New-York tribune., 1883-03-14
NETWORK DAILY TRIBUNE, WEDNESDAY, MARCH IA, 1888

soas vhleh belongs - kx.Srssgue are hard
ened against Republican criticism of course. III
they were not, they would have reformed long
ago. But they still have feeling and sense
enough left to know when they are bit by mem
bers of their own party. They realize that IL
may mean fewer votes when they come up tor
reelection. For this reason the Democrats at
Albany will not learn with pleasure this morn
ing that the Young Mems Democratic Cluo ol
Brooklyn has adopted resolution declaring al
the Assemblymen who voted to keep mr'
Bliss in his place guilty of plain treason "
the doctrine that the will of the peopio
plainly expressed shall prevail" RepuoncahS
will be encouraged to know that honest Deni
ocrats capable of plain speaking still eIlsV
| around New-York.
Worlmen have no more mercy on each other
than they say other classes in the community
have ON them. The law which has just Oeeh
passed by the Legislature IN compliance w'Vh
| the demands of some of them, to prevent cigar
! making in tenement houses, proves this. 1t Is
| a measure entirely in the interests of the men
employed in tobacco factories who are unwil-
ling TO see their fellows make living III
different way from what they choose. Back OF
If. also. are the trade. unions, which see in tene-
mept-house labor an element hostile to strikes
| For the cigar makers who work at home are
| beyond their control, working when they please
| and for what they please. 1t Is SAID tliaC 'hi'
| labor makes the tenement-houses unwhoiesonhe'
| taat children are kept at it when they ough' "
| be in school, and that the cigars thus maze arc
not good That all may be true; out certainty
| those evils could be corrected without entrey
prohibiting work at home. AS the law stands IL
seems to mean poverty or emigration for many
honest families.
All New Workers who take an interest IN inc
good reputation of their State will be pleased
that the Niagara Falls bill is so far on Its way
to become a law that it has passed the AS
sembly. 1t provides for the appointment or an
unpaid commission to select certain lands
around the Falls which shall henceforth be
reserved by the State in order to preserve the
scenery at the falls and to repair, as much as
NAV be- the defacements made by selfish land
owners. The vote was 0S yeas to 80 nays.
II is hard to understand the real senil-
ments of these thlrty-nine members who
felt justified in opposing tho measure
Some of them ostensiby based their opposl-
tion on grounds of economy. That Will hardly
do. They did not hesitate on that score 10
vote for certain measures touching the ponce
of Brooklyn and New-York which would tax
these two cities nearly million year. Inc
bill now goes TO the Senate. Despite their
politics, there ought to be enough well-lniormcd
and sensible members in that House to put 1t
through quickly with a handsome majority.
This time it is the Council of Reform which
is after Commissioner Hubert o. Thompson
and his system of letting contracts. SO Tar as
is known this or ganization is not for sale ana
therefore it seems likely that the Department
of Public Works will be well ventilated. 1t
needs it badly. If Mayor Edison will look up
the evidence taken by the Grady-Treanor In
yestigation Committee last year he will find
some excellent points to begin with.
Indeed, he might well take up the
investigation precisely where MIR. Grady
so singularly left it. The inquiry might
also develop why Mr.. Grady stopped
bis investigation. 1t is commonly understood
that the price Commissioner Thompson paid to
| end it before his methods were fully exposed
was the promise of his assistance to re-elect
Grady and Treanor, the two Tammany lead
ers, TO the State Senate this fall. careful
investigation might block that little game and
give the voters of the With and Xlth districts
a chance to choose entirely respectable men to
represent them Indeed, there is apparently no
end to the interesting side issues which
this proposed investigation of the Council OF
Reform might develop if properly managed.
1t might show, for instance, how many single
Jobs for $999 each Mr.. Thompson could let
out if he should have the manipulation of the
S1s,OOO,OOO to be expended in increasing
the water supply of this city.