The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1885-09-07

LET US have peace" has become popular
with the Bourbons. In order that we may
have peace let us have justice, the first con-
dition OF peace.
THE OFFENSIVE PARTISANsHIP ISSUE.
Senator Cuom OF Illinois.
We propose to try this issue of offensive
partlsanShip to the very uttermost. We will
make a war from the very word go on that
issue. We regard the administration posi-
ton on this point as simply one of humbug
and pretence We propose to show up that
position in its true light. In order to justify
a removal the administration must be able to
show something more than the fact that the
official so removed has only taken an ordina-
ry interest and part in politics. We propose
to try each case upon its merits and then de-
eide for ourselves how much this offensive
craftsmanship shall stand as bar to holding
office.
RATES SHOULD BE REDUCED INSTEAD OF
INCREASED,
Industrial Joernal
Telegraph and telephone service have come
TO be practically necessity for the business
man and citizen generally. The tendency is,
or should be, toward reduced rates of such
service, and also to an extension and increase
of facilities. If the companies, however,
whom the public know have made big divi-
dends out of these enterprises in the past,
endeayor to impose upon their patrons by
giving inadequate accommodations or in
creasing their charges, they will find to their
cost that the people can do without them and
their services, at least until such time as they
may take the business into their own hands.
AND THERE ARE HUNDREDS OF CASES LIKE
Boston Traveller.
One of the stock assertions of the Demo-
cratic organs is that when Lincoln came in
in 1861, clean sweep was made of all the
offices, great and small. 1t is not true A
little incident, one of many that are reported
from time to time, showing that there was
no clean sweep when Lincoln took the reins,
is that reported from Ashland in this State.
There is a vacancy in the postoffice at Ash
land, caused by the death last month of j. H.
Jones. Mr.. Jones was first appointed in
1851, and was found in office when the Lin
coin administration came in. He remained
there through every succeeding Republican
administration until he died.
THE ELECTIVE SYSTEM AT BROWN
Philadelphia Press.
President Robinson, of Brown University,
announces in his annual report that the cleo
tive system is to be adopted by that institu-
ton. Brown University has been known as
one OF the most conservative of colleges, and
the fact that it is about to take new depar-
tnre will be accepted as strong evidence of
the progress the new system of college edu-
cation has made. The careful and accurate
training Brown has heretofore given in the
classics is not to be abandoned, however, for
President Robinson says: ''In all the
changes proposed it is not to be understood
that the faculty are in the least degree dis
posed to disparage classical learning, or to
afford the slightest pretext for neglecting it.
On the contrary an increased attention to it
is confidently expected" 1t is interesting to
note in this connection that the first step
towards establishing elective studies in the
college curriculum was made at Brown Uni
versity over thirty years ago by President
Francis Wayland. But his plan was regard
ed as too radical, and the old system was re-
stored after his resignation of the presidency.
His ideas have since been adopted by the
most prominent colleges in the country, and
now the institution where they were first put
into practice is about to reincorporate them
in its course of Study