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The Portland daily press., 1890-05-30

Interest in the State muster among the
members of the militia seems to be increas-
ing. Almost all Of the companies announce
that they will parade with from five to ten
men more than they ever had before. This
is an encouraging sign to the commanding
officers. showing that the men are more
thoroughly alive to the Importance of the
event, than ever before Many members of
the companies, especially in the cities, say
that something beside their own lack of in
terest in the work of the militia prevents
them from being present at the musters.
Many Of the men work In the employ Of
other people, and when they ask their en-
pioSers Tor the time off the employers, al
least.one time in two, will say swell, go If
you want to, but you needn't come back, /
want man to work when hire him, not to
DC travelling round the country" The in
crease In numbers promised seems to show
That employers are beginning to realize that
the time men spend in camp is time we'll spent
II the muster is managed as 1t should be. and
that therefore they are Withdrawing their
opposition. Surely the opposition ia not
logical and should be withdrawn. A man
who owns large store and a valuable stock
of goods expects the police to protect him
against mobs and riots. If the police fail he
wants the militia called upon, not as spec
tacle to be looked at, but as an armed force
to put down the mob. To do this they must
be instructed. To secure instruction they
must attend drills and musters. Now If that
man has in his employ citizen soldier to
whom he refuses permission TO attend the
muster, he is only helping to make the mill
TIA weak and ignorant of their proper duties.
Better an ounce of training in prevention
than several tons of bungling when the time
comes for the cure
The Portland daily press., 1890-05-30

The Supreme Court of Massachusetts, has
just decided that 1t is constitutional for
cities and towns In their corporate capacity
to manufacture light and furnish 1t to the
Inhabitants. AS 1t has been regarded for
many years as within the scope Of their con-
stitutional powers for cities and towns to fur
nish water, and as the furnishing of light is
closely analogous to the furnishing Of water
it might have been assumed with entire con-
fdence that If the former were constitutional
the latter was. But Attorney General
Waterman had given a contrary opinion,
hence the appeal to the Supreme Court. The
opinion of the count accords with common
sense, and If 1t stimulates cities and towns
to 90 into the business Of manufacturing and
furnishing light 1t will do good rather than
harm. Articles of general use and necessity
like water and light, can, we believe, be fur
nished to the citizens more economically by
municipalities than by private corporations,
Tor the element Of profit is eliminated, and
therefore the price can be made lower. We
believe it would lie a good thug If every
municipality of any considerable size owned
and operated its own water and Illuminating
works.
The Portland daily press., 1890-05-30
The Mike Burns Case.

Commenting upon the opinion of the
United States court in the Iowa original
package case soon after it was announced
the PRESS said:
Judge Whitehouse's decision in the Burns
And as the State courts are bound to follow The
supreme court In the Interpretation of the consti
tuition and laws OF the United States, it looks as
u TINS decision would relieve our Supreme Court
from any more arduous duty In the Burns case
than simply expressing concurrence therein.
Some Of our esteemed contemporaries
seemed inclined to dissent from this conclu-
sion and take the ground that the Supreme
Court decision would not materially affect
our liquorlaw. But the opinion of the Maine
court, delivered yesterday, comedies exactly
with what we predicted it would be. The
court follows the United States court and
declares that liquors can be imported into
Maine and sold by the importer in the orig
inal package in spite of our law. 1t could
not decide otherwise unless it defed the
United States court Our court says that
the opinion of the United States court does
not invalidate our prohibitory law, because
that is directed only against liquors unlaw-
fully sold. But it greatly broadens the scope
OF lawful sales, ana therefore very seriously
affects the value Of our law.
In the light of this decision the need of
some legislation by Congress to remedy the
Supreme Courts decision becomes more
evident than ever. Until our State court
had ruled on this matter our State officials
were under no obligations to apply the doc
trine of the Supreme Court to the
liquor trafic. But now they are. Mike
Burns can resume his old business
tomorrow and the State officials cannot
interfere with him without transgressing
the laws as laid down by our Supreme
Court. So can any number of other men
who may set up as importers either from
foreign countries or from neighboring states
Themischief of the Iowa decision is now
likely to be brought home to us, as it has
already been to the people of Iowa.
The Portland daily press., 1890-05-30
CURRENT COMMENT.
A POWERFUL ENDORSEMENT.
IEnrin0fia1a ITnion !

A POWERFUL ENDORSEMENT.
springfield Union.5
Hiram Atkins, the Democratic party of
Vermont. will convene next month and in
dorse Grover Cleveland for the Presidency
in 1892.
CIRCUMSTANCES ALTER CASES.
Hartford Postl
Just now the Democratic papers are tell
ing terrible stories about the poor working
men and women of Europe. In campaign
times they would not tell them nor believe
them.
AND TO THE STEALING OF SIGNS.
minneapolis Tribunel
Harvard College has established course
of instruction In Massachusetts law. Special
stress should be laid upon the statutes re-
lating to riots, routs and unlawful assem-
blings.
OH LET US BE THANKFUL FOR THAT.
brooklyn Standard Union.l
The passengers Of La Gascogne signed a
ties tim0nial eulogizing the Captains conduct"
because he succeeded in knocking hole in
his ship on the Bishops Rock, one of the
best known of the gems of loneliness one
sees In approaching the English coast. The
passengers are SO glad they are not drowned,
they generally do something like that
The Portland daily press., 1890-05-30

The people of Newfoundland are apparent
ly seriously meditating an application to the
United States to annex their island to this
country The movement of course grows out
Of the trouble between the French and En-
glish fishermen, and a feeling on the part of
the Observation-Disclosures that England has wan
tonly sacrificed their interests to their French
rivals. 1t is not at all likely that such a
proposition would be seriously entertained
by the United States, and even If it should
be, and the Observation-Disclosures be annexed,
1t Is difficult to see how they would be re-
lieved from their present unpleasant predlc-
ment. Their trouble arises primarily from
treaty between France and England more
than a hundred years old. but still in force.
Annexation to the United States might not
work abrogation Of this treaty; and If it did
not the Newfonndlanders would be no better
of than they are now. In any case the
United States would be likely to become in
volved in an Improbable quarrel with
foreign power.
The Portland daily press., 1890-05-30

The Argus says Mr.. Franks reasons for
declining to become candidate for Governor
are wholly satisfactory to those of his
friends to whom he has made them known"
We have no doubt Of it. There is not the
slightest difficulty in giving reasons-the
best of reasons-for such action. But it
would trouble man good deal to give
good reason for the opposite course.
The Portland daily press., 1890-05-30

Mr. John Keenan,, known as the IBIS
marck" of the New York county Democracy,
has returned to the metropolis from his So
iourn in Montreal, whittier he went to avoid
term in the penitentiary for his part in the
Broadway surface railroad bribery. keenan,
is still under indictment, but there is little
reason to believe that he will be tried, much
less that he will be convicted. The end of
the doodle" cases came when Col. Fellows
was elected district attorney. There have
been some prosecutions since, but they have
been lukewarm and in every case!t "bood-
Ter" has escaped,
The Portland daily press., 1890-05-30

The Albany Journal warns the United
states Senate that Republicans will stand no
shilly-shallying on its part with the tariff.
The Republicans want it to set about imme-
diately considering the bill and pass it
promptly. If. says the Journal. the Senators
mean by their delay shat the Mckinley bill
shall not be the law of the land on and after
the first of July, let them be awakened into
activity by little hot shot,"
The Portland daily press., 1890-05-30

The business of importing eggs into the
United States from the Dominion is much
bigger business than most people imagine.
The Halifax Chronicle says the trade Of the
Dominion with the United States in this
article last year amounted to $2,156.725, and
that 1t is now at an end by reason of the
Mckinley bill.
The Portland daily press., 1890-05-30

The Hon. M. p. Frank has decided that he
cannot consent to become the Democratic
candidate for Governor. Mr.. Frank is wise.
Mr.. Charles e. Allen, not being SO wise. still
remains in the field. and is likely to be NOM
mated. Mr.. Allen is not understood to be
the proprietor of barrel, but there is no end
to his ability to write articles on the tariff
The Portland daily press., 1890-05-30
TILE PRESS.
FRIDAY MORNING, MAY 80.

We do not read anonymous letters and commu-
nlcations. The name and address OF the writer
are in all cases indispensable, not necessarily for
publication but as guarantee Of good faith.
We cannot undertake to return or preserve
communications that are not used.
The Portland daily press., 1890-05-30

Speaker Reed has peremptorily ordered
the closing of the bar of the House restau-
rant, and henceforth while he occupies the
chair members will have to stimulate off OF
govern mant nremises.
The Portland daily press., 1890-05-30

The Canadian militia officers seem to have
a filter sense of the Middleton scandal than
Sir John Macdonald has. They refuse to
be inspected by Middleton and threaten to
resign in body unless his retirement is
insisted nnnn
The Portland daily press., 1890-05-30
Use of CHLORAL,
INTEMPERANCE,
MORPHINE. &c.

In our leading hospitals as well as by nvalIds u.s.
ing it In their own homes.
During the six years that we kept our Free Gen.
eral and Surgical Hospitals we treated aud oper
ated on over 5000 patients with these results
Of the last 3s3 operations, with one death; the
last 1000 operations, with deaths: and the
women Of Boston die 20 to the 1000; and this
great reduction in mortality over women In gen.
eral health was produced by Murdcck's LIQUID
Food being given four times daily.
The Portland daily press., 1890-05-30

IOTAL. slz4,ooo 20
STATE OF MAINE. COUNTY OF CUMBERLAND, IS.
l., j. Z. Gilman, Cashier OF the above named
bank, do sOlemnly swear that the above
statement Is true to the best OF my knowledge
and belief. j. Z. GILMAN, Cashier.
Subscribed and sworn to before me this 2eth
day of May, 1890.
CHAS, o. BANCROFT, Notary Public.
CoRRECT-Attest:
GEO. s. HUNT,
n,.,oo wM. r. WOOD. '''O''
The Portland daily press., 1890-05-30
MUROOCk'S LIQUID FOOD Co.,
BOSTON.
AN INVENTOR.

After experimenting five years,
has mt last overcome the
defectS hitherto existing In
those useful articles Fountain
Pens. MIR. ]. Blair of New
York has invented n new
Fountain Pen, s'The Record" in
which the troublesome Screw Pen
section is discarded, which Ofte I.
will not Hnscrew or will leak
ssThe RecOrd'' having mo- Pen Sec
ton, does not choke up, as the
heel Of the Pen is always i'm the
Ink. IL does not leak or spill ink
or the nozzle where the fingers
catch the Pen, or blot, NO matter
how much or little ink there be i'm
the holder.
They cost mo- more than the old
style Fountain Pens. This Inn
PrOvement put into other Pens mt
$l.OO each.
The regular prices are $3.50
with No. 2 Gold Pen warranted
Ia Karaf, and large size So. To
introduce these Pens I'm Portland
we will send n few this week mt
So and $3.50.
Address Blair's Fountain Pen
Co., FL John street, New York.
Please note this address as this
may not appear again.
ap29 dtje6
The Portland daily press., 1890-05-30
80 CITY ADvERTIsEmENTs.
AN ORDINANCE
Relating TO Evergreen Cemetery

Be 1t ordained by the Mayor, Aldermen aud
Common Council Of the City Of Portland, In
CITY Council assembled, as JotLoUs
Section 1. The owners or keepers Of dogs,shall
not permit themto go at large in Evergreen Gem
etery.
Sec. O. 1t shall be the duty of the trustees and
superintendent of Evergreen Cemetery, and of
their agents. and of any policemen other ofic-
ers on duty In the cemetery to cause all dogs not
licensed according to law, found at large therein,
See. g.. II any dog, whether licensed or not
shall be found going at large In Evergreen Gene
terry, the owner or Keeper thereof, or the head of
the family or the keeper of the house, store shop
ONCE or other place where such dog is kept or
harbored, shall forfeit and pay sum not exceed
ing ten dollars.
Sec. 4. This ordinance shall take effect when
approved.
lApproved July 5, 1881 my28d1w
The Portland daily press., 1890-05-30

The Bridgton News mystery is still un-
solved. Yesterday we inspected the
copy of that paper in the Argus
Office and found in 1t the article on the
relationship, which the Argus printed.
or course the Argus has cleared itself from
all suspicion Of Misrepresentation. But the
mystery still remains, for in the editorial
column of the copy of the News that we re-
ceiyed, in the place occupied by the collector
ship article in.the. Argus copy, is an innocu-
GUS news item about a conference at North
Bridgton and a stirring prose poem begin
ming, Shave! Shave! Shave!" modelled af-
ter the Song of the Shirt. The News will be
out tomorrow, and we may then expect an
explanation Of the strange phenomenon.
The Portland daily press., 1890-05-30

The town of Dracut in Massachusetts
seems to love money good deal better than
good order. A while ago the selectmen of
the town licensed liquor saloon, receiving
as license fee $4,000. The saloon was opened
and did smashing business, thirsty souls
from Lynn, where prohibition was the law,
focking to it in great numbers. The place
became such nuisance that even the pro-
prietor became disguised, and voluntarily
offered to surrender his license and shut up
his saloon on the return to him Of the license
fee. An act was got through the legislature
authorizing the arrangement provided the
people of the town would consent But the
people would not consent. Nevertheless the
proprietor intends to close up, which seems
to show that his conscience is in much better
condition than those of the majority of the
people of Dracut.
The Portland daily press., 1890-05-30
Annual Meeting.

AHHHHf NNttkfhk.
yUyHE stockholders Of the Portland. Saeo and
Ill Portsmouth Railroad Company are hereby
notified that their annual meeting for the choice
Of directors and Tor the transaction Of such other
business as may legally be presented, VIII be held
on the first Monday, the second day OF June 1890,
at eleven O'Clock In the forenoon, In the com.
pany's hall in Kittery. II. r. BARRETT.
Clerk Of the Company.
PORTLAND, Me-, May =, 1890. myoeOdtd
The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1890-03-12
PRODUCE
FRESH and SALT MEAT

loves and respects. You know as
we'll as we do, what will surely fol-
low If you, in your turn, become
regular frequenters Of the saloons
slaves of the drink habit. We i'm
plore you, therefore, for the sake of
your own welfare here and hereaf-
ter, for the sake of your homes, for
sake of those whose hopes and aft.
ections are centered In you, for the
sake of the cause of c rist, to come
out and declare yourselves openly
against that agency of Satan, the
rum traffic. Yours fraternally,
The Central w. G. T. U. of Nashville
Tenn.
The above is heartily endorsed
by the Maryville w. q. T. U. s. Il
Stanley, President; E. S. Henry
Secretary.
The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1890-03-12
To The Citizens of BIount County.
Tennessee.

To The Citizens of Blount County.
Tennessee.
Nashville, Tenn, Feb. %, 1890.
This is to certify that l am well
acquainted with the Hon. j. G. Hale,
of Blount County, Tenn, and was
a member of the Tennessee Senate
In 1889, while said Hale was a MEM
Der of the Lever House.
During the session of 1889, Sena-
tor Nelson of Loudon County, in.
troduced in the Senate bill to
force a settlement between a frac-
ton of LoudOn County and BlOunt
County on the rail road bonded in
debtedness and it was referred to
a committee and Hon. Jno. c. Hale
did all in his power to defeat the
bill and did good valuable service
in defeating it. He came to me
asking and begging my assistance
in defeating the bill and he did
this often, calling that the bill
would injure Blount County that 1t
was unjust and ought not let 1t pass
He took a great deal Of interest
In defeating this measure.
Respectfully,
Il. F. Mynatt.
The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1890-03-12

conducted upon principles of JUS
tice, mercy and righteousness
agreeable to him, by whom "kings
rule and princes decree JUSTICE"
and In accordance with the princi.
pies of Christ's government which
we are told, are "Glory to God in
the highest, on earth peace, and
good will toward men,"
The primary end Of all govern.
ments, therefore, is Gods glory and
the good of man, which can only he
reached by righteousness" which
"exalteth q nation" 1t follows
then, that any government that leg
islates against the peace, and welt
being of man, as a physical, mental
moral or spiritual being, fails OF the
end for which it was established,
and sins against its author.
But TeetOtaler admitting that the
saloon traffic Is an evil, and not de-
nying that license laws are sinful,
attempts to justify them because,
fOrsOOth, ave can not get what we
want" (prOhibition of course) or be-
cause, ~ law in one moral condi
ton of the world may be better
suited to 1t, than more advanced
civilization" And these summed
up are the only reasons assigned, in
his article of three fourths Of a col
umn, in defense of his underlined
and doubtful position, upon this
vital question. I ask him, As are
spOnsible moral being, which he
recognizes, how he knows that we
can not get what we want-prohibi-
ton until he, and all professedly
christian men, likehimself, have
made an honest effort to get it
which it is his and their duty to do
by demanding, laboring, praying
and voting for it? Has he done
this? will he do it? And will he
continue these earnest efforts in
view of the responsibility, which
he recognizes, until God releases
him from said responsibility, mean.
time leaving results with God?
Then my brother, and not till
then will you have done your whole
duty in this matter, and then, and
not till then, will you hear the well
come plaudit, we'll done, etc.
And again, who gave you, my
brother, authority to say, or Judge
in what age or condition of the
world, law falling far below, what
yOu know to be Gods standard
should be justified and endorsed by
you being "a debtor to do the whole
law" And do you take the re.
sponsibility of saying, that this is
such an age? Now my brother, re-
membering the prophetic "woe" OF
Habb. "to him that buildeth a town
with blood, and establisheth city
by iniquity," all of which the licens.
ed liquor traffic does, hear the Ian.
guage of Ezekiel ago unto
the children of thy people, and
speak unto them, and tell them
Thus satin the Lord God, whether
they will hear or whether they viii
forbear." w. Ii. HENRY.
The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1890-03-12

ties. Mr.. Hale was intensely IN.
terested in defeating the measure,
and frequently consulted me what
course to pursue. From the day
the bill was introduced he fought
it, and / know that he got the bill
held up by the Committee OF the
Senate, until he could present a
brief, which he was having prepar-
ed to present to the Committee
when Mr.. Rowan came before the
Committee and argued the ques-
ton for the County of Blount.
Respectfully,
C. C. Collins.
The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1890-03-12
Laws Licensing tho Liquor Traffic
Are Sinful Beyond Contradic-
ton

Mr.. EDITOR:-
Passing by the assertion Of Teeto-
taller in his article in the TIMES of
February, 18th that "No great NOR
al reform was ever inaugurated and
carried through by a political par
IT," and that the Republican party
did not free the slaves, and leaving
him to reconcile, before your intel
ligent readers, these statements
with historical facts, and with the
claims continuously paraded be-
fore the County, by himself and his
party, for twenty-five years, that
the cOlOred people ought, and if left
free would vote with the Republican
party, because, that party freed
them. proceed to the further con-
sideration of the question whether
or not license laws are sinful and
unjust. And it will be observed
that although adopting the tactics
of a political demagogue Teetotaler
seeks to make the impression that
all PrOhibitiOnists are at least, i'm
practicable and thus excite popu-
lar prejudices against any thing
that any prOhibitiOnist might write,
he no where AYERS that the PROPOSE
ton, that "license laws are unjust
sinful and iniquitous," is untrue.
Nor does he any where openly COM
bat that idea I assert, and defy
contradiction, that to license the Ii
quor traffic is unjust and a sin
against God, and cannot be done by
any government, without incurine
his righteous indignation and hot
displeasure. All governments are
Of God, and ought, therefore to be
The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1890-03-12

NASHVILLE, Tenn, Feb. q, 1890.
EDITOR TIMEs:--
In your issue of the TIMES dated
Feb. 10th you published u letter
from Hon. D. r. Nelson, In reply to
a communication published few
weeks previous, signed Republican.
In reply 1 will say that if Kepubli-
can is the man think he lie, he did
not aim in the compliments passed
on myself and ether officers of the
county, to do any injustice to Mr..
Nelson, as the bill referred to was al
ready before the people and no Sc
-cret. It was only used as evidence
of my faithfulness to my constitu-
-ents. Mr.. Nelson claims that am
not constitutional lawyer I agree
with him on this point and can add
that l make no claims to being any
thing but plain farmer ever ready
to labor for their best interest.
Mr.. Nelson further states that the
bill referred to was defeated because
it was unconstitutional. Does he
not admit in this statement that he
does not know all about the cOnsti-
tuition of our State or he would not
have labored so hard in the prcduc-
and passage of bill that he admits
was defeated on the basis of its un-
constitutionality. In defence of
what did or did not do to defeat
Mr.. Nelson's bill / respectfully refer
the citizens of my county to the
Hon. s. p. Rowan, Hon. Will A.
McTeer, l also have written state
ments from Gen. r. n. Hood and
others, two of which ! send to you
for publication with this letter.
Respectfully,
JOHN G. HALE.