New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1878-09-21

and fussy and offensive the officials. And just here
Mr.. Murch will be liable TO get into
tangle. The men who clamOr for paternal
government which is to protect them from the
results of their own crime or Ignorance or inca
pacity are the very who deelam against au-
thority. They want government to do every
thing, and yet insist that it shall cost nothing.
Thoy want o government to enforce certain
hours of labor and rates of wages, and
to control everybody in his dOwn-sittngs
and uprisIngs. and yet they are mutinous against
every suggestion of courts and police and armies
The Socialists millennium, in which Government
is relied on to do everything aud yet is not in
trusted with the power of enforcing anything Is
likely to dissolve into promising chaos before 1T
fairly begins.
In John Winthrops diary for the year 1888 is the
following entry, which may be considered sugges-
tive reading in the light of recent events in the
Commonwealth Of Massachusetts, January l.
Mr. Edward Winslow chosen Governor of PlimOuth,
Mr.. Bradford having been Governor about ten
years, and now by importantly got of" There
seems to have been some trouble in persuad
ing Mr.. Winslow TO serve and this fact, together
with Mr.. Bradford's opportunities, undoubtedly
furnished occasion for the law which was enacted
that same year. to the effect that whoever refuses
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was chose two years gong" 1t looks now as
if it would be a long time before this
sort of history repeated itself General Butler is
quite as violent in his opportunities ever
Governor Bradford could have been, but the Gene
raj is not understood to be exerting himself TO get
Off" There doesn't appear to be any immediate ne
cessity for laws inhietlng fine and imprisonment
upon citizens of Massachusetts, for trying not to be
Governor.
A correspondent makes suggestion this morning
for the observance of the centenary Of the United
States Constitution and of the Inauguration of
Washington, by the opening of an International
Exhibition in New-YOrk City in 1889. The time is
far off vet but we do not know that 1t is too soon
to begin if the project is really to be carried ont
The great fault of our people in dealing with
worlds fairs is prOcrastination. They can hardly
be induced TO interest themselves in the matter
until the day is so close at hand that they can
see the very buildings growing up, and then they
rush in half prepared or they do in furious
haste what can only be done properly with long
preparation. There is no doubt that international
exhibitions have now a permanent place in the
economy Of all civilized nations; indeed, no coun-
try which holds aloof from them can keep pace with
its rivals in commerce the arts. In the course OF
ten years it will be turn again to enter the great
competition, and we see no reason why tine next
American exhibition should not be held IN New
York.
THE TRIBUNE has received from DR.. j. G. Holland.
Editor of Scribna's Monthly, contribution OF 200
for the sufferers in the yellow fever dis
tricts. DR.. Holland accompanies the gift
with a note saying, my sympathies insist
on localIzing themselves among my old pupils IN
Vicksburg some Of whom the money will be sure to
reaohp We shall observe the wishes of the beneyo-
lent giyer, and send the money to Vicksburg.