The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1877-06-26
TUESDAY MORNING, JUNE 2e.

tanned pretty vigorously for couple of days.
There was talk of holding an Indignation
meeting, but it did not require much reflection
to see the impolicy of djgnifying the private
act OF an individual with the public censure of
a commun ity, and the project was abandoned
as quickly as 1t was conceived. The conclusion
OF the matter is that Mr.. Hilton will manage
his tavern in his own way, letting in whom he
pleases and keeping out whom he pleases.
For though the civil rights act does impose some
obligations upon innkeepers it is in the last
degree absurd to imagine that the kind of
people who ru sticate at Saratoga would ever
invoke its assistance. Similarly Mr.. Joseph
Seligman has the world before him and will be
welcome in every hotel or private house in
which sterling worth and exemplary conduct
are reasonably appreciated.
We have been having a trial in the Superior
court this week which has attracted less atten
ton than its Importance entitled it to. 1t is
between the Western Union and Atlantic &
Pacific Telegraph Companies, and Is contest
IN respect to the title to an exceedingly yalu-
able improvement in telegraphy by which four
messages can be sent each way at the same
time on the same wire. This statement seems
incredible, but it is made on the authority of
: the experts of the Western Union, and after
an explanation and exhibition of the qnoduS
= operandi, which candor compels me to confess
were equally incomprehensible to my limited
mental faculties. The suit has been in prog
fess many weeks: it is likely to last a consid-
cradle time yet; there are several lawyers en-
gagged on each side, and the summing up of
two OF them has already occupied week,
reckoning time Court fashion, that is to say,
five hours day and four days in seven. The
greatest of them all-because he knows most
about the subject in hands Edward n.
Dickinson. He finished his argument yester-
day morning. He is perfectly familiar with
everything in the way of machinery and inven-
tons and handles the most expert witness that
can be produced with skill and effect that are
the admiration of every court room. did not
hear his speech but learn that portion of
1t was devoted to a portraiture of Jay Gould,
and that he drew his picture with fidelity
that displayed every hideous trait of his moral
character with microscopic accuracy. 1t is not
we'll that the rising generation should be suf-
fered to forget the iniquitous career of
this shockingly bad man. He has evaded
the penalties of the law, placed himself be-
yond the reach of the avenging arm of justice,
and is popularity supposed to possess large
means. His reputed wealth enables him to
maintain associations with gentlemen who
ought to be, and no doubt are, heartily ashamed
that they are in any way identified with him.
But this is money-worsbipping town and the
number is great of those who are ready to &C.
cept success, as plea in bar of all moral delin-
quencies. 1t is the inequality of justice that
makes it such wretched failure. Tweed
helped himself to the property of the people
and is hapless prisoner as he deserves to be.
Gould helped himself to the property of the
stockholders of the Erie Railway, and the
felony has been compounded anc he is free.
1t is bad enough that he should have escaped.
1t would be worse still if the brand upon his
forehead were effaced and the lesson taught
that it is not the commission of crime that is
reprehensible, but the getting found out in
and punished for it. YARMOUTH.