New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1895-01-05

II We may believe high police officials everything
that they touch turns to gold. and nothing Is too
vile for them 10 touch.
The two men who are most backward in dis
covering the hopeless breakdown Of the financial
policy Of the present Administration are Grover
Cleveland and John G.. Carlisle. Even they Will
bump up against the unpleasant truth sooner or
later.
Further investigation into the affairs Of the
Central National Bank Of Rome, y. y, dis
closes conditions which are al once DIS
couraging to the creditors and dscredita-
Bile to the directors of that institution.
For the methods and management under
which It was possible for a thievng cashier to
create a shortage OF sl34. 900 against the banks
entire resources In capital and surplus Of $4,000.
no prudent business man can conceive OF any
adequate excuse justihC alton. The wreck Of
the institution, which IL found TO be more and
more complete the farther the inquiry Is pushed,
il simply a costly and eloquent testimonial to the
slipshod methods OF bank directors who do not
direc, and Of bank examiners who do not ex-
anime.
william l.. Strong Is appointing men VINO wear
no boss's collars.
II the recent cold wave had extended few de-
grees further southwark the equator would PROB
ably have been warped out OF position by the
frost.
uis a wise and excellent thing to set some Of
the striking cloakmakers az work upon the
streets They have had no work for months
and many ~ them are IN a wretched CONDITION
The sums which they IAN earn in the Street
IN en- and their starving families.
one OF tho most valuable features OF The Trb-
une Almanac for 1895 are the election returns of
All the States by counties and OF New-fork by
towns The returns OF the last election and 81
nravIous elections are tabuated in parallel coll
unns The student Is enabled TO analyZe ana
study the character Of the vote east. see no"
one party gained or another lost. whether the re-
suit was due 10 transfer u votes from one side
To the other or by large numbers of electors stay
ing at home These are questions to be seriously
co,sidered by ANYBODY seeking the significance
or a ballot. The ALMANAC contains besides a
great variety Of political religious. sporting and
financial Information. II Is sold for % cents a
copy.
All signs indicate that the powers Of real in
nuence with the new municipal administration
have their headquarters directly under Mayor
Strong's hat.
Instead OF impeding the military operations
Of the Japanese the severe winter in CHINA is
facilitating their advance toward PekinS For
the cold has frozen the roads hard and covered
the rivers with a thick sheet Of ice. rendering
transport far more easy Than in summer
10 ipt
history without record being made Of the reform
efforts ~ Hoke smith in the capacity Of Instructor
I'm English for the Government Printing Office
He shows himself worthy ~ place under The
President who rises 80 express my thanks and
"to convey the Acknowledgements | feel in the
| "courtesies extended In meeting the people of
| "ceorgetown" and who esteem Southern hos
| nItalitv because he has felt II the under
| ,v,np nrinciple Of American citizenship"
| some time ago the Secretary gave attention TO
| complaints that the departments furnished has,y
| and imperfect copy to the printer and wasted
time and money revising proofs to get their work
| into presentabe form. Accordingly. he printed,
| signed and circulated an order TO his subordl-
| mates. in which, among other things, he sad; l
| ''am Informed that these practices exist IN TIE
various branches Of this department, ana, wish
ing To cooperate with the Public Printer In the
| reforms he desires to naugurate and In which |
heartily concur. you are instructed to require OF
| "your subordinates careful preparation of all
copy prepared In your Bureau so that proof VIII
| mot be necessary only in extreme cases and give
such instructions that will prevent the use of eN-
| "pensive paper for unmportant blanks Care
| "ful preparation OF all copy prepared mot be
| necessary only" such instructions that Will
| ",revent"' The department writers should bear
| these idoms in mind. IL carefully patterned
| after a fine quality Of Presidents English may
| in time be developed. The language In common
use will hardly change from Its old rude forms
| until the Government rhetoric Is more or less
| completely hokesmthed.
| England has drawn out o. the Bluehelds con-
| troversy She never had any business TO be
there.
Modern Imperialism finds Its most aggressive
exponent in the German Emperor, who declares
| that the army Is the fundamental basis OF the
| empire" That royal dogma embodies a blunt
| and unmstakable answer to the dreamers who
are pleading for European disarmament
Assemblyman Wray's resolution for the APP
| pointment OF committee to do for Brooklyn
what the Lexow Committee has done for New
York Is clearly In order. The entire city gov.
| eminent at the other end OF the Bridge IL now
under Republican control. but there are many