New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1879-09-13

| pute with thoughtful Christians "a uhWiSe
and demoralizing. Certainly an ordinary
camp-moeting is not u place where judi
cious mother would trust young girl alone.
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The London Spectator, with dubious shake of the
head has Just discovered that the Commission ap-
pointed to inquire into the of the depression
| among farmers threatens 10 be "A monster AFFAIR
ANY five or more of these lesurely gentlemen may
summon witnesses and sit as sub-commissicn for
year or two. Special Commissioners are now
pushing their investigations in this country. Other
| snb-commis-ions are to examine into matters
| on the Continent. Nothing could be more
| characteristic If the English way OF meeting a
difficulty than this Commission. Here is the mar
| ket suddenly flooded with food from America beef
Grains. butter offered ut rates with which the Eng
| Esh farmer who owns his land cannot compete !;
here are the tenant farmers compelled to pay ex-
| orbiiant rents for WORKOUT land, suffering from
| Ind crops starving and rebcllious. On side of
the water are ineXhaustihle territories OF virgin
soil and lust as inexhaustible hcrdes of
| ohorcrs pouring into them from every
uariou under heaven. The British farmer
recognizes the situation. packs his KIT and
emicrates But the British Parliament Thought
fully apvclnts Commission of gentlemen, who have
| notliuQ else to do to make agreeable jaunis over
| England America and the Continent, and inquire
| into the matter. The Commission" SAID the Earl
NJ Suffolk the other day. will acquire large stock
II inflammation. Their labors will probably have no
other result" The Home Secretary, too, addressing
n large body of hungry malcontents. who hung
upon his words as for salvation, observed
| blandly that nothing more was necessary
in This emergency than for them to use
| their wits and the sunshine would return. Tho
Government had appointed Commission. The
Affair is hopeless; the ground is WORKOUT or held
for game the people III farming districts to live at
| all must turn their backs Old England. But
| Dooberry has his old remedy. BRING pen and ink
| horn :; We will examination these men, am wise
| fellow and which is more, householder; aud one
| that knows the law. Go to- and a fellow that hath
| had leases 60 tie matter closes.
| Cruelty and suspicion aud indifference to human
| life and suffering such marked features OF
French history that change for the better cannot
fail TO bring satisfaction TO the sympathetic and in
| tellCent observer. There was time when the
ruling power of France trusted and never for
| gave: when savage and unusual pnnishments were
| reOarded as an inexorable condition of self
| defence: when n revolutionary change was never
| effected without sanguinary violence. 1t may be
fancful TO think So but has there not been marked
| change In the French character III this respect
| Compare the present Republic for instance with
| that of 1893 and the difference will be found not
ono 90 degree but absolutely Of kind. To the former
amnesty, pardon, forgiveness, even common conf
| dence. AZ between man and man. were altogether
unknown. The mode was TO brighten into obedience.
and never 10 believe in that obedience even when
II had been secured. Everybody royalist or repnb-
can. was distrusted. The present Republic, which,
according TO the old policy, should have made their
exile perpetual even If il spared their lives, has
| brought from Ncw-Caledonia thousand pardoned
| Communists who "Wednesday week SET foot once
| more in beloved Paris. They were warmly VOL
| coined. but there was no mob and no murder. and
,here appeared TO have been no special military or
nolice precautions against popular outbreak. The
Same number of political sufferers could hardly have
| bccn landed in Ncw-Yorll with greater quietness.
Tho hardened men are said to have behaved very
quietly and so did the populace, although the ex-
| liz, were received with much emotion. All this
makes the French Republic still stronger so that
really the inrigues Of Bourbons, of Oreanlsts, of
| Bonapartists, and of Red Revolutlonis.s begin TO
seem of little consequence. OF course 1t is danger
ous TO predict the political future of France; but
| all the signs at present are assuring.
peopc used to talk old times of the evils Of n
Third Party and IL was always understood, by the
rational that il helped one Of tho other two much
more than it helped Itself. The rule holds when
narties are more exceedingly multiplied though the
nurality in the place of the majority rule, wher-
1 Hmm q, boa.