New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1896-09-13

on the question or the value or the PopOcratlc
dollar. Major McKinleys summary is conclusive.
Either 1t will be by force Of market value of sill
yer worth a hundred cents and as difficult as
ever to obtain. or it will be a discredied dollar
a fraud and cheat. In the one case 1t give
us at best increased business activity. and
In the other the intoxicating stimulus would be
followed by fearful reaction. How then can it
be considered prudent or beneficial?
Ostend is comparatively new as a gambling CEN
ire but has pushed its game we'll to the front
that the Government takes hand in it and Is
likely to suppress It altogether. AT Monte Carlo
and the older resorts the harpies who conduct
the play have been instructed by experience
that some limitations and moderating regula-
tions are necessary to Is success. At Ostend the
same brood set out with the theory that this
lesson might be ignored, playing runously
high limit. and admitting to the tables any one
who could show ready money including local
shopkeepers. clerks and other residents with the
result OF running them financially and inviting
a police raid on the establishment. New regula-
tons now announced. Residents will not be
allowed to play and only those who go through
the formaity Of joining the club will be allowed
to do So Al, Of them must present TO the man.
agement satisfactory evidence that they can
afford to lose. they will not be allowed to
play The position Of the Government toward
the institution seems to be that It Is willing to
have the outsider plucked for such benefit as
may incidentally accrue To the Commune
through the visitors whom the opportunity OF
gambling draws thither. but that IT Ia not will
ing to have its own citizens despoiled. 1t Is not
a high moral attitude which it assumes in the
matter. but a prudential one. The late Colonel
North the nitrate king. had embarked a large
of money In equipping there a gambling
institution on the most costly and magnificent
scale. but the enterprise is now likely to be
abandoned 1t may be said in general that pub
lie gaming in Belgium is rather under n cloud
with a prospect OF being in no long time wiped
out altogether. The wonder is that a Govern
ment not deficient in enlightenment and not SO
entirely pauperized as to he dependent on the
gamblers license fees should have admitted ii
at any time on any terms
Which is his ownest own. Tommy or Arthur?
Arthur is the older, but Tommy seems to need
more attention.
The bicycle riders of the city should have
care not to ask too much. lest they increas" the
prejudice already existing against them in GER
tain quarters. They cannot expect TO get al
they claim as their rights at once Grea
progress has been made in the recognition OF the
proper privileges OF wheelmen in the last few
years and a grasping disposition Is not becom
ing in them.
A muzzle for Tom Watson? Never, Dan
up Niagara Put out the fires of Etna. Use
the Equator for cycle-tire. But let the mel
lifuous euphony OF the Cracker Sage flow or
forever.
gold from his bank and putting II for safe keep
ing in a safety deposit vault. where he can place
his hand upon it at any moment clearly proves
that while many persons may favor free coinage
through ignorance-being induced to accept j
as the majority sentiment OF their quondan
party-the leaders of the movement DO not II
the least believe what they preach.
The Popullsts have discovered the reason fo
their defeat in Vermont The Green Mountain
people II seems are not true agriculturists. ant
theii views are no index OF the opinion OF farm
ers Instead OF having hearts that beat for the
cause OF liberty and are wrung by the low price
OF wheat they all profit from the operations o.
a trust ami consequently are In sympathy with
g. ID bugs and plutocrats. The Populist organ,
In the West are telling their adherents that Yer