New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1888-01-05

WE r. iGES.
That feeling Of indifference to the Judgments
of Europe which Mr.. Lowell once so adequately
expressed. has been strengthened by experience.
Americanism scornfully rejects the idea that
it must 90 to England for its political economy,
when protection has been practically tested
hero with unparalleled achievements in debt
paving and material prosperity. 1t Is kceniy
sensitive to infractions of treaty rights, to OUT
RACES in any quarter of the world upon the
rights of citizens, and to insults to the nag
that floats over Nation Of sixty millions. IL
takes conscious pride in the essential originality
of the work it is doing for the world in opening
here an asylum, school, workshop and
prosperous homo Tor the oppressed ana I'D
poverished Of Europe. It glories in the lnous-
trial independence won by wise economic iegiS-
lation-an independence as complete as inc
political liberty won from England century
ago. IL has an abiding faith in the destiny OF
the Nation as ono of the chief forces ordained
by Providence for spreading light and peace
in the world. This is Americanism OF the
highest type. Mr.. Lowell no longer represents
il he has no faith in it and has almost ceased
to understand it, Mr.. Cleveland stands well
with London society. That suilices. Mr.
Lowell promotes him to Lincoln's vacant place.
These are the days when the Speaker OF the
Assembly goes of by himself and sits up nights
with corrugated brow endeavoring to figure out
how he can assign the forty-one chairmanshps OF
the standing committees so that not man OF the
one hundred and twenty-seven members on the
floor shall get left. One hundred and twenty
seven goes into forty-one how many times, MI
Cole? Ah-we had forgotten. it is not customary
to give members Of the minority chairmanshlps.
Well that helps some, but there arc seventy-one
Republicans in the present Assembly not counting
the Speaker And although seventy-one goes into
forty-one oftener that is to say. further than one
hundred and twenty-seven does. 1t does not go lar
enough to relieve Mr.. Cole Of embarrassment.
District-Attorney Fellows remarks in his off,
hand way that he will make things unpleasant
and unhealthful for the criminally disposed In
this town. 1t would be interesting to know
whether he believes that Jacob Sharp and the
other "boodlers' were really crminally dis
posed
The two appointments first made by Brook
lyn's new Mayor are to be commended. CITY
Low, and was the only Republican put or kept in
office at the head of department by Mayor Whit
ney His capacity and fidelity are unquestloned,
and Mayor Chaplin has done public service by
reapponting Mr.. WheelOck. No fault will be
found by reasonable people with the retention OF
Corporation Counsel jerks. MIR. jerks proved
himself an extremely valuable man to Mayor
Whitney in variety of ways, and there Is no
evidence that he has not cared properly for the
city's interests. Still this will be looked upon
as Mr. Chapn's reward for services rendered. MIR.
jerks nominated Mr. Chaplin for the office of
Mayor.
Governor Hill anew commended himself to the
regard of the rum power on whom his hopes OF
political preferment depend, by avoiding any allu-
sion to temperance legislation in his message to
the Legislature. lie is that sort of reform
Governor
The death of Father Mackonochie. the
famous English Rituaist was Familiarity known,
has been announced by cable. but the melancholy
circumstances in which it occurred have been i'm
perfectly related. lie was in Scotland and had
started for twenty-mile walk at Loeb Leven, but
never returned. binding snowstorm came on.
lie lost his way and after wandering helplessly
in the mountains sank in hollow and perished
from cold. lie had two dogs with him. a deer
hound and terrier and they were found by the
scarchcrs days afterward. watching over the body.
Mr.. MaclIonochie, with all his eccentricities of
churchmanship was a most amiable man. and one
of the most indefatigable workers among the Lon
don poor.
Cheap wool-that article Mr.. Cleveland is try
ing to pull over the eyes of American citizens
while he talks tariff reform
NJ 4 +l,.D 1i,nn
do not believe that there is a man at this table
who for the last twenty years has been able to
embody his honest opinion. or even a fraction Of
it, in his vote Open confession may be good
for the soul. but it is sometimes bad for public
mans record. Twenty years would have taken
Mr. Lowell back to 1868. when the Democratic
party which at the crisis of the Unions fortunes
had pronounced the waTa failure was vainly en-
deavoring to elect IIorato Seymour President
through monstrouS frauds in NewYork. In that
election not even fraction of Mr. Lowell's honest
opinion went with his vote for General Grant;
and as time went on, he was guilty Of CONSCIENCE
less voting every time he went to the polls. Never
theless he did not hesitate to accept in 1876 the
position Of Presidential Elector in Massachusetts.
and after he had resisted Mr.. Godkins insidious
appeal to betray his party and give the election to
Mr. Tilden he successfully availed himself Of two
important diplomatic appointments in Spain and
England with which he was favored by a Re-
publican Administration. Yet he wishes us to be-
leve that while he has accepted every office that
has been rendered to him. he has never been able
to embody an honest opnion-not even fraction
Of one-in voting as Republican for twenty years
If District-Attorney Fellows redeems all the good
promises he has been making of late regarding
the management of his office, he ought to have
large stock of golden opinions by the end Of the
year.
The Blaine interview on the Presidents mes
sage has been reprinted in fly leaf by The TRIB-
uNE tn0ether with those nartS of the message To