New-York tribune., 1888-04-13

Boston, which is alike the home OF the slugger
and the crank is the see-city, so to speak, of a
new philosophy or religion known as the Esoteric.
Professor Hiram Z. Butler is the prophet Of this
cult, and he claims to have ten thousand disciples
in New England. The fundamental principle Of
the system is celbacy and the Professor teaches
that all who truly practise celibacy he teaches
it will live for ever. The object for which marriage
instituted is declared to be not only sin, but
the cause Of physical death to the race OF course
it is not necessary to take this fantastic teaching
seriously; but 1t is interesting as showing what
idle and uneasy people in Boston are capable Of
evolving when they think they have a mission to
reform the world.
According to The Brooklyn Eagle the Mug
wumps " are encysted within their own disabil-
tiles That's it, is it2 We didn't know it was
quite so bad as that but we take it that The
Eagles facilities for securing accurate and ex-
elusive information on this point are unexcelled.
Even II tho treaty falls to be ratified. Mr. Cham
berlan viii have gained an important diplomatic
victory, and ne knows It, lie has succeeded in
putting on record in the most formal and author
tho Executive branch of the United States Govern
ment that there is nothing Just honorable fair
case as presented BY Minister Phelps At London but
the Commission met.-(NewYork sun.
This is plain statement of the case that
not be contraverted. The Senate can, however,
do something to retrieve the reputation Of the
country and to vindicate American interests which
the Administration has either abandoned or be-
trayed. Prompt, decisive action on the Treaty
will be warning alike to England and TO Mr..
Chamberlains American dupes The treaty should
be repudiated without regard for party lines.
In the remaining four weeks of the Legislatures
session we trust that time will be found 20 pass
Mayor Chapns Bridge Reorganization bill. This
measure has the emphatic approval Of Mayor
Hewitt, the press of both cities supports it, and
public sentiment in general demands its enactment.
Twill be q great pity if it fails to become law.
Time will not hang heavily on Governor IIillS
hands this summer. He will have all he wants
to do if he successfully meets Senator FassettS
charge that he and his agents distributed $780,
600 for the purchase of votes the night before
his election, and that q considerable portion Of
this money furnished by Contractor John
OBrien, in whose interest the Governor is alleged
to have fixed" the Aqueduct Commission. and
whom he afterward appointed Receiver Of Jacob
Shsrps Broadway road. The Senate has adopted
Mr.. Fassetts resolution for an investigation into
these charges, and we suspect the Governor will
be so much occupied In watching the investigation
that he will be too busy to run for President.
The inquiry should be thorough and impartial
along the entire line Of its projected extent.
There is much going on in this city every year,
hidden in political closets, which the people
ought TO know.
To propose for the highest Office in the land
man devoid of experience in lower offices would
be Of itself sufficiently odd" So remarks " The
Evening Post" And yet in 1884 The POST
supported man for the Presidency Of the United
States who never could have found his wav to
Washington without railroad guide and map
Of the District Of Columbia.
Some Of the advisers Of the Columbia sopOho
morcs in regard to their triumph" over Le-
gendre take this harmless diversion too seriously
1t is childish performance certainly, but little
play now and then-even the burning or burying
Of q difficult and dislil1ed textboOk-is entirely
innocuOus. The bad feature of the business at
Columbia has been that the affair has been
made the occasion of free beer racket" II
the class Of 30 succeeds in abOlishng this feature
little fault ought to be found with their frolic-
Next years sophomores will think no less and no
more Of Legendre whether it is or is not burned
or buried this year