New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1892-05-14


Tho cvconic systems thus caught up from the
Gulf Of Mexico much more warm vapor than IL
tho dcnression centres had traversed the country
in HIGHER ATTITUDES or had made more rapiu
nrogrcss: the chilly eastery aud nortneasteriy
hreezes from the high-pressure tracts promo'eu
oxce,svc condensation, and the rctardatloh VI
ooneral movements subjected the West ana oou'h-
yest 70 more PROLONGED precipitation thah Is COIN
mon The best assurance Of relief Will DC ahoroeu'
,borcfore. when the storms are free 10 res"ne
their normal paths and velocity.
Tn Dr. Janeway's opinion-and he has been COLI
rected with the Board long enough 10 DC
compctent witness-the Board OF tealth mas ne
como merely part of the political organization
!, nowcr in this city, and the methods putsuc'
are "unwisc iniudicious and unsafe Dr' Jan"
WAYS resignation consulting physician vi 'hc
Board was voluntary. and was due 10 his h',,s
lost confidence in the present management LIE
indictment which he draws il severe onc' Al"
inheritance of kecplng this Board Tree ircu
notifies cannot be Ovcrestimated, Dut Po'i"oe
seems TO he strongly intrenchcd there az present.
.Tbe Poughkeepse Eagle reports that IN
Pleasant Valley, Duchess County, on Arpor LAY
trcc was dedicated to David b. Hill. Morti-
Gcation has doubtless killed that tree root ana
branches before this.
The fact that people call hin, steve" says one
organ lis not suicicnt proof that Mr. Elins MI w.
bad Secretary Of War" True But Il Is fair eVSente
Tint noopIc generally regard him either as thrifty
noi,iron ~ The bascr sort whose antcceaents
or compnnIonshps lend no dignity to MS home-''''
idence Journal,
Il is fair evidence of all that, is it? Let's
GOO Lincoln was commonly spoken Of as " Abe
FIJI and wide
a. Harry of the West; the go1like Dan was
another name for Daniel Webster; hundreds of
the BOYS in blue always spoke Of General Sher-
man while he was alive as Uncle Billy Scores
Of similar instances might be mentioned, but these
arc enough to convict The Journal" of uttering
nonsense in the first degree in maintaining the
proposition that those who let slide piece of a
mans given name thereby demonstrate that they
regard him either thrifty politician Of the
baser sort, or man whose anteccdents or COM
partnerships lend no dignity to his name
Senator Mills made i'm the debate the
Tnman bill, frank confession Of his status as a
Free Trader. - want" he declares that any
body. in tho exercise Of his natural right as a
free man, shall he ut liberty to go into the mar
kets Of the world and buy anything, from q ship
to a pin, and bring it 10 this country lie may
be poor American, but he is what Talleyrand
was in the habit Of describing a good
European
Far-reachng and radical are the revenue re-
forms which have been devised by the RUSSIAN
Minister Of Finance, Herr Miguel, and are to he
submitted to the Iandtag for discussion during
the course Of the month. According TO the skefch
Of the measure which has Just been published in
DBL: 81.
essentially one to relieve local taxation by con-
tributions from the revenues Il the central Gov
crnmcnt The increase OF the income tax, due 10
the new method OF assessment, will permit the |
Treasury Department TO assign the produce Of the
taxes on land and on industries 10 the local author
tiles who will thereby become enabled to diminish
the local rates Moreover the income tax is TO
he supplemented by new impoet of tho same |
character which will cause incomes derived from |
interest 20 pay more in proportion than those de-
rived from earnings. The principle OF progress
svc taxation may he said to he recognized by the |
exemption of small incomes and small businesses |
from taxation Taking il altogether, the project |
may be described as something very much akin 10 |
State socialism, and as bctraying unmlstakable |
evidence of the handwork Of that eminent finsn-
ccr political economist and rcvolutonist, Herr
MIGUEL
\ Jury in a Brooklyn police court rendered 4 |
verdict DAY or two ago that was PLAINLY con-
trary 10 the evidence. The Justice expressed
astoni,hmcnt Mt the result of the trial. and said
that the defendant was guilty. and certainly |
-hould have been declared The woman on
trial was charged with excessively cruel treat
mcnt of her stepdaughtcr. and admitted TO the
officer who arrested her that She was guilty. The
District Attorney is largely responsible for the
result of the trial. since no one
was present from his Office 10 conduct the prosecu-
ton Still, verdict of acquittal under the
is grave reflection on The in
tcligence Of Brooklyn jurymen. who have not
been free from criticism in the recent past.