New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1881-11-24
NETWORK DAILY TRIBUNE THURSDAY NOVEMBER a. 1881

waters along her coasts; they having always
been held to be the province OF the oehera,
| Government. Still, other States nave assaiiieo
| jurisdiction over the fisheries without meeting
with any opposition from Washington anu
| New-Jersey will probably follow their example
IL the owners of a New-YOrk fishing craft
should. however, set up the claim tilat the
waters within three marine miles OF the coast
| are United States waters and free to all citizens
of the United States an interesting question
would be raised for the courts to determine
| In case no such issue is made and law against
menhaden fishing is accepted rs valid, the en-
forcement of it will not be an easy matter.
| Outside of the three mile limit there can be no
arrests, for there the high sea, free to all ma
tons, begins. How is NewJersey to police her
shores and catch the swift steam craft that Will
come within that limit and pOach upon her
waters? Keeping fleet of fast vessels TO
pursue them and bring them to justice would
be an expensive business. Perhaps the men
haden-catchers are such honest men that they
will respect statute without "a constable to
watch them, but perhaps they are not. Their
trade is profitable one and employs numer-
Gus fleet. They will not be likely to abandon
it on the demand of the Trenton Legislature.
II is the most solemn Thanksgiving the country
has known for a long time.
The memory of Garfield will he fresh around
every family board to-day, and many sympathetic
tear will be dropped for that bereaved family
which will meet in Cleveland without It's hOnOred
head.
As Nation wo have reason to give thanks to-
day for the strong common sense of the people in all
the trying scenes of this nightmare year. They
have gone through them all with fortitude, with
calmness, and with mistaken and unshakable faith
in the stability and strength of the Republic. AS in
all previous crises the people have been ahead OF
their leaders in their fOrbcarance and hope This
is the bulwark of this great and free country.
An esteemed correspondent sends this warning
fol the aspiring Mr.. BOvkwalter: In a cemetery
not hundred miles away a tombstone bears the
following cpitaph Here lies James cold as an
iccle The last words be said were. Damn that old
bicycle" We earnestly entrcat Mr.. Bookwater
ponder upon this and not subject the Democratic
party to the risk OF losing poSsibl PRESIDENTIAL
candidate by riding anything more dangerous than
a thrce-wheeled yelocipede hereafter.
A despondcnt Democrat was heard mutteriDg
yesterday: Thanks giving Day! I wonder what
in thunder we've got to give thanks about any
way y
respite from Guiteau's blasphcmies and rcpul-
siye vanity will be- a cause for thanksgiving.
kilograms from Gramercy Park, Governors
Island and indianapolis are pouring into Louisville
requesting Mr.. Wattcrson to state which is the pig
aud which the puppy on the recent Democratic
Presidential tickets. A whisper is also heard from
Cipher Alley saying: 4" Alas, that my still hunt
for Reform should be called pig and puppy cam
Iaign. and by devoted disciple TOO L never will
condone it,neyer! never! never"
Perhaps the County Democracy, reformed and
regcucrated, will meet to-day and give thanks that
" Mike" Norton was rescued by them in the late
election, but we doubt it.
Montgomery Blair and Mr. Watterson seem to
agree in believing that the heroic treatment is the
only hope for the Democracy. Mr.. Blair says the
party will never succeed until the Bourbon
prcmacy of the South is destroyed, and he rejo.ces
accordingly in the victory of Malone. Mr. Waiter
son says free trade is the only salvation. and he is
able 10 say this in the full light OF his partys tariff
disaster in lNSO Thus both men are agreed evil
IDENTIFY, that the only way TO save the party is to
take steps 20 secure its continued defeat IL cannot
succeed without the Solid South. aud II cannot sue
cced with free trade. They seem 10 be pair of
very able leaders. Judging from the tone of the
party toward them, they viii be leading 1t from the
outside presently
It is in order to be grateful that the incoming
House Of Representatives will have a Republican
majority and Republican Speaker.
The Bourbons Of Virginia are so much ashamed
Of their performances in the late campaign that
they are denying that Jubal Early eager to
fight n duel with Malone. Do they to say that
the fiery Iubal Is deficient in chiyaric honor-that
me- is no more truly Southern than Malone +! If so
the Solid South Is Indeed cTumbling in ruins.
The promised vigorous prosecution of the Star
Route thieves is likely To result in driving chem all
nu a ran past the yawnIng peniteutiary doors |
There seems a slim chance housing any of
them.