New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1896-09-21

the gayety Of nations.
Gladstone is going to make a speech against
the Sultan. and though he has overlapped four
in age. shifting to the lean and slppered
pantaloon his big manly voice is not yet tun-
ing again toward childish treble nor piping
and whistng in its sound. on the contrary.
IL Is still vibrant and wOrld-echoing, like bat
tle-horn. It was uplifted against the oppressor
and on the side Of the oppressed before most OF
the Kings Cars SLltans and other high
mightinesses in the world were born and
with the advancing years has lost little or moth
ing Of its force and potency. He will give the
grand Turk hot quarter Of hour.
Senator Sherman and ex-COngressman Butter
worth are going to expound sound money doc
trines i'm the Far West and other competent
speakers likely to be sent to that part of the
country later There is rich field for mis-
sonary work out there and the speeches Of
Sherman, Butterworth and others cannot fail to
be effective in making votes
The melancholy days approach. the saddest OF
the year in which the President will have to
take a pathetic leave of the fnny inhabitants
of BuzZLrds Bay. the Chogset and ChebOg and
Malashagany the Misicup and Mummachog.
the Tulbee and the Tittameg and the Sque
league. to say nothing Of the Quahog the Tau
tog and the Pooquaw. The farewell Potlatch is
spread and the wokup abandoned When
TIE great piscator comes back with the
vovng year. the fish and the camp and the
feas; will await him of yore, but he
will no appear in the paint and
feathers Of magistracy. He will feat unwept
and weller to the parching Buzzards Bay winds.
as a strictly private citizen. a station which he
will deem II a privilege again to adorn. espe-
cally a great majority OF his fellow citizens
are thereto Of consenting mind. But he will re-
main in memory as he Is in fact the greatest
fisherman In the annals of the Republic His
fame will continue to expand till posterity pre-
serves OF him nothing less than the Brobdigna-
gian tradition that
His rod fashioned OF n mighty oak.
His line cable that could not be broke:
His hook hammered from dragons tail.
He sat upon rock and bobbed for whale
Whether his civic achievements or his re-
nown as an angler abide longest in memory
time must determine. but in contemporary judy
ment the latter is the more shining section OF
his procedure. Even in. that however, there is
always the popular msgiving that Thurber
may have tempered with the record, giving him
a bigger score than he is really entitled to-
-
Politics is absorbing public attention nova
days. but 1t may not be out OF order TO remark
that the people OF New-York are still waiting
with proper patience for the Rapid Transit Com
missioners TO devise scheme for affordng
them better facilities for speedy movement about
the city.
The projected general strike in the shipping
trade OF Europe. beginning with the dock
workers. which was 10 have been begun in Liver
pool on September %. will very likely be post
poned now that Tom" Mann. the agitator mas
been arrested. The air OF labor centres In Europe
has been full OF rumors OF an impending inter-
national strike and Mann has been abroad en-
listing the dock-workers in the movement. In a
recent article In The Seamen's Chronicle
Mann depored action by sections OF working
men whose employments are interdependent
and he insisted that all negotiations with en-
ployers should be conducted by or under the
sanction OF the Central Council OF the FEEDER
alton. He also took the ground that the Coun-
ell Will habitually consult its constituents. ana
be guided by the properly expressed opinion OF
the members of the various unions. as made
known by the executives Of such unions, and
by the tactics of employers. the state OF trade,
n season OF the year etc The ultimatum
since laid down by the official organ OF the Fed