New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1889-01-31

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Mrs. Amele Rives Chanler has set bad
example in Offering a prize Of 500 for the best
essay on child labor. the paper not TO contain
more than $4,000 words There viii be grand
scramble OF all the best writer's Of the country,
10 whom a composition OF % 200 words is mere
morning pastime, 10 get that hundred dollars
The prize should not have been more than ten
dollars and the essays should have been limited
tu twenty folio volumes Persons of o literary
turn Of mind should not be dazzled by visions
Of sudden riches so recklessly presented.
Tho proposition 20 raise our Ministers 20 Eng
land. France, Germany and Russia TO the rank
OF Ambassadors is thoroughly sensible one,
and IL is 10 be hoped that 1t win have larger
majority In the House than in the Senate. There
Is no valid objection 10 the change, and there
IS the strong argument in It's favor that IL win
serve to give our representatives in those coun-
tries the dignity 70 which they are entitled.
No patriotic American would enjoy seeing an
American envoy uniformly passed by IN the
snte-room OF a Minister OF Foreign Affairs abroad
by the representative of some tuppenny State.
nm ply because the latter has the title Of Ambassa
DOR This big country need not swagger. but
10 should exhibit proper degree OF self-respect.
Senator LAngbein has offered bill permitting
persons who read the newspapers and are not
balf-witted TO serve on iuries 40 least this
is free translation OF the measure. The Joke
Of IL is that some such law is absolutely needed.
There win DO Prohibition campaigns in three
Eastern States this year-Pennsylvania, Massa-
chusetts and New Aampshire In the two States
first named there Is a good deal OF anxious dis
cussion as 70 how the campaign for Prohibition
shall bo conducted-whether the Third party shall
as an organization take the field for the amend
ment or simply allow itself 10 be merged in
the general movement When the Third party
State Committee met IN Boston the other day
several prominent members argued that Massa-
chusetts was not ready for Prohibition. and that
IL could not be enforced until the Third party
membership was large enough 10 convince q
majority Of the people that Prohibition is desir-
able. This would seem 20 indicate more anxiety
TO keep the Third party intact than TO test
popular faith in Prohibition.
There may be oak IN that Assembly ceiling, or
there may be papier-maohe, but IL looks at this
distance as though there was something rotten
| in &C.
This is Just dreadful. THE World has dis
covered a young lawyer, Of Utica" who Is very
frank and oLtspolen,' but who, for reasons of
| his own,' shrinls from seeing his name IN print
And this interesting young person desires to have
10 distinctly understood that II General Harrson's
choice for Secretary Of State does not command his
approval, lie is going TO let the next Adminstra-
| ton feel his dispeasure. There is State Flee
ton in New-YorlS next fall. you viii remember"
remarks this frank and outspoken but shrinking
| Young gentleman. What he proposes TO do at
| this election our young friend does not state.
But evidently he is in no mood 70 be trihed with
! Still the procession Is likely to proceed.
The Tribune Almanac contains several new
| features and appears in enlarged form. The list
of principal Offices In the executive branches OF
the Civil Service fills ten pages and is an addi-
| ton 20 the regular contents that is Of special
interest during the interval between Admins
tratons Tho first edition Of this valuable
political manual is already virtually disposed of
and preparations ore making for second edition.
| With the death Of the Austrian Grown Prince
| the succession TO the throne passes TO the En-
| perors Oldest brother whose Oldest son is Of
| about the same age as the Emperor Of Germany.
| Female descendants are debarred from the sue
| cession so long as there male heirs, and con-
sequently neither the Grown Princes infant
| daughter nor his own sisters viii be considered
as in line for the throne. The Pragmaic Sanction
| OF 1720 enabled Maria Theresa to ascend the
| throne after the death of her father, Charles vi
In default OF a male heir her succession had been
sanctioned, not only by the Austrian Empire, but
also by the principal European Governments.
| This solemn covenant was violated by Frederick
the Great and general Continental war brought
on Were it not for this historic agreement, the
! Sale law would exclude female heirs altogether
| In accordance with German customs. There are
| now as many as five male heirs to the throne-the
| Emperor's two brothers and three nephews.
The protest of $4,000 intelligent citizens Of
| Utah against its admission as a State is a sig
ni6cant and dramatic incident The only other
| Territory from which similar protest has been
received is New-Mtxico, where no movement
| toward Statehood has been heard Of for more than
| ten years, until 1t was recently stimulated by
| underground wire from the East
| The roads were in good condition in the Orange
Sullivan District on Tuesday, the weather pro-
| pltous, nevertheless the Republicans, although
| they had CARED those counties in November with
over 500 votes to spare failed to elect their