The Portland daily press., 1878-02-11
on the part of certain Democrats to take re-
venge on the members of the returning board
for other things done by them by making
them suffer for what they did not do.
Current Comment.

Current Comment.
The silver agitator dances while the coun-
try pays the fiddler.
Higher taxes and higher prices are the first
silver blessings to the laboring man.
But for the silver craze the greenback
dollar would have been worth 100 cents
to-day.
II the demagogue has his way long enough
he will cost the country as much as another
rebellion.
Mr.. Thurman talks about reconciliation
making the silver dollar equal in value to the
greenback. 1t will-by pulling the value Of
the greenback down to 90 cents.
1t is announced from Washington that the
Cabinet has decided to give Republicans the
preference over Democrats in all future ap-
pointments. A last, long lingering farewell
to the Old Line Whig!
The melancholy intelligence comes from
Pennsylvania that Ex-Governor Curtin is
convert to the cheap money theories, and has
Joined the Greenback Labor Reform combi-
nation. When Republican turns Democrat
there is 40 telling where he will bring up.
Pauline Markham-she with the "lost arms
OF the Venus of Milo''-is the latest individ-
ual implicated in the South Carolina ring
frauds. The story is that ex-Gov. Scott's
pals appealed to her as last resort to induce
him to seal lot of fraudulent bonds and
with success.
Once more the announcement is made that
the Cabinet will not be changed and that its
members love each other like band of
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thing in its way, but it has its limits as an
element of craftsmanship. A most reassur-
ing sign of growing wisdom in the Cabinet,
however, is furnished in the abandonment of
the sky-rockety system of conducting reforms
in the Civil Service.
Democratic doorkeepers of the House seem
to be addicted to too much correspondence.
Mr.. Polk's letters are not so noteworthy for
picturesque and abnormal orthography as were
Mr.. Fitzhugh's, but they show the same
scofing irreverence for the great men who
made our laws. Mr.. Polk should have re-
membered the sudden and retributive dark
ness in which the shining career of his pred
cessor was quenched.
The glut of silver is felt in the West The
st. Paul (Minn.) Pioneer-Press says: sin
this State, though the silver food was later
in coming, it is beginning to be felt by country
banks and merchants, farmers and others,
who don't like to refuse to take it from their
customers or insist on the legal-tender limit
OF five dollars, as serious nuisance. The
tills of retail merchants are being gorged
with it."
The Bible is also in favor of honest money
and proper standards. In Deuteronomy, xxv.,
13, 15, we find these commands directed to
Congress: "Thou shalt not have in thy bags
divers weights. great and small. But
thou shalt have perfect and just weight, a
perfect and just measure shalt thou have; !;
that thy days may be heightened in the land
which the Lord thy God giveth ee."-Wil-
Transport Pay Gazette.
If the silver bill becomes law, the next
step will be imitation, the next repudiation,
and the third disaster. About 1882 the starv-
ing workingmen of Cincinnati will gut the
Commercial Office, and the beggared constit-
uents of Mr.. Bland will wait on him with a
tar-barrel and rope, while Mr. S. S. Cox
will declare that "every sanction of history,
good faith, reason, necessity, law and
experience urges the restoration of consttu-
tional money. which does not include sill
ver."-World.
"With these few remarks, Mr.. Chairman,
1 will resume my seat" he said with a majes-
tic bow, but the small boy had slightly inter-
fered with his calculations, by pulling the
chair away, and the orator had the floor
again. Moral.-It is we'll enough to appoint
a date at which to resume specie payments,
but we had better be careful not to allow the
silver boys to pull the chair of financial sta
biity away at a time when it is most needed.
Turner's Falls Reporter.
An epigramatc statement of the paternal
dollar plan is offered by the Detroit Tribune
as follows: sour fathers tried in vain tor
over eighty years to maintain silver and
gold standard on an equality; but what they
were unable to do in that time our Congress
men imagine they can do in the twinklng of
an eye by vote. Our fathers were ex-
cusable for their ignorance because they
were destitute of the experience. Our Con-
without their excuse"
The glut of silver has made its appearance
as far west as Minnesota, and the merchants
are complaining of it all over the State. BY
way of cheering them up, the Cincinnati
Commercial explains TO them that it is all
owing to the fact that ''the machinery of the
Mint and of the whole Treasury Department
is in the hands of persons unfriendly to sil-
ver;' that is, there is coolness between
them and silver. Feeling lonesome and
friendless, accordingly, in Washington, silver
wanders off to country stores and banks, and
lodges in the tis and vaults sad and sorrow
full. Put kind hearts in charge of the Mint
and the Treasury, who would smile on silver
and receive it, and it would stay in that
neighborhood, and not bother the merchant
elsewhere. The cold and cynical ''goldites''
will probably deny that money circulates BY
love and friendship, but the lively Chicago
and Cincinnati financers know better
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