New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1893-04-03


The handsome buil iinc recently opened as
hoadouarters for charitable work in this city. NJ
Twenty sccond-st ard Fourth-avc., is to have
n fitting neighbor md companion in the new
home for the Socie for the Prevention OF CRU
city 10 Children, which is to be formally opened
today There is no need 10 commend TO the
people OF Newly rk the excellent work done by
this society. II has been speaking for itself for
nearly twenty ears, and every humane and be-
nevocnt minf will rejoice that il will hence
forth be able 10 carry on its work with greater
effectiveness than in the past. The new build
ing is comniodious and we'll adapted for the pur-
roses Of the S. p. c. c. The truly catholic
spirit which animntes the society is made evil
dent by fhe fact that tho dedicatory services to-
dsy vii be shared in by tine Roman Catholic
Archbsbcp the Episcopal Bishop, Jewish rabbi.
a Protestant layman and the Mayor of the city.
We W all Eodspeed and Increased success to the
Socet for the Prevention of Cruelty TO Children.
II /. painful to see The Shelby Ky News
using IN expression in regard to public Offices
which warrants the suspicion that it dos not re-
gard hem as sacred public trusts. The Gov
ernur nta, pie is beginning to come Kentucky
wnrdr siys The News Governmental pie,
indeed The phrase has II distinctly carnal sound.
"Ihe News" might as well have said "spoils.'
.
II the legislative threats aimed at home rule
are carried ont the people of Erie and Niagara
counties will call upon the Governor to smit,
the tyrants hip and thigh" The Buffalo
Courier says. But bitter experience must have
saught "Thc Courier" that a smter OF tyrants
who NEEDLE with home rule the Governor is not
{, lcccss lie smites them not on their hips,
neither on their thighs. In fact he does not
smite them at all. He pats them on their respec-
tive backs and signs their little bills.
There is refreshing contrast between such an
appointment as that Of Health Commissioner Edison
and the selection of Scanneil and Koch for i'm
portant Offices Whether Mayor Giroy has
learned wisdom from the criticisms which those
appointments called forth is not certain, how
over In selecting Health Commissioner Bryant's
successor he was not altogether Il free agent for
that matter. we % not suppose he was when he
put Scanncll and Koch his January list But
tile cases are different The law requires that one
Of the Health Commissioners shall be a physi-
clan: so Mr. Gilroy was not at liberty to pick
out Il politician for this place. Still. there
are ply sicans and physicians: and we are en-
trcly willing to give the Mayor credit for having
made one creditablc appointment. But he ought
not to bc content with one of that kind.
4 bill has been introduced to enlarge tho police
Pension fund by lcyJing tax of per cent
npon the salaries of all members of the force
in this city The feeling of the force was ascer-
tanned by II canvass o! the members, and the
bill is understood TO meet with general approval
ON their part. There is great need of increas-
ing the fund, but at the same time measures
should not he neglected to reduce the demands
upon it by making il impossible for able-bodicd
men to retire on pensions after twenty years
service, when they are no more than forty-live
or fifty years of age. The pension fund should
he devoted only TO disabled aged policemen
who are no longer able to earn livelihood.
The path of newspaper editors in the Orient
is hcsct with pitfalls and perils from which
Western editors are fortunately free Ii WAS onlv
a short time ago that the proprietor of one O.
the leading daies of Toxic was condemned IN
a term of two years Imprisonment for hayiny
spoken disrespcotfully OF the Mkado's ancestor
Jimnu, who lived 1000 years ago; and now
the Editor of the Nichi Nichi Shimbun., the
newspaper which enjoys the largest calculation
sworn TON Japan, has been sent 20 jail for
a year ard condemned to fine of $50 for bavinc
described certain members of the National Icr'
islature as lIoneruki-dojo.' which, being inter.
preicd, means Bonclcss fish" iit only 70 ~.
cooked and eaten" Though here and elsewhere y
diet is composed of articles OF food nevertheless
the Diet Of Japan dislikcs allisions of this
kind, aud has accordingly prosecuted the editor
with the result above described Nor il th.
severity with regard TO the press confined IN
the Land of the Rising Sun, for, according to the
EaGlish newspapers, the editor o! a Calcutta
native journal has been sentenced 70 imprisor.
m"nt for merely mentioning in his personal
column that certain young lady had "partak.n
o. rice' with gentleman Of inferior caste. The