New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1885-06-05

1t is reported that the HessIan fly has appeared
in great numbers in the wlreat fields of Kansas and
Maryland, and is doing serious harm. The farmers
this year. if all the reports are to be credited, are
having u most melancholy time of it indeed. With
the low prices and the wnter-killing, and the late
spring preventing timely seeding, and the grasshop
pers which happily were Matched only in the Board
of Trade, and the Hessian dies, which it is to
he hoped may prove to be of the same origin with
the grasshoppers, the farmer may indeed complain
that his lot is not happy one But be has some
consolation in the fact that if the spectators sue
coed in their plans he will be enabled to sell them
large quantities of wheat at high prices, and will
leave to them the question how they eyer'to get
rid Of it at prices as high.
II would be interesting to know which eye Carter
Harrison wnked wien he issued bis recent ukase
against his friends the Chicago gamblers
Russia now proposes to increase it's tariff on i'm
ports about 30 per cent. Thus the industrial and
commercial warfare between the nations OF Europe
goes on continually, whether the Cabinets make
peace or not. Many of the tariffs which have been
recently adopted have been largely retaliatory in
character, each nation being moved to defend its
own industries the effectively because other
nations with which it deals have adopted more
rigorous defensive measures. Yet 1t is just at this
time when all the nations o. the civilized world
except the United States seem disposed to defend
their industries more effectively than ever, even
Great Britain permitting increased duties upon
imports INTO her colonies and listening with grow
ing interest to the arguments OF those who insist
that a higher duty on imports would be wiser than
further increase of the taxes beer and LIQUORS,
already too high be effectively colleetedit is just
at this time that tie people of the United States are
asked to abandon the defences they have, and to
throw their industries open 10 the assaults OF all the
world Happily there is not much prospect that
snch change of policy will be adopted Tor the
present.
The killing of the Prime Minister of Madagascar
in the interest Of peace is grotesque but by no
means unique incident. 1t has n parallel in the
elevation of Higgins and Pilsbury to office in the
name of reform and decent government
Tho Keileys are to be frozen out Mt Vienna. The
World knows, because it has received exclusive in
formation from the innermost circles of the Austrian
Court. The American Minister will be officially re-
ceiyed bnt with "A conventional rgdity as cold as
spltzbergen and as stf Calvinisn that will warn
him at once Of the unhappy time that is in store for
him The Italian Minister Will cut him dead; the
Portuguese Minister will follow the cue; and the
Austrian officials will take every means Of resenting
the i'm putaion that dlplOmatst who Will not pass
muster at Rome is good enough for so ancient cap
ital as Vienna where all the best traditions Of
European court etiquette have originated. AS for
Mrs Kelley. she will not be tolerated at Court for
one instant since marriages between Catholics and
nom Catholics are not considered valid at the Aus
TRAN Court Poor Kelley! We see him now in
Vienna sitting up in his bed with detected air and
nlavinp Away with melancholy" with tho fierce
energy and misplaced cheerfulness of Dick Swveller
himself.
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