The Portland daily press., 1886-02-05
CURRENT COMMENT.
BASIS FOR A COMPROMISE.
PhiIadeInhia PraSs

IHllduelpnld Ir6SS.
Openface appointments by the President
and open-face consideration of them by the
Senate.
BUT THE ORGANS HAVE ALREADY BEGUN.
N. Y. Sun.
The greatest misfortune that can happen
to Mr.. Cleveland is to have his adminlstIa-
ton committed now to thick-andsthiin t ue
fence of Acknowledgement Garland LII Tue
matter of the telephone scandal.
HIS UNNECESSARY PROBATION.
ST. Louis Globe Democrat.
1t was entirely superhuous for Mr.. Eaton
to add to his letter resigning the ONCE 4l ciV-
il service commissioner an assuraiiiice .haS ri nc
is and ALWAYS has been a Republican. The
mere fact OF resignation is quite enough TO
prove that he is not a Democrat.
sHoEMAKERs AND WAGES.
Boston Advertiser.
IF tho shoe workmen In Maine are satisfied
with their wages and hours of labor, as the
secretary of the knights of Labor says they
earnings indicate that they ought to be, in
these times. they will be very foolish to be
misled into fermenting an issue with their
employers for the sake Of helping men in the
same line of work in other localities. The
conditions of labor and the cost OF living
vary SO much in different States that they
cannot fairly be placed on the same footing
NAsBY ON REFORM.
Petroleum v. Nasty.
But motifs with great satisfackshen that
that in the interest of civil servis reform and
Dustin masheen p0litiX, that them fellows
witch hoorayed the loudest for Cleveland at
Chicago hev dropped into the latest places.
and likewise that when it BEGUN necessary
to hist a postmaster fur bein an offensive
partisan, the hardest workin Dimecrat in
the locality hez alluz bin his successor 1t
hez bin the rool that when Republican Smith
was histed ez an offensive partisan becoz ne
wuz cheerman of the Republican Sentrel
Committy last fall, that Dimocrat Thompson
witch wuz and is cheerman NV the Dimokrat-
ic Sentrel Committy was lmmeJitly put into
his place.
THE PREVALENT LABOR TROUBLES
Boston Traveller.
One of the marked features of the preya-
lent labor troubles is that the discomfort
seems to be general, cropping out in almost
every department of industry. In many cas-
es thid discomfort is explainable on good and
sufficient grounds, but in others it is unreal
sonable. Wage eaTners have not been IN all
cases content to wait for the assurance that
a revival in the branch of business in which
they are engaged is permanent before they
have demanded increase OF wages. The real
secret of the matter is that the working men
have become distrustful of their employers,
and refuse to accept assurances that more
wages than are now paid cannot probably
be given. There are doubtless reasons for
this distrust. The relations. between EN-,
ployers and employees have been such that
this lack of confidence is in too many cases
their natural outgrOwth, but 1t is IN this
lack Of confidence that the chief dangers of
the present situation lie. The prevailing
strikes and deadlocks are regretable in the
extreme, and the problem of remedying them
is before our State and national legislatures,
1t will not be solved by demagogucS but Is
one that must be met with calmness and wis
dom. A general and substantial improve
ment in the condition of trade will do much
to solve these problems, but in the meantime
legislation is in many states necessary.