New-York tribune., 1890-01-01
UELCONE TO 1899.

The new year is heartily welcome. karefy
does a year begin with faircr promise OF
beneiicence in all that concerns the National
well-being, and even if foreign monetary
disorder should invade our land and for time
make things inconvenient, as a Russian cpl
demic does. the vigorous health and sturdy
life of the Nation, Americans may with reason
hope, would speedily enable them to overcome
the evil influence.
New Year wishes for other peoples may not
include self government for all, because to
some that might prove a most questionable
boon. But New Year wishes for the peoplo
of the United States do of necessity include
more self f-government, because their fitness for
free institutions has been manifested. and yet
their enjoyment of constitutional rights is still
in some States or cities virtually denied. For
indeed it is, to all practical intents and pur-
poses, denial of suffrage to every honest cit
izen when majortics are manufactured with
out regard to votes cast, by those who are dis
honest. Reforms never go backward and the
promise of the new year is in no other respect
brighter than in the assurance that ballot re-
form will he secured in many of the States, and
some provision made that in National elections
there shall be free vote and fair count.
The New Year wishes for the rulers of our
country include the happiness which comes from
the consciousness of duty well done. Nor can
that ioyful consciousness be attained by mem
bers of Congress, who were chosen and pub
licly promised to perform certain duties unless
they repair the defects in the tariff which hos
tile interpretations have produced, or which
six years and a half of experience have brought
TO light The handSOmeSt New Iear gift Con-
gressmen can give their constituents is re-
vised tariff, which will restore the prosperity
and rapid progress of 1s67-1Ss3 10 the wool
growers and manufacturers will afford en-
ployment TO hundred thousand more men i'll
producing here the tin plates which the people
need, and other forms of iron and steel now
imported, and will render trusts or other com
binations against the people even more surely
improbable than they are already. If the
same Congress desire to add one other gift of
inestimablc value, wholesome and just Ncrtc-
ment of the silver question, it may find meth
DDS of doing so in close harmony with the plans
of Secretary Window.
The people have been called intensely prac-
tical and not dreamy or imaginative in tenn
permanent. Yet they have their dreams about
the new year They dream that the year may
bring them larger industries, and the ripe
fruitage Of the improvement begun last year
They dream that Great Britain may this year
find the greater Britain of the West passing
her at last in the production OF iron. They
dream that destruction Of combinations against
the people may come with cheaper sugar and
paints, cheaper meats and other products for
the needs of the millions They dream that
the year may bring steps toward better educa
tion for all, better marriage, divorce, and
land-title laws in the different States, and
toward wiser and more practical temperance
legislation in many. They dream that the new
year may unite all American nations IN har-
mOny OF interest and effort, and perhaps IN
common monetary system based upon universal
circulation and exchange OF certificates repre-
senting deposits of gold and silver bullion.
They dream that Canada may tire Of growing
at other nations that are free. and may choose
to be free herself They dream that the new
wear may bring 20 the great kindred nations
beyond the ocean some certain and peace
promoting conviction that, in the not remote
future, SUCCESSORS of Victoria and William Will
be Presidents chosen by the good people OF
Great Britain and Germany. They dream, and
for themselves will strive 10 promote during
the year 1890, peace and goodwill for all the
world.