New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1883-12-05

addresses itself to the urgent need which to-day
exists In some parts of England and the United
States too for practical missionaries that can como
well recommended and are not afraid of hard work.
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Mr. Carlislc's plan of proonging agitation and
uncertainty about the tariff until after the Presi-
Dental election Is borrowed from the method VI the
country practitioner who pulls teoth gradually
and leads up to the final yank by cumulative
series Of twists and wrenches The patient Is 80
glad to get 1t over that he rather enjoys the final
anguish.
The Building Bureau ought not to be subjected to
criticism for allowing the row of tmder-boxes III
West Fifty fourth-st.. known as Terrace Flats to
stand year after year slowly drying for the sudden
and rapid confagraton of Monday. The buildings
were not more unsafe than hundreds of other blocks
of frame tenement houses In the city And the re-
quircments of the law wero probably adequately
complied with by the owner The wretched crca-
ture who left hor three children, the oldest only
three years old In n room with kerosene lamp as
playthng locking the door behind her rs she went
out was alone responsible for the destruc ton that
was caused-the smoking ruins OF the houses ana tho
charred remains of her children. No block OF frame
tenements could have been saved under such cir
cumstances. The best building law ever compiled
would not have protected those helpless and i'm
prisoned children from the criminal folly Of their
ignorant and needless mother
The Hon. John B. Haskin has written an atfec-
tomato open letter to Mr.. Tilden, cOngratuating
him upon his reported intention to found library
as an enduring monument of his fame, and adding
this remarkably pertinent and delicate observa-
ton: 1.-The evil that men do is oft buried with
their bones the good ought to live for ages after
them.' The readiness Of Mr.. Haskin to bury the
past highly creditablo but what is the particular
vlllany he refers to this timef
1t Is easier and safer to make sweeping denial
of matters of fact at q distance Of 5000 miles
than ii is to invalidate them on the spot. Free
Trade editors and English residents i'll America
scOrnfully repudated the account Of the Black
Country contained in the series of papers on Indus
trial England. They charged the author of those
papers with deliberately exaggeratng the details
and with grossly misrepresenting the condition OF
the working population. At the recent Fair-Irad
Conference in bennington, ten miles from the
Black Country, he repeated the description preVi-
ously given in THE TRIBUNE. He addressed an
audience conyersant with the facts, and nobody
ventured to contradict his assertions. On the con-
trary, when he had taken his seat, Mr.. Hawkes., of
Birmingham, emphatcally confirmed every state
ment that had been made. If Mr.. Porter he
remarked, will be good enough when near Biz
mingham to visit that town. he will find that the
condition of the artisan population there is as
deplorable in the vast majority of cases rs that
which he has correctly described the nailers of
Worcestershire to DO in. There are more than
100, 900 of the 1000 people in Birmingham who
are living in back courts, and the condition OF the
houses in which they reside if houses they can be
called is most deplorable." This astounding dec
laration met with only one interruption. voice
from the audience cried ont: Those houses are
pigstiesp
1t is fortunate that the police authorities of Wex-
ford are able to contradict the earliest reports OF
the rioting at that place. The details of the assault
upon two Protestant churches, the insults offered
to women, and the brutal reves OF the mob, were
scarcely credible, and we are not surprised TO ind
that the first account given to the public was grossly
exaggerated. While the Irish people have not hesi-
tated to resort to criminal agencies in their recent
agrarian and political demonstrations, they have
not sunk to the level of actual sayagery 1t was at
best, however an outbreak of mob violence, and IN
dicated that the Government had not wholly sue
ceeded in reooncng, even in sencing, the tur-
bulent classes, although it has undoubtedly made
great progress in removing legitimate grievances
and restoring the supremacy of public law
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