New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1886-04-14

and circulars sent ont Dy DuslhrsS Hi"h '''
large part and by far the most variable part oil 'io
post Office receipts. Such receipts increase wien
business men have confidence that their business
can he enlarged by liberal use of advertising and
mail facilities. and they decrease when there IS
,t,,o hone of satisfactory returns The returns of
the most Office therefore, not proofs of the vol
nm. Of business actually transacted. but OF the
bonefulness of the commercial community.
A fine crop of brbe-takers has been gathered in.
Now for the still more inlquitous brlbc-givcrs
"Tbcrc is no revival of business says The Lo"is
rrle Couier-Jowsal. The outlook to-day Is not
even as favorable as ii was year ago" And yet
vou persist in your noisy chatter for free trade.
A telegram from Washington to The Ereping Ioaf
states that it is possible that Acknowledgement
Garland may decide to yield to the solicitations OF
his friends and go for time to Arkansas. If Gar
land docs Weld as suggested it is to lie hoped for the
sake Of the Administration that he will arrange his
affairs SC as permanently to remain in Arkansas.
II the bakers division of the labor hierarchy does
not lift the boycott from Mrs. Grays bakery soon.
they will have made her as prosperous as they in
tended to make her miserable.
The Democrats must be very vapid. milk-and-
wafer lot for the offensive partisan is alwaysa Re-
publican.
Tn this day Of New-York's humiliation, let the
careless and Indifferent voter ponder well upon the
fact that it is all his fault. If New-YOrk City had
not been proof against it, tho public thieves would
have driven her into bankruptcy long ago.
Those hungup candidates would probably like
the President to settle his dispute with the Senate
by arbitration
Governor Fitzhugh Lees proclamation about the
Virginia debt question recalls the story OF the old
Virginian who asked to pay debt and refused
"Do YOU repudate the debt 7" asked the creditor;
whercupon the F. F. " drew himself up to his full
height. AS he said proudly: "Sir Vlrglnian never
repndiates debt" And never pays added tho
creditor.
The reform baby il a tender child and simple IN
his ways but he cannot be persuaded that Demo-
cratic vinegar is good milk.
President McCosh, who lived for sixteen years in
Ireland and whose sympathies naturally go out to
the Ulster Presbyterians, believes that Mr.. Glad
stones measure or like it in all essential re-
spects will be passed sooner later. In the course
Of very able letter in The Mail and ErpreSs he adj
vses his PRESBYTERIAN friends in Ireland to accept
| the situation and to fight the battle on the new
! ground they are constrained to occupy. lie thinks
that there are great risks that the rights of Protes
tants vii, be trampcd upon, the system OF education
iuterfered with and the energies of the most indus
trions classes in Ireland crippled. But he can see
no other practical solution of the complex questions
| with which Mr.. Gladstone is courageOusly dealing
| than Home Rule.
Assemblyman Erwns resolution TO adjourn the
Legislature on May ought to be adopted. That
leaves time enough to pass all the good bills ana
| no time should be wasted dawdllng over the rest.
According % Commissioner Porter abOut l pei
cent of the citys population in the institutions
under the care of the Commissioners of Charities
! and Correction. Unless all signs fail. considerably
more than per cent of the city's Aldermen and eX-
Aldermen will soon DO in the institution under the
care of Warden Brush of Sing Sing.
The Senate has been obliged to designate othel
Senators to fill the committees left incomplete by
! the temporary absence" of Jones, OF Florida. We
have not hitherto bothered much with this Detroit
freak bat what's the matter with the man, any
howl
In Dr. Talmage's opinion tho truth is becoming
scarcer every day. His mind must have been
| dwelling the testimony of the Pan-Electric con
| spirators.
The way to make q boycott Intellectual is to ad
vertIse its inficion. thing that is dcspised can
not flourish here. The boycott belongs only il
those unhappy lands whore the laws do not furnish
remedy for wrong. But it cannot live where
! social order Is founded on Justice
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