The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1877-07-18
Current Comment.

Secretary Sherman is reported as saying
that he may have to concede something TO
the strong anti contraction sentiment in the
west. He had better order his coffin.
No man connected with the administra-
ton Of General Grant has been more per-
sistently and causelessly and bitterly maligned
than Mr.. Robson, and NO one of them has,
in ns department, rendered greater services
to the country Providence Journal
If, as was once said, to love certain
charming woman was "a liberal education"
to know Gail Hamilton is large and brilliant
and varied social experience. She is woman
who, had she esbeen in France and known the
lingo, might have shone in the Partisan sa-
Ions of the time OF Roland and De Stael.
Grace Greenwood.
A western newspaper has improved on the
original plan, and now says, "No communi.
cations will be published in this paper unless
accompanied by the full name of the writer
and five dollar bill; these are not requested
for publication but as a guarantee OF good
faith"
Greenbacks seem to encompass Grover as
with garment. The "Reform' Democracy
picked out an expert when they wanted an
agent to buy an elector.
The good old road to victory suits the Iowa
Republicans well enough. If anybody else
chooses to search for new and unimproved
shortcuts, or lay out new corduroys, or to
follow section lines,or to attempt to go across
lots, let them; the Iowa Republicans propose
to stick to the. well-known. broad, we'll
worked and easy.going old urnpike.-Detroit
Post.
Now, the significant fact is that the doc
trine that government can give actual ex-
changeable and intrinsic value to any current
cy by stamping it and declaring it lega.
tender underlies the greenback movement; ;
fifteen years have accustomed us to the use
of m oney, and the doctrine that anything is
good money which the law declares such has
taken root. This dangerous falacy of the
greenback movement has spread under the
silver movement, and threatens to unite the
two; logically. they are the same, for If law
can make OIL cent silver dollar really equal
to gold one, it can do the same with 90
cent paper dollar.-N. Y. Times
Unless there is decided change in the
management of horse trots they are likely
to soon become obsolete for the want of pat
ronage. The trotting associations, horse
owners, pool buyers, and every one else con-
nected with them are virtually in the hands
of the drivers, who, as rule, don't care a
continental for the spectators, judges, or the
men who pay them to trot. TO use street
term, the drivers, with scarcely an exception,
are con the make" and the public are
gradually ascertaining that fact. 1t has been
said that if the pool selling is abolished there
will be no more trotting. All right, let it be
so. Better no trotting at all than the jock
| eyed races the country is now being treate d
| to. There is not the slightest doubt that
the Hampden park association have done
their best to please the public. They Ger
tainly have labored hard during the past
week and will have to put their hands pretty
| deep into their pockets to make up the losses
caused by want of patronage. The people
however have learned by experience what
has already been stated in regard to the
drivers and the gambling, and besides that
| they stand chance of being robbed on any
| race track by the thieves who follow the
| circuit, unless they leave their valuables at
home or are unusually wary. Springfield
| Union.