The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1886-03-25
CURRENT COMMENT,
A RELIEF TO CHICAGO.
Atlanta Constitution,

A RELIEF TO CHICAGO.
Atlanta Constitution.
Sam Jones has made the people of Chicago
feel comfortable. He has told them that he
has money enough to come home on.
AN IMPENDING STRIKE IN BOSTON
Boston Record.
A strike among the passengers on our
horse railroads is impending. The purpose
is to secure a reduction of the hours OF iaDor
in making the passage through Washington
street.
A COLD YEAR FOR THE DEMOCRACY
Springfield Union
The Philadelphia Press predicts thaI thlS
is going to be an awful bad year LOT Demo,
cratic statesmen to be caught out In STORM
We are crediby informed that some q Inc
most aStute of them are alreauy aI Wolk alS-
ging cyclone pits.
AN OPINION FROM HEADQUARTERS.
Washington Post.
The Democratic party is not agreed to-day
upon any matter in which the people of this
country take rational interest. To this alb
sence of harmony, this failure to agree about
ANYTHING and the utter helplessness of the
marty arising therefrom, to move in any di-
rection, is directly chargeable the discomfort
which now exists.
A PLAUSIBLE SOLUTION.
Nautical Gazette.
The Oregon evidently struck a vessel stern
to, twisted her around and crushed her out
of existence. No one seems to have thought
of her running into the stern of a vessel; this
theory Will account for her side lights not
being seen by the look-outs. The pinnacle
light was the first light seen from the steam
er, then came the torch light. The red light
seen by the lady through the port hole was
the port light of the vessel, as she swung
around, after first punCturing the side of the
Oregon.
THE COST OF A STRIKE.
North American.
A very significant calculation has been
made in regard to the cost of the recent
strike of the coke makers, and the figures I'M
derStood to be based on fair estimates, place
the loss of the capitalists at 100000 or
thereabouts, and that of the laborerS at
1851. 600 Even if the figures were reversed
capital could endure the strain far better
than labor, for the labor which the working
man has to sell is the most perishable of
commodities. If 1t is not consumed at the
instant of its potential production it's lost
beyond recovery. On the basis, however, of
a loss Of three times that of capital, there
does not seem accessibility that labor can
ever recoup itself The practical lesson OF
this is not that labor should tamely suffer
rather than seek redress for grievances, but
that every effort to reach peaceable under
standing should be exhausted before the
costly warfare of the strike is entered upon.
THE ABUSE is INToLERABLE.
New York Evening Post
Congressman Oates, of Alabama, will do a
great service if he will zealously press the
adoption of the resolution which he intro
duced on Tuesday, providing that hereafter
''the Speaker shall not entertain nor put to
vote any motion, resolution or proposition to
appoint a committee or designate any member
of the House to accompany the remains of
any deceased Representative or Senator to
any point beyond the corporate limits OF the
city of Washington, d. O." One of these
committees has just been on an expedition
to New Orleans, with the remains of Con-
gresham Hahn, of Louisiana; another is
now drinking its way at public expense
across the Rocky Mountains, with the body
of Senator Miller, of California, its members
provoking just criticism during the stoppage
of the train in Chicago by their rudeness
and vulgarity.. "Junketing'' was bad enough
at best; but when Congressman are so lost
to shame that scores of them press their
claims" to a pleasure trip across the CONT
nent, nominally as escort to a deceased col
leagues remains, the abuse has become in
tolerable.