New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1883-11-11
TILT M1pAGASC1R MYSTERY.

This day week IHE TRIBUNE published dispatch
from Paris which owing doubtless To the fact that
the public mind was then full to oycrllowing with
politics failed to excite an interest commensurate
with its melancholy importance. The dispatch
stated that letter from Tamatayc, Madagascar,
conveyed the intelligence that the Malagasy En-
VOWS who recently paid n visit to this country and
10 Europe on their return homo had been sranglcd.
That is all there was of the dispatch. We have been
Whiting ever since it appeared for q supplemental
telegram explaining how IL happened that the En-
VOWS their journcymgs over and their notebooks
FULL met with this discouraging greeting from the
authorities of their native land. But no such tcc-
cram has been forthcoming: neither have any
friends of the stranglcd gentlemen cabled card to
the American or European newspapers politely re-
ducsting II suspension of public opinion or Hereby
demanding a committee of investigation.
This extraordinary rotccnce il only to he intolll-
gently accounted for on ono theory II must be that
il is the settled policy of the Madagascar Govern
ment promptly and impartially to choke the life ont
of ali the citizens of the country that are addicted
10 foreign travel OF course such policy ~ condi-
tional on the conviction that the veal OF Madagas-
car demands that no ono OF her rowing sons who
NAV have caught tho wckcdncss that nhcrcs in
such hopoessly dcpravod capitals rs Paris or Vi
emma. Philadelphia or Providence, shall be afforded
an opportunity of nOculating any one OF his fellow
citizens who abstans from rowing with imported
moral poison. The United States pursncs different
policy Week by week all tho year round Amerl-
cans go sailing away for Europe. Having made tho
yrand tour thcy return. But no matter what non
sense or worse may have got into tho heads OF some
of them during their absenco-a hunger for the so
cal order Of tho mOnarcblCal system contempt Tor
republican institutions-nO Collector of any of
Ia nf etonuiuU tlegp rebels on
their way down the gangplanb TO their native land,
and respectfully but firmly strangling them. The
consequence is that these dishmcrcanlzcd Amorl-
cans return to the circles from which they set ont, to
extol to the skies whatever is on the other Side'
10 turn up their Mt the stars and stripes rs
crude and new, you know" and generally. accord
ing to their opportunity, to preach the gospel oil an
unhealthy, unpatriotic discomfort.
Who shall say that Madagascar's protective pol
lev Is not tho wiser of tho twOi 1t doubtless works
Migrant injustice in some cases, and it is always
severe But then no nero human governmental
pocy works we'll in all cases. On the other hand,
If 1, to be SAID i'll It's favor that it Is we'll calculated
N keen tho sentiment of love of country pure and
unwasted in tho Madagascar bosom. While they
were vet with us it was reported that these nine
ENJOYS whose respective windpipcs havo beon COM
pressed, remarked that tho United States made a
most favorable impression upon thom. Hence it is
possible that, had not the previous question been
moved upon them when it was, this week might find
some one of them in the lecturcfeld commanding to
Madagascar the exquisite street-clcaning system OF
Now-York City.
Our heart goes out to these Enjoys, but looking at
the matter from the point of view of Madagascar it
Is perhaps well that they gathered to their
fathers before they had time to rohearse their sunny
memories of foreign lands