New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1891-11-06
MORE "S4TRAPSO

We were too early. From the fact tnat Inc
World, suddenly ceased all reference to the
satrap business after narrowing everybody up
on the subject in two consecutive issues we
concluded that the "satraps" had been rerma-
nently withdrawn. Not so. "The Worlds
alarm was occasioned by nightmare experience
of one of its young men who thought he heard
them coming down from the interior to pounce
on Manhattan Island in the event of Fa~etts
election. We have heretofore remarked tfat the
announcement created considerable disturbance
among the real estate owners who lodge in the
City Hall Park. They had already lost $780,
OOO. 900 by Plat and Fassett in the Worlds
Fair business, and now to be walked over ana
jumped on by Platt and Fassett's satraps was
Just hucixleberry too much for free people.
In the first few days of it many of them packed
I'D what real estate they had left and were
getting ready to move away They did not like
TO do it Just before election, when there were
50 many things at risk, and so many on tap;
but their love of freedom was so strong that they
could not bear the idea of being rudely hauled
ND mornings and sent to the Island by satraps.
They shed bitter tears over it. So much So that
the fountain in the Park was abnormaly damp
for some days during the panic.
Fortunately, it turned out to be a false alarm.
There were no satraps, or only here and there
one. between Spuyten Duyvil and Lake Erie.
And If there had been the election of Roswell
Flower has made it certain that there will be
no satrapping in this town for three years at
least. But Roger Q. Mills, of Texas who came
here Just before election to tell the "backwOods-
men, that it was none of their business how
Tammany Hall governed the city, was so pro-
foundry impressed with the peril from satraps
that it continues to keep him awake nights.
But his are not merely local satraps satraps
that confne their rayages to single island
they are larger, more pervasive, more wither-
ing and destructive. They threaten, not mere
" to wipe out New York but to devastate the
entire country He has been giving expression
to his views on this subject in an interview.
His idea is that the only way to head of the
satraps is for the Democrats to fight the enemy,
and not each other. To do this they must drop
the silver question. II they don't do that, he
says, in one Of those eliminating periods OF his
in which he so exces-that sort of eloquence
which, applied to description of the tariff,
makes every man in the audience kick himself
and 90 away feeling poor-"we will lose the
Presidency the Senate the House, free coinage,
tariff reform, and everything, and get for our
pains a Force bill, military Burpation of our
baot-boxes, and life officers guarded by soldiers
certifying local government out of the hands Of
the people"
Now this means satraps on the largest scale.
Very few people will be able to read it and sleep
nights And as if this were not enough, "The
Evening Post" which did not get so wildly ex-
cited as some of its contemporaries over the
satlaps lurking in the woods above Harlem, says
"These words are as true az they are senten-
tious." This makes it look serious For, when
the hopeful patriot tries to reassure the tmd
real estate owner who sleeps in the Park by
the intmation that Mills, after all, may be af
fected by the fact that though it is latter
election" with most people just now, il will con-
tinue TO be "before election with him until the
Spea1ership question is decided, the real estate
owner - answer: " But The Evening Post
says these words are true.'n And if it is then
intimated that "The Evening Post" has some
eggs of its own laying in Mr.. Mills's basket, me
real estate owner will reply, through his sobs
eyes but it also says they are sententious,'
and that means trouble"
Well, if we've got to have them, let's brace
up and get ready for them.