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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1883-10-31
PERSONAL.

Anne Whitnevs marble statue of Harriet Marti.
mean will be placed for the winter in the Old South
Church, Boston.
Nine Jenny Lind still suffers much from neural
gc affection of her throat and chest-the same
which years ago used to cause her an agonlzins
headache after every appearance on the stage
President Robinson, of Brown University has had
his Office furnished with massive desk and chait
made from solid oak tmbers which had done hun.
bred years service in old University Hall.
Tho Rev. John s. Inskip, the veteran Methodist
reyiyalist. camp-meeting conductor and Editor Of
The ChyIstiqn Standard was stricken with paralysis
week ago at his home in Westtown, Penn, and haf
since been in precarlous condition.
At home at Weimar List still works Industrious
". He is usually at his desk at three o'clock In the
morning and remains there, busy with pen or pencil.
until seven. when he has breakfast. AT nine hs
takes q nap and at eleven is about again. At ono
he dimes and then takes an after-dinner nap. Az
four he receives pupils and VISITORS ana Is engaged
with them until late in the evening. Wh1st-playine
Is hts favOrite recreation.
1t is related that when the Rev. Dr. Ellis the Rev.
Phillips Brooks and the Rev. Brooke Hereford were
or their way home together from Liverpool to Bos-
ton on tho first Sunday out the captain of tho
Cephalona endeavOred to arrange for religious SER
vices and asked the three famous clergymen to de-
eide among themselves which should preach. Mr.
Hereford at once excused himself, saying he had
preached steadily during his vacation and now
wanted at least one Sundays rest. Then Mr
Brooks suggested that DR.. Ellis, being the Oldest
ought to preach. /" Oh, no." said DIR. Ellis, ii
would be nonsense for me to preach when everybody
wants to hear you" And so, after half an hour OF
disclaimers and compliments the end of the matter
was that there was no preaching at all Well
But isn't ID singulari Three fire-escapes aboard,
and nobody saved from the burningw
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1883-10-31
ABOLISH TIE FEES.

There is considerable excitement in ROches-
ter, and in the Department of Justice mt wash
ington, over the discovery that deputies in the
Office of the United States Marshal for the
Northern District of New-York have been eX-
acting illegal fees. Every device seems to have
been employed to get fees from the Treasury.
The newspapers printed the other day letter
written by n former United States Marshal III
Georgia. i'm which he instructed his subOrdinatcs
how to run up fictitious charges against the
Government. A special agent Of the Internal
Revenue Bureau has lately reported that sham
illicit "stills " have been set up in South Caro-
lima. so that fees may be collected by the Gov
eminent officers for Selling them.
Abuses of this kind will creep into any de
partment of government National, State or
municipal, administered BY any party, 50 long
as fee system continues. 1t Is sometimes easy
for an honest official to be in doubt whether he Is
entitled to a fee or not; and where an honest
man can be led into temptation, 1t IS not dhhcuIt
for dishonest man to defraud. This whole
subject of fees should be dealt with without
much delay and radical change of thc system
would be a long step ahead in administrative
reform. Il is safe 10 say that there arc very
few Offices if any. which would not be better
managed and with less cost 10 the people, upon
fixed. adequate salary than upon system Of
fees, the exact working of which is known to no
one. Is there any good reason, for example,
why the Registers Office in this city should con-
tinuc to be- bonanza mine. out OF which the
dominant political party draws 4 campaign fund
every ycar2 If the income of the Office Is what
it il popularity supposed to be, the money be
longs to.thc people, and not 20 the politician
who holds the Office, nor to the politicians who
put him there. The fee system is loose, unbu>i-
ncss-likc, and corupting in its tendencies. II
has already lost some ground, and the time Will
come, under improved methods OF admnlsia-
ton, when every fee viii be turned in and ac-
counted for to the Government, just as every
cent received is accounted for in business
house. The rule is Just as good a one to apply
to Federal District Attorneys MaIshals. and
Collectors as 10 municipal Registers, County
Clerks and ShcIins.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1883-10-31
THE STATE CANVASS.

Mr.. Maynard's attempt TO run as Prohibit
cnst IN temperance districts losing him thousands Of
Democratic yotesi voters hayns become aware Of his
duplicty and seeking 10 punish It,
Senator Warner Miller, in company with
state Senator Pitts will address Republican meeting al
Medina Thursday evening. The following night Sena'
tor Miller viii deliver speech ut WeuesNlue' III Ae
gay County.
Senator Mackin's prospects of a reelection In
the NIIth District hot bright Ills record the past
two years In the Legislature used against him With
effect aud, moreover Henry H. Low, the hepuoh''h CAN
uldEtc, Is making "a me canvass.
The Democratic newspapers have carefully
RETAINED from clcising Controller Dayenpos absence
IN Europe owing to illness year ago. since they
learned that he covered into the state Treasury the eulfe
amount OF ais salary during mis- absence.
The Republicans of Oswego County hclda
reunion pocal meeting after Nogts the second Repup
lean candidate senator in the XXI,t District had
withdrawn In Senator Lausng's favor Speeches were
made by the supporters bohin favor Of the Republic ~
STATE and Legislative ticket by Congressman NUM- "
If Benjamin w. Downing, just removed from
the office of District Attorney oi Queens Comfy by Gov
emor Cleveland shond be elected senator from the 't
District the relations Of the two mrn would al 'a,' 10
strained upon their meeting IN Albany. Mr. Downing
would not be able, II is 10 he suspected, TO transact lo
business the district with much success IN the LNtt
tive Chamber On the whole the voters oi tn' "',''S
viii do well 10 elect James Ots. the Republican eaud dte
for senator as they seem strongly inclined To do
"Who defeated tho State ticket p Is already
burning question among the Democratic newspapers IT
the interior Usually the scapegoat Is selected after "a
election but defeat Is Obvious that the debate IL
NOT considered premature. Daniel Manning disclins
responsibility through The AjaAy Argus, William Purcell
excitedly says Ia The Rochester Union and Advertiser
there IL fearful responsibility resting somewhere for
the destruction of Democratic union in NewYork; and
lesser express the sOmOre suspicion THAI the N3W
York Democrats when they loudly proclaim their Loyalty
TO the State ticket actually preparing 10 sell II out
Josiah Jcwctt, the popular Republican candi-
date for Mayor of Buffalo, whose nomination greatly aids
the State and Legislative ticket promises TO be the sen
Low Of Western New-York His letter accepting the
nomination reads written by the reform Mayor OF
Brooklyn " Under ordinary circumstances would not
entertain thought Of accepting IL. My time is ut pres
en fully occupied with my private business, and feel
like unloading responsibility than assuming al
didonal cares but realizing that one must give
time and attention to the affairs Of the people, VIII
subordinate personal interests and wishes 10 what seems
TO be public duty and accept the nomination ecctea
will endeavor 20 administer the 0tco In the interest,"
the citizens OF Buffalo,"
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1883-10-31

ments amounted to 1865 each year, or
1888 70 each month, OF which $500 each
year, or 1915 each month, may be considered
repayment of tho principal, and the balance,
1896 yearly, or 1868 70 monthly, is interest
on the loan. At the outset, the interest amounts
to over II per cent Oh the sum due, and the rate
increases rapidly, of course, as the sum due Is
diminished by monthly payments. The banks
make business of lending money, and ought to
have as much skill in that business as any one,
but there is not one of them that can cOntrive to
lend its available money at steady rate OF
about 1ls per cent every month tor ten years.
But the above loan paid much more.
1t will be said, of course, that the man who
contracted to receive the oil was foolish. But 70
cents q day per 1,O00 barrels is not at all an
unusual rate for carrying. There is storage,
and risk, and interest, so that the man who
holds property for an advance has pretty heavy
charges to pay, first and last. Nor is the case
altogether different in other branches of bust
ness. If man buys grain to hold, the mere
storage will cost him cents per bushel for q
year, which would be over per cent interest
on the price for wheat and over 16 per cent for
corn, besides all other charges and the interest
OH the money invested. There is scarcely any
kind of product that man can afford TO hold
very long; the cost of keeping and caring for 1t,
and the loss Of interest on the money invested,
will soon amount to more than any probable adj
vance in price. Nor is this to be regretted. 1t
is the natural protection which civilized society
has against attempts to create artificial scarcity
of the nccessaries of life. Natures laws are SO
framed as to promote rs far as possible an equal
balance of supply and demand, so that human
labor may not DO wasted in excessive produc-
ton, nor human wants be left unsatishcd by
failure of supply. To this end, the operation OF
natural laws spurs every holder to seek pur-
chaser for his product without long delay, so
that any excess or deficiency of production may
be soon detected and remeded. Whenever
speculation seriously interfcres with the opera
ton of these laws it tends to produce over
production or a failure of supply, and so works
harm to the public.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1883-10-31
THE "TUIy RELIC OF BIEBIRlSu."

THE THIN RELIC or B1RBIRISM"
The Utah Commissioners. whose second annual
rcport was presented to the President yesterday,
hold that the Edmunds law has been of ser
vice. In the attempt to root out polygamy, and
has furnished information upon which Congress
can base more effective legislation 1t has shown
that. after the Acknowledgement of several thou
sand polygamists, the monogamists have a ma
iority but the Church nevertheless. controls the
nouogamists also in great measure. In devils
ing future legislation on this subject, there are
several things which our legislators might well
bear in mind.
Neither government by commission nor any
other form of government that can be de
yi,cd will prove effective for the destruction OF
polygamy 50 long rs the Mormon Church Is per
mitted to hold monopoly of the land. The
root of the difficulty we believe, lies deeper
than the suffrage, which some thinkers con-
slider an insupcrabe obstacle while 1t exists.
Behind that is the influence which enables the
Church 10 control the woes Of large proper
tion of the monogamists in the Territory. That
influence is the power of the Church to Starvc
ont n man who opposes its dlctatlon. Inc
Church has seized the land available for cult
walton throughout the Territory, and the mines,
and the means of irrigation. Whatever man 5
industry or business may be, the Church can
make il impossible for him to get living cN-
cent i'm few localities. II plants men where
tbry really cannot exist without its favor and
then. when their all has been invested 1t con-
troll, their action and their votes more com
pletcly than if it owned their bodies. Negro
slavery was less difficult to uprool because the
negro would run away if he could. The dom
nation of the unlawful and reasonable con
spiracy called the Mormon Church is maintained
by its monopoly of property rights in the Terri
tory. and that monopoly is based upon laws of
the United States and action taken under those
laws. Yet Church officials are engaged in con
spiracy to defy and resist the laws of the United
States, and have done 50 with success 10 this
day.
The common sense way to treat this treason
able conspiracy will in the end be found the
best. People who Systematically resist and
defy the laws are. public enemies As public
enemies they ought to fave no shelter from the
laws, and no defence in the possession of fran
chses, properties OF powers which they use IN
resisting law In reality, an inSurrection has
existed in Utah ever since the Mormon Church
first planted itself there. 1t is nero farce to
permit the MOrmOns TO profess their readiness
to submit to law. They have done that again
and again, and at this very time profess not only
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1883-10-31
UHAT BUTLERISM MEANS.

President Seeye, of Amherst College, contribute
an article in Frank LeslGs upon the contest in Mas
sachusetts, taking tho ground that it means much
more than appears upon the surface The real
question, he thinks, lies deeper than that whether
man of boundless effrOntery, audacious, unsoru-
pulous shall manage to retain his office. President
Seelye regards the contest only sign OF the
times, the feeling which shows itself in favor OF
Butler being, in reality, the restless tendency to-
ward social disorder which is to be seen in so many
directions. The people of the State are not con-
sciOus of tho changes going on in its population
One ont OF every five natives, male and female,
leaves tho State to find home elsewhere. While
the native population Is decreasing the foreign
born population is rapidly increasing. The Irish
born exceed all the other foreigners put together.
In fact there is no State having so large proper
ton of Irish born population as Massachusetts, The
farms of the State are passing into the hands OF for
eigners, who also form7a steadily increasing proper
ton of the day labore-s, factory operatives, me-
chancs and farm servants These laboring classes,
President seelye says, :" have never had so many
social advantages as now, and have never been so
disconnected with them. They feel the burden of
their class distinction, and are not only FESTIVE
under It, but are ready to try anything which gives
any promise of relief"
One of the strongest for feeling that these
fears may have some foundation is the fact that
Buffers strength seems TO from his eilrOntery,
his INSCRIPTIONS audacity and general political
immortality, and not in spite Of them. lie does not
nave to conceal his worst characteristics On the
sontrary he may almost be said to exaggerate them,
and he profits by doing 49, The he is, the bet
ter he seems to be liked by the class TO which he APP
peals for political support This is not an enCOur-
aging sign for the future.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1883-10-31
tr. LrrLyGS REcEpTLOX.

The cordial applause which greeted MI
Irving's first entrance before I'm American audi
cncc showed that they were ready 10 give him a
friendly hearing. The cheers and plaudit-
which followed the play showed that, having
heard him, they were glad to hail him as true
artist This must have been gratifying 10 him
for many reasons The verdict of the audience
WAS an independent onc-quite as free from the
influence of London as that of Boston or Phila-
dclphia will be free from the influence of New
York and the genuine artist is always proud
whrnhcfcels thatit il himself, and not his rcputa-
ton, which has won the triumph. This immediate
recognition puts the stamp of success, in all
plobabiliy. upon hi, entire visit 10 America,
and this will bc gratifying 10 Mr.. Irving in it,
purely artistic aspect alone. He will Gnd-wlIat
those who come from abroad find II 80 hard to
undcrstand-that Ncw-Y0rl, doe, not govern
the country in matters Of art and thought any
more than Washington does in the punishment
of crime and the improvement Of sewers. The
United State. have no London and he will see,
rs lac goc. from city to city, marked individu-
atty i'm the ways OF each, with perhaps, this
curious fcaurc-that the smaller the city is, the
more determined it will bc to be independent of
New York in its opinions. But the Ncw-Yorl,
audience, in It's intelligence, is refinement and
its artistic sense. was such rs may easily be
found in many American cities and there is no
reason to suppose that the verdict will change
with such jury, whether the trial is had here
or a thousand miles away.
The comments of the newspapers show, with
few exceptions the same generous readiness TO
recognize remarkable merit. Yet there seems to
have been in one or two of them such Il fear of
provincial enthusiasm over an actor who has
come from London chat they have ended, per
haps without knowing it, in dcprccating him to
an extent which must be regarded ~ umrcason-
able. This is surely proyincia.ism in its worst
form. II is well to be Independent in Judgment
But it is the worst kind of dependence to Dc so
afraid of ii that We must think differently from
others whether they happen to be right or not
Nj Irving is an actor with marked limitations
no doubt, but of singular powers, and the
American public will not be less ready to recog-
nizc them because they have already been
recognized in his own country.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1883-10-31
4 GLANCE At THE cry DISTRICTS.

4 GLANCE At TIE cry DISTRICTS
Ii is, Of course, the duty of Republicans in
every district to do their best for the election of
their candidates when these deserve support.
And the candidates in this city and elsewhere in
the State appear to be IN uncommOnly good lot.
1t is an almost invariable rule in New York
that Republican nominees are superior to their
Democratic opponents in character ability and
loyalty to public interests. This superiority
seems even more marked than usual this year.
But no matter how worthy the candidate may
be, it is impossible to arouse voters to work
hard for him if the fight is hopeless. The fall
Republican vote cannot be got ont in i'm over
whclmingly Democratic district where the
u ,mocrats are united. But there is now every
thing to encourage Republicans 10 the most Wig
or0us exertions all over the city. The Demo
Gratis are 50 split up on Senate Assembly and
Aldcrmcn's nominate ons that the Republicans
ought certainly to carry districts in which they
were defeated last year. while there will be no
excuse for their failing in a single Assembly
District where they were successful in 1882.
And they are sure to make better showing in
the Senate Districts than they made two years
ago.
Take the Senate Districts first Well, we
must let the Nth 90. Nothing can raise that
benighted region out of the Cmmcrian dark
ness in which " Mike Murphy and Jim Sic
vim wrestle for the obscure and grmy Demo
cratic ballot. In the Nlth also the powers Of
darkness represented by Eddy" McCue and
"Tim " Campbell must bcileft to their own de
vices. No chance for cvilizing influence in
these districts But in the With light appears.
DAILY and Dugro the Democratic candidates,
will neatly divide the Democratic host and the
Republican troop should march in to victory.
In the With also the Democrats are arrayed
against each other, and their leading candidate,
John W. Browning, has cut such wretchcd
figure in Albany that the Republicans ought not
To come short of success. The name of the next
Senator from that district is Frederick S. Gibbs.
In the IXth District we come to another Of
those political mOrasses stepped in Democratic
degradation and ignorance. The Republicans
ran no candidate there in 1881 and we presume
they might as well leave Cullen and Fitzgerald
to fight it out between them indifferent which
wins. But in the Xth Ethan Aliens prospects are
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1883-10-31
Aew9lprk Daily Gribnoge
FOUNDED By HORACE GREELEY.
NETWORK, WEDNESDAY, OCT. 81.
TIE NEHS THIS MORNING.

FoREIGN-In the Chamber of Deputies yesterday
the Government was interpeated on ITS policy in
Tonuuin NJ. Challemel-LacOur replied. - Nor
ris Ranger cotton broker Of Liverpool failed with
liabilities of $3.50, 900. - large Liberal dem
onstration was held at Dumfries on Monday. -
Walters the broker who stole bonds from the Lon
don and River Plate Bank, was re-examined. -
Ironclad and Passaic won the races at Brighton
DOMEsTIc.-The second annual report of the
Utah Commission was made to the Secretary Of the
Interior Yesterday. - The report of the Supcrin-
tondent of the Railway Mail Service has been sub
nitted to the POstmaster-Gcneral. - Mr.. Hills
successor as Supervising Architect has been named.
- The races at Pimlico yesterday were won by
Bob Miles, George Kinney, Hartford, Aranza, Heel
and-TOe and Wooster. - The United States
Central Railroad Company was Incorporated at san
Francisco. =- Governor Cleveland has committed
the sentence of William BoOrnc, who killed his
stepfather when only fourteen years old. = The
charges brought by Democrats against State Treas
urer Maxwell are causing him anxiety. GO
Thomas A. Smith has been nominated to the As
sembly by the Republicans of the IId District Of
Queens County. - The wreck of four vessels by
the recent gale is reported. -= One man was
killed and three men injured by a railway ac-
oident in South Carolina yesterday.
CITY AND SUBURDAN.-A large and enthusiastic
meeting in favor of Mayor Low was held in the
Brooklyn Academy of Music last evening; Mr..
Beecher and Mr.. Low were the principal speakers.
60 Matthew Arnold delivered his first lecture in
this country, on Numbers" IN Chickering Hall.
80 The American Missionary Society began its
annual meeting in Brooklyn yesterday. --
Controller Grant appointed Daniel john
son Auditor in the place Of Daniel Jack
son. -- At Republican Headquarters the
prospects were considered bright. &C. Mrs.
Devine's benefit concert was abandoned. -= A
man In dependency, caused by spiritnasm, com
mitted suicide. - Emerson, the Hobo en- tram
robber, was found guilty. - Gold Solue of the
legal-tendcr silver dollar (412l2 grains) S5GS
cents. - Stocks generally were dali and droop-
ing, with special exceptions but all closed lower
and weak.
THE Manufacturers local observations in
dictate clear weather and slight changes in tepora-
ture. Temperature yesterday Highest GO; low
est, $40; average, $3.50.