New-York tribune., 1884-10-02

So, Mr.. st. John, it appears Is q fiee-trader. We
do not see how the language of his letter Of accept
ance can be otherwise construed for lie says, re-
erring to the abolition of the liquor traffic and its
great cost to the people THUS protection would
be given to the industries Of this country that would
enable successfully to throw our doors open
wide to the competition Of the world" That is, we
could afford TO be frcc-traders to abolish all duties
on imports, to subject labor to diroct and un-
restrained competition with the Labor of other
countries, provided we could suppress ihe lIquor
traffic and save the money which that traffic costs
II Is not worth while to argue in regard to the
economic unsOundncss of such a claim. For the
present it is enough to point the fact that this
Is the docttinc Of Mr.. st. John which those who
support him are expected to approve. How many
of them desire to go on record IN favor of g throw
ing our doors open wide to the competition of the
world y
The painful impression is forming in the public
mind that the Treasurer of Yale College is being
Overworked. On no other theory can his neglect
to acknowledge the receipt of that $4,000 sent
him by Sterne Chittenden, a wel-known New
York lawyer, be plausby accounted for. III Mr.
Chittenden doesn't hear from the Treasurer in the
course of two or three days. he would do well to
telegraph him. That ls if there is any such person
has no knowledge save from the columns of the
mendacous Post
THE TRIBUNE has Just issued document, attrac-
tive and not too long of pages only, that ought
to be read By every work ngman in the United
States before he casts his vote for President II ~
entitled British and American Wages" The title
tells the story The document contains the cream
of the discoveries made by Robert p. Porter in
,rln and aI,o,t ,tra al lri9
startling differences in the pay received by our
workingmen in America and those in England
Tables are given showing the wages of almost all
the mechanical trades ship building, the spinning
of jute. wool and cotton pottery and glass making.
the building trades, iron working. coal mining, the
manufacture of wa gOns and implen 'nts, and a
large number of other occupations, An Old cartoon
in Horper's Uceiiy showed Pat, out of work, open
ing his dinner pail and saying to his wife IN aston
iShment Where's the dnnery She replies, "lrve
always been talking aboat change change, change.
And sure thought I'd give ye wan There
would be hundreds of thousands of hese empty
dinner pals in America if British wages should
prevail; and no one can deny this who reld' the
convincing and absolutely correct figures OF InE
1RlBUNl's new tariff tract. As said before, TINS
document represents the best final results of Mr
Porers work, and 1t should be universally read
during tho next 1Duf Weeks III tdu D' hhh lOi d
dollar Il hundred, or five dollars thousand
It is asserted by The Uorh that at would be
siugu ar if the Republicans shouid not carry OHIO
ia OctOber"; that IN of years the Democrats nave
occasionally captured the N.ate on local Issues
Let III, here note the confession that II was not true
that Governor Iloady carried the state last yeal
on National issues, as The UorW and other Demo
cratic journals then claimed But that paper
continues On Presidential years the Republicans
return in full force to the party of their choice"
Hence, ii reasons Democratic victory IN that
state would be "a wonder Very good. But
what amazing impudence and reckl.ssnes5 appears
III the assertion, in tie same article that the ground
Republican confidence as to ohio Is the eXperta
ton that they can buy votes! 1t has been said that
liars need long memories" But one is pretty
moor specimen who cannot remember when writing
the middle OF a short article, the iaischood he told
in the beginning Of it,