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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1883-03-19
GENERAL NOTES.

The Hull and Lincoln Railway Company
of England Is about TO build bridge the Hum
ber There will be IS spans the largest Of which will
600 feet wide, and 90 feet high. Two others will
In width and vary in height from SO 10 50 feet The re-
manning 81 will be $50 feet wide and from 10 to SO feet
IN height.
A little island known as Foula, about
twenty miles west OF Shetland, and containing about
three hundred inhabitants has been isolated by contnu
storms from the mainland during the whole OF this
year. until the seventh OF this month, when boat man
aged to reach 10 with provisions The people found
in terrible state of destituton many OF them
must have been starved TO death but for this nehbory
suCcOr.
The English Society for the Suppression OF
Basphemous Literature has set itself formidable task
Its president and secretary mako this announcement
We propose TO get up cases. our funds will allow,
against Professor Huxley Dr. Tynda Herbert Spencer
swlnburne, the author Of Supernatural Religion the
publishers OF MPs works. the publishers of STRAUSS
works. Leslie Stephen John Morley, the editor OF che
Jeirish World Dr. Martneau and Others who by their
writings have widespread unbeliof and, In some
cases, rank atheism. IN cultivated families. "
The Cincinnati papers tell of an old
method of swindlng which recents revived that
city and which exposed by the associated charities
Word one OF the districts, that woman was in
great distress account OF tho death of her husband
Several charitaby inclined Christian women visited the
house, and ascending to the loft they found an Irish
woman weeping over what was supposed to be tho
mains of her husband. The supposed corpse was
stretched out on couple of chairs, and reyereny COW
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1883-03-19

see diversified industries fostered all over the
country, and the national prosperity thus pre-
NOTED
This is not an isolated instance The steel
manufacturers are embarrassed to-day because
the protective system has helped to build up
new steel works in many parts OF the country
until home competition has forced down the
price to or below the cost of production. but
this result is not a surprise On the contrary IL
is exactly what these same manufacturers nave
constantly predicted, and their Justification i'll
asking that protective duties be maintained mas
always been that such duties would develop the
manufacture throughout the land and thus Sc
cure the country cheaper products. Mr.. Sher-
man can hardly say that their conduct has been
altogether selfish.
But "each manufacturer wants cheap ma
terial and ample protection on his product
That il, he wants his branch of manufacture 10
prosper, and sees its needs, quite naturally
more clearly than he does the needs OF those
who furnish the material to hin, or OF those
who use his product as the material LOT lurthel
manufacture. 1t can hardly be astonishing 10
Mr.. Sherman that each man sees the needs anu
interests of his own business better than he sees
the needs and interests of his neighbours Dusl-
ness. But it is not necessarily selfish nature
that prompts him to defend as well as he can
the interest that he best understands.
Nothing is gained in the discussion OF the
tariff question by imputing unworthy motives
to those who favor the encouragement OF any
particular industry or industries 10 whole.
If a man believes that the whole policy OF en-
couraging industry by protective duties Is
mistaken one he ought to be able to say so and
to give reasons for so thinking, without implying
that the men who favor that policy are robbers.
So if he believes that any particular manuiac-
turing interest, in its zeal to secure greater or
more rapid development, is asking what would
be hurtful to other interests, and to the country,
he ought to he able to say so without question:
ing the sincerity or patriotism of others. There
is great deal of selfshness brought to light,
when business interests are
affected by legislation, and so there is when
political interests are affected The duty of
law-maker is to try to do what is best for the
whole country, and Mr.. Sherman's acts III the
Senate have spoken for him more satisfactorily
than his quoted remarks about the new tarih
1t is not discreditabe thing to strive for the
rapid and full development of any branch OF
useful industry, and there would be very little
good accomplished in this world If men were
prohibited from seeking public good because
it happened also to be in harmony with their
private interests.
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CLINCHING HIS ARGUMENT.

,77s7V''
General Frank L. WolfOrd is a member-elect
10 the next House Representatives from tue Eleventh
illustrates the style Of campaign speech'makng in which
rival candidates In that State meet aud discuss pubic
issues General wolford and hisopponent met at James
town. three thousand people had gathered
General Frye led on In hours speech. closing by say
tug; This Is the bestGoyernment the sun ever shone
iy shown by this Government TO the ConfedeIa
soldier when the war was endeJP General WclfOru
arose and sad General Frye. would like 10 ask yoq
a question" Certainly" said Frye. "well what ds
they do with the great and good soldier General RoDeI
f. Lee, when he surrendered at AppomaItoxP Theg'
without papslng for reply he answered his own qof
tons II viii tell yoa They tod his hands behnd n' ~
tho spot. Raise up, Bin skys and tell what you knH.
"Yes was thar; liza So gentlemen" Wolford then pro
ceeded before granting General Frye time 10 conSS
himself at the audacity OF the witnesses dishonesty %
said. "What did they do with JEFF DAVIS Why, WIZ
tell you. They took him TO Fortress Monroe. put hu "
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SELFLSHNESG.

Senator Sherman, In some remarks about tho
new Tariff and the labor OF framing it, has de-.
scribed some of the difficulties that had to be
overcome. First, he says, there was the blind
opposition OF. the Democratic Free Traders led
by Senators Beck and Vance. This of course,
was to be expected. The other difficulty,
which Mr.. Sherman pronounces much more
dangerous, lie styles the conflict of selfish and
"local interests, mainly on the part of manu-
afacturers who regarded all articles which they
"purchased as raw material, on which they want
" ed the lowest possible rate of duty and their
"work as the finished article, on which they
wished the highest rate of duty"
The Senator does not seem to have expressed
himself here with his usual felicity. If man.
ufacturer is to be termed selfish because he
wishes to have his branch of industry helped to
prosperity or shielded from destruction, what
are we to call the tariffs for which the Senator
has been voting, and of which he has been q
conspicuous defender for the past twenty two
years or mOref The aim Of these tariffs is to
foster and defend certain branches Of industry.
If it is selfish IN the individual manufacturers to
wish this done, what else can Mr.. Sherman call
the protective tariff but selfish conspiracy, as
1t is not,necessarily selfish; on the contrary, it
is often direct sacrifice of self-interest to seek
the wider development and larger growth of an
industry in which one is engaged. The New
England cotton manufacturers, for instance,
are at this moment threatened with an impor-
tant loss of trade at the West, and their agents
here are seeking from the railroads lower rates
for the transportation of goods westward, be-
cause new mills at the South have begun to
send out goods at low cost. These Southern
factories get their cotton cheaper because they
escape the long transportation Of the material
from the plantations to the ew-England fac
tories. They have cheap labor ALSO and large
market near them for many kinds of goods
their competition, it is stated, is felt by agents
in Cincinnati and other Western towns But
these same Southern factories are the fruit of
the very protective system which New England
manufacturers have so long and zealously sus-
tanned. By their persistent adherence 10 this
system they have helped to build up powerful
and dangerous rivals to themselves, and this
they knew and openly predicted would be tho
result long ago. Can their conduct be called
selfish, OF. was it prompted by sincere desire to
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A wealthy planter from the Sandwich Islands
who had been eper for eight years. has 1T appears
lately found his way TO Philadelphia and placed
himself under the care Of physician there. This
physician, 1t appears, has evolved theory of his
own about leprosy which differs from that of the
medical fraternity from the days of Moses down.
lie holds that the disease Is not contagious and
be communicated only by incubation. In order to
prove the correctness of this opinion, it is stated
that he started his patient last week a tour
through the United States to keep up his general
health and spirits How far any physician is justi-
fed In turning man afflicted with leprosy loose
upon tho community remains to 20 proved. II he
the seeds OF this most terrible and hitherto In
most localities unknown disease wherever no NAV
CO. the consequences will not DO limited to the dis
appointment of the Philadelphia doctor in his the
DRY. There IL to believe that he will so SOW
them. not only has lsprosy always been believed
to be highly contagious In all Asatic countries and
on tho Levant, where 1t makes Its home, but It is
now so held by the modern physicians who have
charge OF the hospitals Tor lepers in racadle, the
Sandwich Islands aud Louisiana. DIR. Joseph
jones, president OF tho Louisiana Board of Health
made. two years ago, an exhaustive report on the
extent of the disease IN that State. proving ncon-
testably that IL not only here dtary but conta
aous. Nursss and priests who have been brought
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1883-03-19
THE NEWS THIS MORNING.

FoREIGN.-An attempt was made ON Saturday. at
Windsor to murder Lady Florence Dixie, who was
attacked and cut, though not seriously. by two
disguised as women. - Mr.. Parnell has
given his views on the present attI-
tude of English opinion toward Ireland; Mr.
Parnel is in Paris - Paris was rather quieter
than usual yesterday; there was some fighting
however, among Socialists at one point. -
Bishop LittlejOhn laid the cornerstone of new
American church in Dresden yesterday.
DoMEsuC.-It is reported that Sitting Bull is to
be released from custody at Fort Randall. ben
jamin Bates, prominent citizen of Richmond, Va,
committed suicide yesterday. - Evidence
accumulates that the trust funds in
the hands of the late Judge Taylor, of Newburg
NY, Were badly mismanaGed. - The Mississippi
River is still falling 80 The wall Of O burned
building in.BloOmington Ind fell yesterday proba-
bly, fatally injuring three persons. An accident
occurred on the Illinois Central Railroad yester.
day; no one was seriously injured. - Robson
and Crane are to build theatre in Chicago. -
A mysterious murder was committed III Watertown,
Mass. last night.
CITY AND SUBURBAN.-The first meeting of the
Theistic Church was held last evening 80 An
Italian was fatally wounded in fight IN Elizabeth
st. yesterday. 60 Mr.. Beecber spoke on "The
Nature of God and Man y; Dr. Newman closed his
series of lectures on Bible criticism - Palm
Sunday was observed in many churches.
THE WEATHER.-TRIBUNE local observations in
dictate increasing coudlness, with rain or snow fol-
lowed by fair or clear and colder weather Tempera-
ture yesterday Highest, go; lowest, 3So aver
age 1872
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Amusemenis 60 Night.

ACADEMY OF MUsIC-s-" semiramide'
D.ty,s THEATRE-s:15 -"seyen-Twenty- Eight"
FIFTH AVENUE THEATRE-s-" The Mascot"
GRAND OPERA HOUSES" The Corsiean Brothers"
B.yrRIY's l4rH STREET THEATRE-8-"Siberia."
IIsSDERsoS's STANDARD THEATRES" Pinafore"
MADISON SQUARE THEATRE-s30-" Young Mrs VIM
thrOp"
EfBLos GARDENS" Fritz"
s.y FRANCISCO OPERA HoUsE-s-san. francisco Min
strels
ErEINwAY HALL-8-COncert.
ITALIA THEAIRE-S-" julius Caesar.
UNION SQUARE THEATRE-S-"A Partisan Romance"
waLLACK's THEATRE-7:i5-" Silver King
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1883-03-19
4 yoTEW0RTHY C0IFESIox.

There is a familiar saying to the effect that
an honest confession is good for the soul, and
another that "laten is a better adverb than
"never.n confession that is seven years
late is not over prompt to be sure, but 1t Is
better than no confession at all, and it can
hardly fail to be good, even for the soul OF q
Democratic editor. In the Presidential cam
paign of 1876 certain charges against the per-
sonal character of Mr.. Hayes originated in n
Democratic paper published at his home. He
was said to have eyaded taxation by false re-
turns to the assessors. Few persons probably
were influenced by these accusations, but the
fact that they came from Mr. Hayes's own VII
lage gave them certain color, and every Dem
ocratic paper in the country was glad to use
them. Charges Of somewhat the same nature,
but much more serious, had already been made
against the Democratic candidate, which were
acknowledged 10 lie damaging, and which have
not, in fact, been satisfactorily explained TO
this day. Iewas felt that something must be
produced TO offset these disclosures, and the
tax story against Mr.. Hayes was invented.
The last issue of the Democratic paper pub
lshed at Fremont tolls how it was done.
A local Democratic ring insisted, Tile Mes
sanger says, "upon the publication OF scurrllous
personalities against Mr. Hayes without pro-
ducing Or Offering to produce any evidence of
4" the truth Of the charges embodied in their
l." vile and slanderous articles. We refused to
accede to their demands" Further pressure
was brought to bear, and the editor yielded.
lie says; 4" We regret to say we were prevailed
"upon to give space in this paper to their ont
"rageous ISLANDERS against Mr. Hayes. We
shave regretted that occurrence ever since,
sand determined never again to assume the re-
"sponsibility for slanderous and unnecessary
charges against candidates Of the opposite
"party.n A wholesome resolution and an ex-
celent example, which we commend to the rest
Of the Democratic press. If all of them will
begin at once to take back all the lies they
have told about General Garfield, Nh. Hayes
and other Republican candidates for the Presi-
dency, they may by great industry be able to
retract them in season to begin the campaign
of 1884 with q clear conscience, and with the
determination not to throw mud ut the man
whom the Republicans will nominate and elect
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1883-03-19
Jnoex TO ADVERTISEMENTS.

hxUsEMENTs-7h Pdge-5th and 9th columns.
ANNOUNCEMENTS sM P0ge-4th column.
BANKING HoUsEs-6h PdGe-6th column
BUSINESS CHANcEs-6h Pdge-6th column
BUSINESS NoTICEs-4h Pdge-1st column.
BOARD AND RoOMs-.7M Pdge-6th column.
CORPORATION NoTIcEs-6h Pdge-6th column.
DANCING AcADEMrEs-6m Paqe-2d column
DRESS MAKrNG-7h Page-4th column.
DgY GooDs-7M Pace -4th column.
ExcURsIoSs-7h Paqs-6th coluDE-
FISAScIAL--6h Pooe-6th column.
FURYITURE--7h Paq.-4th column.
HrLP wANrED-7m Page-5th column
HORSES. CARRIAGES. &c-7h Pdge-6th column.
HoTELs-7h Poge-3d column.
IssrRUCIIoN-Gh PaQe-2d column
IACTUREs AND MEETINGS-7h Pa1e-6th column.
MARRIAGES AND DEATHs-5h Pa0e-6th column
MrNISG-6h Poge-6th column.
MIscELLANEoUs-6h Poge-6th column; sh Page-4th,
1 9Th and 9th columns.
MUSICAL ISsrRUMESTs-7h Page-6th column.
NEW PUBLIcATIoSs-6h Pa0e-2d column.
OCEAN SrRAMERs-7h Paqe-2d column
PRoPosALs-6m Page-6th column.
REAL EsTATE--7h Poge-3d and 9th columns
SAPB DEPOsIrs-7h Page-4th column
SITUATIONS WANTED-MALEs-7h Pdge-oth COLUMN
FEMALEs-7M Paqe-4th column.
sprcIAI NorrcEs-5th PaJe-6th column.
STEAMBOATS, AND Railroads.&c. Page-1st and I'd
columns
SUMNER REsoRTs-7h Pa0e-4th column.
TEAcHERs-6h Page-2d column.
WINTER REsoRTs-7h Page-4th column.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1883-03-19
TIE LEGISLATURE AND TIE TAY CUES
TION

1t is evidently the intention of the present
Legislature to adopt the policy of its imme-
date predecessor in relation TO the gre at ques-
ton Of taxation. The last Legislature let the
tax question severely alone That is what this
Senate and Assembly are doing with it. And
in both instances the policy is altogether too
suggestive not SO much Of mastery inactivity
as of mastery incompetency.
Upon what other theory save that of the in
competency of the Democracy, which is now in
the majority in both branches of the LegIsla-
ture, can the fact that no effort is being made TO
reform the tax laws be nationally explained 7
1t might be supposed that Governor Cleve-
lands recommendation in regard to n matter
of such overshadowing importance TO the peo-
pie would have some weight with his party as
sociates in a coordinate branch of the Govern
ment. His annual message, read in Senate and
Assembly Oh January 3. contained this para
graph
The mperiectlon Of orr laws touching the matter OF
taxation. the faulty execution OF existing statutes ON
the subject Is glaringly apparent Tho power OF the
State to exAct from tho citizen part OF his earnings and
income for the support OF the Government Is obvious
should be exercised with absolute fairness and Justice
When is not exercised the people arc oppressed
This furnishes the highest and the best by laws
should be enacted and executed which will subject all
property all alike need the protection OF the State tn
an equal share In the burdens OF taIaon by means OF
which the Government Is maintained. And yet IL IA
VIGOROUSLY true that personal property remun
eratvchan land and real estate escapes to very great
extent the payment OF its fair proportion OF the expenses
Incident to Its protection and preservation under the
law.
That is the way the Democratic Governor
Cleveland talks to Democratic legislature
about taxation. Why do his words 20 UNI
needed by those to whom they are addressed
Has the Governor no influence with this State
Administration Is he In error when he asserts
that tho imperfection of the existing tax laws
Is glaringly apparently If he is in error then
it is glaringly apparent that he dsgraces the
executive chair with his ignorance. If he l.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1883-03-19

The significance of to-day's instalnent of
"lndustrial England" cannot he too strongly
emphasized. Democrats like Mr.. TOwnshend,
of Illinois, finding it troublesome TO rcfute the
logic of these papers, have chosen to assume
that the facts contained therein were idle tales
a newspaper correspondents chatter. The
Congressional Record of February 9 imputes to
that ingenious Congressman a cOntemptuous
reference to the letters "written by Dir. Il. p.
Porter lately, In his travels in Scotland, based
upon hearsay, alleging that women and chill
dren in what is known as the Black Country ,
were employed working beneath the ground in
a distressful condition" That letter on the
Black Country, which, by the way, Is not in
Scotland, but in England, was not based upon
hearsay," but upon facts stern and appalling
That the facts were not overdrawn but only
family outlined is clear from the second letter
from the same dismal quarter of England pub
lished in this issue. Lest Mr.. Townshend and
his Free Trade allies may see fit to renew their
stale calumny about the hearsay character Of
this evidence, we beg leave to remind them
that Mr.. Porter Is willing to make oath to the
accuracy Of every word in this recital and
what q story Of human wretcheduess and hui
man privation it is whole families earning
only a few shilings week making nails, rivets
and chains; mothers daughters and children
sharing in cruel machine laborj and all sinking
deeper and deeper every year in poverty and
degradation We want our Free Trade friends
to read this letter line by line, assured that
every statement is absolutely true; and when
they come to the end will they tell us whether
there is any quarter of the United States where
such misery can be Witnessed Yet England
has basked for many year in the sunshine of
an enlightened policy of Free Trade" and
America is bound hand and foot by what Mr..
John Bright calls the barbarism of tariffs"
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1883-03-19
THE MITD-WAGON OPPONENTS OF RAILROADS
- Erorn The LittLe Rock gazette tDsml

The earnest patriots who sigh Tor return
OF the days OF mud wagons tue only means OF com
muncation retort that railroads are monopolies:
This seems tle entire ground, ana Is supposed
to furnish an unauswerabe argument. A few sot the
mud-wagon patriots still remain III Arkansas They
represent race rapidly disappearing, with noSe OF
their kind TO take their places. According TO theTview
everything gone wrong since the advent OF the rail-
way train and steamboat the telegraph and the daily
newspaper They sigh for return OF the good old days
OF unrokeI forests and regard progress the arehenemy
% mankind.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1883-03-19
PUBLIC OPINION.
BEG INNING OF THE STRIKE CAMPAIGN.
Ernrn Ths philnnflnhin Record Indl

The men who manage TO live comfortably
by keeping the wnrkingme OF the country uncOmiort
able have commenced their usual spring campaign
They have raised the usual against Confederate
CAPITAL" and " Plundering MonOpOlies," which Ia the
prelude 20 strikes chickering's and general discomfort
tho workugmen wise they will be very slow thu
wear IN stalking their savings the advice OF the windy
congresses OF ncapabes who only work with theI
tongues Any honest weaver or blacksmith who fo0ws
his trade better what 10 do than any onS0caon
of spouters can tell INN.
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even momentarly Ia contact with it have fallen
victims As leprosy has never prevailed, to our
kno WEDGE as an epidemic in Philadelphia, 1t
would he interesting to know on what experience
this physician has based his new theory with which
he justifes so remarkable proceeding.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1883-03-19

Princeton College is in a fair way to becOre
university in the true sense of the term. In
accordance with DR.. McCosh's suggestion
Department of Philosophy is to be established
with him at its head There are to be four or
five other professors in the new school. This
means the retirement from the presidency of
DR.. McCosh and an election of his successor,
proba bly, in June. Here is prospect to cause
flu!ter among professional educators The
presidency of Princeton is not a second-rate
prize.