New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1891-04-11
A PLAIN TALK TO WINGS.

| A PLAIN TALK TO WINGS.
I Friends. wa claim your attention for five minutes whlc
we present soc considerations connected with the churoc
ter and bearing Of the Public Pcssespeiay tho cheap
daily prcss--of our City.
Three journals protesting inparisly in independence
Of Party Politics enyros tho larger portion Of the pa-
,ronage Of City They TAe Srn the Morning Her
| aid and tho Journal of Commerce.
THE Sun 10 conducted with decided ability and made
up with much industry and I,s Editorial department
generally pure morals and elevated in its
tendency. Its advertising columns indeed exhibit and
feet uureprovcd every pecies Of derra, but thdt Is
the fau Of its Editor Blu, that Editor is bitterly do
doubt sincerely LocoFoco in all his associations and SYM
pathos, and bio writings thoroughly imbued with the
spirit of his party That spirit is allowed govern and
color the coluans of bis Journal violation Of oil fairness
or justice the Wing party by whom his paper in good
part supported Two years ogo the Wings los, the City,
we believe mainly by Of the charges Of fraud pecula
ton and oxtravogncc ogainst tho Wing authorities which
appeared in tho Edor. columns Of The Sun. Since thcn
not word Of apprehension of Corporation exavagance hos
been heard from that quarter Now the evidence eas,
equally strong and condemnassy Of tho misconduct and
prodgay Of the present authorities is Editoroy
mentioned or alluded to in that paper Is this fair Is ii
IL
right expect from paper which they yearly bes,ow
patronage Of many thousands Of dollsys1
But tho Sun is not satisfied with negative hostility No
opportunity s,.b cFecsuay Party Cause is suffer-
cd to pass unmproyed Every great question Of National
or State Policy ebly &exterouy in its columns
with much caution and plauSibity Of manner but in p
1. Of the deadlost hostility tho Wings. The calling Of
the Extra Session Of Congress has been repeatedly
dened in advance by it, o and fragrant abuse Of
powera sacrifice Of the public good to private ends TAe
Sub. Treasury has often been eulogzed and upheld in its
cOlumnsess directly perhaps, but ncanngy and plausi
BLY, Tho advantages Of pure Specie Currency from
time to poraded before the eyes Of m readers although
iii Office is RedDog Bank and iss Editor must know that
Specie Currency mover viii be seriously adycc Gated by any
considerable Paxty In this country. But VIVA. tbsn'
gone and Vague agitation Of the project somehow made
to bring erAt to tho mill Of LocoFo cos and therefore it
10 reeorted to- Noon0l Bank s constantly held up in
the Sun tho climax Of ell niqusee and cuanisies The
Distribution project ia deced and distorted. Protective
ToriG is mos, uny presented desirable to Cotton
Manufacturers sono and adverse tho interests of
mess Of tho People The prosecution Of Internal Lnro7e.
meat by the State is denounced unvse progats and
tending necessarily Taxation and Bankruptcy
but not u word 10 said Of the Of the Works
progress BY tho Psry which the Sun avor, of tho
contract, made under the auspices Of that Party Of the
obligation resting on the present State Administration
fulfil these contracts sll events. The Governors
verSy with Virginia is made tho theme OF attack upon him.
though tho Editor must know that Governor Of Free
State could have done otherwise than Gov Seward did
In short every public question which arises or has arscn
for years, is prcaep!Od in tho Sun in just such
will mako the capital for LocoeFOcoismIS this such
treatment as tho Wings have q right to expoct7
The Normg RcrGI3 10 e less bitter in ito hostility,
bu. hardly less thorough Like the Sun opposes the Land
Distribution National Bank tho Protective Policy Inter-
nal Improvement and so S!ato Administration and gvOo
c-handed support the SubTreosury It's Fusome per.
soa0l adulaoa of Con- Harrison, Mr.. Webster, and few
othcr Wings is only calculated give double pungepcy
its attacks all principles and measures Il would DC
impossible for journal notoriously unprnciped end
reckless do moro harm than the Herald does uness,
possibly by coming earnestly favor. Tho Albany
Argus Globe, etc. fnd half their aiment in quotations
" From tie Mes- York Morning Herald, WHO"
So of the Journal Of Comaerce. The Journal 10 good
Newspaper, conducted With much ohrowdnesS and industry
and entitled credit for its moral character and bearing
But its Editors political sympa,hcs all with LocoFoco-
ISM and ho vews every public question through Van Buren,
spscteclcs He too, hoetle National Bank, to Pro-
tocsiop Distribution tho prosecution Of informal I'M
provsment tho State Administration, and to aos. every
thing Wing. His Paper constantly exerts deadly aau-
enco against And obliged to bear up against
not only tho focs which 1t fairly possos,ee but that which
10 given to by its position isapesaeat organ Of tho
Commercial interest which sl farther increased by fire.
quen. quotations in tho organs Of LocOFoeOsua Tos tie
Joa4~al of Commeroe, WHO PAPsR."
Now have the most undoubting confidence that the
Wing Causo viii commend itself to the understandings and
judgements Of the People of City, well of tho Coun-
try generally If 1t hoe only open Geld and fair Plsy 1t
10 the hand Of Joab thai hse smen /. here. While Lo'
ccFocosm hes ttrco such journals in its screc, ono Of
which hsO Of ITSELF moro readers than ell the Wing Deios
in EOw-YO how hope for the perrnanen. ascend
ancy OF Wing princplcs in tho Ccpmercid Emporium 7
! Friends think Of it!
Impoed BY these considerations and encouraged By many
ardent and active Wings have received to undertake the
publication Of cheap Daily devoted to Literature Inte
gence and the open and fearless advocacy Of Wing PRe
pies and Measures II the advocates Of those principles and
oha Geo Ct to support, cordially and actively,
enterprise not only BY taking paper but by giving