New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1888-07-15

Randall has pronounced sink OF injustice
Public opinion and common deccncy have been
deflcd now for years by the retention Of the At
torney General, and the scandal seems likely TO
be maintained to the end of the chapter. MIR.
Cleveland is commended in some quarters for his
courage His courage in this matter is simply
a logged determination not to acknowledge
mistake II may be courage, but it is courage
Of very low type
1.-THE. London Times reluctantly agrees TO
accept the proposed Parnel tribunal. VIII 1t
reveal the names of the people who have sup
piled il with the forged lcttersP IL refused TO
do this in open court VIII it now consent TO
explain in detail the sources Of its information,
when the hearing occurs before the commission
of judges? We do not believe that 1t VIII DO
this: and unless il makes a clean breast Oh the
whole business, the investigation Will amount 10
nothing. Mr.. Parnell has right to have the
real witnesses produced for cross-examnation;
and these are the men who have made money OUT
Of The London Times" by imposing upon its
credulity.
"The Boston Globe DEM is authority for the
statement that Colonel Lamont will occupy MS
present position for another term. We may add
that General Harrison will not make any other APP
pointments until after noon Of the 4th of next
March His decision TO retain the Colonel is q
tribute to the efficiency of that official, of which he
and his friends may well be proud.
Since Legislative inquiry, aided by the news
papers, gave the public so much information
about the sugar trust, the whiskey trust and
other kinds of trusts, the Democrats of this city
have taken more kindly to the utterancc OF
President Cleveland that "publc Office is pub
liz trustn Now they can understand why the
President could express such high sounding
sentiment and still hang on to Garland. The
sentiment is being used as the motto of the
Democracy, and it is blazoned in big letters
across the front of Tammany Hall But in the
fountain heads of Democratic power, the bar
rooms, the local bosses explain with expressive
winls that public office is Democratic trust,
and don't you forget it'
It is stated that firm down East Is making
600 dozen bandanna handkerchiefs every day.
It looks as if the Democracy of our beloved country
hal very bad cold in It's head
Queen Natalie is Russian, and has been sus-
pected. with good reason, of conspring on many
occasions with Servian leaders who were opposed to
Austrian supremacy. The King became convinced
year ago that she was plotting to secure his
Regent He took advantage of one of her Journeys
To Russia to procure her Punishment from Serva by
legal decree and instructed the police to arrest
her if she should attempt to cross the frontier
This was the elimination of a royal scandal caused
in the first instance by Jealousy and aggravated
by political and diplomatic influences, the queen
being Russian partisan and the King Austrian IN
his sympathies While divorce proceedings have
been i'm proor.s SIS the King has made extraordinary
efforts to regain possession of the Crown Prince,
who was with his mother. With The I'D OF the
German Government ne has succeeded IN his de-
signs the boy having been Sdnao2ei by the pence
at Wiesbaden and the Queen ordered to leave Ger
many within twenty-four hours. IL IS diihgcit 10
exnlain Prince Bsmarcks arbitrary interference In
this domestic drama. Austria may have desired
Germany TO take the Servian Kings part, but
Russia will be displeased. Queen Natalie may
have been an ambitious and restless lntrlguef aO
her husbands court and the Crown Prince un-
doubtedly should be in his fathers capital, put
Russian diplomacy has been behind mother anu
son. and the arbitrary proceedings at Wlespadeh
NAV be resented at St. Petersburg.
The Solid South protects in the Mills bill every
ono of its own productive interests, and exposes
Northern industries to runous competition with
underpaid European manufactures. No tariff bill
more markedly sectional in its character was ever
discussed in Congress.
Kitten that had been Commanded by its
watchful Maltese parents to keep away from the
Ocean returned home one Day saturated with
Salt water " low dare you Disobcy me % eX-
claimed its father trembling with Anger.
Father" replied the Kitten, have not dis
obeyed you, have not been in the Ocean but
in the Sea-
Moral: This fable teaches that when this
Kitten grows up it is likely to Clam-in case it
goes into Politics on the Democratic side-that
it is not Free trader but merely a Revenue-re-
former.
The question of providing Brooklyn with an ade-
quate water supply is again raised by Mayor
Chapin's call for special meeting of the Aldermen
to consider this subject The Mayor and the
Commissioner of City Works are con-
WINGED that the city's need is pressing, but
the Aldermen apparently view the matter with en-
tire Indifference. As a matter of fact, the work
ought to have been begun two years or more ago,
as it would have been but fer senseless dispute
as to who had the right to take the initiative IL
looks as though the courts would have to be APP
pealed to before the Aldermen can be made to do
their plain duty Meanwhile the city must face
the possibility of a water famine, the results of
which cannot but be deplOrabe in the highest de
gree An attempt was made in the Legislature to
reorganize the Common Council and give to each
ward representative, but it came to naught.
Brooklyn has never been afflicted with a set of
officers more Indifferent to the interests of the pub
lie than the present Aldermen, nearly all of whom
are Democrats. The best of Mayors and heads of
departments would be powerlcss under the cir
cumstances.
PERSONAL.
Governor Amcs, OF Massachusetts,, is convalescent.
Emperor william II. Is the first Russian speaking
King Of Prussia Prince Bismarck speaks Russian
huently.