New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1885-05-26

They beat their pl0ughsnares nto sWolus anu theH
pruninghooks into sabres The partisan who was
so offensive as to fight for his eountrys flag may as
| well get his neck ready for the stroke.
| Tho American Yacht Club has undertaken an
enterprise of rare interest to steam yacht owners,
and has begun it in a spirit of praiseworthy lber-
atty. It offers silver cup, of elaborate and
delicate design, at expense to the club OF
10000, for the successful yacht in racing con-
test its regular course from Larchmont to
New-London. The terms of this offer show the
strong measure Of confidence which the club
reposes in its own American made and American.
manned poats. 1t makes no limitations to the
number of the contestants Any yacht, foreign
owned or foreign-built may compete. and the prize
being won is forever the personal property OF The
champion. Considering the extra ordinary value
of the cup this sort Of n challenge is both pucky
and generous. The race will be second in interest
only to the contest for the time-honOred Americas
cup.
To be candid, it looks though the news
papers could stand it If Senator Vest can.
The latest report of the American Iron and Steel
Association just issued by Mr. Cope tine secretary,
brings out very strongly the facts which show that
the change since 1880 has been revolution in the
character of fuel used More iron was produced
quantity of charcoal iron made decreased 79,l40
tons, and the quantity of anthracite iron made
decreased 22I 9S tons, while there an increase
of 594, 537 tons in the quantity made with btu
minOus coal and coke Moreover, even in the making
Of what is classed as anthracite iron, a large
quantity of coke is nov used, and the change
within the past year has been remarkable. In 1883
there we're made .4jl tons Of iron with
anthracite coal alone, and in the year 1884 there
were so made only 246,j7O tons Of iron-about one
eighteenth of the entire production. Most OF the
anthracite iron is now made with a mixture of fuel
averaging about two-thirls coal and one-thifd coke
Another singular coincidence. Just about the
time that the Democratic Administration gets
fairly under way are compelled, If we accept the
united wisdom Of the Revisers to dismiss from our
vocabulary, so to speak, that strong and vigorous
old Saxon phrase: "There were giants in the
earth" For giants" the new version reads
"nephelim,7 the meaning of which is unknown.
Well, perhaps that's as good word as any to char
acterize Cleveland and many of his appontees.
They were unknown until quite recently
Colonel Morrison talks significantly of "modern
methods" in politics. i" | Withdrew he says, " IN
favor of n man whom they thought they could
elect after their modern methods but the modern
methods did not work. Our cast-iron Free
Trader is not a student of history. The methods To
which he allules are not modern. They are as OH
rs the everlasting hills. Demostheues hurled his
philippics ut them; Cicero denounced them in
language familiar TO every schoOl-b0y; Lord
Bacon sank from glory to disgrace because Of his
yielding TO them; Charles of England lost his
crown aud his head together only to have his story
told again by Louis Of France and Marie Ant0lnette
the royal victims of these same methods. Poit-
zeal corruption is as sure TO prowl around National
Treasury as vultures over a carcass Eternal
vigilance such as wasso beautifully demonstrated
in the election of Representative Weaver, Is the
only weapon capable of defeating these methods
This is anon the solid chunks of wisdom which
Colonel Morrison will have the leisure to