New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1889-01-06

IL is mNCh TO Do T6GISbUtu tudV nv piVoPSSS
of contest for the Americas Cup is in sight
OF course, if English yachtsmen have concluded
that the cutter is an inferior vessel and cannot
beat the centre-board sloOp further tests are
useless. But they have not said so. On the
contrary, the successive defeats they have sus-
tanned have been explained away by every sort
of theory except by this admission, and so long
"A they dispute they should be willing to race
The tendency in yachting architecture now
toward small vessels is to be commended Ureat
boats like the Puritan, Priscilla, Mayfower,
+ Atlantic and Volunteer are very costly and OF
little use as pleasure craft.
The State Board of Health has made care
ful and critical examination Of the Croton
Basin, and is supplied with charts showing
every source from which the water supply OF
Eew-York City could be contaminated. Inns
Is information that should be in the possession
of the municipal Board of Health. No duty Is
more incumbent upon that body than the duty
of preserving the supply pure, and OF taking
those precautions which will prevent impurities
from getting into the reservoirs. DE-. Bach'
the secretary of the State Board, says he sup
poses his Board will be called upon for an
opinion as to the healthfulness OF storing such a
great amount of water as the scheme OF inc
Quaker Bridge Dam involves. II 1t is not
called upon, it should volunteer what lnforma-
ton il has. The people want all the light they
can get on this subject.
The situation in France impresses CORE
spondent who writes us from Pans. most dis-
agreeably. Prophecies Of Socialist rots and Oh
the failure of the exposition on account OF the
general fear throughout Europe that the per-
sons and property of exhibitors will be IN
Ieopardy are dolefully made and still more dole
fully commented upon. Whatever Importance
NAV attach to the facts that no reign or regime
since the accession Of the unhappy Louis XVI
has endured more than eighteen years, and
that the Third Republic has come to the last
hours of1its maturity az measured upon this
sinister scale, it is at all events painfully evil
dent that President CarnOt and his advisers
arc surrounded with difficulties that demand OF
them their highest ability and most unselfish
patriotism. The French people are their own
worst enemies Freedom can never be DIS
ISOLATED from self-control.
Our London correspondents description OF
the scene in the House of Commons when Lord
Randolph Churchill made his last notable at
tack upon the Government OF which he was,
next to the Marquis of Salisbury, the most con-
spicuous member, will be found exceedingly
entertaining. To the American people with
their notions Of destiny, the Tory party, even
before Mr.. Disraelis death. presented little that
was hopeful. 1t has seemed to stand in the
way of the great tendency Of the age. A party
NAV have within it distinguished ability. it may
be entirely capable Of administering Govern
ment, but If it goes at its work in spirit that
is hostile TO democracy, to the masterful in
Huence of the common people, it has its back
where it's face ought 10 be. and its motion il
retrogressive not forward. The rise of LORD
Randolph within the Tory party has been
especially interesting TO the American people
sinee II indicated the growth Of that sentiment