The Portland daily press., 1878-03-06

says is what every other anti-silver paper
In the country have said time and again. But
then, in spite of all these arguments, Con-
gress passed the bill by an overwhelming ma
jority before sending It, to the President.
This being popular government, land the
question at issue being one which the people
had right to settle through Congress, it Is
the duty of all good citizens to accept the re-
suit. Those who favored the bill ought to
feel very good, and those who opposed it may
take consolation from the fact that they are
not responsible for what evil 1t may incur,
and that, if it produces more Levil than good,
it can be repealed. We have so much faith
in the intelligence and integrity of the Amer
ican people that we are not badly frightened
at the passage Of bad law.-Gl0be Demo-
crat.
The "sweet singer" may not exactly lubri-
cate her machine with the oil of genius, but
she makes it grind out good deal of mule
sense occasionally. 'Leaye off the agony,
leave off the style, unless you've got money
by you all the while," MARBLES the siren of
the ever-yerdant pinery. Let the people
chalk up that bit of wisdom, stand under 1t,
and good many of them will find more
bread and butter in the pantry than hereto.
fore. Cincinnati BREAKFAST Table.
There must be some men whose idea Of
Heaven is that of place from which an in
Vulnerable company of drunkards, who have
become total abstainers look down with COM
placency upon the torture of moderate drink
ers.-London Saturday Reoie,o.
What can have gotten into the head of the
New York Sun? We find in its columns-not
in the columns of the head of the New York
Sun, but in the columns of the New York
Sun itself-a Chicago dispatch bearing this
extraordinary caption, "David Davis willing
to be president" A more deliberate, more
disreputable attempt to mislead confiding
public, and to throw an unhappy Christian
gentleman into false and painful attitude
annals of the American press. David Daois
willing to be president! DAVID DAVIS, whose
almost superhuman efforts to avoid nomin-
alton to that office by any party, no matter
which, first by Disgusting himself in the er-
mine of a United States supreme court Judge,
then by concealing himself in the chamber of
the United States Senate. and so Oh, have
challenged the admiration of sympathetic
statesmen everywhere! = DAVID DAVIS,
whose constant, corr0ding and consuming
dread of being made president has embit-
tered his life for years, whitened his hair as
with the frosts OF winter, and caused him to
fall away to mere bloat'' and to wish he
han died when he was baby! He willing to
be president! Gods gigantic! What a-why,
we'd as soon have suspected even the late
Chief Justice Chase of entertaining such a
willingness !-COurier-Journal.
The Post says that "some changes have
been made in the original design (for the new
silver dolar), the eagles wings, for instance,
being clipped somewhat" About per cent,
we supposedly. Y. World.
Sympathetic remark by the New York
Herald-''We think that this whole country
is put-up job on Mr.. Hayes"
In Washington the weather thus far this
winter has been all that the most exact
ing could wish. "Only man is vile. e."-Bos-
ton Transcript.
Under the high pressure of our public
schools" says Robert Coyer, 81 frankly con-
fess that take the little children's side in all
their little plots to stay away from school
day when they have been hard at work for
many days. If they will be frank, and bring
the matter before the home tribunal, they can
always be sure of one advocate who will
plead their cause with a moving eloquence
rooted in old memories OF haifhoidays that
are written in letters OF gold"
The announcement that "the commission
for the selection Of statues of Pennsylvania
representative worthless to be placed in the ro-
tunda of the Capitol at Washington appear to
be spending good deal Of money uselessly in
travelling jaunts," recalls the toast gwen at
dinner in Philadelphia, "to the two distin-
guished sons of Pennsylvania-Benjam
n b in NJ ennl.x1 a. 1la-k H..
tin of Switzerland" The toast explains the
necessity the commission are under of travel
ing about to look up pair Of worthless
Hartford Courant.