New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1888-08-17

streets lnlS is certainty ScrlOuS cohui'oh WI
things, and since It has attracted the attention OF
people in The Old World there can be little doubt
now that Boston will endcavor to make better
| and a cleaner record
a Painstaling President is headline in
The Evening POST DEM How much pains
did the President take in regard to the River and
IIarbor bill? lie was afraid to veto il, and he
didn't dare sign it, Is this the sublimlty OF
hcroism which he has attained to? Alas for the
noblcst type Of Amcricanism since Lincoln was
snatchcd from us
This Is we'll known TO be campaign OF msreP-
rescnatOn and false prctcncc on the part OF hepuD
organs and Neutrality-suspicious. Times tDem)
Amazing and impudcnt as most people Will
think it, The Times is the paper that declares
the Republican campaign one Of msrcpresenta-
ton and false prctence' Had it said of murder and
arson its charge would not have been less untrue,
but it certainly would have been less brazen. 10
| find the organ Of party which, as the organ OF
faction, deserted and went over to the enemy Just
before the battle on the shallow prctext that 1t
did not like the commanding officer Of the host
in which it had enlisted, and which now confesses,
with sneers AZ the crcduliiy OF those who be-
licved its prctext honest, and with chucklcs Of
pride at its own cunning, that tho reason it gave
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son was because it wanted to aid the cnemys
cause-to that organ accusing the Republicans
of Misrepresentation and false prctence,r is to
see an exhibition of assured mpudence absolutely
unique.
Is this perncious political activity" ? Or has
! the Presidents order against Federal officials
taking active part in politics passed into IN
nocuous desuetude" John II. Sullivan. Collector
IN M 4
| TO order meeting for central organization Of the
! Business Mems Cleveland and Thurman clubs, at
the Stevens House on Wednesday. and was elected
! temporary chairman afterward.
All right. Mr. Blaine. Let II be understood that you
add TO your general system Of Protection the protection
| Of trsts.-(New York World.
! You are misreprescnting Mr.. Blaine. and that is
contrary to what you have described as the in
tercss of precise and exact truth" Mr.. BlalneS
point was that trade England to-day is plaS
tered all over with trusts" and. consequently that
similar combinltICEs IN the United Stltes cannot
Justly be attributed TO the Protective policy. The
President and his free-trade associates have been
denOuncing trusts as the outgrOwth and incident
Of what they term an iniluit)us tariff systein.'
Mr. Blanes reply is that English experience proves
that trusts flourish under free trade. lie has not
defended trusts, although, like Senator Sherman
he rcrccves the difficulty Of legislating against
them at Washington.
The suggestion made by various tmorous Demo
Gratis that the President will probably turn ont a
Protcctionist in his letter of acceptance is not
| judicious one. lie cannot run as a Civil Service
reformer. and if he be barred out as Free Trader
what will be left OF him? VIII he keep the field
as the Tattoocd Man?
One Of the Civil Service Commissioners is
quoted by " The Times saying of the Pres
dents Civil Service message that a certain SEN
tence in it is "a warning" This really looks
serious In the sentence referred to Mr.. Cleveland
says that those in charge Of the executive branches
of the Government often annoyed and irritat-
ed by the disloyay to the service and the insoence
of employees who remain in place the benef-
Charles and the relics and reminders OF the vicious
system of appointment which Civil Service No.
form was intended ~ displace And this, one
of the Commissioners says, is intended as
warning that these officials. matter how dill
gent and faithful. are to be bounced
stronger proof of the Presidents sincerity as
Civil Service Reformer could not be asked
The British Government having built rs railway
across tho North American dOminl0ns IS now pressing
forward policy for direct trade with Asia and
Occanca Subsidies high as 100000 and T223OoO
annually are paid 10 steamship lines connecting
Iritish America with Japan Hong Kong and Australia.
The fact that the English carrying fregh,s over their
own roads their rates has led TO much comment
I'm American circles. We hear about British " sub
idzed7 lines robbng the United states of her trade
Legislation under this damnabc protection mania which
now RACES is invoked to project our roads-(Ncw-
York Herald.
In it's white heat over this damnabe Protec-
ton mania our free-tradc ncIEhbor overoolis the
fact that for years it has been arguing against
Government aid to steamship lines 1t has con-
tended again and again that there could be no re-
vi,al of the commercial marine under a high
tariff and that free trade the only thing
needed for the restoration Of the American flag TO
the high seas. Yet here is the evidence from its
own columns that frcc-rade England, in extend
ing its commerce. finds it necessary to make a
lavish use OF mail subsidies. If mail subsidies are
the sum Of all nquity under Protection. what arc
they under free trade?
The disadvantage OF committing the city's in
tercSts to the care of such statesmen as the
Hon. Pat Diver was shown the other
day when Pat went picnic and an
important piece Of busincss-thc issue OF $1,000,
600 Of dock bonds-bad to be postponed. But,
OF course trinc of this kind ought not to
stand in the way Of Pats personal enjoyment
III indeed would the. metropolis fare if the chair
man Of the Finance Committee Of its Board of
Aldermen could not 60 OIL on a little excursion
whenever and wherever he pleased Let Diver have
good time by all means. and let the citys affairs
go TO the dogs if they cannot await his return.
The public concerns may wither. but the Diver
shall be more and more.
PERSONAL