New-York tribune., 1886-05-08

| criminal with his own Weapons.
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| Now that Commissioner Squire has outwitted
| Mayor Grace agaln-or thinks he has-wouldnt it
be a proper thing for the head of the Public Works
| Department to give expression to his feelings in
poetic form and nail his production on the City
| Hall as Luther nailed his theses to the church
door
| 1t is late in the day for Delegate Caine to deny
Mormon completely the Mountain Meadow
| massacre. That the hIdeous crime referred
to was perpetrated by tue Mormons has been
| demonstrated so clearly and completely as
to repder Mr.. Gaines assertion the sub
iect simply ridiculous The pretence that the
massacre was the work of Indians was disposed
of twenty years ago. 1t was unq 1estonably Nor
mon crime and the "Dantes" " arranged and car
red it ont. We well understand that Dele
gate Gaines sensibities are wounded by reference
TO the atrocous deed, but he ought not to have
forgotten that Porter Rockwell and many others
have talked freely about the massacre, and more
over the crimes committed by the Danitcs at and
about the period of the Mountain Meadow infamy
are too well known all through the West for such
general denial to have the least effect.
If workmen paid by the hour their capacity
would be subjected to a fair test.
Anyway there is no other department of the city
government in which so little embarrassment
woud be caused by double set of commissioners
as the Excise Board. We really think the people
could survive and be happy if no licenses were
granted during the thirty days o: so that it Will
take the courts to stralghten this muddle out.
In a recent editorial article the foolish, short
sighted policy of the Democrats in Congress The
TRIBUNE alluded to the Senate Committees report
favoring Captain James B. Eadss ship-railway
project In letter just received Captain Eads
cites the reported bill TO show that the $7,5O0000
granted is not for construction but be paid. if at
ALL in instaiments after the ship-raiway has been
in successful operation al least a year; that the
United States has a share the control Of the
terpr1se that the security Is sufficient, and that
change in the Democratic membership of the COM
mittee did not affect the report the minority num-
bering only three votes out of thirteen members.
Tho progress of Southern manufactures of
which The Baltimore Recoyd again presents inter-
es:ng details. is indeed most encouraging symp-
tom. 1t is worth while to observe that one great
cause of this RAPID development of manufactures 1t
the South is the comparative steadiness of labor il
that section and the infrequency of strikes and |
wranges Labor at the South is not efficient |
1t is true and therefore paid less than labor at
efficiency of labor is balanced by the difference in
wages But the difference in steadness aud in free
dom from interruption is an enormous advantage
to Southern industry. This year the strikes of
bituminous coal miners and coke workers have
greatly interrupted the trade of Pennsylvania,
while Virginia and West Virginia have been
steadily at work, building many coke ovens
and graspiDg a larger share of the trade. And now
the producers of coke in Pennsylvania raise the
price again in order to compensate fer the losses
incurred in long struggle with the workers about
wages. Meanwhile in West Virginia the old rates
are alntaned, and the work goes on with the
building Of many new ovens.
Henry Bergh says that he has seen donkeys and
mules that wond represent thu city better than tho
Aldermen who are about to go to prison. 1t must
be admitted, even by those who have not such q
lively sympathy with dumb animals as the apostle
Of the Society for the Prevention, etc., that Sharp
Keenan,, Moloney ct al. would find 1t pretty diff
cult matter to approach real donkeys and mules
with $4,000 brbes.
II is greatly to the credit of the new citizens
movement" that Charles p. Miller was not at
Thursday nights meeting and is not a member of
he committee appointed If the men who are en-
gineerlng the " movement" really wish to accom-
,lish something they should take extreme measures
% keep Miller IN the background. II nothing else
will do it, they might resort to Millers favorite
levice, an injunction.