The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1873-03-24

exhibited without supposing he was. poisoned
or drugged. We hope, for the credit OF the
press, we shall hear no more of this heartless
canard.
! Tho Herald tho Great Advertising
Medium.
Yesterdays HERALD contained ninety-six
columns of matter, sixty of which were
devoted to advertisers and twenty-nine to
news and general intelligence. We make no
apology to our readers for publishing this
/ immense mass of advertisements for our adj
vertising columns are of inestimable value to
| thousands of persons who find them. an easy
medium for the supply of their several wants,
and to whom they afford On important saving
| of time and money. But we do owe an ex-
PLANTATION and an apology to many whose adj
vertisements we were compelled to omit. So
pressing was their demand that we were
under the necessity of leaving out of
yesterdays paper fully eight columns,
which added to the sixty-seven columns which
| did appear, would have made the unprece-
dentedly large amount of seventy-fve columns
of advertising, covering more space than is
contained in the ordinary double sheet
HERALD with triple sheet attached. If we
had published these additional eight columns
we should have done 80 at the sacrifice Of
much interesting news and thus have prac-
| tised an injustice toward our readers, who
| expect to find in the HERALD all the news of
the day from every part of the world, and
who are never disappointed
We have often stated that our advertising
columns are certain test Of the condition of
business in the city. When they are crowded,
as at present, they are an unmistakable indi-'
cation of an active trade and of general pros
perity. Yesterday paper, with its solid mass
of advertisements, which could have been
swelled, as we have said, to seventy-6ve col
umns but for our duty to our readers, not
only proves the popularity of the HERALD as
an advertising medium, but holds out golden
promise of an active and profitable Spring
business to all our merchants wholesale and
retail 1t is fortunate that the buyer and the
seller have at their command medium which
can draw them so readily together, and which
| is now studied by all who have wants to be
supplied just as ordinarily as the New York
| Directory is searched by those who desire to
| ascertain the residence of a citizen.
Driblet OF Justice from Spain.
The government and people of the United
States have been waiting long and patiently
for the time when Spain might be prepared to
respect the sentiments Of the civilized world
and concede something to humanity in the
treatment of colonies lying in close neighbor-
hood to the Western Republic A driblet of
Justice has come at last in the passage by the
Spanish Assembly of the bill for the enamel
patton of the slaves in Porto Rico. This bill,
we are told in our cable dispatches, which pro-
vides for the immediate abolition of slavery on
the island received unanimous vote from the
representatives and excited much enthusiasm
when its passage was announced. 1t sets
forth declaration that the Republic of Spain
will preserve the integrity of the Spanish do
minions, and confers on the freedmen of Porto
Rico all the political rights of Spanish citi-
zenship.
So far so good. If the bill does all that is
claimed for it for Porto Rico the American
people will rejoice with the Spaniards at its
enactment. But why does the young Republic
dole out justice in this pitiful fashion, Why
does it not act the part of humanity towards
Cuba, set free the slaves on that island
and check the cruel butchery that has so long
scandalized the civilized world? Why does
the government of Spain, calling itself free,
hold white men as well as black men in thral-
dom and refuse freedom to the Cubans !?
Why, under pretence of preserving the integ-
rity of the Spanish dominions, does it resolve
to protract a war that comes to it as legacy
of oppression? Why does it perpetuate the
bloodthirsty acts of the volunteers in Cuba
and justify the swashbucklers in Spanish
uniform in bombast which might have fitted
them as the servants of bastard monarchy,
but is unbecoming the representatives Of q
republic? The slaves in Porto Rico num-
Der about $4,000, while in Cuba there are
4OO,O 600 slaves. great portion Of the latter, it
is true, are nobly struggling for their freedom,
but if captured they are returned to servtude,
and the suppression OF the rebellion would re-
place the letters on all. 1t would have been a
wiser policy and more noble act if the Span
ish Assembly had given freedom to the 4OO, 600
slaves in Cuba as we'll as to the SO, 600 in Porto
Rico, and had accompanied the emancipation
with some offer of terms to the Cuban patriots,
such as free government ought to propose and
free people could accept. However, we are
ready to receive this first instalment Of justice
with satisfaction, and we trust that it may be
only the forerunner of q generous treatment
of the Cuban question so that the boons OF
peace and freedom may before long be
simultaneously accorded to the long-suffering
, | island