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The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1878-05-29
Art and Moral Purpose.

1t has always been q somewhat dangerous
expedient to use art for directly moral pur-
pose, or, indeed, to use 1t as an exponent of
anything but itself. Even In the two arts
which lie most closely akin-music and poetry
it is not to be attempted except at some slight
sacrifice, and violence done to one or the other.
The marriage of music to immortal verse was
after all the dream of a poet-the ideal union
of that 'orb of song, the divine Milton" mar
riage made in heaven, rather than any alliance
capable of being successfully consummated
and ratified on earth. There are words in our
poetcal anthology which refuse to set them
selves to music Except, indeed, to the native
rhythm which belongs to all beautiful speech)
| by reason of their very loftnes5 and grandeur
passages so profound and impressive that, like
the names of God, are hardly to be uttered in
other attitude than that of worship, and not TO
be felt in their fallness except by ourselves
alone. In the latter half of the sixteenth Gen.
tury-that great spring-tide of English poetry
"Marlowe's mighty line" only became possible
through the poets determination to discard
what he called
"The jgging veins of rhyming mother wits.
And such concetts as elownage keeps in pay''--
all the beggarly elements, that is to say, of the
elder drama, the vulgar accessories and jim
Cling couplets with which his predecessors had
so long tickled the ears of the groundlings.
The deliberate adoption also of the new method
by Shakespeare (who evidently profted by Mar
loves examplel proved beyond doubt, that
even the modified music of rhyme could be
safely dispensed with, and was no longer neces :
sary to the very loftiest poetical expression.
Music, on the othef hand has alsc her sacred
groves, and her rapturous moments into which
words may not and cannot enter; those sublime
soliloquies, for example, of Beethoven, that
master-magiciaD, upon whose great sound.wave
words perish and melt like snow that falls upon
the sea. The soul of the hearer under such
mighty spell as his, mounts into a region where
the methods OF language are superseded. He
confers not with flesh and blood. A messenger
has reached him with authentic tidings of in
visible things, before whom the world and its
wordy doctrine stands dumb. With him who
saw the heavens open and the angels ascending
and descending, things of sense and time are
consumed and swallowed up in the eternal
chasm as through the open gates he hears the
far off echo OF song which sings to him
--"of what the world will be
When the years have died away
The C0rrahlZ Magazine.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1878-05-29
Consequences of the Alabama Dispute.

A paper in the current number of the
ATLANTIC Monthly, contributed by Mr.. Ar
thur Sedgwick, sets forth and discusses some
curious and unforeseen results of the Treaty
of Washington, results of great moment to
us in view of the position we shall have to
take should hostilities break out between
England and Russia. Mr.. Sedgwick con-
tends that the adoption of the famous ''three
rules' was departure from our theory and
practice both, and the rules anything but adj
mitted principles of the law of nations. No
other nations, though invited by both govern
ments to the Treaty, have adopted or even
recognized these rules. He sees in them, too,
virtual surrender in the interest of belliger-
ents of the rights of neutrals as formulated
in the Declaration of Paris. We who had
so steadfastly upheld the doctrine of the
great freedom of neutral nations ourselves
went to war and thereafter shifted our posi-
ton. Eager to get reparation from England
for the great wrong she had done us we aban-
doned our old role of defender of neutral
rights and held that neutral nations should
subject themselves to stricter and more oner-
GUS obligations toward belligerents.
We went even farther than that. We
pledged ourselves by the terms of the Treaty
to amend our municipal laws whenever they
should prove inadequate to prevent the escape
from our ports or the fitting out therein of
cruisers designed by one power to prey upon
the commerce of another with which it is at
war. So that now we are committed to the
position that neither the national constitu
tion nor the laws of Congress, nor the rights
of the States can be pleaded as an excuse for
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1878-05-29

''1he uery man OF all others aeho has the
deepest interest IN sound currency, and
aoho suffers most by mischieUous legislation in
money matters, Is the man auho earns his dai-
ly bread By his daily toll. 4 deprecated cur
rency, sudden changes of prices, paper money
falling between morning and noon, and faI.
Ting still loioer betaveen noon and night, these
things constitute the oery harvest time Of spec
uIators, and Of the aohole race Of those aoho are
at once idle and crafty. = Il disor-
dered currency is one of the greatest political
euits. 1t undermines the uirtues necessary for
the support Of the social system, and enc0ur-
ages propensities destructive to its happiness.
1t oodrs against industry, fugalty and econ
osny, and it fosters the euil spirits of ertrau-
agance and speculation. Of all the contri-
Udnces for cheating the laboring classes Of
Mankind none has been more efectadI than
that avhich deludes them aoith paper money.
This is the most efectual Of Intentions to fer
ttIize the rich mans fields By the s,veat Of the
poor mans 6roao. Ordinary tyranny, oppres.
sion, ercessice td1ation, these bear lightly up
on the mass OF the community, compared avith
fraudulent currencies and the robberies COM
mitted By deprecated paper. r."-DanieI
Webster.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1878-05-29
NJ >oazine Notices.

The April number a. the Edinburgh ReUiew
has been received from the Leonard Scott Pub
fishing Company, New York. us tne Oldest
and best of the quarteriies and M 'n'ains the
strength and individuality which CAV, IL It's
early reputation. The opening article is Al
able review of Sir Er3kine Mays Democracy in
Europe, in the course of which the author con-
siders the history of European democracy under
three heads, from the dark ages to the time of
Henry VIII, the period of the French Revolu-
tion, and the rise of the United States-with
observations on the capacity of nemocracy to
perform we'll or i'll its province of governing.
A review of several late work on geology called
Scepticism in Geology, follows, and there are
other reviews and articles on Barry Cornwall,
The Age of Bronze, The Naval Strength of
England, The Present and Future of the East,
etc.
The Westminster ReUieao, for April, has arti-
cles on The Literature of the Servians and
Croats; Popular Buddhism according to the
Chinese Canon; An Indian District: Its Peo-
pie and Administration; Peasant Life in France
and Russia; Our Present Convict System; Life
of the Prince Consort; Russian Aggression
and the Duty of Europe; India and Oar Colo
NAL Empire-all substantial and readable arti-
ces especially conservative. The department
of Contemporary Literature is, as usual, very
full and learned. New York, the Leonard
Scott Publishing Company's reprint.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1878-05-29
News and Other Items.

Edison, the inventor, has two sons named
dot" and "Dash," after the two characters Of
the Morse telegraphic alphabet.
John O'Connor, the ex-convict who was re-
Gently expelled from the Ohio Legislature, is
about to lecture on the subject, "From the
Prison to the Capitol"
A witness has come forward to spoil Bret
Hart's hero, 'John Burns of Gettysburg, who
"stood there needless of jeer and scoff, calmly
picking the rebels off," a Gettysburg woman
says that so far from Burns playing the hero ou
the day 10 question, he went into the brush to
drive up his COWS, and unwittingly got into the
rebels lines. Realizing his unpleasant posi-
ton, he ran for home in such haste that he
scratched his face and tore his clothes in the
brambles, the nearest approach to bullet marks
that he secured.
Mr.. Americas Symmes thus explains his
fathers theory concerning the North Pole,
which he is endeavoring to have thoroughly
tested by the Howgate expedition. "The ex-
plorsr will find that after he passes the eight
ieth degree the weather grows milder when he
reaches the eighty-frst degree he will ind some
open water; when the eighty-second degree is
reached he will find much open water and
great quantities of wild animals and some wa
ter fowls; when the eighty-third degree is
reached he will find the open Polar sea, that is
1000 miles in diameter; and if he will go on
into that sea when the weather is warm and
genial, he will find the country that the
Symmes theory says can be found-lsrge for
ests OF timber, large rivers and rich land, and
the home of more wild animals than can be
found anywhere else in creation, and water
fowl in abundance"
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1878-05-29

THE real sentiment and purposes of the
Democratic party find expression in their
newspapers. The newspapers do not make
the studied attempts to conceal their mean
ing by ambiguous language that Mr.. Potter
does. Under the heading "What we Intend
to Do", the Washington Post, the national
organ of the Democracy, says;
"We have no hesitation in avowing the fact
that the Democratic party, with q majority of
$50, 900 on the popular vote and with the actual
or virtual control of both Branches means to
assert its rights to the title of the government
as a whole as soon as possible, by legal and
peaceful means. The yell of revolution was
tried in 1S76-1S77, and worked well, 1t is not
usual however, to scare child twice with the
same bugaboo, and we doubt if the Democracy
has less courage than the average child The
radicals succeeded in soaring the Democrats
into the Electoral Commission in 1876 n be-
cause they then had firm grip on the main
machinery of the government, and they
| told US we couldn't seat the President whom we
had elected without fight. 1t happened at
that time that we had a leader who mistOok the
beating of gongs by the enemy for the roar of
artillery, and ordered retreat. Now, however
we have other leaders, who are not to be scared
out of their boots by any such Chinese strategy
and consequently we say with confidence that
the Democrats will go straight ahead to obtain
by peaceful and legal means the government
paid to the radical yell of Revolution Revo-
luton means shooting and throat cutting. We
propose nothing of this order except in self
defence. Again we assert. the Democratic
party is entitled, in law, equity and morals, to
the control Of the government, and means to
have it. That ought to be an intelligble declar-
alton. 1t certainly is a pacific declaration, and
one we shall stand to-
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1878-05-29
Reasons Why All Should Use the
Reacti0nary Health Lift.

1t makes strong appeals to the common sense
every man or woman in every walk OF life.
furnishes an exercise which may and should be in
troduced into every house; which may be practced
at ali seasons in all kinds of weather. by persons of
both sexes, all ages and degrees of strength or
much in praise of it, and no one can afford to do
without it. All who investigate thoroughly use it,
and consider it invaluable and indispensable. 1t is
the safest, simplest, cheapest and most efficient
medicine ever discovered. No claim is set up for it
which is unscientitc or impracticabe,
eseueral.-It is the best of rest. 1t is perfectly
safe. No harm ever came from its use. 1t strains
portion OF the system 1t directs the vital forces
to the affected parts. By its the health is easily
maintained. The purchase of a Reactionary LITTER
is the best kind of economy. The convenience of
having one in the house is very great.
Mind and Brain. invigorates and
strengthens the brain, and renders it more active
and efficient in all its operations.
sieep.-It is the simplest and safest narcotic. 1t
is the most natural and probably the best means of
inducing sound and refreshing sleep.
Nerves.-It is a wonderful tonic to the whole
nervous system. 1t is most eficaeious remedy in
paralysis, if tlken in time.
Lungs, Throat and Voice. 1t gives special
expansion and greater mobility to the chest; en-
tion and brings the voice more fully under control
As preventive and cure of lung diseases it has no
equal.
Exercise-It is the most perfect exercise for man
or woman, furnishing the best form of physical
culture and development in the safest, easiest,
most thorough and expeditions manner. 1t is
peter than the gymnasium, and free from its
than boating, and infinitely better than drugs in a
majority OF chronc Diseases 1t rounds and hardens
Ine muscles, and educates them into ever ready,
ialthIul ana efnclent servants of the will.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1878-05-29

A SIGNIFICANT and alarming threat was
made by Senator Morgan of Alabama in the
Senate Monday while bill was under dis.
cussion providing for the appointment of an
additional Judge in the seventh circuit. He
intimated that as soon as the Democrats got
the power they would proceed to reorganize
the federal Judiciary, and said he saw time
coming when the federal Judiciary could be
reorganized with justice to all parties and to
all sections. This is another warning of the
destructive plans of the Democratic party if
they should ever get the power to 10 as they
would.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1878-05-29
JAMES BUCHANAN,

"Such medium (rredeemable paper mon
ey,) has always been liable to fluctuation. Its
value is constantly changing; and these
changes, often great and sudden, expose in
dividuals to great loss, are the source of ruin
Gus speculations, and destroy all confidence
between man and man. Chief Justice Mar
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1878-05-29

As n very important source of strength,
and security, cherish public credit. One
method of preserving it is to nse ii as
sparingIy as possible; avoiding occasions
OF expense by cuifivafins peace, but re-
membering also that timely disbursements
10 prepare for danger frequently preven
much greater disbursements TO repeE it
avoiding likewise the accumulation of
debt, mot only by stunning occasions of
expense, but by vigorous exerfiOns in time
of peace 10 discharge the debts which un-
avOidable wars may have occnsiOned, nos
ungenerousiy throwing upon pOsterify the
burden which we ourselves ought 90 bear.
GEORGE WASHINGTON,
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1878-05-29

"a return to specie payments at the earIi-
est possible period compatible with due re-
gard TO all interests concerned, sl euId ever
be kept i'm view. Fluctuations in the value
OF currency are always injurious, and to
reduce these fluctuations to the lowest pos
sibie point will always be a leading pur-
pose i'm wise Legislation. Convertibiiity
prompt and certain convertibiiity into
coin is acknowledged TO be the best and
suresr safeguard against them.
ABRAHAM LINCOLN,
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1878-05-29

non-ful6lment of the rigorous rules of the
Treaty of Washington. We must amend our
laws and alter our scheme of government, no
matter how difficult the process, if these laws
or the federal system are Obstacles to the ful-
filment of the terms of the Treaty. Thus ii
some contemplated breech of neutrality can
not be prevented because the National Gov
ernment has not the power under the consti-
tuition to prevent it, and the State which has
the power will not exercise it, We must either
In defiance of precedent coerce the State or
pay the damage which the complaining ma
tion suffers by our refusal to enforce the pro-
visions OF the Treaty. We are committed to
far stricter observance of neutrality laws
than ever before and indeed have consented
to new and rigorous restrictions which i'm
pose upon our government watchfulness
and responsibility never undertaken by
Neutral power.
Mr.. Sedgwck goes farther and insists that
We are in danger of incurring even more
weghty obligations toward belligerents. He
insists that if Congress allows what are
known as the "exculpated cruiser claims"
our neutrality will be rendered vastly more
difficult to maintain, and the probabilities of
our violating it greatly increased. The Ala
bama award decided that the neutral duties
of England had been violated only in the
cases of the Alabama, the Florida, and the
Shenandoah, and that she was not response
BILE for the depredations committed upon our
| commerce by other vessels. If Congress
grants the claims of those who have suffered
by the Georgia, the Sumter and vessels of
that class it will in effect say that England
was responsible for the damage done by those
vessels and admit that we should be respon-
sible for the war-like acts of vessels escaping
from our ports under similar circumstances.
The "war-premium claims" present another
danger. If they are allowed we may be
called upon to pay the enhanced rates of in
surance premiums in England which would
follow the existence of Russian cruisers fitted
out in our waters and escaping to the open
sea through negligence of our own.
1t may be that in advancing these consid-
erations Mr.. Sedgwick has put forth objec.
tions to the Treaty of Washington which will
on examination prove trivial. But his paper
will excite the suspicion that the settlement
of the Alabama dispute was not so great a
triumph of American diplomacy as has been
supposed. The payment by England was
certainly wise expenditure on her part.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1878-05-29
Convention Of the Reform Clubs
OF THE
STATE OF MAINE.

The Quarterly Convention of the Reform Clubs of
the State of Maine will be held at
Norway ON Wednesday and Thnrsday
June 9th and 9Th.
Fully approaching the good results arising from
our earnestness and sincerity in this great and gori
GUS work, we earnestly hope that all the Clubs in the
State will be fully represented, keeping in mind our
motto, "Charity for all, and malice toward none."
One and one-thrd fare for the round trip on the NJ
G. r. r.
Return tickets will be furnished by the Secretary
for the Portland s. Ogdensburg, Portland g. Roches-
ter and Grand Trunk Railroads,
Per order State Committee.
FRANK KENDRICK, President.
GEO. W. MURCH, Secretary.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1878-05-29

1t (paper money! tends to aggraUate the
inequality offortunes; to make the rich richer
and the poor poorer, to multiply nabobs and
paapers, and to deepen ana widen the gulf
achich separated Dives from Lazarus. .-Thona-
as II. Benton.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1878-05-29

"The loss aOltich Afaerica has sustained, since
the peace, from the peStilentiaI effects of IRE.
deensable paper money, on the necessary conf
dence between men, on the necessary confidence in
hepublic councils, on the industry and morals of
the people and on the character of republican qov-
ernnent, constitute an enormous debt against the
States chafyeable 0ib this U1ead0ased measure,
'chach must remain aesatised, or rather 1t is an
accumulation Of guilt aohich can be expiated no
othera0ise than By a volotntary sacrifice on the al.
ar of justice of the poaoer aohich has been the an
StTunaent cf a-JdnleS Madison,
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1878-05-29

Paper emissi ms by the government are
of a nature SO liable to abuse, Il may say
SO certain TO be abused, that lhe wish om of
the government Will be shown by never
trusiing it elf w ia so sc ucing and dam
gerous "a power
ALEXANDER HAMILTON.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1878-05-29

d paper currency is great curse to any
people and q particular curse to the laborer
Of any country, for its depreciation always
falls upon the lab0rer.-Andreo Jackson.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1878-05-29
THE PRESS.
WEDNESDAY MORNING, MAY 30.

we 90 not read anonymous letters and communi-
cations. The name and address of the writer are in
all cases Indispensable not necessarily for publication
Dut as guaranty Of good faith.
We cannot undertake to return or preserve CON-
munications that are not used,
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1878-05-29

THEY say that intrigues, like those which
have so often weakened the Turks, prevail in
the Russian amy. The claims of Gourko
and Skobelef have been dsregarded and
closet-warriors who had no part in the cam
Government seems jealous of the success OF
lis generals
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1878-05-29

Arredeemable paper money 'cOnveris the
business of society into N mere lottery; and
when the collapse comes, as come il must,
1t casts iaborers out of employment. crush
es manufacturers and merchants and
ruins thousands of honest, industrious
citiZens.n
uAUuEa
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1878-05-29

Boston went down to Providence to play base
ball last Wednesday,, and Roger Williams just
climbed right up on to Joe Cook and batted
him clean back to Plymouth Rock. unwept,
unhonored and unsung, a to 5.-Halcksye
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1878-05-29

Mater: $50 you enjoyed your walk Kate.
Did you go all that distance slone?" Daugh-
ter: "Oh yes, mamma, quite alone" Beastly
Brother: "Then how is it, Kit, you took an
umbrella and brought home walking stick?''
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1878-05-29

EVERY regular attache of the PRESS is furnished
with Card certificate couDtersigned by Stanley T.
fullen, Editor. AL railway, steamboat and hotel
managers will confer favor upon us by demanding
credentials of every person claiming to represent our
ournal.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1878-05-29

"Capital may be produced by Industry and
accumulated by economy, but only juggIers
will propose to create it by legerdemain tricks
with paper" r."-Thomds Jefferson.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1878-05-29

When Shakespeare built that conundrum:
"Tell me where is fancy bred?" he little
dreamed of the shower of Vienna bakeries
that our Centennial was to bring us.-Y Y0Rkers
Gazette.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1878-05-29

An Illinois man's name is James James
Herald. You have mistaken the name of the
patient for the patients disorder-Louisvale
Courier. Journal