New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1898-01-27

thistes-an expectation which not alone HoiS
Writ but common experience discourages. IL
will require more tenacious cement thah
Dcbs.s oratory to hold together a social and in
dustrial fabric so instituted. and It's members
arc likely to find more dscontents in their col
ony than those they sought to flee from outside
OF 1t.
A page Of to-day's paper is given up to the
publication Of a feature which may well De
described az the dictionary once was: Mlghtlly
Instructive though a trhe lacking In continu-
ity Of narrative. 1t is really condensed imam
cial and industrial directory OF this city, giving
in the briefest possible compass the names ana
addresses Of leading houses In finance, manu-
featuring and commerce. The showing made -
an impressive one and when our friends OF the
National Association Of Manufacturers look
over II and remember that there are others"
tens Of thousands Of them-they may have
keoner appreciation than before of the fact that
their convention is being held IN the greatest
financial. commercial and industrial city of the
Western world
The boulevard is just about the best street in
this CITY not 10 put an elevated railroad on
Before acting too loosely on his opinion that
certain provisions Of the charter are uncon-
stitutional, the new Mayor should read over
again the story of the monkey ard the buzz
saw, noticing particularly the cuts with which
II Is illustrated
The way Of the ST. Louis puller-in Is not at all
times a way OF peasantness nor his path
path OF peace. as the experience the other day OF
Victor Goldstein and Morris Mueller with stiff
necked and perverse bypasser named Smith
.hn ~ no
order. they seized the wayfarng Smith by the
arms and were about 20 hustle him into the
ready-made clothing emporium whereof they
were the official bankers. when he suddenly and
without warning opened fire upon them punct-
urng both with numerous and consecutive holes,
whereof one IS now dying In hospital and the
usefulness OF the other as puller-in is i'm
paired beyond hopes Of remedy. BY these un-
happy opponents of robust methods In business
the action OF Smith is held 10 be In restraint OF
trade and therefore in violation OF the provl-
sions Of the Constitution. II they had known him
better they would never have tried to open
business relations with him. AS II is they VIII
do we'll TO regard him one Of those nsensible
brutes to whom ready made clothing fitting like
the paper on the wall makes no appeal The
best thing they can do IS to give him a wide
berth hereafter and thank heaven that they are
rid OF a knave.
There is a good deal Of cold truth in the re-
mark that contributions Of ready cash Will do
the suffering Cubans more good than resolutions
and buncombe speeches
Exactly fifty years ago the then king or Frus-
STA resolved that his subjects should become
great traders. and that himself and his sue
"cessors should for the future be considered
'in Europe as a maritime Power This lauda-
bile ambition met with little success. or late
years Germany has become a great maritime
Power but that is the German Empire and not
Prussia the latter playing comparatively
snail part in IT, But his present Prussian
Majesty repeats for the whole empire his prede-
cessor's ambitious resolution magnifed tenfold.
II IS hardly safe TO say that the sick man in
Rhode Island whose heart is beating 24O times
in a minute has broken the record Has any
one ever counted the heartbeats Of baseball
crank when there were three men on bases two
men out and Casey at the bat"2
BRYAN is clearly of opinion that ne who pro
videth not for his own household hath denied
the faith and Is worse than an inhdel He is
also mindful Of the precept that 1t is wise to
make hay while the sun shines. and lay In a
macintosh and an umbrella against a rainy
dav. At Wichita recently his lecture brought
him 50 400: at n small Missouri town where the
salary Of the only rarson Is $500, and always In
arrears he walked off with $50. His regular
charges are $500 for every appearance and half
the net receipts beyond that sum. When the
next Presidential campaign comes round It will
find him a capitalist coupon clipper. and per
haps gold bug committed to the most conser-
vative financial principles going.
Az a general proposition It may be said that
to give free medical treatment at dispensaries
and hospitals to people who are abundantly
able to employ physicians is wrong both to
charity and to the medical profession.
4 short time ago according to the Cobdenites
all European countries were about 10 engage In
thrift wars against the United States At pres
ent they seem to be trying 10 negotiate reel
procity treaties.
Another estimate OF the gold that will he
brought OUT OF the Klondike region this year.
This time. $4,000 600 But why not $4,000,
oopo,o? or $50? There Is about much
ground for one as for another
creentovn Ind IL the banner town OF the
West FOR morality and the good conduct or its
inhabitants Last week the city marshal re-
signed there being no business for him TO do
and consequently no fees for him TO live on.
The constabuary Is reduced To an individual,
John Pool whose jurisdiction covers three towns
Liberty jackson and Union-hut he never has
to arrest anybody. and hardly ever TO admonlsh
ANYBODY to move on. Several months ago the
Jail plank construction of small size built
on the model OF a drygoods box was hauled out
into the suburbs by team OF horses and left
there without tenants. turkeys or keepers. being
pervaded only by the Indigenous and seriously
discouraged rat, which hnds It difficult to make
living In a town OF such rigid and austerc mo