The Portland daily press., 1877-08-10
Current Comment.

The New York Express, Democratic organ
suggestively remarks that ''thieves and black
legs often sell their votes to Republican man
agers," which is quiet way OF saying they
belong naturally to Democratic managers.
If Congress assumed to control the rail-
roads. Vanderbilt would not give one hundred
thousand dollars to his employes-he would
use his hundred thousand dollars to secure
the election of railroad congressman alba.
ny Journal.
The Milwaukee Seutinel expresses the be-
lief that the Democrats do not expect 10 car
ry Wisconsin next fall, and says that it GER
tainly knows they would have no grounds for
any such expectations.
Truth may be in the bottom of a well, but
mans prosperity is certainly not in the boz
tom of other peoples glasses. In illustration
of this, we have tale narrated by a western
reporter, who wandered, as he tells US, the
other night into drinking saloon in DUBUQUE
of course in quest of information, and not to
quench his thirst. 1t is hardly necessary to
state that the company was discussing the
strike. The miserable man who seemed to
lead the eloqneuce, informed the melancholy
crowd that personally he was great sufferer
in consequence Of the hardness of the times
and the low rate of wages. He was person
OF long experience, aud he did not hesitate to
say that the times were the hardest he had
known in the whole course of his checuercd
existence. He had actually been obliged to
give up his newspaper, as an expensive luxu-
ry which the state of his finances no longer
permitted him to indulge in. Singularly
enough, at the close of his lamentations he
asked the crowd what they would take. In
very few moments this martyr to low wages
or no wages had spent 60 cents in charitable
conviviality, and it is intmated in the narra-
tive that he had been dispensing liquid aims
ir the same free-handed way since morning.
N. Y. Tribune.
Republican papers in Ohio are noting the
GOODNESS with which the nomination of Mr..
Bishop is received by the Democracy COM
pared with the "fever of enthusiasm" with
which the nomination Of William Allen was
received.
Congress might as well establish bureau
TO make water run up hill as one to regulate
The price of labor. The bureau of industry
idea is humbug.-Indianapolis Journal.
The solid North against the solid South
appears TO be the status of the subsidy ques-
tion. Skilled lobby labor at Washington
may soften the solidity of the North. Let
every convention declare against the subsidy
business. s.-Albany Journal.
The only way the strike can be turned into
political capital is to admit that the rioters
were Democrats, and the law. abb ding people
Republicans. The distinction is tar from
Observation-Disclosures Press.
A Southern college professor says th at
Gov. Stone of Mississippi is "as just as Aris-
tides and as brave as Cesar" His inaction
in the Kemper county massacre would indi-
cate that he is also as dead as both.-N. Y.
Times.
Stanley Matthews has been at the troubl
to write himself down an ass, or at least to-
get an interviewer to do it for him, with a
distinctness that leav es nothing to be de-
sired. Lest some of his friends should have
an excuse for maintaining that his thories of
finance were not SO wild or so knavish as re-
ported, he has been at pains to tell Cincin-
natl Commercial reporter in so many words,
that he is in favor of restoring to coinage
and circulation the old silver dollar, now
worth 91 cents, and making it legal tender
in payment of all debts, public and private.
II is wholly inadequate to describe such views
as financially unsound; they are rascally.
springfield Union. EAazR