New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1874-06-09

Congress ought to pass law that the mercury
shall not above the seventies during this and the
two following months not only to crafty those
trustfu people who think that Congress can do any
thing. but for the sake of tho politicians of both
parties in convention assembled. The platform
makers are going to have the hardest work
they've had for many a Summer, and unless some
such provision is made for their benefit untold num-
bers of politicians will be Frustrated. To reconcile
Louisiana and Arkansas; to justify Richardson,
mitigate Sawyer, and explain away Cluss; to con-
done Sanborn and jayne to defend the issue of the
reserve and harmonize with it the pre-
vious promise that it should not be is
sued; to construct plank broad enough
to sustain a President who favors an
honest currency and powerful faction which up
holds dishonest currency; to reunite a President
who breaches but does not practice Civil Service
Reform with Congress which hates it but d Oes not
want to vote against it on the Yeas and Nays; to
Justify the appointment Of man to judicial po-
stiOn because he is unfit for any at all all this
will wiring the dew from the brOws Of the Commit
tee on Resolutions. As for the Democrats, who have
q ready made platform offered them the sincere
sympathes Of every compassionate citizen go with
them. How to. get the Western and Southern In
nationists and The Pennsylyan Protectionists on
the platform of Hard Money, Home Rule and
Free ro,r task sEom 1as Manu- W every
oether the conventions this year will be many
headed Mantalinis -" demd moist unpleasant
bodies" One can almost hear the perspiration pat
ter in the distance.
IT il hardly worth while to be an earl if the fact
Of vour getting drunk must therefore be teegraphed
all over two hemispheres. One of Englands heredi-
tarv Legislators was cOaxed into private room of
the House of Lords week ago by an attendant who
belieyed him to be lin worse condition than
usualn and his lordshp has been missing since
A the telegraph intimates that temporary disap-
nearances are not uncommon in this no.
bIsman,s cav career it is not easy to understand
what all the fuss is about. We don't trouble
selves much when our Legislators do such things.
Our sdgnitied Senate doesn't even think them
worth noticing, when the dock of Long Branch
boat is selected for the first offensive displays, and
fine subsequent proceedings become too strong for
the stomach of Long Branch landlord. There is
nothing proud about us. man may not be fit to
he an inmate Of respectable hotel at seaside re-
sort but that's no reason why he should not sit in
The seat of the YicePresdent of the United States
In takes your bOated desp0tlsm to make such fuss
about little things.
Close upon the calls for help from Mill River and
the Mississippi another, this time from far
distant country The famine in Palestine has re-
ducel the Jewish population to absolute dependence
on outside aid for the means Of existence. While
the price of food has trebled. everything which
could be sold to buy the necessares Of life has been
swallowed up, and 1900 Jews are on the verge of
starvation The contributions OF their own race in
England and Germany amount only to $500 evil
IDENTITY an insufficient sum for even temporary
relief. An earnest appeal Is therefore made by DIR.
Lehman Of Mayence that all Hebrew congregations
money to the Central Committee of Amsterdam
HIGHLANDER & Lehrenl. Local contributions may be
sent 10 The Jescsh Times. 1t 10 a work in which
Christian ~ weQ ~ Vow shoald iolp,