New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1883-08-10

bslonging to sCousiu Mary thsy Wsute hsSo
driven hard bargain. The sucbbisnness OF tho
English public could be safely depended upon Ter
COED prices for any articles Of furniture or desora
ton associated with royalty,
Several gentlemen from remote districts are look
ing through Now-Tork City. m the capacity OF q
Senate Investigating committee, and making naive
remarks on what they see. Ono Of the eommHSeo
lives i'm Plymouth, NH. smother in Jackson, Miss.
aud the third in Jacksonville, Fla. They would
find waIE across the East River Bridge INTEREST
ing The fare 10 one cont.
The first election I'm Utah under the EdmuIds law
has turned out just as it was expected to do by
those familiar with Mormon affairs. 1t was shown
at the time the law was passed that while fr would
establish the principle that no polygamist could
vote or hold Office or sit in Congress- and so would
benefit the cause Of morality in general, the Nor
mons would still control the elections as surely as
before. The number of Mormons who are not polyg-
amists or who cannot be proved to be such, IS SO
large that the Mormon Church ~ apparently as
strong as ever although its chief men are disfran-
ehised. The bosses of the Church cannot vote.
bt they can say who shall be voted for.by the Nor
mons who can vote. The dispatches say that the
GentiIes felt the contest to be homeless one, and
50 many did not vote. II does not follow, however.
that the Mormon problem Is as far of from solu-
ton as ever The very existence OF the law d1sfran-
chis,ng polygamists must tend IN time to weaken
their influence The men who have the ballot will
be conscious of power which they will hardly DC
wiling to use forever at the bidding of men who
have not got IT. The fact also that it will be neees-
sary TO the preservation of the DO rcal influence of
the Church to have large body OF members who
are not polYgamists must also tend in time to
weaken the peculiar institution" When the
pracriee of polygaJuy is broken up the concern OF
the Governments with Mormonism will be at an end
Any man can believe that he has the right to
break the law, and cannot be punished or disfran-
C hissd for that belief but when be breaks It, as
the polygamist Is doing. it is time for the Govern
nent to bring it's hand down hard.
No wonder Perry Belmonts G, Dstituents didn't
want ~ pay for tho BANQUET with which Perry gave
directions that he should be surpr.ed.p etc. The
uan Who orders the dinner Usually pays for it.
Passengers on the elevated railroad trains would
feel easier in mind il the accident near Cortlandt-
ST. on Wednesday night Lad not been precisely SIM
liar to others whiet have Drevio usly occurred at
various switching places. Such occurrences and
the admissions of employees indicate that the work
of switching empty is too often done On these
hines In q reckless hitor-mss fa.hion. Only cease
less vigilance aud the manifest care in management
can avert snch disaster on the elevated roads al
some near day as New York las net been appalled,
by in his generation. The peculiar peris of this
system of transportation put peculiar and heavy
respon sibilities on the managers.
Congressman Durham. one Of the new Represent
atives from Chicago, has been surprised by che
receipt Of wagon-load Of turnip-sred and packages
of wheat sent to him by mail from the Agricultural
Department at Washington At last accounts Mr..
Durham was raining areunl bis district trying to
find some farmers among the Chicago population
who would take the turniD-seed and the wheat Gil
his hands. After Mr. Durham has passed one win
ter In Washington be will be. not n sadder. but
happier ard wiser man. lie will give his share OF
turnip and onion seeds. wheat and rye and other
agricultural Products to Representatives with farm
ing constituencies and he will take in return their
share of Patent Office reports. and other Govern
rnsut documents which an average constituent Is
supposed to be nattered by receiving from his men,
Der. Mr. Durham has good deal 10 learn yet
The fee habit is increasing. Remembering the
waiter is an old story, but now tho customer who
makes oven a hurried rush at lunch counter IS ex-
pected to fee the man who stands behind IT, II he
u 50 unfortunate AS TO ba compelcd to patrontze
barber he must not only pay ths proprietor Dnt
must fee the who shayes him as veil as the
DOy who pounds min with haDd-broom without
getting any OF the dirt oil. Every little service
about hotel must be rewarded with q gratuity
aid he ssms thing is appearing In the railroad
baggage Offices. The fee system is un-Amercan
aud nuisance.
An Italian newspaper gravely announces that Mr..
Stanley the African explorer. has accepted the
title OF King ut rhe hands OF tho savage tribes
among whom he is laboring in the interest Of CON-
nerce. lie is 70 bo styled. 10 adds, King Stanleyof
Congo and is to he invested with absolute authority
to sign treaties and to all the other functions
Of Supreme sovereignty This clumsy titls reveals
the barrenness OF the invention for il the intrepid
explorer had any ambition in the direction Of Roy
atty. he would follow the recognized canons OF
nomenclature asd demand allegiance
from his swarthy subjects as Henry 1. even
Henry tho Great. Mr.. SANKEY'S assumption OF
Royal prorogasives would be followed in tho natural
order OF things by the promotion OF his rival. NJ
10 Brazza, to position OF corresponding distinc
lion. Henry the Great wonld have jealous egh |
Dor in the Losngo country known TO the blacks as
Victor the Magnificent, Emperor of all the Congoes
A member of the firm which construc ted the ee- |
gator in the ST. Adams Flats. that gave way the |
other night, has a rather novel way of looking at |
he matter lie warned the speculative builder,
who wanted freight lift attached by chains to
he passenger car that this was an unsafe plan OF |
constructions But the builder insisted and the firm
gave way. The gentleman VINO makes this dam
aging confession thinks that his firm cannot be
blamed as they had given the warning. The pnbhc
will hardly agree with him. Is an architect ex-
usabe for building death-tFap which he admits
o DO such. simply because the owner prefers the
heap and nasty plant Responsibility tor human
ife cannot be thrown off In this easy fashion. How
we're the wretched who wero MANNED by the
all Of the elevator to know that the constructors
lad declared il unsaie' The speculator who ordered
and the firm that built IL equally merit censure.
PERSONAL.