New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1878-04-11

| Albany to incorporate DIR. Crosby's Society fol-
| the Prevention of Crime, empowering 1t to
| make complaints in the courts and dl-
recting prosecuting officers to aid 1t III
Its work, its leading spirits may be inter
ested in the fact, noted in our local columns,
that the principal liquor dealers have given
ND hope of legislation in their favor, and that
| their chief agent has come back from Albany
| disguised This makes it still more likely that
the law of 1857 will remain in force, and
when the Society for the Prevention OF Crime
| has been given a standing in the Courts, and
the Legislature has adjourned, the question OF
enforcing that law is likely to be tested.
Russia is spreading alarm throughout Rou-
mania by the vigor with which she Is taking
steps to protect her communications, and Sc
cure military control of the Principally 1t
is unfortunate for Russia that she is thus con-
strained to secure by force what she might
have enjoyed from goodwill; but she could
not be expected to foregO her claim to Bes-
sarabia, which she was fairly compelled TO
surrender in 1856, IN order that France ana
England might malIe-bclieve they had humbied
the Muscovite, and forced him back from the
Danube The irritation on this point might,
| however, have subsidized had not Russia stipu-
! lated in the San StefanO Treaty for the Tree
passage Of her army through RoumanIa. Inc
| Roumanians did not like to be thus reminded
of their nominal subsection to the Porte; but
the Car was determined not to leave so I'M
portant a privilege depending on the caprice
| of the Government at Bucharest 1t is open
| to Roumania to prolong the quarrel, and be
troublesome to Russia, but i'll the end she may
discover that Cancellation is her best policy.
| Yesterdays vote in the Ways and Means
| Committee in favor Of reimpOsing the income
| tax points a moral we have before urged upon
our readers. All Of che six members who voted
! for the tax are from the South and
! West all who voted against it, with
one exception, are from the East.
| And that exception is General Garfield, who
| happens to be well educated on questions OF
finance and taxation, and usually votes there
| fore with Eastern men. Southern and West
em members are in favor OF this tax because
they know the East will have to pay
most of it, but this is only one
part of the SOuth's scheme. With the help OF
| Western votes or Northern Democratic votes
! from the ncighbOrhoOd of Tammany Hall, the
| South hopes to build railroads, canals, and
! levees with the spoils of the National Treasury,
and to fill up Southern swamps with the
money of the North and West. When the
alliance approaches this point, the West is
| likely to think about drawing out from that
crowd Wouldn't iU be better to draw out now 7
! II was time for q defalcatiOn, and it was to
be expected that the defaultcr would be re-
Specialize The length Of the usual interval
seems TO be well established by this time, and
so also the rule that dishonest cashiers and
treasurers shall be of good social position.
| The case of Mr.. Chace, the treasurer OF the
| Union Mills Of Fall River, is like pretty
much all the other cases, shocking as 1t Is.
/ He had been so thoroughly trusted that
he was suspected only when one OF the
notes of this large corporation went to pro-
test and then a single nights investigation
! showed the theft of nearly half a million dol
| lars The directors who performed at such a
late day this task of inspection will probably
| lose all their prOpeTty-which they might have
saved by doing their duty as directors earlier.
! Meanwhile Mr. Chace has been serving
! in the Massachusetts Senate, has been pres-
| dent of a National bank and of Savings
bank, and treasurer of another manufacturing
| corporation beside the Union Mills; and all
! the while he has held a high place in the So
ciety of his town. He has lived there for half
! a century-indeed almost all his life, and now
confesses his crime over his own signature.
| The sorrowful lesson of these facts needs no
! Interpretation.
II will be news to many of our readers to
hear that the Chinese Government is main
tanning in the City of Hartford, at an annual
expense of 100000, a school where more
than a hundred Chinese boys are going through
an educational course that Is to last fifteen
years. But even many who have known of
the existence and objects of this institution can
hardly have been made acquainted with the
romantic history of its inception. This is to
be found on ANOTHER page, in the lecture de-
liyered last night by the Rev. Joseph II.
Twichell, of Hartford, before the Kent Club
of the Yale Law School. The hero OF the
story which Mr. Twichell tells in such sim
pie, unaffected way, and yet so plctur-
esquely, is Yung Wing who had the good
fortune to be brought to this country
to get an education, and who conceived, at
seventeen, the plan which it took him twenty
years to carry into effect. 1t is the old story
of men with great ideas-lOng years OF wait
| ing without chance TO work, long years OF
working without result. sudden reverses which
put him back where he began. A young man
so far Americanized that he took prizes al
Yale for English composition, and had to learn
Chinese again on going back to China, his
task was to press upon the most conservative
people In the world what seemed a radical, il
not revolutionary, project. He succeeded al