The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1885-11-04
CURRENT commENT.
A Market FOE DUB MANUFACTURER

san Francisco IouileIll.
AS wheat-experting country the United
States has probably eliminated. Hence
forth the growth of manufactures will cause
the home market to more than keep pace
with the supply, and amarket must be found
for the products OF our factories and machine
shops. There Is none more promising than
this undeyeloped, but growing agricultural
South American State (the Argentine Re-
public)
TEXAS AND wHISKEY.
Fort Worth, Tex, Gazette.
There are not above 1000 saloons in Texas
where whiskey is sold at retail, and we have
population of 2,250,0O0 or more. Here it
requires 1125 persons to support saloon.
One hundred persons in Chicago consume as
much whiskey as HOO in Texas With one
fourth our population, the metropolis of Hi
nOlS sustains three times as many drinking
places as the entire State of Texas. LII the
same proportion of saloons to population ex-
listed in this State as in Chicago, we would
have 22,500 drinking places, instead OF
2000
ETHICS OF THE TARIFF.
Newark Advertiser
But the sum and substance of the ethics of
the tariff, as presel ted at the Church Con-
of Paul to Timothy: But if any provide not
for his own, and especially for those Of his
own house, he hath denied the faith, and is
worse than an infdel' The sentimental
and truly ethical Free Trader may think that
the Millennium will be fastened by our modi-
flying the tariff so that it shall be based on
the universal brotherhood of man. But, in
the meantime to use the language OF the
worldly, somebody will be lett. And it will
not be the universal European brother.
AWAY WITH TEcHNICALITIEs.
Brooklyn Eagle
A recent opinion of the Supreme Court of
Illinois dwells in terms of strong disappro-.
hation on tha ease with which the ends of
justice are defeated through the technicali-
ties of the law, t'If it is not already under
Stood" says the court, sit is high time that
it should be, that where case is clearly
have so found, that this court will not re-
verse for mere technical errors, which it can
see could not have affected the result. The
calendars of our State courts furnish numer-
GUS instances of the evil above referred to,
and the legal subtleties advanced for the pro-
lection of criminals have become bewildeT-
ing maze, through which justice goes stag
gering blindly to her fall.
THE DEMOCRATS IN CONGRESS.
Springfield Union
The Democratic party's want of policy
upon the pressing issues of the day leads to
the inference that the next session OF Con-
gress will be abortive. Mr.. Carlisle hasn't
made up his mind about the silver dollar
business, and he doesn't know or appear to
care what Mr.. Randall thinks or proposes,
on this or other important matters. Mr..
Morrison is preparing for go-as-you-p please
race on the tariff question, and all hands
have been so much engaged in manipulating
the spoils that they have paid no attention
whatever to their alleged principles. They
depend upon the majority of hands in the
House Of Representatives to hold the fort,
but they have as yet no fort to hold. There
is ''too muchee by-m-by'' about their pur-
poses, as there was about the Chlnaman's
too rapid watch.