New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1895-10-23

-,.,. tho national will. He possesses no
,-,.,.,,,. vbatever. but has always to be "on the
tch for indications of popular desire. In re-
-. % an inquiry as to whence the Throne oe-
r,,,ad -. knowledge OF the national VIII IN
.a,,,ry not vet invested with the shgh'es.
.h.aor, ~ representative institutions, and where
..,,a,.,rot,ons are sternly prohibited, Prince
IohoroY expIained with charming candor tha'
.,,o national will first imposes itself upon GER
".o, sa,sct few and that these alert persons pass
.,ho krou,ladee on to their Imperial master In
hor, tho mighty potentate whom the OUTSIDE
,rd initiated world has been won't to regard az
h,o,o1 in hjs absolute hand the destinies OF
100 900 900 people is. by the admission Oh MS owl,
chancellor nothing but the unconscious puppet OF
n moro ring. whom the leading Russian sta'es-
man Of the day euphoniously describes as Sc
lect few"
ron.t forget voters OF New-York and BROOK
lyn. that your last chance to register WI" oe
given on Friday and Saturday Not single name
can be enrolled after the books are cioseu Oh
Saturday night Don't put of this important
duty. II you have not already attended 10 H. put
arrange to 20 to the registration place at the
earliest possible hour on Friday.
Mr.. GrOut Is going 10 speaN III ''''
Academy Of Music tonight Unlike the last oc-
casion when he appeared there. this meeting wiz
he under the direct auspices Of the Willoughby
Street organization. and 1t would pfopaoy pe III
had taste for Its candidate to deny that he has
hoa .rv dealings with the willoughby Street
crowd and announce that he doesn't know the
Ross who haunts the Willoughby Street auction
rooms Rut II clearly Is in order for him TO tell
h,s audience and the people Of Brooklyn the name
NJ the man who paved the way for his CGrout9
nomination as the Willoughby Street candidate.
II was a "slick" performance, and the man re-
snonsble for 1t should have no reason TO be
ashamed OF IT, VIII not Mr.. Grout tell us VINO 1t
WAS when he gets on hts feet tonight?
II vas not SO bad TO ride In an open car yester-
dav though prudent man or woman would not
venture To do so for any considerable distance
I'M, n run omen cars on a day like Monday-as
was done in both Brooklyn and New-fork-was
an outrage on the public mitigated somewhat III
BROOKLYN by the fact that each open car was ac-
COMMANDED by a closed trailer" There are resu-
lations which forbid the use of open cars ny tne
surface companies when the temperature Is oe
low 60 degrees They ought to be rigidly enforced
The African gold fields OF the Witwatersrand'
now turning out forty million dollars annually
had their share at the outset of adverse expert
reports 1t is nearly ten years since the Ho'H-
schids sent thitner Mr.. Gardner Wiiliams' d.
present the director of the De Beers Giainohd
mines at Kimberley, an authority OF the his"-
est class, and he reported to his principals 'ha'
there was no gold in the region. Al present
over two thousand heads Of stamps are at "o'N
upon the ledge which he pronounced parreh'
and 1t Is declared that the amount OF goid III
sight exceeds s2500000O0 This Is only one
eeld Of the African outcrop. The deposits IN
Natabele Land show equal abundance and ricn-
ress and the work of their development Is pro-
cee6ing with great energy. Such tremendous
boom AZ that which the last year or two mas
witnessed In the South African properties must
OF course have it's collapse. but the Solo 'aiue
of many Of them may delay 1t for tirne' anu
perhaps when the downfall comes act as sort
of parachute AMI let the whole faprlc COW"
gently instead of tumbling 1t In mass OF rum
The gold production Of the Transvaai pids ialr
in no long time to reach hundred million doi-
lars annually, and there Is no reason 10 lihasi"e
that it will materially diminish In sehera'ioh'
The Industry will In time take It's norman u'-
rection undsturbed by booms. or speculative ca
cesses. but It undoubtedly has some powerful
shocks and agitaiions to encounter nrst' CON-
earning which the forecast OF experts is as 'ari-
able. as the judgment Of their predecessors on
the value OF the deposits. When they occur we
shall know all about them. Till then each one
IS at liberty to guess for himself when the ha"r
hubble will burst, and the relative proportion oi
wind and guineas it will be found to contain
II there Is an exorbitant volume OF the FORMER
the latter are at least not wholly wanting DIS
they have been in some OF the widest ana most
extravagant enterprises which the history Oh
speculation presents.
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