New-York tribune., 1886-02-08

struggle already affects the supply OF iron at
the West. and may possibly affect the markets.
In that case also artificial combination hurts as
much as it helps.
A Washington rumor credits the President with
an Inteuton of filling the Austrian mission without
further delay. Why not send Mr. Garland to
Vienna as Mr. Keiley's successor2 1t would be a
vood thing for the Cabinet to be relieved OF his
pre- ,ence and it might not he a bad thing for the
Pan-E Electric to have a special agent abroad to in
troduce the Rogers invention But we are afraid
it wouldn't stop the talk about public scandal.
That IS always a hard thing to do.
The place of trial of the Government proceedings
in the interest of the rivals of the Bell Telephone
Company has not been determined. The Pan
Electric spectators are anxious to have the suit
brought in Memphis, before Judge Baxter, who is
reputed to be an uncomprOmisng enemy OF cOrpo-
ratons Apparently the chances of success or failure
of this effort to invalidate the Bell patents will be
influenced IN some degree by the locality where the
trial is held and the judge who may be selected to
hear the arguments. The Department of Justice
consequently has exceptional facilities for playing
into the hands of the speculative statesmen, of
whom the Acknowledgement is one BY choosing one
district court in preference to another and by desig
Mating n Judge who is known to be exceedingly
severe in dealing with corporations, the Solicitor
General has a fine opportunity for giving the tele-
phone COparceners marked advantages of position.
All these considerations tend to dscredit ar Admin
i,tratIOn which is going out of its way to promote
the financial interests of member of the Cabinet.
By way of illustrating the sef-evdent pro posi-
tion that Z" an Editor should always take his own
advice" Ibe Troy Times stands up these two items
side by side
T1e Loneas,sr r"n) From n. Ia 5aneas'er % P'n"1
Remove tue snow from A. j. strlhhIdn, OF me m
yolr Dayemcnts, ltciiigcUcrT. HUed before
Adrrmau Dean for lot hay-
Ing his payements ia passd-
lble order.
Impartial history furnishes few sadder cases of
cause and eject.
We have noticed with pain that those fellow
scavengers of the Mulligan dustheap. The Times and
Ibe ryning Ost cannot agree upon of the legal
questions involved in the telephone HtigatlOns. aud
in the heat of argument are calling each other
pretty bad names. The Implications that one is a
fool and the other "a knave are comparatively harm
less even when varied by the resources of toler
ably copious vocabulary of bllngsgdtc. But when
re- cference is made to the "'ail of n bruised and
half-triturated snake" writing family even
unto the ninth day after il ought to have been
wholly dead Il is time for somebody to intervene
aud separate the antagonists. Why cannot these
contentious journals drop the legal aspects of the
,elephone question and meet on the high moral
ground that public ohice is public trust
A charity ball was given at Baltimore the other
evening Il was given to help along the Society for
the Protection Of Children. IL aid help along that
society very materially, since 1t placed some $1,000
in its treasury SO far good. But here comes a
Baltimore clergyman, the Rev Mr. Rowe, who sits
IN stern Judgment upon his tellow-citizens and
their wives aud daughtcrs-everyb knows how
bewtchng those Baltimore girls are-who patron
zed the ball. lie censures them because their
giving was not pr vate and yet 1t IS doubtful
# those who take up the collections in his own
church pass the plates surreptltlOusly. He also
censures those who attended the ball because the
d vine blessing WAS not formally invoked before
the exercises of tie evening began. But certainly
the absence Of such an uvocI Ition does not neccs-
sarily imply wickednrsS. 1t is not customary III
taIs State-however 1t may DO in Maryland-to 0sk
a blessing before beginning game OF progressive
euchro, or "A toboggan ride, or Sunday school
picnic aud yet moralsts do not hold that these
rerrcations lead to destruction because of the 0ms
sion. There once was "a minister perhaps he hailed
from Baltlmore) who dcplored the participation of
one Of his professional brethren IN game of Gro
quet. BY way of giving point to his criticism he
remarked "think of Paul playing croquet.' But
n sufficient answer seemed to he. a lire engine Is
not vessel Os wrath. but think of Paul IN "A red
shirt with his trousers in his boots running with
the machine"
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