New-York tribune., 1884-03-01


sufficient guarantee, inasmuch as Russia has sew
eral times made similar promises only TO ignore
them as soon as she was ready to move forward.
The reported retirement Of the Governor of Tur-
kestan Is also q repetition of diplomatic ruse
which has been employed rather too often to be ac'
copied in good fathagan. tits characteristic Rus
sian method to pretend to repudate and punish her
tOO-energetc agents In Central Asia, but they never
remain in disgrace and their deeds always taken
full advantage of by their Government. The patent
truth Is that Russia has ayailed herself now OF
Englands troubles in Egyptjust as she avaied her.
self of former British embarrassment to tear up
the Black Sea treaty. She Is at Merv, and will
stay there, and the question Is, What can England
do about It'll
The opponents Of the proposal to copyright news
declaim against 1t on the ground that news is by
nature free and any attempt to m0nOpOize 1t Is an
act of fragrant injustice This Is sheer nonsense.
Nc one rs far as we have heard, is dOtc enough to
say that news belongs of right to any one set OF
men or newspapers. When anything happens, all
the world is at liberty to learn the facts about 1t,
and any newspaper or combination OF newspapers
that wish to incur the expense can send thelr ac-
credited agents TO the spot and obtain all the par
ticulars. The proposed newspaper copyright law
will not infringe upon that right In the slightest
degree. 1t will simply prohibit The Smithrue Gar
lon, which does not employ messenger to find out
the news, from knocking down and robbng the
messengers of other papers. That Is all. The news
Ia free as the air to The Clarion and all newspapers
But reporters correspondents and all the other
complex machinery for gathering the news are not
free and for any newspaper TO appropriate them
without paying orthem is downright robbery.
To Mr.. Carlisle: 1t stands you in hand TO watch
the two wings of your party in Congress- the 1ree-
trade Democrats and the protection Democrats.
The general public Is beginning to be apprehenslVe
that before long they will make jump at each
others throats and that before they can be sepa-
rated the carnage will be sickening and the mortal
ity so large that nobody to speak of will be left to
tell whose boot the first knife issued from. Let
your precautionary measures, Mr. Speaker, GO
prompt and exhaustive. Remember that this is an
era of good feeling, and that melancholy aray
which should make the shirt bloody in the halls OF
Congress is to be deprecated by every truly patr-
otic heart.
II has lust been discovered in Georgia that the
attacks upon colored voters are the work of the
"poor white trash,' and determination
il expressed to put this trash down
henceforth Nevertheless it is in evidence that
even in Georgia the "prOmncnt citizens have oc-
casionally INDUCED in these political diversions;
and IN Mississippi aud Louisiana and other South
ern States all witnesses agree that the people who
shoot negroes at the polls and in the streets and
who visit them by night TO fog them for wanting
| to vote the Republican ticket, would thnk them
selves cruelty misrepresented if they were called
"po0r white trash"
The English press may probably be right IN at
ributng the explosion at the Victoria Station 30
the Fenians or the Avengers the Inyincibles, or
some other pscudo-patriotic Irish organization /;
hut in doing so the journals referred to are clearly
not guided by any obvious connection between the
outrage and the cause of Erin. There is a story OF
an Irish servant, who being instructed to give an
eyasiye reply" to q certain unwelcOme caller, car
ried out his orders by asking tho visitor If his
! GRANDMOTHER was monkey" There seems to be a
good deal of the same sort of IucdtY in the reason
| lug of the people who resort to explosion as q
| means Of political expression. Because the poucy
| of the English Government is disapproycd OF, a
| eloak-room in a railway station is blown up. The
connection is hard to discover and though, as Mr.
! Bunsby was won't to say, The bearin's in this
event" may lie in the application ont" 1t IS by no
means easy to take the bearings. When further
we reflect that these utterly irrelevant explosions
are clearly expected to please and satisfy the ene-
| mics of England in Ireland and the United States,
| il becomes a bewilderIng inquiry what kind OF
minds those must be which are capable OF seeing
iu such deeds anything but blind passion Tor his
chef II is true that some English papers, unable
to realize the deliberate incOnsequence of the act,
suggest that the explosive was Intended for some
other purpose, and went off prematurely. Butthere
appear to be no grounds for this conjecture, and
moreover the previous explosions were all marked
| by the same irrelevance
|