New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1880-07-19

have, so far this year, evicted l,69o
families, which is more than double
the average for the last three years. Mr..
Forsters bill is intended to restrain this
system of wholesale eviction, but IT
makes slow progress in the House OF Com
mons, and will probably be promptly re-
jected by the Lords, when 1t is understood
the Government has promised not 10 revive
it. The abandonment OF this measure VIII
doubtless be followed by renewed agitation.
1t is singular fact in human experience
that the men who are supposed to know all
the features of wickedness are sometimes as
easily fooled as the most innocent OF man
kind. The very cOnfidencemen have their
confding moments for which they suffer
The detective finds now and then that be has
been duped by some rascal who does not know
half as many of the tricks of the trade as ne
does. The keeper of the average New YORK
grog- shop might easily be supposed. for ex-
ample, to have knowledge of the lowest ana
darkest depths of the human heart second
only to that of Shakespeare or Supenntend-
ent Walling. Yet six members of this learned
profession were shown yesterday to have been
Baxier-st boy would blush to have succumbed.
Two pretended policemen extOrted money from
them by threatening to arrest them for vio-
ating the Excise law if hush-money were not
forthcoming, and all the regalia these lmpos-
tors had to sustain their assumed characters
were an officers badge of the Pennsylvania
branch of the Society for the Prevention OF
Cruelty to Animals, and commission OF ap-
pontment as policeman to the Lehigh Valley
Iron Company. BY judicious Furnishing OF
these terrifying articles they succeeded In ex-
torting a considerable sum from six liquor
sellers, none of whom, we venture to say,
were born yesterday 1t would be in wretched
TASTE of course, to call attention to the other
curious feature of this affair-that these two
mock policemen are the only officials who
seem to have discovered that any liquor sa-
looms were violating the Excise law yesterday.
General Arthur's letter of acceptance en-
bodies sound and vigorous Republican doc
trine throughout The most conspicuous topic
of the paper is the irrepressible conflict that
has waged for years, and will continue, be-
tween the Democratic party and the Election
laws Every attempt that has been made to
impose proper restrictions upon the act OF
voting, in order TO prevent fraud
has been resisted by the Democratic party,
which thrves when dishonest voting is pos
sble and pines under registration laws and
other measures to prevent ballOt-box stufling
and repeating The attempt of the Dem
ocratic House to cripple these laws
by Withholding appropriations was fit
ting climax Of long series of
efforts TO break down the safeguards of the
suffrage. The independent voters of the coun-
try, who have read Mr.. Davenport's testimony
before the Wallace Committee, know by what
frightful accumulation of proof this charge
against the Democratic party is supported in this
locality, to say nothing of many others, and will
need no further testimony to sustain the ar
raignment contained in General Arthur's letter
The letter makes statement at some length
of his views respecting the administration of
the civil service and recalls the Republican
record in the resumption Of specie payments.
1t also reminds the country that the very
votes which were created 10y the en-
reimbursement of the Southern blacks,
being stolen or suppressed except in
the census returns, are now counted upon 30
put the Democracy into power. General
Arthur makes good point when he reviews
the Reputation record of the South, which
now seeks to control the Government The
letter well supplements that of General Car
field, and the two together should command
the vote of every patriotic citizen.