New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1884-08-17

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| li-h q clam Io stitcsugY-hip -. Buffalo Courier
If this is meant for Joke il Is too mtrcate If IT
is not meant for joke then it j, evident hat The
fOuyer either Is dcuselv ignorant of the political
history of the United States or else is grossly de-
hcicut IN respect for the Ninth Commandment.
In 1850 the average ratio Of wages IN mlnuflcturn &
bu-inc-e- had decreased per cent from On" ay rage
rate m 1870 while the value OF products mai Increased
- per celt.-lNcw-lori World.
Either of several official documents will prove
this statement erroneous. But it is not honest 10
20 back only fourteen years, To period of currency
imitation: the only honest comparison is with 1860
the last year of Democratic "taun for revenue
only" The official report of the Massachusetts,
Labor Bureau proves that the average wages in
creased from 1860 to 1868 about % 3 per cent
and that wages are on the whole but per cent
lower than the highest point, which was reached in
lS72r If The UOrH has any desire to tell the
truth about tins matter, it can be supplied at short
notice with anywhere from five lines 10 five pages
of official statistics demonstrating the untruthful
mes, of the statement it has made. VIII that jour
nal venture to LET its readers know, the author
ity of the same Massachusetts Labor Bureau, that
the general average of wages ninety industries in
Massachusetts is II per cent higher than in Great
Britaini
To The EDITOR OF THE SUS--Sa- What is the great
est depth yet cached in soun ling the oceanf H. II.
Lieutenant Bergman ob'5ned bottom at 1880 faith
Oms a short distance south OF the b ,nks OF Newound
land. Tue depth of the sea is commonly exaggerated
People used think that ragged IRON 1000 to 5000
IA hons The average drpth IL 1900 iathom- IN both
the A ilantic and the Pacific The NewlOrk sun.
If this correspondent of The sun is really anxious
10 know what is the oceans deepest depth all he
Will have to do-according to present appearances
will be to measure how deep the Cleveland and
Hendricks ticket sinks on election day.
The talk about Ccyeland's withdrawal Is all mOonshme
I The Springfield Republican
That's the reason, then, why the talk resembles
his prospects of election.
Garfield was elected and the hrt 10 spur him on to
hgh-mlnded cudcaY were the ID mOcratC newspapers
of the countrv.-lThe Utica Observer.
This piece of intelligence IN regard to the spur is
important if true. But if it be indeed so that the
Democratic newspapers Of the country used the
spur IN the manner indicated they certainly could
not have let their left heels know what their right
heels, on which presumably the spur was fixed,
were doing. Several days after Garfield was elect
ed, when the Moiey letter was known to be viii
famous forgery by every person IN the country that
knew anything, its author TIadlcy IN danger
of arrest. Nhereupon the Democratic National
Committee, whose wrctched tool he had been in the
miserable fraud send him the following letter:
Ntw-YoRK Nov. L., 1850.
ii. H. HADIEY esq.
DEAR SIR: Get any friend OF yours to 20 bail and
Mes-rs. Hewitt, scott and Bamum will indemnify your
friend.
al pt al in the ma ter. Yours truly,
Ew. b. DICKSON.
The signer of this letter Edward b. Dickinson.
was the official stcnographcr, confidential
agent and acting secretary of the Com
mittee. Now viii The ObsuUer inform us if 1t
knows of single Democratic newspaper in
ON 10 hgh-minded cndcaV Ors" denounced this dis
graceful letter Produce the spur.
We want an executive who viii watch both par les and
who will stop unconstitutional expenditures To the n
tent Il MS AID VIII use his influence 10 prevent
cxtray Iranc.-lGeorge Tichnor curt In Harpers
Weekly.
Then YOU don't want tho bogus reformer, who
has condonod the extravaganza and mIsgovern-
ment of the corrupt rings in this State, the tool and
accomphce of Thompson, Davidson, Mclaughlin