The Press., 1892-09-01

IT is a debatable question and is being debated, whether cholera visitation may not make 1t advisable to postpone the worlds fair year. Expected exhibits are to be from places now infected, and the presence of the epidemic here next year may make foreign visitors timid. The experience of past years tends to show that we have little to fear in this country if the large towns and cities are well cleansed, and pains taken to avoid the panic which so aids the spread of an epidemic, but little scare may interfere with that grand success which we all look for-the greatest worlds exposition in the worlds history
 IT is suggested that local worlds expo- sition clubs be organized. Members pay ing a small fee on joining and weekly dues thereafter, and have privilege of drawing on same for expenses of going to the worlds fair. The small sums thus paid in are not felt and may be deposited to draw interest, so the halves and quar- ters that would be spent perhaps for tri- fies, will next summer be at the disposal of those who otherwise 'would like to go to the fair, but can't afford it." And the organized association can arrange to go in details or all together, with advantages of reductions to be easier gotten by mem- bers than by individuals. Large general associations are already formed for this object, but there would be good features in one purely local, giving depositors a chance to draw back their money if final ly prevented from going.
 THE report of Labor Commissioner Peck, of New York, showing large per- centage of increase of wages paid in that state since the Mckinley bill passed is being commented upon as an act of polit- cal treachery. Peck is democrat, an appointee of Gov. Hills, aud Cleveland's friends are charging that the report is sent out now to do the presidential candl- date an injury. The statistics are just of of the nature that it is the commission er's duty to compile and publish. He could not have known the drift of their showing when he laid out the work of their compilation, and why he should have thrown them away when compiled for tabulation is not so easily explained. Had he attempted this, even, the fact would no doubt have leaked out, and the suppression been more damaging than the publication. The Boston Herald even goes so far as to say that an official who would issue such document at this time, with purpose to affect the political can- vas, Is quite capable of garbling the fig ures.
 MT. Peck says of his report, as per in- terview in New York Herald: ''I started this inquiry in December. 1890, so you see there was no thought of the present campaign in laying out the work. The tariff question was taken up because it has come to be one of the greatest mo- ment to woIkingmen, in whose interest my bureau was established. Now am democrat-a Hill democrat if you will and began this inquiry with the belief that the result would vindicate the demo- cratic position.
 "The first returns came from the silk industry and were very pleasing to my way of thinking. But I am free to admit that the report as whole is not in har- mony with the democratic platform, so far as the tariff is concerned. However, my duty as state official is to report things as I find them, not as reckless par tisans would like to have them construed. There Is no political bias about any of my reports, nor do believe there is any in the reports of any labor bureau in the country. All can say is that the state- ments of my report are based on actual confidential letters received from six thousand representatives of wholesale manufacturers of New York state. The result shows me that the leading demo- cratic speakers on the tariff are in error as to the effects of the Mckinley bill. The figures in my report speak for them selves and there is no getting away from them"