New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1875-06-26

in preventing the recurrence OF such caiam-
tiles to insurance cOmpaniesi
We administer Justice too much on tho Hip van
Wrinkle plan" Give him cold potato and let him
COZ We forgive before we forget and forget TOO
SOON Popular resentment, once aroused against
faithless public servant sweeps him away as III LOT
ever. but usually brings him back and lands MN
safo and dry ON the same old sand-bank II census
could be taken to-day of the persons who nave
above cd their sympathy for VIM III. Tweed 10 as
solve their sense of the enormty OF bus crimes, tns
totals would he surprising. He is "Old;" he
"good-natured )" he has been generous he was
wrongfully sentenced And so politicians flock 10
tho door of the fallen "statesmans' room in Ludlow
Street Jail and men are found willing to incur the
social stigma that must attach to the bondsman OF
municipal robber. Tho old Boss is Boss still to .
diminished CIRCLE and still might fairly claim ana
could no doubt easily secure certain influence Ia
local politics. Even newspapers portray MN as ths
victim of persecutiOn or do him the favor OF indirece
defense Another example Of this popular neon
stancy is to be seen in ex-senator Pomeroy' Ihe
prosecution against him for bribery has been ADAM
doned at the request of many leading citizens OK
Kansas. most of whom probably have children. and
would be sorry to see them grow up iars and theve
Senator Woodn of this State is another example
forgiven for his shameless vote on the Iweoo
charter. and accepted by the Republicans az then
leader in the Senate because he has since dono HIM
solf credit in fighting jobs.
Congressional manners arc bad enough. but from
all accounts Parliamentary manners must be worse
The old expedient in the British House OF Commons
of coughing or shouting down tiresome speaker
familiar enough but here is London paper pfopos"
ing as method of suppressing Parliamentary bore
Mr. Wlalley the Claimants tr1enQ,
rises to speak, the House should rise in body and
leave the chamber. There is no doubt that Die.
Whalley is nuisance, but to Americans there seems
something harsh in these heroic remedies IL may %
because we submit to too much and bear almost any
indgnity without protest but it hard to CONCEIVE OF
an assembage of intelligent Americans putting sucn
an afront on one of their number. America alreany
has reputation for its courteous aud considerats
behavior toward women it is not impossible thss
it may acquire equal credit for its treatment OF men
We do not believe that the American love OF fair
play would allow any member Of deliberative oooy'
however obnoxious. to he thus smothered. or thas
anywhere in America cOuld be repeated the scenes
of Par. streets where every day respectable ladies
are nsulted in broad daylight by tho loungers az
the boulevards
The destruction of the old North Church. on + uL
ton-st one of tho last Of the landmarks binding tue
laSL century tO tulo, oci'Oo 40 " INV" 'N''- -
the steady retreat of the churches from tho lower
end of Manhattan Island. This loss still furthes
diminishes the feeble remnant OF Protestant
churches left standing below Canalst. Trinity and
St. Paul's are the only Of any prominence re-
naming to mark the neghborhood of the scores OF
sanctuaries that have gone up town In race attes
their ne w-hoders. The slender attendance IN the
churches not yet removed is perhaps sufficient ex-
cuse for this general abandonment Of an unfrutfu
field but there harsh contrast IN the crowd
ing Of fashionable portions Of the city with magnin'
cent edices the cost Of OF which would pay fos
dozen small downtown churches or twice that
number 10 the country while even Of these there are
some that can scarcely average one worshper to
every five thousand dollars of cost. Our system OF
church building, with its real estate specuationA
debts and mortgages, is in need Of recOnst
| When the Greenwich Street Elevated Railway
| completed to tho Grand Central Depot and TO Cen
trail Park the first realization of our vague longings
| for rapid transit will be reached With Fifty-ninth-
st. within 20 or Is minutes of the Battery the upper
part of the city will become habtable by people who
cannot afford to spend half n day in the hoIse-can
| trying to get there. Then will begin the transforms
ton in the domestic and social life of the metropolis
which system Of rapid transit roads will develop
| An income of ten thousand year will cease to be
prerequisite for residence in the metropolis. and
other alternatives will be open to people of moderate
incomes than disappearance from society, or flight
| to Now-Jersey. Small salaries will then cease U
mean secluson. Flats will multiply and families
with them. Where love is not possible with cot
tage and roses love in French fiat, with dumb
walters and selfopening doors. may take its place.
| This is moro than q matter Of seven per cent The
future of NewYork domestic life is largely bound uD
| in the Hustled bill.
There never was time when the advocates OF
hard money needed to be active as now. The
Democrats of Ohio, tho most influential section OF
tho party outside of New-York, have pronounced in
favor of Confederate money, and while the action In
denounced by all outsiders, and is conceded to
have greatly damaged the Presidential chances Of
the Democracy, their declaration will encourage
paper money lunatics everywhere. Without con
slant effort on the part of honest papers and men.
! there is danger Of a paper-money craze among the
more ignorant classes at the West largely composed
of foreigners and already infected in spots with
Cornmunistic notions. To ward off such calamity
for it would no national disaster to have even .
small proportion of our people carried away by this
delusion-every energy of newspapers. Of professors
in their colleges, and even Of individuals in their
daily avocations, should be devoted This is field
for genuine missionary work. 1t is not 3 question
of opinions. but of morals; not one of national policy.
but of national honesty.
The fallacy and tho impudence Of the demand that
the city laborers shall DO paid more than other
laborers lilo in their imagining that because they
hired dig dirt wheel stones for the city they have
thus in some way become part of the City Govern