The Portland daily press., 1878-09-10
TUESDAY MORNING. sEPTEM BsR 10.

much harm from the outside as he did from
the inside 1t seems absurd to imagine that he
can 10 any contingency obtain the votes of ma
jority of people as intelligent as those who
inhabit the Bay State, with or without DEM
ocratic endorsement. But at all events the Re
publicans there have supreme motive for put
ting aside the finical notions that have i'm
paired their harmony aud thiuned their ranks,
and for forming themselves into solid pha-
laDx for the protection of the ancient common
wealth against subjugaiion sy the forces that
are combining to invade the rights OF properly
spd break the national faith The Cause of
law and order and honest money is we'll
worth struggling for as the integrity OF the flag
was and ought to awake quite as much euthu-
siasm az was manifested when treason first
called the North to arms
It seems on the whole fortunate that events
ere shaping themselves in such way as will be
likely TO stir up the patriotism of the Republic
cans of Massachusetts, to it's normal height. If
the identity of Kearneyism and Butlerism is
established by the practical amalgamation of
the two it ought to be all the easier to accom-
plish their overthrow. There is of course no
essential difference between the doctrines of
Kearney and those of his brother Gree hackers
except in the methods of their advocacy. They
all aim at reputation. Kearney wants to rob
the industrious of their earnings and divide
them among the idle. There are not many
men in this enlightened age who would ver-
ture to confess sympathy with such bare
faced scheme of freebootipg, but the PROPOSE
tion to evade the payment of the bonds of the
Government by giving irredeemable paper for
them, leads directly to the same end. 1t makes
very little difference to the man who stripped
of all his effects upon the highway whether the
brigand who perpetrates the deed does it with
The grace of courtisr or the brutality of o ruff
fan. Indeed it rather aggravates the crime
that it should be committed with a hypocritical
show of good breeding.
The paramount and all absorbing duty of
American citizens is to crush out every phase of
opposition to sound currency and the recogni-
lion of the obligation to redeem the bonds and
debts.of the Government without farthng of
abatement. There will be no peace, no assurance
of permanent prosperity, until the question
is settled go conclusively that all danger of its
future agitation will be obviated. 1t is diff
cult to restrain ones feelings of impatience
turbsnce should have been introduced at juno
ture, when its only possible effect will be to
hinder the restoration of the country to the
condition of healthfulness and thrift which
lies straight before it. Undoubtedly there must
be great many worthy people who have been
carried away by the soft-money craze and
haven't the remotest idea what utter nonsense
1t u.s. But something or other ought to be done
to bring them to a realizing sense of the mis-
chief with which these Elusive theories are
fraught Now and then some Temporary issue
springs up that appears to unsettle the reason
ing faculties Of the masses for a while. Some
times it is religious mania like Millerism, for
instance. That had considerable run while
1t lasted. But as it was simply question
whether the world or the second advent lunacy
should cometo an end land as the former wouldn't
the latter had to. Know Nothingism fretted its
brief hour on the political stage, but the creed
was altogether too u arrow to gain stable foot
ing and accordingly it died out from sheer in
anition. The same fate will inevitably over
take the Greenback clamor in spite of any and
every popular effort to fill the air with it, 1t is
the widest hullaballoo Of this generation, and
every sane man who joins 10 it will soon be
ashamed of having been for moment de-
ceived by such an ignis fatuus.
In regard to Kearaey and his immediate fol-
lowers no extenuating circumstances can be
pleaded They are irrecaiusbly bad. They
are simply seeking to obtain through the me-
diam of the ballot a lie nse to pluuder. 1t is
not the right to labor they are DESTROYS of vim
dicstng, but the chance to live without labor.
They don't want to work and don't mean to if
they can help it. They ask the voters of the
country to confer upon tramps the privilege of
entering the dwellings which decent people
have toied to establish and supply with COM
fort, and demand whatever they find on the
premises that they covet. They would even
take bonds, Notwithstanding their aversion to
that species Of property, if they could convert
them into the means of ministering to their in
dolent self-indulgence.
1t is indispensable to the welfare of society
that these creatures should b. hunted down
and compelled to choose between earning their
own living and ceasing to live Whoever en-
courages them, tolerates them or panders to
their passions either from natural sympathy
with them or with a view to securing their
votes is an enemy of mankind. The politician
or the party that coquettes with them ought to
be summarily annihilated. If by any misfor-
tune they should gain foothold anywhere it
will be the highest duty of citizenship to per-
sist in efforts to dislodge them, and never to
rest until that object is accomplished. The
country would not be ct to live in if agrarian-
ism in any guse were to be permitted to blight
its growth and imperil its safety.
YARMOUTH
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