cents in the mar
kets of the world to-day, but the Bland bill
provides that the mints of the United States
shall pay the n a greenback dollar equal to
97t cents in gold for 412 grains of silver.
The passage of the Bland bill would there
fore be grand bonanza to them. and they it
is who are lobbying it through Congress un-
der the audacious pretense that it is for the
benefit of the poor n.-Springtteld Union.