New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1881-02-20
street-cleaning will be marked by cruel
WASTE of life.


o. Turner will live forever in the hearts OF
his countrymen. o. Turner nobly voted against
the River and Harbor bill, though he is from
the South and his State had several promising
trout-brooks provided for in the Dill. l.
Turner voted for the bill-of course. Mr.. hea-
gan, it seems, had charged that o. Turner vOtea
against the bill from "parsmOnious motives"
as if it was an act of personal generosity 10
vote for an appropriation BILL, whereas we
yenture to assert that MIR. Reagan never pald
an appropriation bill out of his own pocket
in all his official life. o. Turner de-
Tended himself yesterday in the House.
and said his vote was due 10
"patriotism," and not to parsimom-
GUS motives" But we do not find that l.
Turner defended himself. The man who
voted "Non on the proposition that James A.
Garfield had been elected President must have
known that, in this case, self-defence was
imp ,ssible. o. Turner has been reelected.
r. Turner has not been. The moral is clear-a
good deal clearer than the identity of the re-
spective- Turner'S.
The Canadian Finance Minister has been
able to meet Parliament this year with satls-
factory account of his stewardship. Instead OF
crippling trade and industry, the Protective
nolicy assures q surplus of $2,0OO,OOO this
wear. while an adverse balance OF trade In
1878 of S12,24s,692 was changed into a
favorable one last year of $15,628,17 In
other words, Canada is selling more and I'M
porting less merchandise than heretofore, re-
sulting largely from the growth OF home IN
dustries. In revising the tariff, Sir Leone
Ii lev places some raw mate rails ON the rte
list, while he increases the duties on certain
manufactures which need additional protection.
He makes no general reduction, chiefly IN order
to be able to make better terms should another
reciprocity " treaty with this country be pro-
posed. In this respect the Canadians may
justly complain that they ought not to be made
to pay high duties to prepare for remote
contingency. France, with her general tarlff,
has tried that policy of fiscal coercion with little
gain so far as this country is concerned.
MIR. Parnel went into France to SOW Seed and
is reaplng already crop of plumbers. MIR.
Smalley's dispatches report that Mr.. ParnelPs
open utilization with ROchefOrt, the Communist
and atheist, has created intense feeling among
the Roman Catholic friends and supporters OF
the Land League cause, including the Pope
himself. Nj. Rochefort represents to them
ey erythng that is detestable and wicked, and
this imprudent step, while doing Nothing to help
the Irish agitatlon-for RochefOrt has certainly
no practical influence inside OF France or out
side has injured Mr.. Parnell with that section
of his own people where his strength IS
greatest, and has at the same time alienated tue
sympathy of the moderate and progressive ele-
ment of the French. MI. ParnelPs other Paris
ian alliance, that with Victor Hugo, is to result,
it has already been announced, in the issue OF
"manifestO" 10y the venerable poet. This will
be interesting, no doubt, for its literary quail
ties. and il Will be received everywhere with
respect; but it will hardly add anything to
the sum of human knowledge on the Irish ques-
ton, and 1t is not likely to have any greater in
fluence in settling that question than NJ. Hugo's
magnificent bulletins ten years ago had in
checking the steady tramp of the German armies
toward Paris.