The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1878-07-12
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The Berlin Congress work is about done,
and Bismarck will soon remove the sign,
beware Of the dog" from the door. Com
merciGl Adrertiser.
A complaint comes from New Orleans that
Governor Nichols and the other Democratic
officials are not helping to uncover "fraud."
Possibly they are afraid of turning up the
wrong kind.
On the ground that General Butler would
compel those New York swells who take
pleasure in amateur coach-driying 70 drive
drays from six in the morning until nine in
the evening, let that wealthy aristocrat (Gen-
eral Butler) be compelled to sail a fisher.
mans boat and earn bis living at catching
fish because he sails costly yacht for pleas
ure. By all means have all of these purse
proud pleasure-seekers compelled to earn
their bread by manual toil.-Boston Journal.
This is how the Mobile, Ala, Register
sketches the rebel government: Mr.. Davis
was proud of his own military experience
and carried his powers as chief executive into
all the bureaus. Mr.. Stephens feared from
the start that the Confederacy would be
failure and as is always the case with men
"A0So AeoAo oiO csicAlIuCQ AZ buc ulOulGut bu6lr
suggestions are disregarded, he permitted
himself to drift into state of what we call
"armed neutrality" The Confederate Con.
gress was composed largely of men who be-
lieved that one Southerner could whip six
Yankees and that the war would end in six
months.
No one imagines that Mr.. Butler believes
tenth part of the stuff with which he thus
seeks to commend himself to the Greenback-
ers of Massachusetts. He is too clear-headed
not to see whittier his propositions lead, and
he has too much at stake to bs Indifferent to
their practical application. By the side Of
his anarchical doctrines the greenback agita-
ton, as expounded by Peter Cooper, is pure
conservatism. If Mr.. Butler is hereafter TO
be its exponent, it must be ranked With the
widest forms of communism. Its tendencies,
as he developes them, are destructive of capi-
tai and order. Capital will shrink from an
enforced industrial activity subject to the su-
pervision which Mr.. Butler would establish:
and the distrust of one class will feed the ami
mosities of another. Taken altogether. Mr..
Buffers contribution to the oratory of the
Fourth is uniquei in its mischievousness. The
intent is more diabolical than the speech.
-New York Times.
The Cincinnati Commercial which is an
energetic searcher after information, makes
a suggestion to the World in the following
shape: "The World is very enterprising
newspaper. There is question not settled
even by the Watterson-Hewitt controversy.
Throughout that terrible exchange of rhet-
oric each of the combatants intmated to the
other that both knew great deal more than
either dare tell-and that was the solemn
truth. The World should interview some
body and ascertain the full particulars of the
consultation between Tilden and the South
ern Congressman. We refer to the time
when Mr.. Tilden drew his memorandum of
the number of available troops of Connecti-
cut, Rhode Island, New York, New Jersey,
Delaware, Maryland and Virginia-and when
Mr.. Lamar said, But men alone, even with
arms, are not an army; and Mr.. Tilden said,
'True enough, money is needed and dis
played paper showing the quantity of gold
in New York: which he, as President, pro-
posed to capture under declaration of mar
tial law. Let us get at the bottom facts"