The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1896-02-27
TO BE CONTINUED. I
Hist DRY from the Maine Daily journal

We had the pleasure this week of looking
oven bound volume of the Maine Daily
| journal for the first year of its existence,
beginning Jan. 5, 1882. 1t was published
experiment, as they themselves stated.
1t Is not bigger than many hand bills got
ten out now-a- days by our clothing deal
ers, and gave little promise of being the
progenator of our esteemed Daily Kenne-
bee Journal with its metropolitan equip
ment OF perfectlng presses, type setting
machines, own art department, etc, Never
theless the Maine Daily Journal contained
much of interest besides legislative mat
ter, for which purpose it was primarily
published Among other things was a
curious discussion over the matter of
just below this city. 1t was argued that
a boom would interfere with the tides,
cause ice dams and freshets, endangering
lives in Hallowell and Augusta Besides
it was held that it would obstruct naviga-
ton. But these superstitious fears were
overcome and the Brown Island boom is a
fixture even to this day. From booms
we change the subject to digging potatoes
in January so that we infer that while
this season is uncommonly late the season
of 1882 was yet later, for on the authority
of this old paper Miles Cobb of Searsmont.
was Eat it, digging potatoes, ''on the
goth of January Among the death
notices in this old volume we select the
| the following: ''In Hallowell, Capt.
Henry Mellus, aged 80. Capt. M. was
one of the party who assisted in throwing
| overheard the tea in Boston harbor." A
brief article headed ga New DISCLOSURE
is significant in view of the late unpleas-
antness with MI. Bull. 1t says: 1.-The
London Metropolitan for January, in an
article relating to recent work by the
confidential friend of Mr.. Canning, re-
veals the important fact, that the famous
passage in President Monroe's message of
1928, against the interference of the Holy
Alliance in the affairs of the American
Continent, was sent forth to the world by
virtue of full understanding between
him and Mr.. Canning, that the ground
assumed was to be maintained, if neces-
sary, by the combined force of British
and American arms" Here is a phase of
the Monroe Doctrine that Mr.. Salisbury
evidently is not conversant with. Such
eminent authority, quoting one of the
foremost English statesmen of his time,
would naturally lead to the inference that
the present premier is either wilfully or
ignorantly msrepresenting the case when
he stated that England has never re-
cognized the validity or binding force of
the doctrine ascribed to President Monroe
This issue of the Maine Daily journal
might prove a valuable index to the Ven
eZuelan Commission and to his Lordship
Salisbury himself. In the last number of
volume one of the Daily Journal the
editor greatly laments over the threatened
loss of territory in the north eastern part
of the State. 1t says, "The secret is out,
and the territory is lost! 1t has virtually
been given up to the President, to be by
him transferred to great Britain.
The territory is gone. We may get
thirty pieces of silver or possibly a tract
of land somewhere on the head of the
Arkansas or Red River, beyond where the
President sends the Indians; or we may
get nothing at all, just as the general
government shall please Whether this
was before or after the ''Madawosky war
we are unable to state. Time and space
prevent us going farther in this very in
teresting review. What we have alread,
brought to light is evidence that Patricl
Henry was right when he suggested tina
the proper way Of judging the future j
by the past and he might have added
that the proper place to study the past i
its trnthfullness and vividness is in tn
files of an old newspaper. Hallowel
News.