New-York tribune., 1888-08-28

Canada and II I can I'll het ~ VIII nnlsn uie war
pretty cu'ck S'poso can make it t''
"Why- oh, I wouldn't be surprised II you
could'
I'm going 70 try II ANYHOW. Dn you Kho"
ANYTHING ahou. loading cannonr'
"Wcn, net much"
al have an idea that tho powder goes In first
and then the bullet. but may he wrong. guess
nerbars il W uldn't make much difference for the
first few times til could catch on have lot
of petitions here from widows AMI orphans asking
that sign pension bills for them, and think they
will make frst-mto stuff to wad cannon with
ri try them anyhow Get up there with the
umbrella Lamont till | drill you a htle'
A-b.ut-face Fold d-arms At-ten-shun Load
cunl Shoot-gunl Stand -gun-in-cornerl
Sit-down'
The blue-ribbou idiot has been found. and
Brooklyn has the proud honor of possessing him.
A favorte plan for raising money for charitable
pur;ost.s lust now Is rs follows sends letter
TO two persons, requesting each to return 1t 10
A with say ten cents inclosed, making at the
same time two copies each for other persons,
each OF whom sends back the letter received aud
sends out two more copies and so on. ANY one
of n mathematical fancy will be interested to
see what sum OF mcney-a six cent contribution,
say-carried out twenty removes in this way,
will produce. Well. the Brooklyn young man
received such letter His eagle-eye at once de-
tected confidence game. lie sent the note to the
police, commenting on the ingenuity and seductive
simplicity of the plan. And now he wishes they
had Alps back Of Brooklyn where he could climb
up and be alone with his thoughts.
Mayor Hewitt says he would rather be Governor
or Mayor than go to jail Ard yet they call
him an eccentric man.
Senator Morgan's reply to his Republican col
leagues in the Retaliation debate was very fee
Bile but he WAS to be piled rather than rdiculed
For weeks he bad been warning the Senate that
lie rejection Of the treaty and recourse 10 re-
faation would inevitably lead 70 war His
eighteenth speech on Secretary Bayard's behalf
closed with an mpassioned declaration that If
bloodshed and cannonading should follow th' fail
ure Of negotiations, he and his felOw-br'gadiers
OF the Confederate cause would be found IN their
places their good swords In their hands, lighting
the battle Of the Union against foreign invasion
II retaliation in his judgment carries With 1t the
horrors of war. which he has been pOrtayin ing n
tho Senate what must have been bis diomay at
finding the leader OF his party beating the drums
and taphorically smelling the blood OF an
Engishman ?" 1t is not strange that he needed
time in order TO ca ch his breath and to accuston
himself TO new conditions. In few days. we
dare say, he will be rs bloodthirsty Rctalia-
tionst7 as Senator German or Senator Beck
Eightv-four days since Mr. Cleveland was NOM
/ mated and still no letter Of acceptance
Fox that had been spending the Afternoon
| iumpine after choice cluster OF Grapes which he
Was unable to Reach returned home in the even
ing feeling much Detected And when his Com
g.,s~
tion touching Grapes. he proceeded to read them
Message giving his views in relation to the Fish
cry question. Moral; Any person who desires to
know the moral of this fable would do well to
address postal card to Mr.. 6. Cleveland. Wash
ington, d. c.
Our friends the enemy refer to the Presidents
| Message on retaliation as a strategic movement,
remarkable for bodncss of design and brill
! fancy of execution 1ney are confdtnt thnt lie
has ou,iinked the Republican Senators and capt
urcd the great army OF Irish voters. They
talked in the same admirng strain eight months
ago when his free-trade message was sent to Con-
grcss How fervidly they eulogzed him then
us a master politician and leader u leaders,
But as time went on and revolt against free-trade
spread ia the Democratic ranks they had less and
less TO say about The Meagc as wonderful poilti-
cal stroke They reluctantly began TO admit
that it might possibly have been better politics
/ If the President mad not written a message thot
! would alarm bus nes, interests anC concentrate
/ the forces OF protection. In the same way they
may find out before long that the President in
! attempting q Eanh movement against The RpubIi-
can Senators, has exposed his own Administration
TO q deadly lire OF criticism Public attention
has now been called directly 70 his foreign pol
ICY and Republicans Will have the field to them
selves during the remainder Of the campaign The
diplomacy Of the Administration has largely es-
capped public criticism. owing 10 tito difficulty
Of interesting people in such questions Now It
will I've discussed before a wide-awake audience.
IS it has beer as un-American as his free-trade
manifesto and his tariff policy, it will be exposed
TO equally destructive criticism.
The convention that meets In Saratoga to-day
will command the respect OF every conscientious
voter in the State, because it will have decided
opinions and plenty of courage. That is
mixture everybody likes
The new steamship City OF Birmingham
| which was launched few months ago AZ the Roach
shpyards at Chester Penn, sailed on Thursday
| last from Savannah. Ga, with a cargo OF g. 90
tons Of pig iron for Philadelphia. This Is carry
| ing Goals to Newcastle with vengeance. II is
a notable demonstration of the development OF the
natural res Iurces of the South which las already
taken place and which will be in the immediate
future carried to still more impressive bounds II
the industrial system Of America he not betrayed
II is a development that never would even hnve
been thought OF under the old Bourbon regime.
hut which under the system OF free trade at home
and protection against alien competition is such
a natural result as scarcely to excite attention.
The dsfranchscmcnt OF an eX-member OF the
Virginia Legislature for having sent a challenge
is good sign. As Northerner and a Republican
he should have done credit to his bringing
up The stigma used to rest upon the man who
refused TO fight a duel II II be put now upon
the man who wnntS to fight a duel-and especially,