New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1889-01-13

law: PHILADELPHIA shows how much more good
law can do II the Legislature passes the Com
mission bill, it might well pull some OF the
burrs out of this section
Yellow Jack has formed working alliance
with both Leg,time and Hyppolite against tho
United States.
"The Voice. holds up Galesburg, illinois, as
shocking example of the immortality OF Town
under High.License law, but 1t keeps discreeuy
mum about Philadelphia, where the BROOKS law
has worked such astonishing results fniin-
delphia paper has interviewed most, IL not all
of the police magistrates in that city, ana they
are unanimous in the declaration that the 1au-
ing of in their work since the Adoption Oh 'ne
High-License law has been simply extraordinary.
The average commitments in each district on Sun
day and Monday mornings has fallen from
about twenty-five or more to four or five, or even
less. In one slum district where there were
usually fifty prisoners on Sunday morning IL
often happens that the police telegraph the magis-
trate not to come, as there are none All agree III
ascribing this change to the Brooks law. Another
notable difference is the falling of Of intemperance
among women. Before this bill went into
effect" said one magistrate, would have ao
least one woman drunlzard before me every morn
ing. 1t is three weeks since / had a woman be-
fore me-"
The random suggestion of "The Birmingham
Age-Herald,o that the negroes Of the South be
removed to some Western Territory, meets with
little favor in the South. This was to be ex-
pvrted For the wnite citizens Of the South 'aro
now enjoying the increased representation in Con-
gress duo TO the presence Of the negroes, while
at the same time they prevent them from voting
This is an ideally good arrangement-for the
whites, and they vii not thank The Age-Herald'
for suggesting its termination.
Is not Young America the most precocious youth
known to the children of men? Well, certainly
most of us have been fattering ourselves that he
was man who would advertise for wise and
witty observations establishing the mental superb
GRITTY OF the American small boy to the sn.au
boy of the municipalities and powers of the Old
World would doubtless receive answers by the
busheb in no time. And yet, and yet what
does N s. Shaler say9 Writing in the January
Atlantic Monthly" he uses this language:
In European countries appears not unusual snat
boys OF sixteen exhibit very nearly Their I Powers,
capacios To be. My personal contact WIN coneso
students has been OF an Intimate natuLs. i Lave
twentyone years OF age. Among none Of these have
observed such instances of precociy as appear not
uncommon in other countries.
Johnny Doe to say to that? Win the proud
mother OF precocious Dicly Roe tell us what she
thinks of the Shaler Indictment We pity
Shaler when he comes TO read uhe resolutions
which fond American fathers in mass-meeting as
sembled will hurl at him. Our boys not precociousl
O Shaler. how could you? IL only remains for
another critic TO rise and remark that our girls
ere not pretty.
It is The Boston Transcript which remarks
| that Sullivan. in order to make match with
| Kilrain, had Toronto Canada to do it, Ana
vet-so il is understood in the Hub-less than two
veel,s ago The Transcript celebrated the advent
Of the glad new year by registering VOW nn
neat pocket diary, bound in morocco and with gilt
ON its pages edgcs that it would lead better life
Sir Morell Mackenzie has been condemned by
his own profession in England for his ndiscretion
| in publishing his controversial volume on the
! case of Emperor Frederick. The hostile vote
Of the ROYAL College OF Surgeons is a rebuke
which viii be keenly relished by his adversaries
| In Berlin II is not easy to determine whether
personal resentment or literary ambition was the
| controlling motive for that extraordinary pubhca-
ton In either event the English throat-doctor
made a fatal mistake when he undertook to
argue his own case and had recourse to recrimina-
tons
From all accounts that must have been an
agreeable teo-drnldng which the hospitable ex-
Senator Arlen and his large-hearted son The
judge gave up in the happy valley of the Mo
hawk on Friday. Tea is one OF the most reputable
Of beverages; IL sweetly cheers, but Its record
can be searched in vain for an instance in which
IL was guilty of inebriating The rumor that
notifies were found at the bottom Of the teacup
is doubtless a postelection campaign lie. The
| influence which tea exerts puts one in the frame
OF mind TO discuss art, science, literature and
| Robert Elsmere, rather than anything so prosaic
as politics.
The proposition to revise the Constitution does
not seem TO meet with favor in the neighborhood
OF tho United States Supreme Court :" The hide
penfcnt, has been making % canvass upon that
subject and three Of the Justices Bradley, Batch
| ford and Gray and George Bancroft also, condemn
| the suggestion In an almost contemptuous tone.
| The sum total 6f their views seems 10 be that
we are doing well as we are, and II Is best to
let we'll enough alone This probably represents
the average opinion, and IL may be regarded as
settled that the centennial year of the existence
| Of the Government will not bring revision
The Americans will eventually find out that they
are the most conservative people in the world
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