New-York daily tribune., 1866-04-07

60 on his adulterous way rejoicing. The In
spector of Milk advertises him In all the news.
papers, nominatim-proclaims the number of his
cart-announces the place of his resdence-in
fact, smashes his commercial reputation with all
who prefer q pure article for themselves and
their babies. Other fields OF industry may
thereafter be open to the culprit-he may try
his hand at vending bean-cofee or sanded su-
gar, or larded butter, or wooden nutmegs or
logwood wine, but his struggles in the milk
trade are over. An outraged community will
bring out no more bowls before breakfast for
him to fill with an unwholesome, thin, sky.blue
commodity. He is used-up milkman.
This may seem harsh, but we are ferocious
enough to wish that New-York might have the
benefit of little stern practice Of the kind.
OF course, here a wicked milkman would need
great deal more showing up than in Boston
if exposed in one quarter of the city he might
betake himself to another, but a good, thorough
advertising in the newspapers and by placard,
with instructions to the local police to look after
him, and to warn families against him, his cart,
his cans, his cows and his water-pails, might
have the desired effect Of suppressing him Alto
gether Next Summer, we are sure that he
will, unless compelled to relinquish the milk
business be more dangerous to human life than
fifty ful-hedged plug-uglies in the loftiest stage
of intoxication. He will be one of King Chol-
era's most efficient servants-he will take the
Herodian department and attend to the small
murders. He will ravage in the nursery, while
the purveyor of bad meat ravages in the dining
room. What with slaughter-houses, and bone
boileries, and noisome kennels, and tenements
damp, crowded and il-ventilated, tho children
of the poor have rather dismal outlook for
next midsummer; and the milkman who may
take away their last chance of living through
that season, showing no mercy to these inno-
cents, is entitled to the very least mercy con-
sistent with Christian charity.
The most hopeless community is not by any
means the most ignorant-it is that which sins
against light employs the devices of civilization
TO perpetuate the evils of barbarism, raises
cheating and commercial fabrication to the
| hight Of fine art, encounters fatal and we'll
defined dangers with both eyes wide open,
understands what is deathly and yet calmly and
stolidly invites the approach of death, will not
DRAIN will not clean, will not let Gods blessed
air be wholesome, tolerates the spoiDgo Of Gods
blessed gifts puts up with stenches and poisons,
foul gas and false food, imperfect sewerage and
every other provocative of pestience, out of
sheer apathy or for tho sake OF lucre, changing
money upon a whted sepulcher, and stalking
human life against dirty dollars. We have a
plenty Of sanitary science--too much, moral
responsibility considered, if we see not with our
eyes, and smell not with our noses. The NOR
alists are very hard upon man who Kills HIM
self by drinking gin, but there is no censure for
society killing itself by living in ill-yentilated
houses, in the neighborhood of cesspools, within
nostril-shot Of shambles, upon watered or worse
than watered milk decayed vegetables, rotten
meat, chalky bread. rancid butter, and doctored
beer. Good, easy people say that there is no
help for tive are born 10 bo sick, we are iated
to die, every man must eat his peck of dirt, we
must bolt our food and ask no questions
ptscuIltS DtueNtu lHdl uIutcs hIc AItIo MA
chimes, but We, God-msde men, claiming some
thing Of the divine in our constitutions. are con-
tent with merely mechanical life, eating and
drinking what fortune may bring to us, and
exercising hardly brute discretion. There
never was an age that knew so accurately the
laws of life, and there never was an age that 80
systematically ignored them. The milkman
cheats us, the butcher cheats us, the grocer
cheats us, the vntner cheats us, the brewer
cheats US, the baker cheats u.s. the clother
cheats us, the builder cheats u.s. and we are ap-
parently content to be cheated to the end. Is
it because we all have our little private swindle
on foot, are all bent on getting something for
nothing, or worse than nothingi This is the
solution of the mystery which saves our sense,
but in what plight does it leave our morals