New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1886-03-03


Mr. sharp seems to have disseminated the Doodle
on the Pan Electric PLAN. among the officials whose
influence was needed. But why are the Aldermen
30 shy about admitting their interest Why not
follow the example set at Washington and advertise
themselves as arrayed on The side OF the people
against the odious omnibus monopoly
The strike of the wOrkmcn Of the Mccormick
Reaper Company has been brought to naught by
the resumption OF the works with other men ms
is the way all such strikes ought to be defeated.
Labor has n right to organize, and in organization
II has many legitimate ends to compass. 1t has q
rirht TO keep up the rates of wages "a high as IS
consistent with the demand and with the skill and
experience Of the and the quality OF the work
Il should seek to compel employers TO respect the
health of their wOrkmen In proper sanitary precau-
tions and arrangements 1t should seek to compel
the introduction of emil shoned methods and supe-
ror labor-saving machinery. 1t should punish
cruelty in bosses or employers in every Lawful way
But when 1t undertakes to prescribe other respect
able laborers and drive them into the street, it
! oyorsteus the line. strike such ground IS Il
wicked thing for it is not only bad in motive, but
il entails untold distress upon the innocent families
| ~ the hundreds of men whose action IN strike,
pefhaps repugnant to their better notions IS con-
trolled by a select sort of labor hierarchy.
| And then again imagine Thomas Jefferson shaking
| his fist at the Unitod States Senate
"a day of reckoning Mr.. Conklng calls the 18th
of June, 1855. The day of reckoning for sundry
corrupt city officials does not seem to have come
yet.
Tho President is truly good man, an ardent
reformer an unsellsh patriot He says so himself
over his own signature in message to the United
States Senate Somebody ought TO lend Mr. Cleye-
| land a yardstick so that he can measure how iaI
self-praisc goes by the overland route.
The comet which was discovered by Partisan
astronomer last December seems destined to cut
quite n figure in terrestrial circles Professor Boss,
of the Dudley Observatory, reports that it ID
increasing in brightness and promises to be q
| grand spectacle" BY the middle of April 1t Will
DO visible to the naked eve, and two weeks later
according to the Professor. it will probably be as
brilliant ~ the great comet of 1881. We take II
that Professor Boss regards this particular celestial
AS inclined TO be sociable with our own planet, for
nc remarks that W hen nearest the earth L" the comet
will be only $4,000, 900 miles distant" Distance
like everything else, depends" If ono was in 0
hurry for an answer and had to send the average
district messenger boy II 900 900 miles with mote
TO her with the chance of his lettering on the way
to discuss baseball and roller-skatng news VIII
one If his brethren-why, then. l2,OO0OOO miles
would seem considerable of a yawnnG gull Bn
let heavenly body be l2.00OOOO miles from th,
earth and astronomers remark that 1t IS "ohiy
that far OFF. with an air of people abiding to
stranger who while not exactly living IN town cal
be found in the suburbs.
So far as real light on the subject in hand Is con
cerned. Kerrs voluminous books have proved n
more fruitful than Sharps wasto-basket and milk
bottle
1t is generally conceded that Mr., Cleveland hasn'
been as red hot mad as he is now since tho da
he wrote that letter to John Kelly protesting tina
Tom Grady was @ menace to his personal comfort
The nearest approach to the @ doodle on Monda
I was the finding in Mr.. Kerrs ledger of the word
alcohol and liquor" Of course there is n