New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1888-01-14
who is trying to secure immunity for the pool
rooms In the vicinity Of Fulton-st. and Park Row.


Don't be silly. The advice is affectionately
rendered to those OF our neighbors VINO nave no
interest-as the stupid "Times' has-in lying
about the recent meeting here OF committee
of agricultural and tariff experts to consider sew
oral thousand letters from oranges and Individual
farmers, concerning the tariff as 1t arects tnem'
and to formulate what these letters seemed TO snow
that the farmers wanted. This committee had
pleasant and rs we think profitable meeting.
There was no effort to get congress- OF farmers,
and nobody but the stupid =" Times a1oresaio
thought of calling 1t a congress. There was an
effort TO get nine uen of recognized authority in
their respective specalties and eight came Tho
committee did good work. and before IL gets
through the newspaper free traders who th,hK free
lies the best trade they can pursue Will near moro
of that work than they wish.
"The World" excuses the aid 1t gives 10 tho
daily swindles and cruelties on the midwinter
New-Jersey race-tracks on the ground tna'
thousands of people are interested in the results
of lottery-drawngs Why does 1t not publish
thesep It accuses THE TRIBUNE OF printing tho
results Of prize-ights THE TRIBUNE never docs
this unless the fight is of Nationa. prominence
a crime Of uncommon magnitude. newspapers
must publish accounts of great murders, great
not obliged to print long descriptions OF the daily
thefts Of every petty pickpocket.
The people who are not opposed 10 giving away
the citys land are those who expect to profit by IT,
One of the most sensible recommendations OF
the State Railroad Commissioners is the proposal
that O law be enacted preventing railroads here
after constructed from crossing highways at grade
H. - Aoc yhnrQ m
m :ssion appointed by the Supreme Court shall
decide that this is q necessity for public safety
Such a law should certainly be passed, and not in
this State only The accidents at grade crossings,
many Of them fatal. are fearful in number Con-
necticut is taking steps to abolish them and all
the States ought to do the same.
Governor Hill thinks that friendship should
give way to the exigencies Of politics." That is
his opinion in the abstract. When 1t comes to the
concrete-supposing himself to be the concrete
we do not remember that he is in the habit of
giving way. Perhaps he means to reform.
There's plenty Of room for that.
Mayor Hewitt declares himself dissatisfied with
the Commissioners of Accounts The sooner he re-
moves them the better They never have been OF
the slightest use to the city. MIR. Grace en-
plOyed them when he was Mayor as tools In carry
ing out his political schemes, and they did his bid
ding with that servility which he always eXacted
of his dependents. 1t is through them that he
conducted his raid on Commissioner Squire. They
lbelled the Fifth-ave pavement contractor shame
fully causing the city an immense amount OF money
and nearly resulting in "a suit for damages that
only the wisdom Of Corporation Counsel Lacombe
averted Mayor Hewitt will do the city SUBJ
stantial service by turning them out.'
It is said that a German in Pittsfield, Mass has
discovered how to make copper from iron ORE
After this President who loves his country more
than office can easily be manufactured from one
who wants his own dear native land opened TO
cheap labor and other forms of foreign compe-
titiOn.
Brooklyn is now convinced that what it needs
if it is ever to have an honest and buslesslike
reform government is not the ofici0us services or
Mugwump marplots in Citizens League or the
presence of a superior person in the Mayors once
who is altogether better than his party, but simply
and solely a few more Republican votes on election
day Colonel Baird was nObOdy's man. lie stood
for Brooklyn. The present Mayor Of Brooklyn
is Boss McIaughlin's hired boy.
Mayor ChaDin considered municipal reform
good enough Morgan till after the election.
The Legislature of Mississippi, sitting in the
same town in which but few years ago the
colorcd vote was fOrcibly and Infamous
ly suppressed at municipal election
adopted two notable resolutions in the
same session. The first was an
extravagant and bombastic eulOgy of MIR. Lamar
The second was an invitation to jeff Davis to
come to Jackson and address the Legislature. The
first was intended to affect the action OF the Sen
ators on the vote to confirm MIR. Lamar. we
trust that the second will not be less useful IN
that respect The two resolutions should be sent
TO the Senate together.