The Portland daily press., 1886-09-28
CURRENT COM M EMIT.
ALMOST CRIMINAL.
North American
NOT HISTORICALLY TRUE.
IL. II.

NOItH
The publication of Virgins insane pre-
dictions to the people Of Charleston was
something almost criminal
NOT historically TRUE.
Macon (Ga.) Telegraph.
Our Yankee friends could not capture
Charleston during the war, but they have
done it now. 1t is a city that had to be
shaken before taken.
USEFUL MAN
Springfield Republican.
A man who can forecast election results
from the early returns is useful, and Stephen
Berry, the press agent at Portland, seems to
hit it very close.
A DYING INDUSTRY.
Marine Journal.
A Strike in the ranks of the wooden
ship building mechanics of Maine is, to say
the least, a-sfTange procedure. In fact, a
strlkerby the wooden shipbuilders Of this or
any other country seems farcical at the pres
ent time. That this poor, dying industry
should not be allowed to go to its grave at
its OWN feeble pace is sin. To be hurried
there by the descendants of those who Gre
ated and thrived by it is almost a crime. The
shipbuilding industry made Maine famous.
That it should die out from natural causes
is bad enough, but to have it killed because
its own mechanics will not allow the build
ers to name the price they can afford to pay
The MECHANIC is disgrace.
PLAIN TALK.
The Independent.
The election in Maine settles t he future of
the third party. 1t is not to be serious fac
tor in American politics. 1t has no future
before it. Prohibition has a great future,
thank God! but not the Prohibition party.
then say that the Prohibition party is sub
stantial failure, the question must next be
h. - So, .x.E In
people respond to an appeal for prohibition
Certainly they will, and it is chiefly because
they wish to fight the saloon by prohibition
and in every other way that they refuse to
accept the prohibition party. They have
common sense, and they see That prohibition
al agitation and that the political methods
of the third party actually endanger prohi-
bition.
Besides, we cannot conceal it from our
selves that the third party. prohibitionists
are showing themselves much more anxious
to make much of their party than to pro-
mote temperance. There is a growing and
Just suspicion that political ambition has
more to do with their methods than a love
of temperance. This is seen in the fact that
their declared policy is mo compromise.
which has the remarkable meaning of no
voting for a prohibitionist unless he flies our
political flag. So they will set up candi-
date of their own against an active and pro-
nounced prohibitionist of the old parties,
when they know perfectly well that to do so
is likely to elect saloon man. They pre-
fer a saloon man to Republican or Demo-
cratic prohibitionist. Now, the common
sense of the people will see through that
sense.
We believe that it will be found very diff
cult to get up really vital party for temper
ance or honesty or chastity, because such du-
ties will appeal to honest men in all parties.
We believe it will be more than dificult-it
will be impossible-to put any vitality into
the soealled prohibition party, not because
men love their old parties so much, as because
the policy of it's leaders is unintelligent, and
is hostile to the cause it purports to serve.