The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1878-05-15
Current Comment.

It Is announced that there is about TO he
another explanation of the last explanation
OF the previous comment on the preceding
modlfcation OF the civil service order. The
news is not yet confirmed.-Albany Journal.
Complaining, repining, scolding, wishing
for good days and voting for greenback dem
agogues will not bring prosperity, but it can
be partially achieved by each man making
the most of all his resources, and doing all
that he can to make himself selfsupporting.
Boston Journal.
The anti-usury fanatics reach the solid and
satisfactory ground that "all laws securing
the repayment of money loans or the inter-
est thereupon" should at once be abrogated.
This differs from the petty rascalty of clip
ping coin or Sealing debts as highway rob.
berry does from sneak-thieving. 1t is frank.
comprehensive, and ineligible, and is fitlv
Joined with the demand "that no other mon
ey should be recognized in any way in our
courts of law but that issued by the people.n
N. 7. Times.
ut is desirable that the hoors of labor
should be SO limited as to afford the laborer
an opportunity to cultivate his mental facul-
ties and enjoy rational social intercourse
with his friends This very rational senti-
ment comes from the Greenback- Labor plat
iorm. But suppose the hours are limited by
Jaw and enforced, what would become of dan
gerously sick members of the party, when
hastily sending for physician he should re-
ply that he had finished a legal davis work
and was ''eDjoying social intercourse with
his friends ?"-Philadelphia Press.
1t is perfectly absurd to say that many who
are now going into bankruptcy have been
ruined by recent hard times. They have
been bankrupt for years, and some of them
never had anything to begin with. The
prospect of the repeal OF the bankrupt act is
bringing them out, and it is for the benefit
OF business to have the dead wood cleared
away. We are on the eve OF prosperous era.
With solid basis of financial certainty, with
values accurately determin ell, thrift and
economy enforced, the country will make
long advance,-IndianapoI News.
To what desperate straits the greenback
organs are driven from lack of argument and
authority, to support their absurd theories is
shown in the audacious attempt of the Port
land NeD Era to cite Daniel Webster as the
advocate of an irredeemable paper currency!
Of course to do this it must make an evident.
malicious and deliberate forgery and it ac-
cordngly does so without the slightest hesi-
tation or compunction. In copying the fol-
lowing extract from well-known speech by
Webster, ''For all the contrivances for cheat
ing the laboring classes of mankind, none has
been more effectual than that which deludes
them with paper money" il adds TO it these
words which Webster ne YER uttered, s'based
on coin", and attributes the whole to him,
thus directly misrepresenting his sentiments.
What sort of a rguments can be used with
such deliberate liar and forger as this green
back paper, and what kind of cause must it
be that needs bolstering up by a series of the
most reckless and apparent falsehoods and
misrep esentations P -Lea1iston Gazette