New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1894-08-10

growing influence and prestige, uiiuei 'o"N "
direct the tariff policy Of the warning HOUSES Vi
Congress he sprang to the defence or the trusts
which Senator Hill had been fighting on Demo-
cratic grounds.
The Wilson bin should be remained WHY "''
call it the Sugar Trust bill?
At the Worlds Fair last year movement
was on foot to found chair OF forestry III '"'
University Of Chicago. Some admirer OF the
ereat Parliamentary and scholastic ana autorlai
voodman had brought over Gadstone's axe hop
ing that IL might be accer ted as d syHlpol an"
r,IIving aeg,s OF the now society, forgetting
that II was the emblem Of the destruction anu
NOT ~ the preservation of trees. Nothing came
Of the plan and nothing has since been hearu
Of the axe. Professor Harper, OF the University
Of Chicago was called into consultation ana 1t
was his opinion that II such a chair were founded
g., tho university II should be endowed with
surn Of at least $500 900 There is really no matter
~ moro messing National interest than the pres
srvotion of forests and no subject on when the
ruhlic need more systematic and persistent en-
ughtenment Humboldt says that wherever man
annears upon the globe he provides the condi-
tions for his own extirpatiOn in the destruction
If the forests around him. He IS rapidly WORKING
toward that result this continent, and some re-
straining and protecting force ought 10 DE- inter
nosed Every State should have weli-con-
sidered Forestry law as well as an eiilceht anu
determined Forestry Commission, not ~ w
bullied nor cajoled by the lumbermen III OF OUT "
Congress or the Legislature, ana there s""'i"
likewise be a National ordinance covering the Ell
fire subject II we fail to protect our trees we
shall I'm no long time have nothing left 10 project
md IN Mace Of a fertile and burgeoning CONT
mont flowing with milk and honey and other
,hou,d,ng tides Of plenty will be left merely an
avid space between the seas, inhabited by the
,oc,,ai and tho serpent like the dominions or
po,shozzar and sardanapaus and many another
old branded spot Of empire where the lumber
man was not made to know his place
r. the Police Board should determine to try all
the police captains there probably would not De
a well captain on the force.
The tariff compromisers ought 10 give the ~ mo-
cratic press a few days in which to get breath
That press has been hercely assaiIns the sugar
schedule as a conspiracy against the people,
degrading sale of public law TO greedy mohopo-
lists II will have to repudiate all us Vir'uouS
INDIGNATION. II the amended Administration scheh-
ulo increasing the concessions to the Trust DE
the basis Of settlement between the houses.
The Giants have n good chance now 70 win Ire
championship. Close. sharp. energetic work VIII
do II. and we wish them good luck
A diagram IS not needed 20 understand the
reason why Saratoga has SO strong an attraction
for Governor Flower Where the Democratic
leaders do gather together. there is the Governor
,,tant ON n denomination certain to betake HIM
self
The Governments gold reserve. already re-
auced n less than 100000. presents much the
same temptation 70 the Democratic enemies oi
p.nublican fiscal policy that the money In the
treasury OF Idaho once did To the Territorial Leg
,slature "Mr. Speaker" cried the member from
the Ped Gulch District. how much money Is
there left in treasury Of this hyar Territory?'
According 70 the Treasurer's report. replied
IN, Speaker. there is Just $4,000" Then, Mr.
"speaker." said The Red Gulch statesman. then.
sir. move. sir, that we rake her" Whereupon
they raked.
Recent discoveries seem to indicate that the
cuckoo is "A mugwump bird. with this variation
however. that the former cries only when bdden
while the latter mOurns all the time.
The inevitable appeal has been made IN the
cas-, Of Bat shea. and the execution OF MS
sentence will be Indefinitely postponed TINS Is
what happens after every conviction Tor MURDER
G, that people wonder sometimes how 1t IS thal
tnurlarers are ever executed. and think that the
methods ~ justice in some other countries
France for instance. are 10 be preferred - our
own ~ Shakrspearan phrase - more compact
~ meaning as respects present conditions IN the
United states than 'the laws delays. Hack
uev.d n (, IS II still sums mp existing facts with
admirable scntentiOusness. There has been some
gain In recent years however. by the enactment
II n statute enabling appeals in capital cases 70
b.. made directly 10 the court Of highest J'iris-
dc,ion. without a first appeal TO the General
Term.
NJ matter what form the Wilson bill takes |
sugar Is "On top"
BY what peculiar sense % dignity and propr'- |
ETY. Representative Breckenridge. OF Arkansas, |
iustlncs his conduct I'm continuing his partisan ei-
hal