New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1880-12-31
nm v,yrfFEs OF 1850.


Both uc-- and pulpit tiuu2Lo1. the conn
irY to-day vll Doe busy BIO making an mven-
tory OF our Nat.ora, successes during the year
$780, T..Ic is ht'lc use u -1ch compliment
summi1, MO- l0r tbc most careless observer
know a'il1y I'D that c1n he said Oh the
-..f... a. .jdy e.. ugtluoh the solid Ibtu-
So, sign ct our maternal prosperity The
cereal crop. were enormous thi, summer; We
have not olly hc,o VI place already gained
n foreign markets with oar bread and beef
supplies. brat have steadily advanced into tEc
sane ucld with other smaller staple products,
butter, cheese. honey, wine, etc.. AMI also
with manufactures. or cotton fabrics have
WON tLc irr rank ly thorough merit
and he same may be SAID Of
many of oar agricultural implements
aud other machinery. Wherever, too, our
manufacturers have competed with foreign
rivals so successfully rs to keep goods out of
cur own markets. they have laid down an
other foundation of substantial and durable
prosperity for the country. In steel. iron and
glass wares, and woollen and silk fabrics
such advance has notably been made during
the year just closing. Tn. enormous inflow
OF population is another fact which is popu-
ldIIN utiU ~ 10 Il lN' wv fditi'tl'Ai' Dhl INK
the summer months, tn ibcr of cmiSrants
entering this port alon IN between 10000
and $4,000.
These are more solid reasons for national pride
because they are signs Of IN elevation o. ma
tonal character and not dependent on eX-
traneous circumstances. Never probably, since
Wa,hingon's administration, has the purpose
of the Executive been "a pure aud the
actual work Of the Government in detail
as free from corruption and robbery
as during this last year OF President
Haycs's tenure of Office. The man himself
by downright obstinate honesty of intention
has made his influence felt down to the
pettcst office under Government. The State
and Treasury Departments have been notably
successful, while the administration of two of
the minor branches of Gyvcrnmcnt, conducted
in the interests of science and humanity, the
Signal and Life Saving Service, have been un
APPROACHED by any other country.
All this and much more might be said by
way of national fclicitatiOn. Bat fclicitation
is not going to help us in 1881. It would he
much more to the purpose to look mp our
mistakes. First, as to the foreign markets.
In almost every product on manufactured
article sent aDlDdu, llt aim Vi AulcllC Ilr
been to furnish an inferior grade ia such
quantities as 10 mdcrscll better wares and
products Consequently ticy have 700 often
gained control only Of Inc lower levels of the
markets tbs TRECNE has again and again
pointed out the sucIda folly OF such Il course.
There is no reason why our cheese,
butter. woollen fabrics and canned goods,
for example, should not hold the first as well
as the middle places in the trade of Europe.
There is nothing to be made by cheap and
nasty work. Il is time that our people learned
that in trade as in everything else, not only
is there always room at the top" but 1t is
only at the top that real success is to be
found. The reason why England has steadily
declined rs commercial patton dnflng the
last ten years is because of the confirmed
habits of her laborers, tradesmen and mechan-
les to drink gin and to slight, or, rs they
| term it, scamp their work.
Secondly Sudden and enormous additions
to our population are an advantage only IL