New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1895-03-06

How enormous the strides which have
been made by Great Britain during the past
quarter OF century in the direction Of democ-
racy may be gathered from the fact that Mr..
Herbert Gladstone. speaking on behalf OF the
administration and az the chief OF the Public
Works Department. has announced that the est
mates about To be- submitted TO Parliament by
the Chancellor Of the Exchequer will include the
demand for sum 10 be used in the erection OF
n statue to Oliver Cromwell. Ii has always been
a matter II comment that at Westminster. where
rulers good and bad. great and little. exist In
efigy. no sculpture should do honor to the mem
DRY II the Protector. The omis sion can only he
explained by attrlbuting both TO Parliament and
to the Crown an unwngness 10 give an official
acknowledgment Of a successful rebellion. Crom-
we'll IL may be remembered made short work Of
the House OF Commons. and presided over the
Government that riade oven still shorter work
Of King Charles By Topping or his head. That
the legislature and the sovereign should have.
after a LAPSE Of we'll nigh three centuries. decided
officially to honor the memory OF this great re-
publican by erecting monument 10 him speaks
volumes not only FOR the liberality and enlighten-
mcnt ~ Queen Victoria and Of her constitutional
advisers. but also FOR the development OF demo-
cratic and progressive sentiments on the part ~
the people-sentiments To which Crown ana Cabi-
net manifestly yielding in this matter
Farewell Scannell. Ask Stokes for the Clare
mont lease.
The order Of the day At Albany. with appro-
priations aggregating almos, s2O.ooO.ooo pending.
should be Economy. Economy! Economy!
Many huge hotels have been opened in the me-
; W, no Ia ST
dollars have been spent upon new hotels. AMI
MANY more big taverns will soon be climbing
! toward the clouds. This Is the era OF enormous
inns.
The law will not lay its brutal clutch upon
the towering theatre hat. Gentewomen would
defv the statute II any legislation had been
enacted against the bgges; edihces which they
cared TO construct upon their dainty neads. But
| now that the law has fed afrlghted before the
,crrors Of woman's indignant eyes, will she not
/ he touched with compassion for fra. feeble
| tailoring man and bare her lovely locks In our
| theatres thus increasing her charms and I'M
| shrouding the stage!
ri, was not Billion Dollar Congress, 1t was
! mighty good imitation OF one.
! The Brooklyn Eagle" SAYS that great num-
bers OF the horsecars which remain 20 atiiict
this community are dirty. defaced and disgust
| ing or words to that effect And THE Brooklyn
! Ea gle" ia dead right.
! To raise wheat or corn or hogs IL the problem
for the Western farmer. To raise cotton or corn
! or hogs IL the problem Of the Southern planter.
The hog viii root and die In bigger hosts than
/ ever before upon the praries Of the West and
| under the shadow Of the southern palmetto.
! Art is too long and time too hceting f,r Jus
tice Bradwell In the latter to have obtained a
knowledge OF the former; and in before
| him the other day, when some pictures Of Ra-
| Ihael were shown. he inquired Who Mas this