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The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1880-10-30
Petrihed Profanity.

1t has been discovered that slang goes over
the country in waves, and is epidemic, like the
yellow fever, seventeen year locusts, potato
bugs, and grasshoppers. The late lamented
james Fisk, in speaking of some money that
had disappeared, said it had gone where the
woodbine twineth, and there are people alive
to-day who know how the expression swept
over the land, and we expect that in . few
years there will be reunion of these people
with the survivors of "hardly ever" OF course
these expressions were highly witty or humor-
GUS at first, but after people had heard them
seventeen or eighteen hundred thousand
times they became satisfied and did not wish
to hear them any more. The result was that
the expressions were dropped and now they
are rarely or never heard. But there is the
strangest thing about profanity. Over fifteen
hundred years ago the Greek poet Zollicoffer
picked up q hot horse shoe in blacksmith
shop and said "Damnation." 1t was regarded
as decided hit; and the Grecian youths took
up the expression and II had decided run. A
song was composed with the poets remark as
the subject, and being set TO breezy and roll
licking air it became very popular, and was
sung and vhiStied everywhere at all times and
under all circumstances. In couple of hum
dred years the Egypti' ms got hold OF it, and af-
tcT III Hdu ucou oA Apidtuou w tlou lew tlIueS
they saw the animus of the thing, and it was
considered very cunning for over three hum
dred years. Gradually the word worked its
way up through Europe, and for seven hun
dred years it was very popular, those who used
it being regarded as gentlemen of the highest
culture. Witty young men, who had not in
tellect enough to get up anything original,
formed various combinations Of the word, as
was the case with "hardly ever" which has
been rendered hardly seldom" and "softly
ever" etc. Some two hundred years ago the
Hollanders settled Manhattan Island, where
New York now stands, and brought over the
profane word with them. 1t was then upwards
Of thirteen hundred years old. Its popularity
since that time and the great run it has had,
are well known. Whenever man Is engaged
in conversation, and his brain becomes drained
of its last idea. and he feels that his own words
do not amount to much, he uses this gag that
is fifteen hundred years old, and thinks he has
delivered legal opinion worth ten thousand
dollars. We are not opposed to profanity so
much because it is wicked, but because we
have heard it before.-Pecks Sun.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1880-10-30
How the Solid South Feels about
Protection.

Louisville Courier Journal.
Will the workingman be bamboozled by this
stupendous picture of interest in his welfare
any longer? Does he really beliege that this
spoliotion scheme called protection projects
hinp This last year of the protective tariff
huns6ug has demonstrated that the so called
protection Of the American workingman" is
q lie and delusion.
Atlanta (Ga) Constitution
Some of our esteemed Democratic contempo-
rar.es at the north are afraid to handle the tar
If question, even with tongs Well, a party
has no business to make an issue that IL Is
afraid Of
Macon (Ga.) Telegraph
The writer few days since penned an edi-
torial which was meant to animadvert upon
the Jacksonville, Fla, Sun and Press, for its
ontspoken high protective tariff sentiment and
apandonment OF Southern rights.
St. Louis Post Dispatch.
big donkey who fops his elongated ears in
the Cincinnati Commercial, says that the lead
ing Democrats of Ohio are disgusted to think
that the late national convention permitted
two such beautiful dreamers as Henry Waiter
son and Jos. Pulitzer to insert the tariff plank
in their platform. A close study of Democrat
ic platforms OF late years will reveal the fact
ohoe q soAih toH N0Nouuo only Ii one OF the
established, historic tensts Of the party. The
leading Democrats of Ohio, who seem to be In
need OF guardian, deserve the defeat which
recently befel them for their cowardice II
they had explained to the Ohio idiots the re al
meaning OF tariff for revenue only they
might have won some votes for their party
Savannah (Ga.) News.
The free traders in Congress will be more
bold and outspoken in their opinions next Win
ter than they were last session because the re-
straint of a Presidential election will not be
Upon them. Next Winter there will be no such
influence at work in either party, and there
will no doubt be determined effort made TO
pass a bill for the immediate revision Of the
tariff.
Columbia Is. C.) Register.
That the whole protective system is vicious,
destructive of wealth, behind the age. in the
long run injurious to the manufacturing inter-
est itself, and from beginning to end turns up
on a false arithmetic which it would seem that
grown men should understand, has long been
clear to our apprehension.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1880-10-30
Watson's Illuminator.
Something New in the Way Of Prospec-
tus. F9e+f

Will Watson's "Illuminator", erst the Bid
deford Monthly Miniature, puts forth this
glittering prospectus:
WIN TINS number commences the fourth
year OF the publication Of our little monthly.
We have lived to see several papers in this
Community spring into life, flourish for q sea-
son, and then pass on to that frequently dis
covered country from whose bourne other
newspapers sometimes return, although they
that have gone before have learned by
sad experience that everything which is green
IS not government note-or, 10 more common
parlvnce, that 'all is not gold that glitters."
various causes may have conduced to their
untimely taking off," They may have boen
TOO @ yirtuous, for the good die young" We
wickedness, but from the fact that white we
are good, we are not too good, bat just good
enough.
1t is our purpose to scintillate. We intend
to illuminate the dark places and make them
glad they come. 1t is a stupendous and phil
anthropic mission we have TO perform-50, ,OOO,-
wv people TO make happy, and several back
towns not heard fIom. 1t behooves us there
lore to be up and doing-to work while the day
lasts, Tor the night cometh. when NO man
wa, wants to be clipping by the pale light OF tai.
There is some excuse for therapeutical pill
being blue-it is nature; but even this pill is
not blue so much on account of its own feel
ings as on account of the feelings of the party
who tampers with it. But a poor "pill'' in
deed is the human specimen of the 'blue" or
der. There is no sense in moping through this
world with melancholy visage only fit for
yard-stick. There is too much sunshine in
the worid-and a liberal slice canbs had each
month in the year for the mere pittance Of IS
cents. There are quite q number Of people in
the United States aid some in Canada, who
are not llluminator subscribers. We are wait
ing for you, friends
=. we have Just procured an enlarged subscrip-
ton book, put in another safe, and are now
thoroughly prepared for the increased business
we know has got to come. Send in your stamps
good people, and JOIN the jolly phalanx OF in
Vulnerable Illuminator readers.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1880-10-30
The Truth about the Eaton Bill.
from the Bulletin of the American Iron and Steel
Asen riati nm

ASSOCIATE on.l
Much parade is being made just now of the
fact that hundreds of manufacturers petit
toned Congress last winter to pass the Eaton
bill for the appointment or a commission to
revise the tariff, but none of the editors or
orators who dwell upon this subject tell their
readers or hearers that the manufacturers
were induced to support the Eaton bill because
of their dread that, II it did not become law,
the present Congress would undermine our
protective policy and break In pieces our pres
ent tariff by piecemeal legislation. Every reader
of the newspapers will remember with what
an avalanche of bills for a reduction or repeal
of duties the last session of Congress opened.
Emboldened by the success which at the pre-
vious session had attended the effort to repeal
the duty on quinine, the free traders and rev.
enue reformers of the House last winter de-
termined that they would repeal or reduce
other duties. So they proposed to
make salt free, and paper free, and
and books free, to almost obliterate the duty
on steel rails, to reduce duties on iron and
steel products generally, to cut down the duty
on wool and woolen goods, and to embarrass
and cripple by unfriendly legislation, the pro-
ducers of many other domestic products. Man
ufacturers were called to Washington week
after week to protest against these assaults.
The newspapers of the country that were
friendly to protection and anxious to continue
the existing prosperity, thundered against
them. The salt bill was defeated in House
and the steel-rail bill was defeated in commit
tee, but both were defeated by exceedingly
small majoritics. While these and the other
unfriendly propositions were pending, Senator
Eaton of Connecticut, yielding to the advice Of
prominent iron manufacturer, 1--WE know
what we are writing about introduced in De-
cember, his now celebrated bill, providing for
the appointment of o tariff commission. A
large number of the manufacturers
of the country at once saw in
this bill chance of escape from the threat
ened piecemeal destruction of the present tar
if, and they petitiOned for its passage, and
through their petitions it passed the Senate
June Sd, after months of delay. It was not
considered by the House, which adjourned
June 18th. 1t did not pass the Senate unani-
mously, as has been so frequently stated by the
Philadelphia Times and other journals. but by
a vote of 81 ayes to 10 nays, 80 Senators being
absent or not voting. The following was the
vote on the passage of the bill:
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1880-10-30
A Voice from the South.
BRUNSWICK, Oct. 29t h, 1Ss

BRUNSWICK, Oct. 29t b, 1850.
To the Editor of the Press.
send you part of the original letter received
few days ago by member of our family,
from relative living in the South on land
bought since the war. The writer is Chris
tian lady of intelligence, formerly teacher in
one of our Maine cities; her husband farmer
and not politician. You may publish the
extract if you please, for the benefit Of our
good people in Maine who are anxious for
Change and are disposed to be so merry
about the "bloody shirt" F.
What do the wise ones really think Of polit-
ical prospects? We had q scare week ago
when the first news came that "The fusionists
have carried Maine." You cannot think with
what painful interest we Northerners bere in
Rebellion watch the strAws to see which way
the wind blows. If Hancock is elected, or,
worse yet, almost elected, it means a sorry
time for US. We are scarcely tolerated now
Let these ex-Rebs once get control of the gov
ernment and it would be .fy or die. This,
fear, is the exact truth. May God in mercy
put far off the day when traitors shall once
more hold the reins. They have learned some
wisdom--enOugh to make themselves more
troublesome than ever. I know great many
in the North call this all 'bloody shirt" talk.
Let such come down here and live among it
and find out by long and gradual experience
and observation.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1880-10-30

SPRINGFIELD Republican,: The Demo-
cratic party is guttering out in the closing
days of the campaign like spent candle.
To be defeated could be borne; parties have
been defeated before and lost nothing but
the election, but to 60 down slimed with
forgeries, overladen with scandals, the hon.
est and sober sense of the people against it,
great chance thrown away, the weakness
and the stains of the Republican record
profit nothing to opponents still worse off
themselves-this is pitiful. There is and
was work for great party, true to demo-
cratic principle, but not by the Democratic
party as it stas DIS.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1880-10-30
English Longings and American
Interests.

Interests.
English newspapers, representing and
voicing English manufacturers, take great
interest in our Presidential campaign and
are urgent in their advice to American vot-
ers. The revenue tariff plank in the Demo-
cratic platform is heartily approved by
them, and they cannot see how any Amer
lean who has the interests of England at
heart can refuse to stand upon it. Bu,,
since the October elections, the more intel
ligent English journals begin to doubt if
this country has yet educated itself up to
the idea that the mission of nations is to
make themselves feeders to Great Britain.
The great organ of English opinion. the
London Times, has indeed ceased to doubt,
and settled down to the belief that we are a
stiff-necked generation, intent on securing
our own comfort and obstinately unmindful
of the great free-trade truth that the busi-
ness of all mankind is to aid in promoting
the wealth and happiness of the
British Empire-Ireland always excepted.
In recent issue the Times says:
''The United States does not see the error
of its ways. 1t is doubtful if it will En-
gland has cone on for the last fourteen years
or so repeating that America could not long
put off adopting free trade. There is not
the slightest sign of the fulfillment of this
long staoding prophecy. The United States
do not approach the question from the same
point of view as ourselves. The object of
their statesmen is not to secure the largest
amount Of acealth for their country general
ty, but to keep up, By ,ohaterer means, the
standard Of comfort among the laboring
cldsses''
Exactly. The object of our statesmen, of
the men who have controlled our admins
trations and shaped our national policy for
the last twenty years, is not only to keep
up the standard of comfort among
the laboring classes; but to raise
it. And that we shall do, unless the
political organization which approaches the
tariff question from the English point of
view succeeds in getting control of the Leg
islative and Executive branches of govern
ment. In that attempt it cannot succeed II
the American workingman votes with All
intelligent regard to his true interests. He
Is fighting for his own hand in this cam
paign.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1880-10-30

AT Republican meeting in Indianapolis
since the election, Mr. McSheehy, represen-
tative elect to the Indiana legislature, and
native OF Ireland, took occasion to say that
he was nominated by the Republicans and
by their votes ran even with the whole tick
ct, without special effort on his part, while
four Irish Democrats ON the ticket of that
party in indianapolis were seriously
scratched and defeated. He exhorted Irish
voters ito leave the party that demanded
everything and gave them nothing in re-
turn ,,
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1880-10-30

GENERAL GRANT spoke both truthfully
and wisely when he said at Utica: sWe do
not advocate the principles of the Republi-
can party because we believe they are for
the good of the Republican party alone, and
to the prejudice of the interest of the op-
posite party. but we proclaim them at this
time because we believe they are the best
for all parties"
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1880-10-30

A manufacturer in Troy, N. Y, who
does large business, says: ''I am Demo-
crat, AID never voted for Republican in
my life. But this year. if live until No
vember I'd l shall vote for Garfield and Ar
thur, Democrat as I am. shall do this be-
cause any change now would be detrimental
to business. Even if nothing bad was done
by the Democrats in power, the fear that
there would be tinkering with the tariff and
our finances, would certainly have the effect
to injure business immensely for at least
eighteen months to come. We are all doing
well now, and very large number of our
Democratic business men are going to vote
as | sLall-against any change"
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1880-10-30

The general impression is that the Dem
ocrats are whipped, and the general ques-
ton is, "what will they do in 1ss4?" Toat's
an easy one. They will dominate Henry
Clay and put him on protective tariff plat
form. Clay is dead, to be sure, but the
mere fact Of death is no obstacle to a Dem
ocratic Candidate. Clay is MT nearly as
dead as some of the men whose names fig
ure on Democratic tickets to-day-as Lyman
Trumbull, for example, who is runniog for
Governor of Illinois,
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1880-10-30
Effect of Reducing the Tariff.

If the tariff is reduced on iron, cloth, boots
and shoes, wool, copper. lumber, salt,
or other American manufacturers, five, ten, or
more per cent, SO as to compel our manufac-
lures to compete with importations from Eu-
prices ALWAYS comes pretty soon a fall in
wages. Our manufacturers pay workingmen
good wages and give plenty of work, because
they can afford to do so when prosperous
when they get good prices. Cut down the
prices, and that necessarily cuts down your
wages, makes manufacturing dull, and gives
you less chances for work.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1880-10-30

II. L. Currier Of Biddeford, one Of the pro-
prietors OF the Biddeford Machine Works, is
having constructed for his own use a steam
road wagon, which is expected to make good
time ON any ordinary highway. The vehicle
looks very much like an ordinary wagon, ex-
cept that it has no shafts, and weighs but $50
pounds. II is designed to run 20 miles with
out having the ire renewed, aud will cost
about $400. Fourteen similar machines are
engaged by people in Biddeford and It's vicini-
ty, should the experimental one prove q sue
Cess
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1880-10-30

The Argus has much to say of the Eaton
bill for tariff revision. But it does not see
fit to tell its readers that the bill passed the
Senate by vote of 81 ayes to Is nays, and
that the Is Negative votes aeere all Demo-
cratic. No Republican voted against the
hill
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1880-10-30

ST. LOUIS GLOBE: Well, the Democrats
have at last done one thing that Lee and
hesitation in saying that neither Lee nor
jackson would have tried to palm off that
Chinese letter on the people when they
knew it was forgery.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1880-10-30
GARFIELD ON THE TARIFF.


SLet it be remembered that
twenty-five per cent. of all the la
boring people of the country are
artisans engaged i'm manufac-
lures. Their culture has been
fOstered by our tariff laws. 1t is
their pursuits, and the skill which
they have developed, that pro-
duced the glory of our Cenetnnial
Exhibition. TO them the country
owes the splendOr of the position
it holds before the world more
than 10 any other equal number
of our citizens. If this bill,
Woods revenue tariff bill, be-
comes a law, it strikes down their
occupation, and throws into the
keenest distress the brightest and
best elements of our population.
implOre this House not to per-
init us to be thrown into greater
confusion, either by letting this
bill become a law, or by letting it
hang over the country as a mem
ace .'-GEN. GARFIELD IN HOUSE OF
REPRESENTATIVES,, JUNE A, 1878.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1880-10-30
CHICAGO Times: It is impossible /

CHICAGO Times: 1t is impossible to re-
press suspicion that Messrs. Wells and
Moore, in their labored attempt to define '.a
tariff for revenue only" sink the economist
in the political partisan. What motive can
they have for saying that an expression
means what it obviously does not mean,
unless it isa strong desire to help the cause
OF political party which is afraid to stand
manfully on its own platform, and fight
manfully for what it avows to be its own be-
;aE
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1880-10-30
Effect on Wages Of Tariff for
Revenue Only.

In the United States low tariff has always
produced low wages and dull times. A protec-
tive tariff has always led to good wages and
prosperous times. Protect our manufactures
and they employ and pay workingmen; strike
down our manufactures and they cannot pay
good wages or give plenty of work to working
men.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1880-10-30
The Difference in the Candidate..
(Whdt General Garfield
.SdUS)

(Whdt General Garfield
Says
When we base our ac-
ton upon the conceded
national Importance of
our great industries
when we recognise the
fact TINT artisans and
their products are essen
ttal to the aceil being of
our country, it f llows
that there is no dweller
in the humblest cottage
on our remotest frontier
who has not a deep per-
sonal interest in the leg
isla'ipn that shall pro-
mote these great nation
al industries. l will de-
fend a tariff that Is ma
tioDal in it's aims, that /
protects and sustains
those interest; without
which the nation cannot
become great and self
sustaining.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1880-10-30

If Maine Republicans intend to put this
State in the triumphant Garfield column
they have got to hump themselves.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1880-10-30

SEEN '.The JTnionist?' Noticed what a
nasty sheet it is? 1t is made up of extracts
from the Argus. The Democratic commit
tee has bought ten thousand copies for dis
tribution in this State
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1880-10-30

THAT audacious man, Justin Mccarthy,
has COMPLETED his "History of Our Own
Times" It is history some of us would
not care To tell
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1880-10-30

"WILL Truth change its name?' asks
the Springfield Republican. If it does it
will belle its nature and be truthful for the
first time in its existence
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1880-10-30

Mr.. BARNUM should employ his splendid
talents as forger in forging tariff plank
for the Democrats. The genuine plank does
not meet with the great popular want the
Democratic party advertises to fill
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1880-10-30
(What General Hancock

| (What General Hancock
Says
The tariff question can
not affect the manufac-
turing interests of the
country in the least. The
election of a Democratic
President or the eiec,ion
of a Republic n President
cannot interfere with or
influence that in the least.
The tariff question is a
LOCAL QUESTION. The
same question WAS brought
up once in my native place
in Pennsylvania. IL is a
matter that the general
government seldom, cares
to interfere acith, and moth
ing is likely ever to be
done that will interfere
with the industries of the
country.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1880-10-30

Do you know how the Republican party
legislates ''in favor of the rich and against
the poor'? They have legislated interest
from seven per cent. down to four.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1880-10-30

GEN. HANCOCK may be the loveliest of
his sex, but he isn't going to be President
just the same. This isn't a beauty CAM
paign.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1880-10-30
Nova Scotia Solid for Hancock.
philadelphia News.]

philadelphia News.l
During brief interview yesterday with q
gentleman from Nova Scotia, who is on visit
to friends in this city, he inquired as to the
prospects of Hancock election remarking that
the people in that province of the British en-
pire were almost all in favor Of Hancock. On
being asked why, he replied, Because they
believe that with him and the Democratic par
ty they will have free trade with the United
States, while voo fellows (meaning the Repub-
lfcans) are too much in favor of protection" :"
Workingmen, who believe in protecting home
industry, will please put that in their pipe and
smoke it.