New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1881-01-26
NEw YORK DAILY TRIBUNE WEDNESDAY, JANUARY s6 1881

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as yet disputed question about the value or the SOIL
Experience in Nebraska Kansas and Wyoming
does not lead to very ardent expectations that much
good agricultural land will DO found west OF tho
Tooth meridian.
The new Administration and the next Congress
are not likely to go to sleep for want OF Important
public questions to occupy their attention. long
list of such questions might be made OUT Here are
few that WIN occur to every one who keeps track
of current newspaper discussion; lnteroceanic iran
sit embracing the railway and canal plans; the I'M
movement Of the Mississippi River; Government
TeleGraphv the Revival of American Ocean Com
MERGE; the determination of Poygamy In Utah
the Erection of New States from our Western lerr-
tories the Silver Question, including efforts at
International Bimetallism and the abandonment
of the short-weight dollar; Postal Savings
Banks: Constitutional Amendment authorizing
n National Marriage and Divorce Law; an Amend
ment providing way to force Repudiatlng STATES
70 nav their debts; a Revision of the Tariff to SIM
pity and improve the Protective System; the
strengthening OF the Federal Election Laws so as to
protect the rights Of all citizens to free ballot and
q fair count To these we may add Reapportion-
ment and RefundiUg in case these matters are not
disposed of by the present Congress.
So great has been the success from a business as
well as a moral point of view of the coffee-houses
established in the chief English cities means OF
keeping men away from the taverns, that the way
would seem to be plainly open for similar enter
prses in this country. Most Of tho English COM
panies paw annual dividend of 10 per cent on
their capital. The cofee-bouses supply coHce. tea
and cocoa soups, cold meats and bread and butter
all the articles being Of good quality and the prices
low. Newspapers are kept in abundance, and the
customers are free to remain aud read as long as
they please We have plenty Of places in this CITY
where so-caled coee-can be had at cheap rates. Dut
1t is beverage which neither cheers the brain nor
warns the stomach; besides, the wOrkingman VINO
swallows cup of it feels that he IS expected 10 pay
and vacate the premises as SOON US possible. Only
in the saloons is he welcome to sit and rest aud chat
with his friends. The cofee-hOuse which serves as
an agency of temperance must be sort OF cluo-
house, to which poor people can resort and ma
wholesome cheap beverages that will not make
them drunk
Last winter bill was discussed in the New-Jersey
Legislature but failed Of passage, providing Tor h
ing the malOdOrous and mlasmatic marshes lying
between Hoboken and Jersey City Heights. 1t
ought to be revived at the present session. The
marshes breed fevers and hinder the growth OF
Jersey City and Hoboken by keeping away
thousands of people who would be attracted to settle
IN ono or the other city by their con-
venenco to New-York. The Heights and West
Hoboken would be desirable places of resi-
dence on account of their elevation, the hne
views they command and the GOODNESS of the
AIR in summer, if people could get to them without
trayersing the bad-smeng marshes. These SUBJ
urbs which lie high up on the Palisades and are
reached IN about half an hours time from New-YOrk
contain population of perhaps 10000 and have
room for three times as many more. The bling of
the marshes would prove remuneratve affair in
the end by largely increasing the taxable property
of the two cities across the Hudson, for with in
creased population would of course come an increase
in value of their real estate and in the number OF
their buildings