New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1886-06-14

slavery think themselves fit to exercise the privi-
lcgcs and share the responsibilities OF American
citizenship. They acknowledge that at word OF
command from men whom they probably do not
know by sight they yield up their means OF iivcli-
hood. regardless of the claims OF wife, children or
aged parents. Perhaps when these men have been
sold ont and betrayed few moro times they will
assert their manhood and ding off yoke 50 mean
and foolish.
Rollin NJ. Squire says that experience has taught
him that when man is spending public money he
can find plenty of useless positions for political
hangers-on. The pootcsl Commissioners expert
ence in the Public Works Department has not been
all III vain. lie has really learned something
An attempt to coustrue clause in Secretary
Mannings letter as committing him to the prn-
cpe of unlimited silver coinage is scarcely fair to
the Secretary. lie said that the present coinage
law was SO ill-judged and untmcly that it hnders
the opening of our minis to the natural and I'M
limited coinage of both metals" The language Of
the Secretary probably does not fairly express his
thought. 1t was chosen to catch the cars Of the
silver men, but his idea doubtless is that free coin
age is possible only after international agreement
upon basis which will secure the parity of silver
and gold and that the present bill hnders such
agreement. If that was his belief, certainly he
was right in saying that tho present law is a
hlndrance. But it is not so clear that interna-
tOnal agreement could render free and unrestricted
coinage of both silver and gold either wise or SAFE
Aldermen in Chicago come cheap. Some of them
are said to have been glad to take ST.. 500 to put
franchise through. How the $4,000 members of
our own Common Council must look down upon
their brethren of the homeless West,
The Ohio Club, of Cincinnati, an organization
representing the most respectable Democrats OF
that city, has publicly confessed the existence of
the frauds perperated in recent elections by prOmi
nent Democrats 1t is true. the confession was
extorted but it comes better late than never and
it will 90 far in the minds of impartial people who
are hestating what to believe to justify the claims
hitherto made by tho Republicans Of Ohio.
The London Ecoaomist publishes from the report
of the British Mint compilation of the coinage of
nearly all countries for 1885, showing that
$65 344, $50 gold and $75.S04,005 silver were
added to the worlds stock of coins in that year.
But of the new silver coinage $2S,950.000 was IN
India, and $2s, S4s, $50 came from four minis in
the United States, leaving only about $lSOOO,O 900
for all other countries, and of this the japan Mint
produced So. 500 900. The coinage of the United
States was certainly not added to the circulation,
and The Economist is mistaken in reasoning that this
amount of now coinage implies continued demand
for more silver in use Certainly there is reason in
recent official reports from India to suppose that
the new coinage there was not justified by any
such demand.
When one finds a dgniied and venerable news
paper like The Boston Adratisr remarking that
I" the only great issue before the American
people is the baseball championship" he realizes
as he never did before that Webster is dead.
Bunker Hill Mont ment completed, aud that no new
phase of the Hoosac Tunnel question las lately