New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1884-06-15

COnNIVIdIITy
encouraged instead Of at the BAR where this treating
habit which has filled whole cemeteries with graves,
cOmpels drink three times when he only meant
! TO drink
observed in Chicago that numbers OF people kept their
private summer establishments In the East especially IN
the vicinity OF the Massachusetts, One friend told
me that he had small cottage the farm Of an old set
tier the cottage ten months in the year
Il the psnest kind Of furniture and offered no
temptation to plumber It, There tho little family spent
three months in all the privacy OF the private
house. and felt compelled to the spot unless II
seemed inviting We make mistake IN supposing that
the United states is expensive country to live in
The expenveness OF country from our pride
OF appearances Almost any Of the hotels in pennsylvania
which keep good tables take boarders for dollar day
or less and recall the old hotel called The Grapes at
| Lancaster where I have understood that permanent
bOarders pay s. Transient visitors at those old
hotels seldom have above 81 a day pay Bethlehem.
Penn, has excellent hotels OF this character Reading
has very coy, od-fashoned inns, and observe that
General Crawford who in Fort Sumter with Ander-
son, spends two three months every year at York
Crawford says that he will not pay 3 day for hy-
ing anywhere in the world and be has travelled as far a.
| Asia.
| Isaw Mr. Emmons Blaine at Chicago in the little pri-
waite bcd-chamber where Mr. Elkns and Mr. Chaee took
care Of his fathers interest Blanes children nearly
all crown up In the methods of what is called
the critical press press which has about i've
editors to one ncws-hnder it is the fashion to ring the
changes Mr. Elknssname "a If he could be put down
merely by reneating him. Mr.. Elkins IS now married,
for the seconI time believe the daughter OF Senator
Davis OF West Virginia who has conferred credit
upon his native state by rising from the humble position
OF brakeman and conductor the Baltimore and Ohio
Railroad. has equal admiration for Senator Bay
ard and Mr. Blaine and these two directors in his
railroad and both have stock in It. Mr. Bayard meets MI
Ekns "a an equal what is TO be expected Of editors
who habituay decry their business and whose
general atheism extends TO doubling their own exist
No evil happen to this country ike that Of an
all-pervadng sceptcism in human nature modelled upon
the egotsm Of few fellows who think that by saying
reform they in way lifted several feet higher
than their felow-men.
We often need to examine the social conditions
beginning OF the Christian era to for many nu
apces in the present time The remarkable who dis
cerned so well the of human nature had scarcely
entered upon His when He chose the company OF
pubcans sinners in preference that Of Scrbes and
| Pharisees He saw no good whatever to be expected
from professional responsibilities but everything TO hope
in the humble cOntrte and enthusiastic poor To follow
Him about in the fields and hedges considered all
atrocous bit OF popular demagogary among the better
elements His contempt of mere ceremOnias was seen
when with spitle and dirt He healed the blind mans
eyes His harshness only extended to pretendersand
cod-hearted sceptcs The thief the Magdalen, He had
hopes for but whatever for the adducee and the
self righteous TINS with all the reformers against Him.
He reformed everything Rich in humanity He needed
no outward riches advertise himself The only benent
! n rich man ever to Him to give Him tomb.
Among the hard names lie called was that of bias
Dhemer because He took down the venerable Old Tesla
nen and said that ito prophecies above Himself
and His contemporaries From that day to this respect
ing person has been the occasional vice OF all success
fu periods. Men who have pundered their own friends
in rairoad jobs and commenced their careers Gu sur
reutitous information gotten through keyholes aud by
eavesdr0pping would have believe that the American
Secretary Of State be trusted. that the Senator
from Ma ne is not worthy their sandals that the
author OF "A popular book must necessarily be scamp
because he did get their permission to put 1t out
The great reckoning of our time Will come with these
petty incendares who have not the confidence OF
their own families but who community to make
mputatons and trouble under the OF superior
wisdom and illumination have the empty hearts OF Ethan
! Brand himself
While Governor Long made OF the most effective
speeches In Chicago Convention the State OF Massa
cu,ctts cit very poor figure there and il is to her in
tera not to persevere absurdy but to correct herself
by earnest seize yaminatiOn There is certain hard
ness and obsnacy the best classes of Massachusetts
| which at different times overwhelmed the very
they had at heart For example Massachusetts, opposed
the Federal Constitution until the Shays rebellion when
they without the support Of some consolidated
| power they you'd be at the mercy Of their own mob
against their own fellow-czen, John Adams they
fastened Hamtons fall by incorporate hostility to the
palmer class of men who rising the from
tiers The Hartford Convention, which they now hate
Mr. Blaine for rcferringto, unpariotic and fac
tonal affair and matter how wisely it has been de
Tended by Of the pOsterty OF its embittcrei par
tisans Massachusetts and her child completed the
ruin Of the Federal party In the present day there is
unquestouable hostility amongst few in MlSst
chusets to the growth and character OF the Western
States. Mr. Blaine receives the inhOspitabe suenncss
OF this class because he from the west OF the
Allegheny mountains. 1t would be well for Massachu-
sets If she had these fresh OF emigration from
the West Meantime she herself good b. resist
in the power OF numbers, which always will prevail
this and numbers generally lies the right,
otherwise whole system Of government is delusion
There probably does not exist the globe more hon
est brave and cheerful race OF men than in the Western
States Their support schools Of American letters Of
lectures and OF representative government is practically
| unanimous They have the inestimable advantage OF
kno wing but little abont their grandfathers Every man
and woman too Is the standard OF se-respect. These
people by theOnward development OF our empire have
| become our rulers The Itme il not far on when New
York State will probably to be the Empire State
except in name far from shrinking before such pos
abilities we should thank God and take courage While
we stand trembling the brink OF the Atlantic without
ship or faith to let Secretary of the Navy build
the people interior possess more fear of the
allied Powers OF the globe than their ancestors had when
they met the blended forces OF the savage and the
Brton great event IN thelhistOry Of the West was
the war 1872 which produced Jackson and Harrison,
Cass and Perry The great event in the history Of
the West was the of the rebellion By which those free
States nanked the South with iron highways and became
the mighty chain to hold the Union together Secession
as abhorrent them in the East In the South With
profound goodhumor and surprise they ascertaned as
Chicago that they we're regarded as not being able to
out an honest They believe they have got that
man and they propose let the scbes and Pharsees in
the anquaed parts of the country make study Of him
| for at least four. years.
was about twenty years old when rode in carriage