The Portland daily press., 1877-08-21
Current Comment.

The communist platform, epigrammatically
expressed, is about as follows: A loaf fer ev.
cry loafer, with full privilege of loafng.-
N. Y. World.
The great objection to the Chinese Is that
they have the old-fashioned virtues. Thew
are laborious, patient, and insist on living on
less than they earn.- Cincinnati Commercial
Communism rests upon the eternal princi-
pie of envy. There has been no age in all
the history of the world when it did not as
sert ITSELF Cane was the first communist.
He found that Abel was getting the better of
him and resented the tyranny OF capital.
And SO all the way down.-NeacarE Adeer-
tiser.
The working men are not likely, in their
own name, to demand more absurd and un-
natural ends than politicians have from time
to time professed to seek in order to gain
their votes. and it may be that independent
action, and the responsibility which goes
with it, will sober the authors OF the new
movement, and keep their expectations with
IN reasonable limits.-N. Y. Times.
Mr.. Watterson gives Blanton Duncan the
entire credit for electing the workingmen's
ticket at Louisville the other day, and takes
the opportunity to give him brief and spir-
tied eulogy. He says Duncan has a 'scapaci-
ty for mischief almost boundless," is ''im-
mense at the head of fol-de-rol," ''has been
an lshmael in the community where his faith
er was an idol,"a ''species of pariah," and has
tie energy of a locomotive and the activity OF
devil" Duncan is used to this sort of play
ful compliments, so that there won't be any
bloodshed.
Ingenious Washington correspondents
speak of Mr.. Blaine having written letter to
freind in that city suggesting that the
Labor question would override the Southern
question and that he meant to get on top of the
Labor question. And respectable papers are
found to copy this ridiculous nonsensei Mr..
Blaine has written no letter about the Labor
question and if he had he ewould scarcely have
written himself down such an ass as these
imaginative correspondents make him.
Kennebec Journal.
The opponents of the policy are not tim
i'd. They are men of the most earnest feel
ing and the most pronounced opinions. They
are prepared to resist the endorsement of the
policy by all the legitimate means in their
power, but they would, if possible. resist the
beginnings Of party disccrd. They know 1t
is not essential, under the circumstances, to
say one word about the policy in the various
state platforms yet to be formulated, The
Republican creed will be sufficient without
without this one article. They are willing to
ignore it. Why should not the friends of the
policy be equally willing? We PROFOUND this
| query, and hope that it may be wisely an
swered.-Rochester Democrat.
For as matter of fact the real capitalist of
to-day is the Irish servant girl. She has
everything provided for her but her clothes.
The cost of cottons, woolens, and all her
clothing which she wears, has been reduced
| to price below the average before the war:
below the average even Of twenty years ago
when the wages paid to girls for household
service were less than half what they are to-
| day. Yet the "girP' cannot see and will not
| understand this, but speak OF reducing wages
couple OF dollars per month, leaving them
still double their former standard, and she
sets her arms akimbo, talks of her ''rights,"
and leaves the family where she has found a
| good home for years, that has instructed her
ignorance, borne her stupidity, and enabled
| her to save money enough to feel her indie
| pendence at moments notice, and without
| thought OF the Inconvenience to which she
| subjects its members except to congratulate
herself upon it.-BGH. american.
Our genial neighbor fatters himself that
we are not jubilant over the Portland nomin-
tion. How little he knows of our "true in
wardness"-of that feeling which is too deep
for utterance! When Gen. Chamberlain,
Anson P. Morrill,, Ex-Governor Perham, Lot
M. Morrill,, Ex-Governor Dingley, Bill Frye
and he who was once "Blaine's Little Bub,"
shall have held their great mass convention,
and shall therein have endorsed the nomina.
tion of Williams, and shall have summoned
their clans from every hillside and valley OF
| the DIrigo state, from the Piscataqua to the
st. Croix, and from the Canada border to
where the wild waves of the Atlantic beat
upon our southern shores, to rally to the
standard of Hayes and Williams-then will
our genial neighbor begin to catch a giimmer-
| ing OF the mastery strategy of the chairman
| Of the Democratic state committee, of the
| wisdom of the convention stepping outside of
| its organization for candidate, and, above
all, of silence and suppressed breathing on
| the part of "Bourbons. ."-Banqor CONNER
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