New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1884-01-18


morals.
Here's The Albany Times devotng three solid
columns TO q sketch of r. p Flower and here's The
WhifehaU Times saying in leader that Flower
would be good man for President Perhaps 1t
would be we'll to send marked copies Of these papers
to Governor Cleveland
One cannot consider it strange that Mr.. Jordan,
treasurer of the Ontario and Western, was sorely
tried and greatly angcred by the course of recent
events. The management whether with good rea-
son or no reason, had certainly treated him in very
unusual fashion, not merely in causing his subOrdl-
mates to lock hm out of the safe of which he was ot
cial custodian, but in many other ways and for a
long time 1t has been no secret that there was
bitterly antagOnistic feeling between the parties IN
The Ontario and Western and its associate COM
panies, and the public is not yet in position to Judge
which of the parties is in the right In business
matters, however, anger is rarely helpful even
where II IS wholly natural and ustifable and Gen.
WmsOw succeeded in producing n fay orabe impress
sion at the Ontario and Western meeting, even upon
some who had been opposed to him, by his calmness
and his ready answers to questions shOwered upon
him. II was hardly possible for him to deny that
the management had made mistakes. His own losses
and those Of his friends bore witness to that fact
But the offer to disclose every feature and item in
what is perhaps the most tangled skein ever known
in corporate management did cause some surprise,
ami made his friends hopeful that the investiga-
ton viii not result in casting dishonor upon him.
The BugdlO Courier is earnestly discussing the
tariff these days In 50 doing it renders itself LA
bic to be read ont of the New-Yor State branch of
the Democratic party. For the last Democratic
State Convention in declining TO place any kind of
a tariff plank in its platform committed its men,
ber5 to unremittng silence on that great issue.
The friends of Mr.. Perry, the Democratic Super
intendcnt of the Capitol at Albany, endeayor to
excuse his expenditure of 100000 in excess of
the appropriation by explaining that he was
anxious " to roof in the west end of the building"
1t would be well for Mr. Perry at the earliest posi-
Bile moment to roof his mind with the knowledge
that the peoples money Is not TO be spent without
due authority BY the way, the time has arrived
for piece of the ceiling of the Assembly chamber
so TO conduct itself to give the lawmakers upon
whose desk it lands an increased appreciation Of
the uncertainty of life.
The popular impression has come to be that de-
scription Is not "beggared" half as often as emo
tional writer's would have us believe it is. Never
theess there can be little doubt that the scene fol-
lowing the presentation of the resolution proposing
to investigate Mr.. Payne's campaign methods
placed description in very straitened circum-
stances
The movement in behalf of the outcast poor of
London has apparently eliminated in an official cir
cular TO tho vestres and district boards reminding
them of the powers which they possess, and calling
upon them to exercise greater vigilance and less
discretion in dealing with unhealthy dwellings.
At an early period of this English agitation con-
trased the inefliciency of London sanitary inspec
tons with the systematic efforts made by the New
York sanitary corps and building inspectors to inn
prove the habitatOns of the poor. The population
of the English metropolis increases so rapidly that
it is mpracticable to raise the level OF wretchedness
by means Of artificial clearances effected under the
costly Artisans Dwellings Act. by philantlrOpic
schemes such as the Peabody houses. The misery
outruns in growth special measures OF relief gen
eral enforcement of sanitary regulations through
out London ut the expense Of prOperyOwners Is the
only practicable means of coping with the evils
which are poisoning the bodies and cOnuptng tho
souls of the lower classes.
A correspondent of TIE Boston Post wants the
coming Democratic National Convention to take
the United States Constitution for its platform.
Yes, that would be one way of escaping the neees-
sity of taking sides the tariff issue. But there
is no chance of such platform being adopted by
such convention. The Constitution contains al
lusions to treason and the rebel debt which are
well calculated to hurt the feelings OF sensitive
Southern delegates.
Barney Biglin should try to have Mr.. George
Jones made on Inspector to-day, at the primary in
the Eighteenth District. That would for once sat
isfy The Times and sOOthe its alarms.
The stationers are urging people 70 return to the
use of sealing wax instead of the ordinary gnm,
for envelopes. The obvious objection IS that 1t
takes too much time for busy people like the
Americans to use wax. But those engineering the
boom might enforce their arguments among
fashionable folks who dearly love lord" by
citing tho example Of the Duke of Wellington, VINO,
during the most doubtful hours of the struggle at
Waterloo refused the of an ordinary envelope
which one OF his aides offered him with which to
enclose an order the Duke had written to one OF his
commanders. Would you have me guilty of send
mo nv spittle TO gentemanp he asked reproaeh-
fully. "
PERSONAL.