New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1883-07-05

dav tbere was no such reservation. The 1ads
from Virginia had not a memory that was sad
nor regret that was painful. What the cap
ture of the Gag really meant they cannot re-
al re probably they do not grasp the fuii
significance of its return. Aud yet their part IN
the performance and the spirit in which they
acted are noteworthy guarantees OF perfect
reconciliation between the North and the
South.
The puiable accident on the Manhattan
Beach Railway yesterday at Humboldt-st,
Brooklyn, by which a street-car was run into
and smashed by train, causing fatal injuries
to poor old woman. abounds in exasper-
ating features. The prime culprit is the old
fiagman who was chatting with some friends,
and had failed to lower the gates. When he
saw the danger it was too late, and his Sig
mailing was futile The hagman aside. the
responsibility is scattering. The company Is
at fault in allowing it's trains to be run at so
dangerous rate of speed in city limits; the
engineer is next to blame for not having
slaekened his speed before the crossing was
reached, orders or no orders, and for not
needing the frantic and confused gestures OF
the fagman. 1t does not matter that the en-
gineer did not know what the signals meant
| One of the first principles of running train
safely is to suppose that all unsnteligible
signals mean danger. Then, back OF 1t all,
the authorities of Brooklyn loom up Tor con-
demnation. Why do they permit railroad COM
i panies to run their trains 80 fast within city
limits Ii it is forbidden by law, why don't
| they enforce the law The Kings County
Grand Jury ought to try to get information on
| some of the points suggested.
| The moral which must inevitably be drawn
from Mr.. Robert p. Porter's Manchester let
| ter this morning is the familiar old one that
the cotton factories of England are kept run
ming at the expense of the operatives, who
have barely enough to live on; and that II
we had no protective tariff American cotton
workers would soon come to similar straits or
worse. The wages in Manchester are from as
to 20 per cent lower than those paid to the
same class of workers in this country. The
operatives homes are wretched, and their
poverty and misery are enough to make one
sad ever at this distance. They seldom eat
meat. Their clothes are poor. and many OF
! the women wear clumsy wooden shoes III, as
some free traders say, the purchasing power
| of the English laborers' wages Ii as great
as the purchasing power of the wages paid
in this country, why is it that the
operatives in England do not live as well as
| their fellows under similar condition here Why
are the Manchester homes so miserable, and
the operatives garments so poor and mean,
while American workmen live in comfortable
houses generally, and wear decent and even
| pretty garments? The case may not be SO
bad as some of the English free traders pnt
it; there is a good deal of bluster in then
assertion that If the United States would only
remove the duty on cotton goods they could
slut up our mills in two years; but there ID
also good deal of force in the remark. And
the workmen in our cotton factories at least
will agree with THE TRIBUNE that it would
hardly be best TO put Englands boast to test
yet by leaving this great American industry
unprotected.