New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1878-09-07

found the best way 10 COMBAT VICE huply
to exhibit it in it's native deformity. We hold
Mr.. KearneY up this morning that the decent
public of NewYOrk may look at him. 1t is
not likely that they will ever want to
take second look, or that we shall ever
think it needful to Obtrude him upon their
vision again.
The leading staple that rose at the Produce
Exchange yesterday was bad blood. An en-
phatlc You're o liar" was followed by
sibiant insOlent cur" and in the
twinkling Of an eye two prominent
operators were pummelling each other and
rolling over on the floor. The belligerents
were separated by their associates, and
the more seriously damaged of the two
retired to his home to nurse his wrath with
oysters on his eye. The members will find
it more profitable, as well as more respecta-
BILE, to have all their milling done outside
the Exchange.
The revolt of the street-car drivers was
short spasm ending in premature collapse
The drivers on the Second and Sixth Avenue
Lines held back and the main body of strikers
on the Third Avenue Road resumed work
with the understanding that they were
to receive fifteen cents for the trip to
Harlem. Inasmuch as the men who did strike
make fifteen cents, while those who did not
strike get nothing, the moral of this labor
movement is not wholly salutary. This strike
of a SINGLE day has brought two facts into
strong relief First, with the rapid transit
roads in operation, New-YOrk is no longer at
the mercy of drivers of street-cars and stages.
Secondly, the sympathies of the public
are not enlisted on the side of the stTeet-car
corporations. The attempt of the companies to
pare down the wages of their men is everywhere
denounced. II is plain that New Workers of
all classes hold in adherence the greedy cor
poratiOns that have brought their dividends up
to maximum while reducing the comfort and
convenience of the public to minimum.
We find nothing amiss in the reply which
"Young Germany" makes in our correspond
ence columns to our comments upon his
recent letter. His explanations of the results
of the elections and also Of the tendencies of
those repressive measures which are to
be laid before the Reichstag next Mon
day are reasonable, and the tone of
his letter is temperate and reassuring.
The truth is that what is called Liberalism IN
Germany would pass for Conservatism in
either England, France, OF America; and even
Socialism, which is separated by wide gap
from Liberalism, is tumble of good and evil.
For example, the appeal of Herr Frohme, a
prominent Social Democrat, to the con-
"sciences of electors" lies before US, and the
reforms which he advocates are religious toler-
alton, the disestablishment of churches,
the prohibition of female and child
labor in factories, the substitution of
a militia for a standing army, and sweep
ing reductions in the military budget. That
certainly would not be a radical platform in
the United States, and the policy OF the Ger
man Liberals falls far below that scheme of
reform. But whatever may be the appeals of
candidates, Socialism, with Its revOlu-
tionary and atheistic tendencies, is
now a destroying force in the Father
land. Hatred of the rich and adherence
of authority have become consuming passions,
and the peace and welfare of the Empire are
menaced by foes within its borders. While it
is true that democracy is better than military
Imperialism. it must be conceded that demOc-
racy without faith or conscience or self-con-
troll is the worst government on earth.