New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1888-09-07

of an early return. when the stock company bear
ing his name dissolved In this double capacity
Mr. Wallack sustained a unique relation TO ms
audiences and the bond which existed between
them was one of mutual and ahectionate regard
IL is o striking-the temptation is strong 10 say
Observation-Disclosures that his death should fol
low so soon upon the dissolution of his company,
and within few weeks OF the time when the
name ~ Wallack was 10 disappear from the active
movement OF theatrical life in this city. Not
many persons perhaps know how exceptional a
career Wallack's Theatre enjoyed under father
and SON. There was no other theatre IN TINS
country no theatre in England. and there were
only two in France. If we arc not mistaken. that
had seen thirty five years continuous existence OF
one company, under practically ono management.
II is in n sense fortunate that Mr. Wallacks life
should have ended when the memory OF his long
and honorable career Is still fresh in the pubic
mind. and when there are so many to bear teStl-
mony to his generous and amable character
Tho Republican National Committee ought TO
hire General Clinton B. Fisk TO speak every night
from now until election. General Fislls speeches
seem to have had powerful deterrent influence
on the Prohibitjonists Of Vermont.
Mr. Thurman s an old man and an amable
man, and even his opponents arc glad he should
have all the personal satisfaction he can derive
from the admiration Of his party friends in New
York But Republicans would look upon this
demonstration more kindly If they did not re-
member that Mr.. Humans sympathes were non
so warmly with his country, in her hour OF great
trial. as they should have been, and that during
the initiation period he deliberately surrendered the
convictions of lifetime to win little cheap
popularity.
There is a clause in the Mills bill which seems
TO have escaped attention 1t is the one repeating
the duty on publications of foreign writer's
imported into the United States for gratuitous
distribution The present duty is % per cent
Under the Mills BILL they would come in free.
Foreign societies, or their admirers here, can
circulate their publications in the United States
now free of duty, if they desire, by having them
printed here, but that would compel them to
employ our high-priced American labor and ma
terials, and pay ont their money here, which
they could not think Of of course. There is
only one society abroad, however, which has
such strong desire to civilize the United States
by circulating a large quantity of its publications
here as to make the repeal of the duty an object
to its members. That is the Golden Club, to
which Speaker Carlisle and other eminent Demo-
few years ago that society actually did circulate
over 900, 900 copies Of OF its free-trade pub
locations in this country, the most of them being
distributed among the farmers Of the West; and
as these pamphlets bore London imprint and
were presumably printed there. they doubtless
paid 25 per cent duty, serious tax on such
high-minded, benevolent, and purely disinterested
society Evidently, If the Mills bill should be-
come law, containing that clause, the Golden
Club would be able to carry on its next grand
campaign In the United States at greatly reduced
expense
Ninety-four days since Mr.. Cleveland
nominated. and no letter of acceptance yet. We
are expecting treat when II does come. Con-
sdering the time IL has taken to get it ready. it
ought to combine the eoquence of the Declaration
of Independence with the wisdom of Washingtons
Farewell Address
The demand for fine old English castles would
appear not to be very brisk just at present.
Devices Castle Wiltshire. was sold at auction
few weeks ago; and although the eloquent gentle
man who bid it off assured those attending the
sale that it was absolutely unique although
he asserted that nothing having any comparison
with It has ever been sold in my time or in that
OF any present" although he declared that he
had no doubt that d" the State would one day de-
mand to be the purchaser Of such property, rich
as it was in historical associations and although
he casually remarked that 100000 would be a
good bid to start with. nevertheless the man that
offered fs, 900 got the castle II is not stated
that the auctionecr returned from the sale heart
broken man, but he probably did.
we do not remarks The New-York Tines
Dem, at this stage Of the canvass venture the
prediction that the Democrats can carry Massa-
chuscttS7 1t it also understood in political cir
cles that The Times gives up Vermont.
Referring to the assertion that in the event
Of Governor Hills denomination thousands of
Democrats will bolt the Democratic ticket " The
New-York World is moved to inquire, Would
it ltbe bolt not he promptly checked by a letter
from Mayor Hewitt and President Cleveland on
the Importance of supporting the regular Dem
ocratic nominees ?' or course what gives point
to this question the letters which the Mayor
and the President wrote in behalf of Mr. Fellows
when he was running for Mayor. But how could
The World be so regardless Of the feelings of
its party brethren as to revive so unpleasant a
subject at such time for such purpose?
Every day that Mr.. Cleveland postpones the
publication of his letter of acceptance deepenS
and renders more widespread the conviction that
he is endeavoring to turn the document into
fence upon which he sit straddng.
Secretary Villas let loose his vocabulary at
Milwaukee the other night, with astonishing re-
suits Here is one sentence, sccthing hot from the
powerful brain of the Secretary of the Interior:
" Then il was that the monstrouS vampire hidden
in the tariff which famed seductivcly with the
wings of protection the labor whose hearts blood
it sucks. was begotten in sin, TO rob the tong
producers in the fields and forests OF the wealth
they created" Mr. Vias's oratory is strong and
mcllifuous. and his flow of language is beautiful
in the extreme. resembling very much that of the
late Daniel Pratt.
Here is another fact for the consideration of
those who nnnnse the IIirh- .icensn rnlinr WIn,