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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1885-01-23

The persons who resorted to dynamite to blow up
one of the hat act, res in Norwalk must be aware
by this time that, whatever their motives were,
they have not helped the of the strikers The
real interests of wOrkingmen can never be pro-
NOTED by crime against the rights or the property
Of others. Whenever man who chooses to work,
in the place of Others who refuse suffers violence al
the hands of the strikers, the effect upon public
opinion is altogether disastrous to the labor organ
zation which appears to be responsible for such
violence. Whenever. in the controversy OF labor
with capital, law is violated and property is
destroyed, there is certain to be powerful reaction
in publc opinion gainst men whose claims had pre-
voisly been heard with interest or with sympathy.
This is So clear that the intelligent leaders OF all
trades organizations undoubtedly do their best to
prevent acts of crime and violence, because they
are aware that such acts not only deprive the or
ganzatlon of public sympathy, but also cause many
Of the workingmen themselves to withdraw their
support. The perpetual difficulty is that the more
sagacious and conservative leaders cannot restrain
the violent and lawless spirit which governs part
OF their followers and which they inevitably arouse
through their organization Hence it is that strikes
almost invariably lead TO violence and crime. even
though the leaders are well aware that the crime
and violence operate powerfully to defeat their
efforts.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1885-01-23

II IL gratifying to fiud evidence that manufactures
in many parts of the country are resuming with
hopefulness for the future. even though this
resumption has been rendered possible only by a
material reduction in wages. The Manufacturers
Record of Baltimore. publishes list of establish
ments which have resumed work within the past
four weeks, employing about 10000 hands At
the same time it is stated by dispatches that three
nail factories at Pittsburg. and the copper works
of Hussey Il Co have started up again. and that
Lucy Furnace No. . will probably start next week.
But while this cheering intelligence is received,
there is at the same time of further stoppages
and strikes in other quarters. The balance of
change for the past four weeks apparently. has not
been very decided either way. though there has
been a continuing reduction IN wages
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1885-01-23

The magnificent stretches of clear ice which
now cover the Hudson from Peekskill to
Albany will give the ice-yachtsmen chance to
demonstrate again that their boats can 90 faster
than the wind which propels them. How that
IL possible is the problem which, just now, is
bothering a number of scientific people who
cannot deny the fact.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1885-01-23

The report from Washington that the Senate
Committee will bring in a bill to suspend the coin
age of SILVER in another invitation to an intei
national conference should not he accepted. would
be more encouraging il it were not pretty clear that
Speaker Carlisle to refer all measures of that
sort to Mr.. BANDS Committee and that this con-
mittee, as well as the majority of the House, will
obstIratey resist suspension of silver coinage in
any form. Nevertheless, it would be right for the
majority in the Senate to discharge It's full duty by
passing bill to suspend the coinage of silver with
ont conditions, thus throwing upon the House the
entire responsibility for any evil consequences
which the continued coinage may cause.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1885-01-23

One of tho most important questions to BIO def
nitely settled by the Congo Conference relates to
the crown of the new kingdom. We are exceedingly
anxious to have fit provision made for our friend
and brother, Mr. henry Watterson. and beg to sug-
cest bis name as ono to which the title. Emperor
and Autocrat of All the Congoes' could be added
tn most impressive sound He and his star
eyed goddess could have lovely time wandering
hand in hand among the sylvan groves Of Congo
In order to make things entirely agreeable we
would go 80 far - to favor sreciprocal treaty By
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1885-01-23

General Wolselcy has given all arms of the service
novel experiences in the of the Nile expedi-
ton. He has converted both infantry and cavalry
into boatmen. and has manned pinnaces with
artillerymen. He has organized camel corps from
tho Guards and has detailed cavalry for infantry
duty But the most comcal proceeding has been
the mounting of the naval brigade on eamels. Tho
sailors we're regularly drilled at Korti III camel
riding and as might naturally have been expected.
refused to drop their nautical pnrases 1t was
sport" and starboard." ship ahoy,"" mind your
helm" "you'll run me ashore. jack" and shiver
my tmbers" and on, until tho ship of the desert
finally hove to" and the jolly tars were relieved
from daty. The voyage across the desert will bring
aNletachment of the naval brigade to their own
element ut Metemneh. If steamers can be secured
they will take charge. of them, and the RELIEF Oh
Khartoum will be fastened.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1885-01-23

Republican voters should not forget that the
second opportun ,ty for enrolment in the Assem-
bly, District Associations for 1885 occurs to-
day between the hours of 4 and 10 p. IN. Any
one who Is, and has been, loyal to his party
can put his name on the lists, The last chance
for enrolment during this year is week from
to-day-January 80.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1885-01-23

and in way, too, that few Christians OF moderh
days feel called upon to do. The KIND OF aruor
which possesses them was illustrated by the
determination of one of their number not 10
stay behind, although Eat the moment before
sailing a dispatch was put into her hands an
nounclng the death of her father. The knd
wishes of many people who do not know them
20 with this band of earnest men and women.
In Congress Yesterday blow was struck at
orr defective system of treating the Indians.
which should be followed by others until the
entire structure is hammered to pieces. AL
amendment to the Indian bill was adopted by
the House which brir gs the red man within the
PENALTIES and privileges of the laws. The
Senate at the last session, rejected measure
something like this, but the present amend
ment has been drawn so that the objections OF
the Senators will probably be overcome. Most
men who have studied the Indian problem at
all thoroughly are convinced that the land side
of it is not the only side, and that it never can
be satisfactorily solved until the red men are
within the jurisdiction of the courts.
Frontier life, in the old sense of the term, has
been declared to exist no longer i'll this country |;
but according to the Governor of Texas some
of its worst phases may yet be seen along the
Rio Grande, the boundary between Mexico and
the United States. Incursions of robbers from
Mexico, who perpetrate all kinds OF crime, are
declared to be common, and redress impossible
to obtain. If these things are true, it is sin
gular that reports about them have not reached
us oftener and earlier. Communication from
all points along the Rio Grande is now COM
paratively easy. The Governors language on
this subject is 80 exaggerated as to make one
think that his facts may be exaggerated too.
All the same, Congress might well look into the
matter. Commercial reciprocity is the order of
the day. There may be chance to provide for
a little reciprocity of another kind along the
Texas border.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1885-01-23

Having the advantage OF an independent position,
The IN sees seyera facts which not seen by the
ordinary Democratic organs 1t says that the
election of Mr. Evarts means that four years hence
Republicans will fall back upon the mastery
tactics that snatched victory from an overwhelming
adverse majority in 1907 that "under the inspir-
ing summons of their wiseSt ana their strongest they
will reform their lines and mean TO wrest New
York from the Democracy # concord. compromise
pne. strategy. tenacty, audacty can win
the prize" All this seems to be true. and 1t Will do
10 harm to have the Democrats know it. If they
possess no more self-control than they. have yet
shown. il will do them no good to know where they
are in danger.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1885-01-23

Are the ice-dealers all over the country in league
to charge high prices for ice next summer 1t
looks ike it. From all parts of the North come
rumors Of the bad condition of the winters cover
ing for lake and river. In place it is said TO be
full Of little fishes another 1t IS ruined by oil
from the banks. What next
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1885-01-23

Whatever the most Indifferent person may
think of the need of missionary work, no one
will underrate the sincerity, the nobility OF
seharacter or the self-denial of the fifty men and
women who sailed yesterday for Africa to
preach the Christian religion to the natives.
They certainly prove their faith by their works.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1885-01-23

1t is possible to find several sound reasons
against a bill, offered in the State Senate yes
terday, exempting from taxation the real estate
of retired clergymen. But cold and heartless
world would not object seriously, we think, if
some method could be hit upon by the Lcgisla-
ture or anybody else, which would compel
all congregations to pay their ministers decent
salaries. Then Mr.. Coggeshalrs bill would not
have been thought necessary.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1885-01-23

St. Louis need not send on her cases of cholera to
tins city that we NAV tell II they are genuine We
are perfectly willing to take ner word Tor it.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1885-01-23

This talk about investigating ex-Mayor Edson's
deals" may suggest something that would be
really worth while. If ANY investigation Is to be
had. let it be directed toward Hubert .. Thompson.
his Citizens Committee" and his judges. 1t
would be interesting to know Why the Mayors
nomination of Thompson's successor was defeated
by men whose party interests naturally lay in the
exodus of the County Democracys unscrupulous
hoss
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1885-01-23

Politics do not affect pew-rents, for hr. Beecher
and Mr. Talmage are both Democrats, and Ply
mouths pews are not worth so much this year as
they were last while those Of the Tabernacle have
secured prices in excess of earlier rates Nor it so
much a matter of preaching for certainly Mr.
Reecher is not inferior to Mr. Talnage in that
respect. Can the lesson Of these contrasting cases
lie hidden soloy in the little jewel OF consistency
Now that it is possible to go to Europe for $40
and to Chicago for -, fails to see why it would
not be a good scheme for poor man to live on the
ocean or the railroad rather than in a costly
tenement
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1885-08-14

began at once to give orders as to how the
government should be run. The president
and his cabinet are boot-blacks when in
comparison with him. He is such her
culean ass if all the mules that served the
country in the late war could be paraded
before him each and every one of them
would swear that he is its father.
"O1course the administration had TO break
with him, just as every administration. since
toRNEY failed to run LINCoLN's adminis-
tratlon, has had to do. Now there is moth
ing that can be expressed in English that is
too mean for the Washington Post to say.
But there are no newspapers published any
where else on the face of the earth with so
little influence as those published at Wash
ingtOn. Even i'm Washington city nobody
depends upon them TO give the news
or tell the truth about anything. Outside
Of the District of Columbia nobody be-
ileves that they ever support measure or
oppose it only as paid for it, and they al
ways fall in with the side that paws best
and first. When public man or a public
officer. or an administration is being roundly
abused by Washington newspapers, every
Dody away from there, and probably every
body there, believes it is because the abused
party refuses to be blackmailed. The vio-
lence of the assaults and the unreasonable
ness and untruthfulness of them is ample
ground for such belief.
In the present wild, reckless and truth
less raid of the Washington Post there is
probably some stock in the Pacific Mail
steamship line or a contingent fee i'm the
$780, 600 that still refuses to come out of
the public treasury. But as the navy ring.
the cattle ring, the Pacific Mail steamship
ring and swindling custom house ring
have each i'll its turn butted its head against
this administration only to regret it. it is
not likely what everybody knows is the
corrupt mouthings of Washington CITY
newspaper viii disturb the administration
very much"
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1885-08-14
RIEL,s WAY OUT.

The letter of ex-GOv. McDOUGALL
opens to the Canadian government loop
hole through which il can escape from the
embarrassment OF RTEL's conviction. Gov.
McDoUGALL makes it quite clear that the
trial and conviction Of RIEL was i'm viola
ton Of constitutional rights. The common
law of England, which is the bulwark of
English freedom, is invoked in arrest of
Judgment in RIEL's case. REL has been
very large elephant on the hands of the
Canadian government. Under the circum-
stances it was almost impossible for a court
10 aequit him. Yet his execution would be
the cause of widespread discomfort in the
Dominion, and possible source of future
trouble. 1t is fortunate that Gov. Nc
DoUGALL comes TO the front with his
timely argument for there is hardly doubt,
when the case comes in review before
the judicial committee Of the queens privy
counsel but that his Interpretation will be
gwen TO the law.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1885-08-14
4 Chinese Failure.

SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 13.-HOp Kee &
Co., the largest wholesale Chinese manu-
facturerS of boots and shoes on the Pacific
coast, have failed: liabilities, $40. coo:
assets unknown. The firm has 4 large
and prosperous branch house at Victoria,
British Columbia. When the San Fran
cisco house got into financial trouble the
Victoria house Tepudiated all connection
with il and diShOnOred its drafts. This was
the immediate cause of the failure. The
members of the firm are said to be worth
over half million dollars. The question
is whether the creditors can succeed in
reaching them. The principal creditors
are believed TO be among the white leather
dealers and tanners in this city, but
who they are Hop Kee refuses to say. This
is the first Chinese failure of any importance
that has occurred here.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1885-08-14
LIBERTY's PEDESTAL.

Last Tuesday the New York World com.
pleted the glorious work of raising the
500, 600 To complete the Statue of Liberty
pedestal. The result has been accomplished
IN five months, and there were 100. 600 con-
trlbutorS TO the fund. The World deserves
all the praise that has been accorded it in
connection with this work. After the
American committee had published rather
patheuc address TO the people, In which it
was acknowledged that the statue would
nave TO be returned TO France unless the
money was raised TO complete the pedestal.
the World undertook the work of raising
The money by appealing to the people
through IFS columns, and receiving subScrip-
tons of any amount from 10 cents upward.
The rich men of the country held them
selves aloof, and, with few notable eXcep-
lions, refused 10 cOntribute-anything. The
World says the great bulk of the money
came from the hard earnings of the poor.
1t says lit was the love of liberty that
broke into the box of pennies and brought
the earnings from the widows home and the
children's little bank. TWAS the shop girl,
the operative, the mechanic. the farmer and
the laborer who cheerfully gave what they
could, and many of the letters that inclosed
the little contributions were rich with the
glvers desire TO do more than he was able.
We have received pennies from the homes
where poverty sits beside the hearthstone,
and nickelS from the children of the street.
who are familiar with want but with them
came the blessings Of those who love and
cherish liberty"
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1885-08-14
THE GREAT PoFTICAL 1ssrrE.

The WILCoX-JoYCE contest over tho
authorship of the poem, Laugh and the
World Laughs With You, is not to be com
fined to the courts. 1t has taken the form
of a newspaper war, and the partisans of
the respective claimants to literary distinc-
ton are rushing to arms with zeal worthy
of a better cause. In the ranks of the
JOYCE army is a gentleman by the name of
CLARKE, living in Alexandria, Va. who
publishes a letter in which he says that he
cut the poem out of a newspaper in 1877.
and pasted it in his scrap-book He offers
to produce the scrap-bOok in evidence. but
doesn't offer to show up the newspaper
from which the clipping was taken. Then
comes letter from Hon. CHARLES \.
ELDRIDGE, in which he saws he
heard Col. JOYCE repeat the poem
about five years ago. On the other
side, Judge BRALLEY, a respected cit
izen of Madison, Wis, writes 4
letter in which he says: Il know that
ELLA WHEELER WILCOX conceived. COM
posed and wrote that poem i'm my house.
and 1 might say in my presence, and read it
to me and my wife as soon as finished. To
say or think even that she stole it bodily.
word for word line for line, is certainly
monstrous and impossible. 1t was first
published under her own name in the New
York Sun, and went the rounds of the
press with her name attached, and was then
put into her volume of poems"
1t will be observed that Col. JoYCE's
evidence is entirely circumstantial and la
be to be Overthrown by rebutting or ex-
planatory testimony. Mrs WILCOX has
good witness in the person of Judge BRAI.-
LEY, and yet such thing is possible that
she might have palmed off a counterfeit
poem on the judge and his excellent wife.
Still the weight of the evidence SO far is on
her side, and the Kentucky colonel will
have to hustle around pretty lively if he
succeeds in his case against her. 1t would
be singular thing, after all, if it should
turn out that each of them is entitled TO the
credit of its authorship. In such an event
they would both laugh, and the world would
laugh with them.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1885-08-14
4 Heavy Suit.

Special TO the Globe
DIES MONIES, Aug. 13.-Tbe American
Investment company of Boston has brought
a bill in equity against b. L. Harding, its
Vice president and Iowa representative,
claiming $1,000 The bill alleges malver-
sation of $4,000 in 1883, that he
turned $50 900 of the plaintiffs funds
into real estate in his own name, which
he has mOgtgaged to the Des Moines Ma
tiOnal bank; that he has collected $500 in
Iowa and invested it in some property, and
that he secured So. 0O0 from the plaintiffs
on his drafts, representing that it was
for investment according to the eOmpany's
purpose. The bill prays the circuit court to
set aside the mortgage given the DeS
AlOines National bank. and gives the plain
tiff preference in property and for general
Judgment for the excess due after the fore
closure sale.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1885-08-14
HOW THE CAT JUMPS.

The Madison Democrat is an excellent
daily newspaper published at the home of
Postmaster General Villas. In view of the
fact that the Washington Post has recently
been assailing the postmaster general be-
cause of his refusal to hand over the $500. -
600 subsidy TO the steamship companies.
the following review OF Washington Jour
nalism in a late number of the Madison
Democrat makes interesting reading. II
says: There never was respectable
newspaper published in Washington of
either political party for six months after
it mad gained position that gave it the
title of administrative organ That name
has been fatal to every publisher who has
caught 1t at Washington. 1t seems to
illustrate the saying that every man has
his price The Washington Post has for
a considerable time been pretty creditable
Washington city newspaper, but since the
administration Of the government has
passed into the hands of Democrats it has
gained the title of administrative organ )
IT has broken STnSoN HUTCHIHs all up
already. He at once became "a bigger man
than old GRANT
He swelIed up so that the District of
Columbia would not hold his head. He
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1885-08-14
Result of tI,e CYCLONE.

NORWOOD, n. Y. Aug. 1S.-The dam
age by the cyclone here last night was
somewhat Over-eStimated. The loss of life
50 far reported includes only Michael Mar
tin. farm hand. and Mrs. David FitZgib-
bons. The injured are: Michael o. OTmsby.
aged Is, probably fatally; Mrs. George
Cramer, Mrs. Oliver Lunderman, 5. Z.
Leslie, Carl and Rufus King and Charles
Miner. The storm ragged over territory
fifteen miles in length and half TO three
quarters of a mile in width. The wind was
accompanied by terrific hail-stOrm. The
damage to fruit and crops is not to be eSti-
mated. The principal losers in Norwood
are: The Norwood Lumber company, the
Norwood u Lake ChamDlain Railroad COM
pany, whose bridge and station were de
Stroyed. and the Pearson BTOOmhandle and
Hoop factory. Over one hundred resi-
denceS and innumerable barns and sheds
were destroyed and damaged. Several SUI
gar bushes were totally destroyed. The
damage in Norwood and vicinity is eSti-
mated at $50. 900.