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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1871-02-15
THE STORM And OUR DUTIES.


r.ortort duties come upon us with tins
oovoro Storm. Every man who has means TO
..,.sa hold make il his personal duty to see
that no poor family suffers for nre anu lou
- he biock. If no cannot distribute charity
himself he can Mt least urge others 10 90 So
and give them the means. The storm mas sus-
nopded work for those who do jobs by the
bour or the day, and even some who work by
tbe week To great many such the depriNa-
ton of a single days wages is serious mat
fer. involving short rations and cold rooms
Such families must be looked after; especially
The hundreds who have no husbands or fathers
in the house. Now is the time to see that the
very Door have at least sufficient fuel The
lone widow and the millionaire are all one to
coal Dealers the inexorablc advance of plice
respects not persons. But the worst part of it
is that while the millionaire buys his ten tons
at a time. the poor widow must do with half u
peck, bought at the grocery at a profit to the
retailer of two hundred per cent. This par
ticular swinde comes terribly had upon the
poor. They pay for bushel at the rate OF
sos a tun, and get never more than three pecks
for their money.
We beg all good citizens, all charitable asso-
Citations, lodges, churches, and societies, to
consider the urgency of the occasion in the
interest of our common humanity. A twenty
five dollar slcieh-ride, box at the theater,
and innumerable bottles of wine may be fore
gone for this good work, and We warrant that
the donor will feel greater pride in giving the
value to the poor than he can ever have IN
the enjoymcnts that follow such expenses
"Thc poor we have always with yon," are
words of wisdom and admOntion from Him
who spake as never man spake. Let us all
strive to do our duty for in the consciousness
of having done that lies about all we have to
be proud of in this world.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1871-02-15
Geu'2lotk Daily gribaorf
WEDNESDAY. FEBRUARY Is, 1871.

Another ballot will be required in Paris, several OF the
candidates for the Assembly not having the requisite
majority == The German trumphal entry into Pans
Is postponed 1900 Gambetta is seriously III. 49, a
collision has occurred on the river Mersey, and Cunard
steamer has been seriously damaged. == Sir Stafford
Norhcot has been appointed to succeed sir John Rose
on the Joint Commission on the Alabama Claims.
In the Senate yesterday, the PosOhce Appropriation
bill was reported with amendment authorizing the
General to increase the mail service between
San Francisco and China and Japan. bill was intro
duced regulating the appointment of Cadets TO the Mill
tary and Naval Academies. The Gulf Of Mexico Steam
shin Subsidy bill amended and passed. The House
bill relating to ocean cables debated, without de
cisive action the House. the West Point troubles
were debated great length but vote was reached
The steamer Tennessee has been off the coast Of
Uayti == An extensive fire has occurred in Port
Jerys n Y. === The first exhibition Of the Western
New-York Poultry Association is open in Buffalo. =@
Gov. Andrews statue formally unvailed in Bos-
ton yesterday. - Ten negro prisoners have been
taken from Jail in South Carolina by the KuKlux, and
all either shot or hanged.
The heaviest OF the occurred yes
ferday. 49, Father Farrelrs removal dates from Ash
Wednesday. == Mr.. Clinton began summing up the
Taylor will case for the contestants. - The Baptiss
propose 70 accept gifts from the State - The Lieder.
kranz Society gave a masked ball at the Academy Of
Music. = Gold, 1lls, ILL., ll1B. Thermometer, 25' 80,
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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1871-02-15
4" Mills LOGIC"

Mr.. John Stuart Mill, in his recent letter
avowedly designed to instruct our people in the
science of Political Economy, laid down this
PREMISE
al hold cperv form Of hat called Protection to be an
employment of the powers Of government to tax the
many with the intention of promoting the pecunlary
gains OF few. | say the Intention because even that
desired object Is very often not attained ana never To
the extent that expected But whatever gain there is
is made by tho few and them alone for the laboring
people employed in the protected branches Of industry
are not benefited" &c.
-Hereupon we remarked that Mr.. Mill had
grossly libeled our Revolutionary patriots and
sagcs-Wa Washington, Hamilton, Jefferson, Madi-
son, Geo. Clinton, &c, &c.-whe had urgently
advocated Protection, i'll that he charged-nOt
that they mistakenly advocated an unwisc,
short-siglted, injurious policy, but that it was
their intention to tax the many for the pc
| "cuniary gain of a few" Need we say more
on this point
The World moves an arrest of judgment on
the plea that
ain pont Of fact Mr. Mil did not mention. nor even
audc TO- those statesmen He spoke only OF the present
aspects Of the question: and the present motives OF tue
PrOteCtiOnsts."
Win this wash7 Mr.. Mil expressly de-
clares that he holds "epery form of what Is
called Protection to be an employment of the
"powers of government TO tax the many with
"the intention of promoting the pecuniary
"gains of a few" Does he cOnfine his incul-
patton to "prcScnt aspects" and "presem mo-
"tives,n or does he mott You have his cx-
press language before you, and can pass judg-
ment thereon.
The World proceeds to argue that Mr.. Greeley S
advocacy of Protection is not based on the
same considerations as those adduced by our
Revolutionary statesmen. Very likely. But
what has that to do with Mr.. Mills sweeping
elimination of all Protectionists as swindlerS
who want to be thieves, but are 80 silly that
they ont know how Let us keep to the
question
And, by the way, will The World tell its
readers which party in the present Legislature
of Virginia lately voted to pay 5000 for a por-
trait of the Rebel Gen. Robert i. Lee, and
refused to order portrait of the Union Gen.
George II. Thomas-also a gallant and emf
nent Virginia soldier? The World has cor
rectly stated that the portrait of Lee was or
dercd and that of Thomas refused by party
vote. Why not say Uhich party thus honored
the Rebel and dsdained the Union hcrof
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1871-02-15

We have not supposed Germany to be a
favorable place at present for negotiating our
new low-rate bonds, for the reason that the
war has generally disordered finances in
Europe. But there appears to be another cause
affecting our credit in Germany, which our
Consul at Berlin plainly intimates to be fear
that the "hue and cry for revenue reform
may prevail, and reduce the tariff too suddenly
and too greatly. There is little reason Tor ms
fears, but it is well enough that the people
should heed his warning and understand how
foolish and insignificant political movements
like this affect the national credit abroad.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1871-02-15
HOW MR. NATHANIEL SANDS OUGHT TO
HAVE DONE TT

A correspondent in Japan describes n singu
lar movement for reform which has recently
agtated the politics of Yokohama; and though
we don't think it il likely to be initiated in
New York, our readers may be interested in a
short account of it, A reform cOmmittee-a
sort of Citizens Association in fact-was or
ganized last Summer, for the purpose of spy
ing out the sins of the Mikados adminstra-
ton and the first communication from this
body, addressed not to the newspaper press,
but to the Japanese Parliament has been made
public with certain extraordinary ceremonies.
1t is rather a surprise to find that even in
the spice-laden islands of the Pacific there are
Rings and tex levies, and municipal jobs, and
various games of that s0rt-nay, we dare say
there are street-Opening commissions and a
Board of Superintendent the Mikado, upon
whose sacred person Mr.. Seward, as a particu-
lar favor was allowed to gaze, is nothing
better than q shaven, olive-tinted Bill Tweed.
" From the Prime Minister down through
all the grades of public servants, all
4" are running into the most eXtravagant
"and licentiOus modes of life, spending their
whole time, talents, and energies in riotOus
pleasure" They frame all the Imperial de-
crees $50 IA to inevitably ill and replensh
"thcr Unsuitable mawsn The poor are sub
jected to oppressive taxation; the cunning, the
artful, the crafty are promoted to Office; good
fiat offices are sought for favorite friends or
"for those who can pay well for them" and
magistrates disregard strict integrity, revers-
ing justice, truth, and right" Here was a
case astonishingly like our own, and there was
further resemblance in the fact that after the
Indictment was prepared there was the great
est difficulty in getting the Mikado to pay any
attention To it, A young officer, Yokoyama
Shotaro 10y name, accordingly presented himself
at one of the Government Offices with the me-
mortal and after placing j, il responsible
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1871-02-15
HAIR IN DIPLOMACY.

In one of his discOurses The Spectator cele-
brates the establishment in France of Polit-
ical Academy; and he humOrousy fOrebodes
the line of incubation which it will be likely
to pursue. The students, destined to politics and
diplomacy will be carefully instructed in the art
of splitting wafer; they will be taught the
uses of the judicious nod and the dubious
shrug. If asked the time of day. they will
ponder, look wise, and evade the question.
If they send notes TO each other, even though
it be but to borrow Tacitus or Macchiayelli,
the missives must be in cipher. They must
"circumvent each other in frogs and salaus,n
and give one another "goOd morning" in
phrases of double meaning, 50 that they may
not be positively committed to even a salutatiOn.
In short, the wise and witty Spectator gives
an outline of an extensive plan of rudiment-
airy trimming in the arts of statecraft and
diplomacy, but he nowhere indicates what
has in our time apparently become an import
ant quesiOn-that is, how the statesman or
diplomatist shall part his hair.
Now, whether the hair of these respected
personages should be parted in the middle, or
on one side or the other or not at all, whether
it is indispensable to them to have any hair
ration, are questions which we have never
deemed important, but some of our cotempo-
raries appear to regard them 80, and are be-
slowing a considerable amount Of tediousness
upon them. 1t is averrcd that the Presidents
primary objection to Minister Motley was that
that eminent historian, disdaining the
cranial DISAGREEMENT characteristic of
American statesmen from the days
OF jackson to our own, parted his hyperion
tresses carefully along the equatorial regions
OF his head, and in 10 doina exhibited plant
Difference to the social usages of the land to
which he was accredited. This it was said
was unbecoming in one whose Office it was to
settle the Alabama claims, and with gestures
OF courtesy but grip of severity give the tail
OF the British Lion an cxpiatory tweak. Of
course the story was the ingenious invention of
some letier-writer, some twitterng tom-tit of
the press, but it has been caught up and pom
dered by the Older birds, tho owls and ravens,
ana they have lot of quite u number of croak5
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1871-02-15

The Pacific Coast worthless who lately undertook
to explain the President who ought be in his Cab
met did not have good enough in their work to make
it serve even as an awful example. Here comes The
AntSGrey Standard, treading in their veryfootStep.
and explaining TO the President that, in Difference
to the Labor and Land Reformers he should turn
out Mr. Delano and install Mr.. Geo. W. Julian In his
place. If now the President will. in kind return.
explain to the owners Of The Anh-Stdtery Standard
that they should turn out their present Editor and
substitute-wel say Prof. J. X. II. Wilcox, or Vic
toria C. woodruff, the play of Winding Every
bodys Business but Your Own" would have reached
its fitting climax.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1871-02-15

A letter which we printed yesterday con-
corning the inability of railroad axle manu-
facturers to sell properly refined, first
quality axics to many railroad managers on
account of the price, was from so responsible
and el-informed a source as TO warrtnt tho
uneasiness it is likely to create. Our CORE
spOndent declared that large quantities or
axles, sold to many of our railroads, are made
of scrap and other cheap material, used per-
force because the railroad managers will pay
for no better. This disclosure comes in start
ling confirmation of what we have already
said concerning the overstrained economy
which finds it necessary to run the rsk or
drowning OF burning to death human beings
by the score, in order that hand
some dividends may be secured ana
such showing made as shall
warrant profitable watering of the stock. The
public has a right to demand, and, unless we
are greatly mistaken, it will find way to de
mand effectually, that railroads making emo
nous profits shall, at least, spend some part o
their earnings in securing all possible exemp-
ton from danger for the passengers who sup
mort them.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1871-02-15

The life insurance case just decided In favor
of the plaintiff, to which we referred on Sat-
urday, involves a point of great interest to
both life insurance companies and policy
holders. 1t will be recOllected that the person
insured. being in embarrassed circumstances
and harassed by creditors, procured policies
to the amount of $4,000 in his wife's favor
the day before his death, then went on board
a steamboat at Louisville, was found in an
insensible condition, locked in his state-rOom,
when the boat reached Cincinnati, and died
shortly after The testimony during the trial
included post-mOrtem examination, showing
that at least half grain of mOrphia was found
in the stomach and tissues of the deceased,
while IL was also proved that he was in excel
lent health and apparently good spirits when
going on board the steamboat The Judge
charged the jury that if they found that the
deceased had committed suicide by taking
morphia, the presumption was that he was in
sane at the time; and the burden of proof to
the contrary rested with the defendant Under
such ruling it would appear to be almost i'm
possible for an insurance company to de-
fend n suit successfully on the ground
of suicide of the insured. The view
hitherto held has been that if the suicide
occurred within comparatively short period
of the act of insuring, fraud might be sus-
pected but if a long time had elapsed, fraud
was improbable. Under the new ruling the
companies may as well take the q" suicide
clause" out of their policies 1t is doubtful
whether it is ever just to the survivor, or ex-
pedient for a company DESTROYS of popularity,
to plead suicide AZ defense. Retaining the
clause may sometimes prevent suicide, but
is much more certain to deter great numbers
from insuring who, if insured, would never
think of killing themselves.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1871-02-15
amnormenls. clr.. CHS Gpeninp.

RooTu's THEATER-" Richcleu' Edwin Boo'h'
rIrru-AvENUE TnEArER-"S Saratoga"
FoURTFENTH-sT. TnEtTrR-" King Lear hu-
In, Fnwry's TnEArER-" Hunted Down" Laura
-,
N,r1o't GARDTN.-"Thc Black Crook"
O,v,,r1c THrATrR.-At2 q and s: Tho Richeieu
Of the Period" G. L Fox
wu,,cs's TurATER. - "Tho Clandestine Mar
rage" Lester Wsllaok.
Nrv-YoRK CIRcUs.-At2i and 8: Sensational Bare
back IIoremaustip. etc
SAN FRANCISCO MINsTREIs.-SOngs. Dances &C.
centric acts ctc
STEINwN HuL.-COncert prench Relief FUND.-
W.orrs NVsTrN AND MENNCERIE.-At =: Cole
man Cbien AT "a: Norah Creus" ant lucreta BogA'
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1871-02-15

hands, straghtway ripped himself open on the
official premises. Before he died he had the
satisfaction of knowing that his memorial was
on its way to the palace, and he breathed his
last in the calm and happy confidence that
paper presented in such an impressive manner
was pretty sure to be read. 1t was read. The
Mikado replied that the young man was mis-
taken in some things, but his patriotism was
to be commended. If he had not been dead
he would probably have been made lax
Commissioner!
We are not certain about the application OF
this precedent to our own troubles. 1t Is not
clear yet whether the japanese Ring have re-
pented and reformed, or whether, like the
fishes that listened to st. Anthony,
Much delighted were they,
But preferred the old way;
and the efficacy of the ceremonial has cOnse-
uuently not been established. Still we think
it is almost pity Mr.. Sands, Mr.. Henry, and
one or two other patriots of the Citizens AS
ISOLATION had not tried the experiment. We do
not thirst for the gore of those estimable men /;
but we cannot help thinking that they would
make noble figure in history scattering their
own bowels about the stones ef the City Hall,
and falling at the feet of Mr. Tweed with the
suicidal knife in one hand and portentous
mass of documents written on yellow tissue
stretched forth in the other.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1871-02-15

New-York is not the only State which Con-
gress proposes to afflict with new and unneces-
sary Judicial Districts carved out of the old
ones for the benefit of retiring members whose
constituents have no further immediate use
for them. Virginia, Ohio, Missouri, Illinois,
and Iowa are marked for like infiction. 1t
argues unfavorably for the hoped for defeat
of the bill that the Senate debated it through
the entire morning hour, though it did not de-
serve a moments serious consideration.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1871-02-15

The West Point troubles are agitating Con-
gress as much as they did the Academy, and
far more needlessly. The House spent the
whole of yesterdays session in angry consid-
GRAFTON of the resolutions expelling the ring
leaders of the late mob. Thorough debate Is
well enough, though the subject is not of the
largest dimensions but passionate and angry
discussion of these Offenses, now that calm
Enquiry has established their nature and de-
gree, is unworthy the House, and we hope to
see the debate closed to-day in more amiable
mood.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1871-02-15

We have already spoken of the shameful
bills carried through the New-Jersey Legisla-
ture in 1870, by which the Erie Railroad Com
pany was enabled to tax the merchants of
Paterson 100000 year in the form of extra
freight charges. They were the worst speci-
mems of legislative trickery ever seen. One
bill wiped out all the penalties for past over
charges, and threw number of suits out of
court. Another, purporting to increase the
penalty, cOvertly repealed it altogether. A
third, under pretense of authorizing the con-
struction of new road, conveyed enormous
and ill-defned powers, by which the Erie
Company Immediately claimed the right to
put up their charges between NewY0rk and
Paterson no less than $50 per cent These
bills were pushed through the Legislature in u
single day, by means with which Mr.. James
Fisk, jr., is only too familiar During
the present session an attempt has
been made to repeal them. a Dill
or series OF bills for that purpose came up IN
the Senate last week, and was laid over-0nly
five Senators voting nay. This we presume Is
the result of an attempt of the Erie managers
to compromise. They have discovered that
last years legislation is in great danger Oh
being upset by the courts, aud they otier 10
exchange it for valid act which VIII give
them 100000 year in extra freights instead OF
100000. We warn the Republican legislators
of New-Jersey that they cannot afford to COM
promise with these railway plunderers. The
acts of 1870 were monstrOus frauds, when
should be repealed out and out. No party can
bear the odium of such perversions OF justice.
No party can afford to keep terms with noto-
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1871-02-15

Certain German Republicans in our City pro-
pose "Planks for a Durable Republican Plat
"form," in cur columns to-day. We commend
their views to thoughtful consideration. Some
of them strike us as sOund-Others as ques-
tionable. We beg the prOpOsers to bear in
mind that great party cannot afford to have
a very long creed, and that platforms, in be-
coming more durable, are apt to be less and
less adapted to the ever-varying needs of the
day. But it will harm none of us to ponder
these Germans suggestions.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1871-02-15

The Spring fever of the HOuseHunters is
already upon them; but for the heavy SHOWS
which have impeded lOcOmOtiOn for the past
fortnight it would have become epidemic. But
at any rate the annual anxiety to secure houses
will break out soon enOugh,-tOO soon, indeed,
for there is not this year that cause for nervous
ness which existed in years lately past. 1t is
evident that rents are still on the decline, not
only in New-York, whence emigration con-
times. but in its principal suburbs, to which
high prices for houses have for years past
driven the poorer classes and small families
Rents have been slow in returning to
the ante-belVm standard, and have not
yet indeed reached it, but we have
the welcome assurance, III the carefully pre-
pared statement which we publish elsewhere,
that the decline continues. There are many
reasons why rents should decline. The sub
urban villages offer great attractions and
ample accommodations. New and numerous
wel-appointed street railways have brought
the remotest outskirts of Jersey City, Brook
Ign, and the other principal suburban cities
within few minutes of the business part of
the city, and in these districts thus brought
conveniently to our doors, thousands OF COM
Portable houses, suitable for small families
with little means, have been built during
the past and previous years. The number
of dwellings in this city let in floors
is largely increased, and the system has be-
come so far a." fashionable " that many houses
are building for that special purpose. An in
crease in the number of these houses natu-
rally produces reduction in their rents. The
supply being amplc-at any rate larger than
for some years past-there is no good reason
why tenants should, by The display of too
much anxiety to secure dwellings help to
maintain rates which are still unjustifiably
high. We commend all those who are disposed
to nervousness to employ the time between
this and the reOpcnng of navigation in our
streets by careful study of the article which
elsewhere presents these arguments and facts
more in detail.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1871-02-15

comes just little late. The public had long
since reached precisely the same conclusion,
and the idle assertions had been forgotten al
most as soon as the false position taken by
Tammany had been abandoned. MIR. Walker,
however reveals the one fact of interest, not
unsupported indeed, but not before estab-
lished, that the Police enumeration of the
census was so unfavOrablc to Tammany pur-
poses that it was abandoned in despair.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1871-02-15

The argument in the Taylor will case was
opened yesterday, and, it is hoped, will be
closed to day. The case has attracted such
general attention, and the public are so ia
miliar with the facts, that their recital by the
counsel only increases the eagerness to hear
the decision of the Surrogate.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1871-02-15

The House yesterday voted $4,5OO to a de-
feated contestant of a seat in that body. 1t
lately voted to provide for certain retiring
members by creating half a dozen or more
Judicial offices in as many States. Do Repre-
sentatves thus literally dispense public places
and funds TO their fellows in fear of being at
tome future time in need of like favorsP