New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1886-10-10

AL elapOrdte pIoSIahiluc i"' WV S''0"""'o'
attending the dedication of the Barthodi
Statue of Liberty has been prepared by the
committee in charge and if the weather on
October % is pleasant the affair will probably
pass of will briliancy. The poetic side of the
ceremony means the hearty recognition once
more of the old friendship between France and
the United States from a practical point OF
view i, means that after October IS this Nation
Will be in charge of another lighthouse in New
York Han bor-for that is really what the huge
statue is.
The British Free Trade propaganda is no
longer to he unOppOsed in this country. The
American Protective Tariff League is now
actively at work, and through educational
means hopes to c0unteract largely the hostile
influences of the Free Traders. The root of the
matter Will be reached in the school books on
polit;cal economy which the League is now pre-
pairing, and 10y the distribution of protective
tariff literature free. The impression which
the American friends of the Golden Club have
studioasly sought to convey to the public. that
no educated men believe in protection, Is of
course false and absurd, as the work of the
League viii, speedily prove it to be.
IF the Manhattan Elevated Railway Company
has increased its average daily earnings
S3.4S9 since it reduced the fare on Third
ave. to cents, a like reduction on the Sixth
ave. line cannot long be delayed And Just
here. for instruction and reflection, it is worth
while to recall the fact that only two or three
wears ago the legislators at Albany wanted to
lower these fares to cents because, as they
said, the companies would never voluntarily
consent to cut them down; end the companies
retorted that the lines could not be operated
at all if the price of ride was only half dime.
Yet here we are Just on the verge OF the con-
htion which both parties to the bitter dispute
Sowed never could be brought about. The
large and conspicuous moral relates to the liza
bility OF both Legislatures and corporations TO
err.
The baseball season for the present. year
virtually ended yesterday, when the eight
League clubs played their final championship
games. The Chicago club, as it has done so
often in past years, again wins the much
coveted pepnant. 1t is wonderful niue In
many respects, and will probably continue to
win most of its games so long as 1t is under the
present management. The Detroit club has
made a better light than was expected, ana VIII
finish a close second. Enterprise and pluck are
shown ia the management of that club. Had
the New-York managers displayed similar
ibelality ID spending money for good players,
their nine would not have had to suffer the dis
grace of third place. Yet it is possible to hope
Cor better things Iext season. Several good
nlayers have already been secured for 1887.
Ncw-York is the best baseball city IN the
country. and 1t ought to have the best baseball
club.
The Administration has muddled the whole
local political situation here 80 far as the
Democratic factions are concerned Iammany
is enraged, not so much because the PRESIDENT,
through HIS Cabinet officers and his private Sec
retary, has iDterfeIed in municipal ahllrs,
but because the interference has been ali IN the
interest of Cooper and Grace-men who have
given Tamnany most OF the severe KICKS IL mas
ever received. So the chances OF union are
really less to-day than yesterday. The filends
of MIR. Cooper and the Mayor insst firmly ON
one of tse meu, despite Mr.. Grace's coy
assurances that he really docs noi want To be
candidate. II called upon TO prove his sincerity
IN wishing to retire to private Life, MIR. Grace
would probably point to the publication OF the
Rev. Dr.. Crosby's friendly letter, written on