New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1889-04-16


Niagara. As q way of committing suicide it. OF
course, has its advantages II, also, you are de-
sirous OF showing the world that you have, up TO
now, successfully avoided the foolkiller, we can
also recommend the trip though in this case there
are easier and less dangerous ways to accomplish
your object; for instance there's the Mngwump
party standing idly by mutely appealing for re-
cruits. Join it.
There is too much reason to fear that the death
Of the little Hebrew boy Tobias Hippar may have
been due to the petty prosecutions he received ct
the hands OF Christian boys There were no marks
Of violence but death due TO brain congestion,
which could be accounted for by the excitement at
tendant upon illtreatment, even though it did not
90 TO the length Of infiicting bodily injury Even
IL this be not true. the accounts Of this boyish
persecution illustrate in small way the mean
prejudice which still fingers in many minds Of
low order against the Hebrew race. II the class OF
persons who like 70 call themselves Christians
when they want to be distinguished from Hebrews
could know the extent to which Christians share
in the benefits Of Hebrew charities, for example,
they might DO ashamed Of their intolerance.
Mr. Dunning, the representative Of the Associ-
ated rress who wrote tho description Of the great
storm nc Samoa. deserves credit for brilliant
piece Of work. II is not every newspaper writer,
strange as 10 may seem, who can describe
picturesque and thrilling scene in q picturesque
and thrilling way. and yet do it with absolute
simplicity.
The legislator who goes home without doing
whatever an individual cau do 70 secure the
massage OF decent prison labor law will sacrifice
q hrst-rate claim to reelection!
A. l.nf~ naf ucf
now. IL NAV not be amiss to suggest that one
crying need Of the metropolis is the establishment
Of more station postoHees. There are now fifteen
in this city, including those at Kingsbrdge, River
dale. Woodlawn fremont Fordham and other
places in the outskirts. There ought 10 be not
less than fifty such offices It is safe TO say that
no city In the civilized world has such poor postal
facilities In some respects as New-York. On the
West Side there is no branch office between Fifty
ArSt-st and One-hundred- and fifty ghth-st-a
distance Of more than five miles. A pretence Is
made Of supplying the public with postage stamps
by appointing trndesmcn local agents for their
sale But while these appointments are greedily
sought fer for the sake Of the 81 month com
pensatlon. the enthusiasm Of the tradeSmen who
secure them Is apt 10 stop right there, and IL is
q common thing 70 be told in such shops that they
are out OF stamps
@The Boston Advertiser quotes an old furniture
repairer as asserting that at East three-quarters
Of the old furniture for which people pay rousins
prices is new. Obviously these three-quarters
ought to be purchased by those living " in that
new world which is the old
The report that Governor Hill has no intention
OF labelling his boom until he has made up his
mind what TO do with IL is probably well founded
So long rs his boom clears the deck the Governor
will be entirely satisfied with itthat Is TO say, for
the present. When he desires TO put 1t to
further use he viii do so without asking any0odys
permission.
When the bill 70 exclude railroads from the
lands owned by the State in the Adirondack lies
ervation received majority vote in the Senate 10
WAC quite n different measure from the one COM
mended by The Tribune at the time OF It's lntro-
duction. An amendment had been added limiting
the operaton Of the act 10 roads not yet chartered
and this leaves all existing companies free to build
lines into and through the North Woods whenever
il may appear profitable TO do 30. The immediate
threats Of invasion come from chartered COM
panies, so that in effect the restriction is nulhned
and unless the House insists on restoring the bill
TO the form in which IL was originally prepared
by the commission railroads will soon penetrate
the reservation, and the hardwood timber Will
follow the pine and spruce. which has already
been foated out tie streams. There
Is httlo reason 70 hope for any truce in
this war upon the forest. The friends Of the res
ervation must continue to struggle on and save
what they can from the axe and fire, and yet ex-
pect to SEQ tho forest melt away year by year as 10
has been wasted in the past. They will not cease
TO give warning Of the danger and distress to come
| from criminal violation Of natures laws They
will be able In some measure TO check the devasta-
ton but IL will never be completely arrested until
the State owns the entire tract in fee simple, and
until O universal and adequate popular apprecia-
ton OF its value insures for IL intelligent ad-
minstration The people OF the State viii be edu-
Gated at last TO such appreciation and they will
| be fortunate IL the knowledge is not gained by
I tragic experience, and too late TO be OF use.
II the President should establish his Office in
tho State Department, the White House would
lose It's alternative name Of Executive Mansion.
This might not lower tho venerable structure in
public estimation, but II would be serious loss
TO descriptive writer's.
! II is an extraordinary and hopeful sign-this
promptness of the American people in applying o
remedy when they are once convinced that the
evil exists. Stll another State IL wheeling into
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