The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1878-02-28
Current Comment.

There must be fewer life-saving stations.
They are dangerous. Express
Nothing can be said against the new pope
except that he wrote poetry. But that was
before he became infallible. Chicago Times.
The Republicans of New Hampshire TO-
day would modify their platform of January
II they had a chance in view of the crum-
bling policy.-Boston Traveller.
Mr.. Mullett, ex-Supervising architect Of
| the Treasury Department, was present at
the Toledo Convention Of the 'sNational
Party" The New York Tribune thinks this
accounts for the platform, which, Ii claims,
is beautiful specimen of the Mullett school
of architecture.
The New York Post more than hints that
Hon. Allen G.. Thurma-(we will not give
his name) and Senator Eaton of Connecti-
cut, were under the influence of bounce
during the night of the silver vote. That
pure man, Eaton, who refused to recognize
Repudiator Voorhees,, certainly would not do
such a thing. As for our pet, Allen, we
know it is false. He had been looking at the
gas-lght until he had to sit down and rest.
He was dizzy.-Cincinnat Enquirer.
Mr.. Simmons has fought the fight and Mr.,
Beard has been nominated to the Collector
ship of Boston. Mr.. Simmons has made a
good Collector, but had a bad political record,
which he went to Washington to justify. Mr..
Beard has not been good Collector yet, and
there is no reason to suppose that he win be
an Improvement on Simmons. His claims, if
he had any, were political, and he is as like
ly to be politician in Office as any man we
know of. The nomination is in no senes in
accordance with our ideas of civil service re-
form or improvement.-Boston Globe.
Mr.. Hendricks is conciliatory statesman.
He deprecates sectional controversies" and
therefore tenderly entreats all the rest of the
country to avoid such controversies by doing
whatever the "great West" may think fit to
demand! We used to hear something of this
sort before the late civil war from the
Toombses and Wigfalls. But If their accents
were more imperious, 1t must be remembered
that they insisted upon the rights of property
as they understood those rights. Whereas IL
Mr.. Hendricks and Mr.. Bland rightly inter
pret the demands of the ''great West" the
"great West' desires to see everybody to
whom it owes anything compelled to take 80
cents and call them dollar.-N. Y. World.
1t Is very certain that the people OF the
6tCoe AlOO WCot AotC AO ACdoOu w nOlu Ia
honor the character or career of Washington.
They know all about him, and it would be
useless for any of his admirers-if such there
be-to soften or conceal his meannesses and
crimes. George Washington was loathsome
capitalist, who never, so far as is known, did
days work in his whole life. History may
be safely challenged to mention single occa-
sion on which Washington dug bitches, laid
sewer pipes, carried bricks and mortar, or
worked at trade. Consequently, he was not
a working man, but luxurious aristocrat,
who received during his early life magnid-
cent salary for merely wearing generals
uniform, and who, in his latter days, notori-
ously and shamelessly lived on the interest Of
bank, but he reached the lowest depths Of
scoundrelsm as holder of bonds and mort
cages. He was that enemy of the human
race, creditor, and with the cold-blooded
selfshness of Shylock, he expected that his
debtors would pay him their debts. While
many of his fellow citizens, men who earned
their bread by hard work, lived in log cabins
on the Western prairies, Washington lived in
fine mansion on the banks of the Potomac,
and had the effrontery to pretend that he had
a right to his home merely because he had
paid for it.-N. Y. Times.