New-York tribune., 1883-12-10

would not run away from it. 1t is for Lord
Lorne to decide whether Canadians If they
were sincerely attached to the mother country
would run away from Canada.
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"Turn the Rascals out.' So say we all of us. We
| specially invite attention to the payment, by
Hubert o. Thompson, without complaint land
without notice to the public of the legal robbery,
OF the effort any honest official ought to make to
have such laws changed), Of EIGHT DOLLARS per
cubic yard for earth excavation. How could the
man who did that fail to know that he was con-
nivng at theft Turn the Rascals out! VIII not
the Reform Democracy cease shouting and begin
workf Shall this rascal be turned outi
Miners and smelters organized at Denver for
| the protection of the lead market ON Wednesday.
No definite action was taken, but it may be guessed
that the next step will be to induce Congress to
buy up 10000 900 pounds of lead each year to
be run into bullets-the bullet of the fathers y
preferred. There is at present, nor is there
any present demand for silver dollars; but there is
at least chance that the Government could ulti-
mately get rid of the bullets by firing them of.
How it is ever to get rid of its silver dollars no man
can guess But it ought not to be partial in its
favors if it stacks away more than half of the
silver produced, it ought to do as much for the
lead
Attorney-General Brewster has advanced some
sound arguments for the abolition Of the fee sys-
TEN in paying public officers. The system has al
ways been found to work badly. Congress ought
to abolish it, There is much greater need, however,
for the State Legislature to take action on this sub
iect The operations of this system are familiar in
connection with the offices of Register, Sheriff
and County Clerk in this city. The Health Officer,
.Nxr.- ntl,a, Ctato
paid in like manner They should al be compelled
to turn their fees into the public treasury and be
paid fair salaries for their work.
There were excited meetings on Saturday in the
oil exchanges the question Of consolidation
The committees had reported favorably, and the
Wall Street members and the Standard people are
said to favor the step. The brokers of the Mining
and Petroleum Exchange voted for consolidation,
giving the Governing Committee full power, but in
the New-York Exchange there a sharp contest
on admitting votes by proxy of about third of the
members who live in the oil regions and who are
supposed to be against consolidation. 1t was
threatened that IL their votes were excluded they
would put the Exchange into the hands of a re-
ceiver on the ground that the action would be un-
constitutional. But il Is hard to see why two dis
tinct rooms should be maintained. with double ex-
| pcnses, for traffic In one kind of certificates.
| II Mr.. Waldo IIutchius docs not move fast, his
silver bill will be belated. He proposes to arrest
| the coinage whenever the amount of standard dol
| lars In excess of tho amount of silver certificates
| outstanding shall reach $50 0O0,00 Under such
provision, the coinage Of silver might 60 on ever
lastingly. provided the country could endure the
| corresponding initiation Of its paper currency. But
| other members of Congress- who have been leaders
| In the movement for silver coinage, are now con-
vnced that 1t ought to be stopped at once, and the
| issue of certificates also
SO Greece has raised new loan Of 16S, 100000
drachInas at an interest of per cent. 1t Lord
| Byron who called her. long ago, living Greece no
more" For corpse, she has pretty good credit.
| The drachma is 1913 cents the loan therefore
amounts to about $685. 700, 900, which, for a popu-
latlOn of only 800, 900, is as large loan
of 81 213 600 900 would be for the United States.
When the young prince from Denmark, only
eighteen years DID, became King of Greece in 1868,
| he did not seem to have q brilliant outlook the
bankruptcy of the littlo kingdom had long been
called hopeless andts arrears Of interest amounted
| to much more than the principal. 1t is therefore
the more noteworthy that the Kingdom has been
able to contract loan on terms favorable as
| were given by the Rothschilds III 1882.
| We have long since tacitly acknowledged that
pedestrians have no rights on the sidewalks which
dealers and venders are bound to respect. But the
latter are of that class which when given an inch
invariably grasps an ell-and sometimes more. 1t
| is no nfrequent sight nowadays to see, in front of
store which faunts red flag, array of miscel-
| Ianeous goods which cover not only half tho
whole of the sidewalk but large part of the road
way also.
PERSONAL.