New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1883-02-07

No riVht-minded person can fail to have his sym
patLios touched by tie 0istresses OF the taxpayers
OF Tennessee and Alabama. whose repndmt.ng
chickens hay come homo to roost IN the form Ui de
f.uting and abscOnding financial officers II ism t
nearly 20 fnnny 10 have ones own funds stolen and
run away with as IL 10 TO cheat cnes creditors out OF
money duo them. Doubtless these taxpayers have
| much the samo feeling as the counterfeiter who.
having been successfully defended by tho late
Charles Chapman, of Hartford, sat down in that
eentleman's Office and gave him quito minute
account OF the operations OF counlertetors, their
chances of profit and the risks OF detection.
Why" said the LAWYER after listening attentively
for some time TO the narrative, "you gentlemen
must find the profession very profitable afer
.llp sNo" said tho counterfeltor. with u
look In which were mingled injured Inno-
cence and q painful dstrnst Of human ma
nature. sNo. We ought TO but we don't. The truth
IA VIC can't always find honest men 20 deal with
who viii! pass OIL our bills and return lis the fail
amount In good money" That seems TO he the
trouble In Tennessee and Alabama-thcy can't find
honest officers who will cheat tho public creditors
and deal squaroly with the State.
Reference made in these columns few days
aimee To a speech of Senator Beck. OF Kentucky.
the Tariff bill in the course OF which he took Ucca
sion TO read letter from q correspondent in Merl
den. Conn, exposing the misrepresentation of
Senators Hawley aui Platt concerning the condl-
ton of the New England operatives. Mr. Beck's
correspondent SAID the operatives were neither
contented nor prosperous and that they were
atrented with cold dislain" by the man
ufacturers. Being requested to give the
name of tho writer of the letter. he refused
on the ground that it would bring him
into difficulty meaning thereby that ho would be
pers,cnted by tho tyranncal and ovorbearing
manufacturers lie felt free TO say. however. that
tho writer WAS the peer OF either OF the Connecticut
Senators. Subsequently be gave tho name TO Sen
ator Platt. who took some trouble to make some
inquiries concerning his "peer." IL turns out that
he has been before the Meriden Police Court for
various offences seven times since November. 1879
Senator PIatt thus describes him:
He young man OF more zeal than discretion about
twenty or twenty years old the son ofnn Intelligent
Industrious frugal and well freshman, VINO has
earned his money IN the tn'ioiies 9 eroh wo nus
laid 1t up and who wen TO 90 IN Ibo world; II MS son
followed the example OF the tnther he would soon come
10 the samo conditions but unfortunately he has con-
ccived an nnt@thy 10 Work hH1 ft i'll, ionness of
Dnmocrnto politics. Ho divides MS Time between be
ing q defendant In the police court an orator In the
Democratic club room. and writing letters such the
Senator from Kentucky mas fea'
II "a npon such authority that the Kentucky SEN
atur declared that the operatives IN New-EnRland
manufactures neither prosperous nor comfort
able and that they are treated with told dislaln"
Ever since the death Of rhurlow Weed there have
been numberess inquiries concerning his AutOOIog-
raphy in the preparation of which, as WAS pretty
generally known, he had spent the larger part of
The evening OF his eyentful lifs The
TRIBUNE takes pleasure in stating that
the Autobiography will shortly be published
and that ii will be supplemented BY Memoir OF Mr.
Weed. The Autobiography is being edited by his
daughter. Miss Harriet A. Weed. and the Memoir
written by his grandson. MIR. Thuriow Weed Barnes
the publishers are Houghton, Mi1ln Il Co.