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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1891-07-22
OTR SAMOAN VICTORY.

When the Samoan Treaty was adopted Dem
ocratic doubters gravely questioned its utility
and protested to think that it left the way open
for combination of German and British inhu-
ence against thai OF this county. They were
satisfied that the upshot of the arrangement
would be the extinction of American interests
in Samoa and the gradual absorption OF the
islands into Germany's colonial system under
some kind of a give-and-take bargain with
England. This apprehension was not possible
to any one who really understood the treaty and
our policy in the South Pacific. We were not
aiming at aggression ourselves. We had no
political or territorial designs on Samoa. We
we're interested, because of its position in the
track of our Australian trade and because Of
our need of naval coaing-station in that
region, simply in preserving its independence
Our diplomacy had no other object than the
thwartng Of Germanys annexation designs.
Striking proof of the wisdom of Secretary
Baine's negotiations has been afforded by the
history of the islands since their results were
established. The situation described in tho
latest cable advices implies a strong tribute to
his craftsmanship.
Our Commissioners went to Berlin instruct
ed to require of Germany two concessions. The
first was the replacement of the conditions which
had obtained in Samoa when the controversy
opened-that is, the return Of King Malietoa,
whom the Germans had kidnapped and carried
off to tie Marshall Islands, the abandonment of
the Tamasese ProtectOrate and the reinveSt-
ment Of Maetoa with all the power he had
been deprived of. The second was the equal
ization of foreign influence throughout Samoa.
Germany had been protesting that she did not
desire TO annex Samoa, and had been led 70
her acts of interference and supremacy only by
the necessity of preserving order and securing
her subjects there in their rights. 1t was diff
cult TO believe that this was anything but the
merest subterfuge but Mr.. Blaine was quick
to perceive the chance it afforded him. lie
accepted it as altogether candid and satisfactory
and then, demanding that what had been I'M
lawfully done under the spur of that necessity
should now be undOne, he offered so far to de-
par, from our historic policy of confederation
beyond our coasts as 10 Join with Germany and
England in the provision of scheme of gov
eminent in Samoa which, while leaving native
authority supreme in native affairs, should in
sure the observance of law and order, the adj
iustment of pending controversies about the
ownership of land, and the lawful and peaceful
settlement Of international quarrels hereafter.
His proposals, supported by England were sub
mitted to by Germany. Malietoa was rein
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1891-07-22

.ver All that we insist upon Is thus briefly state"
~. aornand ,bot the amount Of circulating medium DO
.,,,, increosed 20 not less than $50 per capita
- will no seen that this modification OF inc
,Ian contampates very much restricted ISSUE
po,,,,o,od with the original scheme. II was first
cortomploted that there should be warehouses
:, srfc;ort number and Of sufficient size to hold
=, storo large proportion of the non-porishable
naod,ots of the farms in each district No
limitation whatever was to be placed upon the
onoiint of money TO be loaned on such products,
ov.ont that it should not exceed so per cent OF
tho market value of the products deposited III
tbn warehouses;. At the same time the Western
CONTINGENT was demanding with equal earnest
noes unlimited loans of public money to holders
Of ro,l estate. The attempt to put these TWO
rIops tooather into one has made some men, even
utbin the Alliance itself, realize that unlimited
;ospes If currency would lose value too quickly
r. he of any help to anybody. Accordingly the
COMPROMISE now proposed is that the circulation
shall he limited in aggregate amount, but no
nrovision is suggested for determining which
landowners or which owners Of farm products
should be preferred in the lending or IN WnaC
form Government should acquire lien upon the
PROPERTY pledged for the loans
a circulation of $50 per capita meaps, in the
roueh. something more than twice the circula-
tion now in use outside Of the Treasury. Inc
scheme. therefore, proposes an addition OF about
81, 500, GOO, 900 to the paper circulation ny
loans on land and on products. Presumably
the rule must be /" first come, first served" rs
the hungrieSt and poorest would be the moSV
uroont one might infer that this great meas
ure OF relief would at least serve to put inc
new dollars where they would do the most good
But its effects would probably be just the re-
verse. The most needy are not as a RUE inc
dwellers about the cities and towns where Gov
ernment offices for lending in each state "ouiu
naturally be established. The real estate specu-
lators about the town would have the 1rst
bite at the cherry, and after them the specu-
ators in products who have quickest access 70
the points selected for distribution OF loans. Inc
needy and really poor farmers In the country
districts would arrive few days after all the
money had been loaned and just in time to DIS
cover that it was not worth quite as much as they
had expected. As measure OF relief 10 the
farmers. the new compromise would be shade
moro obvious and dismal failure than either OF
the plans it is intended to superSede.
We shall not see the monetary circulation OF
this country doubled after this fashion for some
time to come. The opposition to wild schemes
of this sort, even among the farmers themselves
has become strong enough to threaten the very
existence Of the Alliance and Mr.. Livingstone S
latest proposition is in effect confession oil the
fact
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1891-07-22

Encouraging news about Ireland IS so rare
that it should be made the most Of The con-
6rmation of Mr. Balf0ur's hint that Local
Government bill, on the lines OF the English
and Scotch acts, is part of the Government pro-
eramme for the next session of Parliament, Is
of itself sufficiently stimulating. Bloody Bal
fmrs,, conversion is no doubt less responsible
for the step than present political exigencies,
but anything like Home-Rue legislation must
involve positive benefit. The whole country Is
indisputably much better off than it was I'VE
years ago. The assertion that the stoppase OF
American contributions has helped this result
will be received here with mixed feelings. VI
course, it would be a brilliant move OF the Con-
servatives to beat Mr.. Gladstone at his own
game, though his own lustre would thereby IN
no wise suffer eclipse.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1891-07-22
STOLEN By K4NSIS CITY.

The general adoption of mechanical and scien-
tific ideas first made public in The Tribune be-
came so notorious few days ago that we were
literally forced to lay aside our usual difidence
and 10 call attention to the gratifying fact IN
few 1--WE trust modest words. Now, before the
article is halfway to our more distant subscribers
there comes to us the intelligence of the practical
application of another still more important in
venton which first saw the light in our columns.
We refer to the Paddeford Fresh Air System
Our readers cannot have forgotten our graphic
description. published May -, of Professor Pad
dlefords plan for piping fresh air from the noun
tains and the seaside and distributing Il through
out the city the same as gas and water are now
distributed Though everybody admitted that the
plan was excellent, the Professor unfortunately
had difficulty in getting capitalists to interest
themselves IN it, He called at Jay GOul1s
Office but was informed by the boy duty that
Mr.. Gould had gone into Battery Park for few
DAYS TO camp out and hunt among the elevated
road pillars and so the Professor did not see him.
lie also failed 20 see a number OF other wealthy
men. and finally returned TO Brooklyn, disguised,
with the models of his machinery under his arm,
Tins having the usual experience of inventors.
And lie is still having it, it appears that his
idea has been stolen bodily by certain Kansas City
men.
The dispatch which has just come from Kan
CHS City says that several Of the richest men"
there have organized for the purpose OF supply
ing cold fresh air throughout the city through
conduits The work Of laying the MAINS" con-
tnues the dispatch, will begin at once Fresh
air will be sold in any part Of the city. Tonight
NJ n meeting Of both houses Of the Common Coun-
ell the company granted franchise In
the winter hot air will be sent through the pipes"
Now this is nothing more nor less than Professor
paddleford's system. lie proposed to pipe his
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1891-07-22
rOpFrrLLING 4 GREAT FAMINE.

The drouth and consequent famine recently
reported from India receive more than usual III
tercst from the fact that the situation hau occh
predicted by the Government Weather bureau
in that country. In 1877 two well-inown meteor
olorists. $. 4. Hill and Douglass Archiboh, called
attention to the fact that the failure OF the ram
bearing monsoon in that summer followed an eA-
ceptionally heavy snowfall and severe cold IN the
Ttimalayas and northern India, and suggested u
nossibIe relation between the two phenomena
For the last eight years lOng-range forecasts nave
been made on this basis, but not unth 1859
was there a wclldelned repetition OF the sequence
lust mentioned The corrOboration thus aforded
gove increased confidence to believers in the sound
ness Of the theory involved. And whcn' IaSV
yinter and spring, enormous snowfalls III the
mountains, rains in northern India and severe coIu
REQUIRED. state of things similar to that now
prevailing in the southern part of the peninsula
WAS naturally anticipated In detail, the forecast
hos not proven altogether accurate, but that III
general the principle has held good once more IS
evidently the belief of that high authority on the
climate and weather Of India, II. T. Blantord, who
discusses the topic in q recent number Of Nature
Final Indictment cannot be rendered yet TO be sure
for August and September sometimes make up iOr
the deficiency Of June and July, in western INDIA;
and over on the southeastern coast, Wnere the
principal drouth is at present experlehced' the
summer rains are always light and the great re-
source of the agricuturist is the late autumnal
precipitation But as the monsoon has thus lar
brought only scant showers and tardy ones at
that in regions where copious rains should have
fallen six weeks ago, the profound anxiety betrayed
in cable dispatches from the afflicted country has
much justification already. Whether the failure
of the wheat crop in Russia this season has any
relation TO the extraordinary winter of 180O-'0l in
Europe is a question which Mr.. Blanford raises
but does not enter into. 1t will, however, no
doubt. be carefully studied by European scien-
lists
To q country producing such enormous grain
crops as the United States the possibility Of fore
telling dry seasons over large area, at home or
abroad, but more especially at home, is matter
of profound importance. Successful forecasts OF
this sort in India encourage the hope that similar
ones NAV be made in America, although the dill
fercuccs between the two continents in the dlstrl
button Of their coasts mountains, and Vapor
supply, to say nothing Of possible pcculiarites
in the movements of the great upper air currents
on which our weather changes so largely depend
make it uncertain whether any law exists, or at
least is dscoverable here, no matter how obvious
NAV be the sequences elsewhere. But the magni-
tude of the interests at stake should encourage
indefatieable research in this branch OF meteor
olOpV
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1891-07-22

stated The rival chiefs. Iamasese anu Nh
taafa the former of whom has since died, were
induced to cease warfare and to submit to tho
King. and tho local government at Apla was
nut into motion by King Oscar OF oWeueh'
whose arbitration decided its chief officer.
1t was natural that these changes should DC
attended with much friction. Germany lofhier
misconduct was the result OF nothihg Dut OPP
portunity, developed by native quarrels' am
ambition. centred in German consuls and naval
officers. Native quarrels have continued OF
course and at times have become violent and
dangerous. Any one Of them might have been
skilfuly used by the energetic Germans as
pretext for the assertion of their national au-
thority had not the treaty and the American
Consul stood in their way. We would not I'M
ply that the smallest disposition to evade the
treaty has been manifested by Germany. On
the contrary, 50 far as there is any information
available we are led to believe that she has
sustained it Loyalty and faithfully The poiht
is. that conditions which formerly produced
strife between the natives and the Germans
and consequent international disputes, are now,
under the treaty, determined without even
native disorder. Mataafa's rivalry OF the old
King has been constant and ugly, but under
the pressure of q harmonious foreign diplomacy
he keeps himself and his people within the
bounds of peace. The settlement OF the land
disputes is in allegiance, owing to the illness OF
a member of the court, but they have led to
no disturbances, and there is the prospect that
they will soon be taken up for judicial adjust
ment. Mr.. Blaine's peaceful but self-respecting
American policy wins another triumph in these
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1891-07-22
TILE NEW AL[IANCE PLAN

Mr.. Livingstone, of Georgia, who has been
called by many the ablest leader in the Farmers
Alliance, has taken occasion to put his associates.
as far as he has power, on a new and somewhat
safer footing. In an Atlanta journal which he
controls he publishes a modification Of the Sub
Treasury plan which is apparently intended to
meet objections to that scheme and to serve as n
sort of compromise. The original plan was in
tended to provide for loans on farm products.
but not on land, and since the platform adopted
at Ocala adds lands as a basis for loans. the
measure must be modified to correspond with
that change All this is but pTetext, it pres
emily appears, for proposing that the loans con-
templated shall be made without deposits If
tho products offered as security, and shall not
be unlimited in amount Thus he says
This can be done with one more subtreasurIes
or repositories In each state, with without Govern
ment warehouses. The present facilities for ware.
houses will without the expense Of Government
warehouses or apparatus. If Congress will enact law
authorizing the issue Of notes 10 be deposited I'm the
States aud 10 be loaned on non-perishable farm
products and real estate, at not more than per cent
per annum. will DO perfectly satisfied We will
and can take Of the warehouses and all necessary
details without any help from the Government what
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1891-07-22
TWELVE PAGES
THE NEVIS TBIS MORNING.

Domestic-No trouble was made by the miners
in Tennessee. but they resolved to stand rrmly
together: troops are being masscd, ready to move
for the scene of the disturbance. - Details OF
the thrilling escape of several Gillian insurgent
teaders were received 80 Pollock won two
Games in the chess match with Delmar, at Skane-
otejes. - The State Hotel Mems Association
met at Saratoga - Citizens of st. Paul are
making determined efforts TO prevent the prize
fight between Fitzsimmors and Hall - Inc
American Whist Congress met at Providence.
Fcreign.-It is considered certain that Dill
for Irish Local Government will be part of the
Conservative programme at the next session Oh
Parliament - in the wreck OF the steamer
Gree, off Anticosti Island, five men were drowned.
- Cholera is spreading rapidly in Mecca; meas
ures are being taken to prevent its Introduction
into Egypt. - Seventeen thousand eight hum
dred sealskins have been landed at Victoria.
City and Suburban.-The Naval Reserve and
the Squadron of Evolution united in drill on
the water - The Chinese leper was removed
to the Charity Hospital on Backwelps Island
- Some of the stockholders of the bankrupt
American Loan and Trust Company intend to sue
the directors for alleged msmanagement -
One architect had another arrested on the charge
of stealing 81 800 from him. - Winners at
Jerome Park: Chesapeake, the Tril FLY, PO-
tomac, Long Dance, Julio, Esquimau. -
Stocks dull without other important feature.
The closing was not strong but the final declines
were small while there were few exceptional
advances.
The Weather.-Forecast for to-day: Generally
fair, with slight thermal changes; warmer if any
thing Temperature yesterday: Highest, So de-
grees lowest, 60; average, &c 5-5.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1891-07-22

The English courts have taken the same sensi-
BILE view that is held by the New-York courts
as to the attempts of murderers to obtain the
estates of those whom they have killed The
New-York Court of Appeals held not long ago
that. while there was no law on the subject 1t
was against good morals and the public welfare
to allow a son who murdered his father to in
herit his estate. The English courts have like
wise rebuked the attempt of Mrs. AaybricIl to
recover the insurance the life Of her husband
of whose murder she has been convicted. Courts,
in many instances, are bound by technicallties
and precedents, and it is refreshing to have de-
cisions based on clear grounds of public good such
as those which hold that court will not aid
murderer to profit by his crime.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1891-07-22

field. At Lexington, Va, where the statue Is
erected, he served before the War as a pro-
fessor in the Virginia Military Institute, and IN
its old cemetery he lies buried. The cere-
monies, in which his whiom comfade' "eherai
Jubal A. Early took the chief part, were be-
comingy impressive, and seem to nave been
free from the sectional reyilings that too often
mar such celebrations.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1891-07-22
Amrsemcuts.

BROADWAY THEATRE-S-waag.
CASINOS :15-The Grand Duchess.
EDEN MUSEE-wax Tableaus.
Ell DORADO tNew-Jersey)-s So-King Solomon
ROSTER e. BIAL'S-2 and S-Carmencta.
MADISON SQUARE GARDEN AMPHITHEATRE-Sl I'D
Theodore Thomass Concert.
MANHATTAN Observation-Disclosures
pALMER's THEATRES :l5-The Tar and the Tartar.
POLO GRoUNDS-4-Baseball.
TERRACE GARDEN-S-The Seven Suabians
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1891-07-22

A GOOD SERVANT OF THE COMMONWEALTH
From The Albany Express.
Mr. Fassctt's retirement from politics would be
eat loss to the people OF the state. Sueh men shoua
NOT be lost To the public service.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1891-07-22

Forty stories of adventure and thrilling action in
the late civil war. by forty different men. nearly
all of the writer's themselves having been active
participants in the exciting events narrated by
them, have been published in The Weekly
Tribune" during the past eighteen months.
Twenty-Five We're written in competition for
prizes. These forty stirring narratives have been
republished by The Tribune in a llrge-paged
pamphlet extra, of GA pages, under the title of
"Tribuue War Stories" % cents copy. The
popuarity Of novels of a"tior has been .attested
by the sale OF thousands Of romances, having per-
haps basis Of truth but the principal events
described being largely imaginary. Here are forty
stories of the Civil War, all of them true, written
by Union soldiers, and they include many which
are as romantic any ever treated by the masters
of fiction and which will flush the readers face
with excitement and mosten his eyes with emo
ton. All Of them are worth reading. For sum-
mer reading they are we'll worth the public atten-
ton. They can be ordered from The Tribune
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1891-07-22
NOT SIGH A BAD TEST.

From The Minneapolis Tribune.
1t would be interesting 10 know whether those Gov
eminent rain persuaders who have gone 20 kansas 10
conduct a series OF experiments had sumcent tath "a
their plan TO take their umbrellas Sa0 macintosh"
loQG
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1891-07-22

The plumber cannot smell gas himself. he can't
smell anything, rather, anything bad" else he
wouldn't be plumber, but something else say a
perfumer) SO when somebody comes and tells him
Il smell gas" he strikes q match or two and
lights bit of candle and goes and finds it. Then
the fremen come and the coroner comes and the
mysterious" explosion is investigated.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1891-07-22
A PENNY FOR THEIR THOUGHTS.
From Tho BOSTON Journ.

Massachusetts, Democrats like President Eliot, Of
! Harvard and Colonel Thomas W. liigginson, are
NOT saving much these ha!cyon free silver days, but
| they are doing power OF thinking
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1891-07-22

On Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays Mr.
Blaine is as well as can be; Tuesdays, Thursdays
and Saturdays are his sick days. On Sunday he
takes day Off Yesterday was an exception
TO the rule for some of our contemporaries man.
aged to make him out "a very sick man. in the
morning, while by the early afternoon he was
never better
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1891-07-22

AND TIE POPULAR LOVE FOR A STRONG MAN.
From Tho Chicago Inter Ocean.
When sneaker Reed visited the House OF Commons
In London the Speaker OF that body was surprised 70
see no evidence of car. The sceptre which keea
carries is his good nature and his logic
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1891-07-22

"A foreign sailor is contented with $50 or SD
month, but if he becomes naturahzcd in this
country he Immediately gets $40 or 500 The
Evening Post" has pretty way, quite It's own,
of mixing its statistics and its sarcasm IN such
cunning proportions, and so lightly whipping
them to q froth, that it is not always easy Tor
those unfortunates who haven't the Fey to the
code TO find out where the sarcasm el.ds and the
statistics begin IF he becomes naturalized,"
is only their funny .fgure-editors way Of confess.
ing that seamen's wages are higher in New-York
than they are in Liverpool.
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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1891-07-22

But THE GOSPEL HAS SPREAD MEANTIME.
From The Boston Herald.
Frau Wagner appears to be very shrewd woman o.
business. She promises 10 make more hYnSy out o,
En- ,nsca festivals al Bayreuth than her distinguished
husband ever realized from all his compositions Ana
Wagner was 4 very thrifty man. too.