The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1882-08-30


cultivating political independence, reads the
Democratic party a lecture, admonishing it
that the trouble is that "the people do not
believe its profession" and have good rea-
son not to. In the late Congress, it points
out, "there was scarcely job during the
whole session, except the contested election
cases, which did not muster more or less
Democratic votes, and upon the most con-
spicuous job of the session, the River and
Harbor bill, the Democrats were disabled by
their own action from taking advantage of
the Republican profigacy which a
Republican President had rebuked. If
the Democratic voters have the good sense
to leave at home this year all the Democratic
representatives concerned in the Republican
jobs, they will do more for their party than
they could do by adopting from now till
doomsday platforms in which the noblest
sentiments are clothed in the most exouis-
tie language. The Republicans are doing
almost everything for the Democrtic party.
But they cannot quite do everything. They
must leave it to the Democrats to prove that
they are less unfit than the unfiG Republic
cans"
AMERICAN creditors of French debtors
have just secured valuable concession from
the Council of State at Paris. Until now
American corporations have never enjoyed
| equal rights I'M France with those chartered
under most other governments. Through
| the efforts of Minister Morton, the French
| Minister of Commerce, M. Tirard, has in
vestigated the claims presented by represen-
tatives in Paris of certain American corpo-
rations, and. having his eyes opened has Sc
| cured the adoption of a favorable decree.
| The advantage of the new regulation is this,
that hereafter American companies may
| bring action in their own names in French
courts. By law dating from 1857 Belgian
concerns have had this privilege, and by
subsequent DEGREES Turkey, Egypt, and a
dozen European countries have been added
to the list. The United States hereafter
will stand with the rest of them.
The Moravians, or Church of the United
Brethren, have celebrated at Bethlehem,
Pennsylvania, the 150th anniversary of the
establishment of their foreign missions.
| Theirs was, perhaps, the earliest scheme of
Protestant PROSECUTING ever undertaken, and
the Island of St. Thomas was its scene.
| The children IN the faith of John Huss now
number some 100000. The Moravians in
| the United States constitute province"
| Independent in some respects, though unit
| ed with their brethren through General
Synod. The missionary spirit has been for
| some years quite active among them, and
has displayed itself in all parts of the
world.
THE Land Office report for the fiscal year
| just closed gives good deal OF color to the
claim of Dakota 10 unparalleled growth.
| Under the homestead laws 2, 1871, 415 acres OF
| land have been entered within twelve
months, or as much as Minnesota, Kansas,
| Nebraska, Arkansas and California COM
bined-the States which stand next in order.
Under the timber-culture acts over half of
all the land taken was in Dakota, or 1,471, :
| 100 out of 2,609, 1877 acres. Dakota, more
over, leads in the amount of cash sales In
the aggregate, 100000 acres in that Terri
tory were disposed of, as against 100000
acres in Kansas, $50, 900 in Nebraska, and
| 675, 900 in California.
THE census returns disclose the fact that
the District of Columbia has the most dense
population of any District in the United
States. 1t has 2960 persons to the square
mile, exceeding six times that of Belgium,
which has only 500 persons per mile; Rhode
Island has 254; Massachusetts, 221; New
Jersey, ISL; Connecticut, 1913; New York,
106; Pennsylvania, 95; Maryland, o.; Ohio,
IS; Illinois, So; Kentucky, 40. All the 9TH
or States have less than 40 persons to the
square mile, while Kansas has only u, and
Nebraska, 6.