The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1885-05-22
Current Comment.
FLATTENED OUT AS IT WE'RE.
Bangor Who.

FLATTENED OUT AS IT WERE.
Bangor Wing.
The Illinois Democrats are now about as
horizontal as Mr.. Morrison's tariff BILL
YOUNG PILLsBURY.
Waterbury American.
Young Pilsbury may be just the man for
deputy collector, but his fathers indecent
haste in appointing him on the very day of
his entrance upon office, will not diminish
an unsavory reputation.
SHE TALKED TOO MUCH.
Des Moines Leader.
One of The ladies employed on the day
force al The telephone Office has been sue-
pended by Manager Mead, the reason as.
sigued berg that her exuberance of verbage
led her to unnecessarily proong conversation
with subscribers.
A BUSINESS PROPOSITION.
Brooklyn Eagle
1t is time TO say good word for the Dem
ocratic managers of the senatorial contest in
the Illinois legislature. We have no doubt
that in gravel quarry they could earn as
much as dollar and quarter day each, if
they were properly divided up ana worked
in separate gangs.
THE DOMINION ELEPHANT.
NJ Y. World.
The best thing Canada can do is 10 let
Riel go, vote good ronnd sum to help the
half-breeds at once and see that they are
justly treated in the future. AS to Gen.
Middleton, vote him new chapeau and
set OF parliamentary resolutions which will
make him believe himself really great gen.
eral.
SOMEBODY'S LOSS is SOMEBODY'S GAIN.
Y. Y. Times,
r
skating would not make the judicious grieye
and if the failure OF the match at Madison
Square Garden is sign that rink skating is
soon to become unpopular it will, as we
have said, cause many good people to re-
jOice. 1t may be added moreover, that if
the Kinks become improbable the theatre
men will shed no tears.
WHAT THEY KEEP HIGGINS FOR.
Minneapolis Tribune.
Higgins seems to be a gay and frisky
young thing. Our Washington correspond
eDt is authority for the statement that he
can be just too sweet for anything when he
tries, and female clerks find it real pleas
ure to be dismissed by him. He can give a
young woman her walking papers SO grace.
fully that she departs under the impression
that somehow she has received a great favor.
DOES INDECENCY PAY?
COuIanG.
notion has gained ground that it is COM
mercially profitable for newspaper to cater
to low tastes, and that it invariably increases
its circulation by gathering and publishing
all the details of revolving social scandals.
1t seems to be the opinion of the Sun that
this notion has demoralized the country
press which has copied the city press in this
reprehensible practice. AS it now, on such
good testimony as the Sun, turns out that
the ways OF uncleanness in journalism are
Improbable, and that the scrupulously
decent newspaper is, in the long run,
the most profitable, a most desirable
change may be looked for all along
the line. 1t cannot have escaped the obser-
Walton Of newspaper conductors that there
has been for some years a general complaint
among men who have families that it is diff
icult to find paper with the news in it
which is decent enough to be admitted into
the house. The reply has been that the
public demanded the depraved sort of news
and was willing to pay for it. and would al
ways by preference buy the journals that
furnished it. We are glad to be authoritive-
ly informed that this is commercial mis-
take. One theory of the newspaper is that
it is very much what the public want it and
make ii, and we believe that as a rule the
tone of a newspaper is higher than that of
majority of its readers.