New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1878-07-01

dependent The middle Glasses longer train their
children trades and the rising generations have been
| brought up In idleness."
JOHN MoRRIssEY As REFoRMER
81 have thought good deal on these subjects. Sen
a.or Morrissey came 20 me several times to talk
about plans for improving the condition OF the working
classes John Morrissey a olear-headed. practical
man. II he had lived to go to the Senate this year he
had two or three bills which he intended to urge He
proposed among other things to get much employ
| ment for wOrkingmen on city improvements
| as possible. Another plan was to break
up the tadesunion oppression which permits only one
| apprentice a given number Of journeymen. Mt.
| Morrssey was a good deal OF with great many
virtues linked single crime. AS used to tell him. he
had very bad trade With all his surroundings the
der Is that he good a he proved TO be.
think the reason that he didn't get out OF the gamDhg
| busness was because he had several men dependent
upon him. He the kind Of InaD as they say among
his class, VINO never went DICK on iTlenu; because
found 1t hard shake IL Off He constantly setting
That is in the city But never knew OF his ex
pressing determination to give up the clubhouse or
the &C. & a. Saratoga Iney HaI 100 mn MAN. ~
men play, or the villagers"
TIE ADMINISTRATION AND SILVER.
"DOes 1t you any regret to feel that you have
dropped out of active participation in politicsi"
"No; on the whole. not. give politics very little
thought now, and only wish and then that coud
| do something toward correcting the mistakes from
which the country suffered and is to suffer. tried
to influence in slight degree the present Admins
tratiOn. thought all this theoretical Civil Service re-
form very wrong. and knew it TO be utterly mpos
sibe urged the point with the President and the Sec
reary of State that reforms however much needed,
could not be secured by proclamations and set
| policy, but only gradually and quietly / thosght
President Hayes right in taking the bayOnes away
from louisiana and south carolina o9t siG tsae NE
a great advantage; ana that as lar "a possible
while doing his duty he ought to show sympathy with
| the Republicans.
IendeSyored to impress upon the President what, in
opposition almost everybody In the East regarded as
imperative necessty-the reconciliation OF silver.
Now know that right because all the arguments
to be falaces 20 the end IL was claimed that the
moneiizatOn of silver would stop the sale OF the per
cent bonds and that the refundng scheme would thereby
suffer. Bat sales OF the per cents have been
greater than ever before Every argument OF tue adVo
Gates OF silver reconciliation has been yindcated
| UNLESS Providence comes In as 1t has good many
The tendencies are all the wrong direction. II the
silver law had been defeated. the country think would
seen in It's hours Of greatest danger The Government
does not sympathze with the great masses OF uneIn-
inens Of society may succeed in drawing into their
ranks great number OF the naturally honest masses
| under great public suffering or excitement.
BUTLERs INFLUENCE IN CONGRESS.
"statesmanshp IN Congress is low tina. 1t win
take many years to build up higher tone Proba-
bly, the most Influential and the ablest in Congress to-
day Benjamin f. Butler as lie Is the worst Not that
he would he bad from preference but that he expects to
could secure his aims by being l think he IA man
who says to himself while he is doing evil to foist
himself into power. no would his iLgottten power
in right way. lie expected TO get power except
delegate for the purpose OF breaking up the Demo
cratic party and of makinga party radical enough 10
LucOln's successor MASSACHUSETTS, never served the
country so badly when she sent Butler tins LAST time
Ia Congress Its an alarming sign OF the times that
man OF Buffers astueness thinks that the course he
chooses to adopt which will give him large fol-
| LINCOLN, CLAY GREELEY.
Whom do you regard the greatest men OF your
/ time -
"weD that would be difficult TO tell. All such things
are comparative could name great many men who
have served their country and their time with eminent
ability But mans public usefulness depends largely on
circumstances Mr.. Lincoln, for instance had great
opportunity and he equal to It, II circumstances
had not found him. IL had not been the right man. at
right time, in the right place. he would nave re-
NAMED IN Obscurty all his life.
81 regard Henry Clay as foremost among the men
laboring all their lives to elevate themselves, and
who labored always for the object by promoting the
welfare OF the country and the interests OF the people
Horace Greeley abOred with equally pure motives
"a think up TO the point where he allowed his ambi-
ton to rule him. l know him intimately for years
tuer more useful and more devoted practical philOso
pher never knew. He labored with single eye and
single heart both hands for the good TIL he thought
he could be stn useful in office. He was frank
honest man, with nothing tricky about him. The very
moment he found his aspirations In conflict with those
of Mr. Seward he wrote that well-known letter dssov-
ing the political partnership which had e1steu between
"Haye you ever held Officer
q" served in the Legislature, but II was my business to
help put good men INTO Once ana w tRat had more
the election Of Governor Clinton Governor seward,
Governor Fish Governor King Governor Hunt Governor
Morgan audGOVernOr Dix also take great pride In the
fact OF having secured the nomination OF General Taylor
for the Presidency IL kept hun rom being the cahd-
date of the Democrats. He noble man, and | be-
eve if he had lived our country would have had dii-
orent history. was generally fortunate IN tDe men
brought forward but was occasionally caught win Dad
It was ambition that spoiled them; Fillmore was
After thirty years OF close friendship be thought
he couldn't be President with Seward In the way FIJI
principles to do IT, and knowing That between them
| / would choose Seward. he went the other way. We
were inseparable friends till ambition came In"
DEPARTED FRIENDS
"Thisis all that left Of them to me but their let
ters said Mr. Weed pointing with much seriousness 10
| the numerous portraits hanging on the walls-"a
| noble looking company OF men-and these are not
| all OF them There are as many moro In other
rooms The circle OF friends has grown very
small 1t Is getting down very close 10 me. To-day
was at the funeral Of Mr. vermiye, and since then
have been asked pallbearer at the funeral
| of another-Mr. Rhineander."
IL WAS interesting to hear Mr.. Weed tell Of his inter-
course with the whose portraits hung around him.
| He had known Gerrt Smith intimately since he was
eighteen years Of age. lie had told him not 10 waste
/ ms talents on a single idea He had started
| in life year too soon, and failed. He was
| made q candidate for the Senate, and his defeat
was misfortune Over the mantlepiece hung the pOr-
trait Bishop Hughes, now dead and on the wall that
OF Archbishop Purcell Another clerical friend had an
interesting history. Father de Smet" said Mr. Weed,
was Belgian who came to this country IN 1888, and
gpent seven years far out among the Indians He was
| rare man. Bishop Whpple said OF him that he was
the best man and the truest Christian that he ever
knew And this the tribute OF an EpscOpalan 10
Catholic. Father de Smet went TO the Rocky Noun.
tains alone teaching the Indians civilization. He said
that the Indians seemed TO know by intuition that he
was n representative OF the Great Spirit and that the
figure of the cross which ne wore upon his gown az
fored him protection wherever he chose to In 1912
he returned 70 Belgium for assistance. formed his ac
0uqintaDce on the voyage 10 England, which made
in the sailing ship George Washington In twenty i've
DAYS have O choice volume OF letters from him. and
Iuatn H. lnnr, alInn Ia died