New-York tribune., 1901-05-19

The pedler's lot is not a happy one. Our New
York costermongers often COMPLAIN OF petty
persecution from the police and Eow the peri
patetic hsh vendors make loud lame mt that cer-
tain hard listed handlers Of express wagons are
shifting them without mercy.
Southern Italy ought TO he more chary OF the
gifts which she is sending over sea. She has
been bountful in exporting her Industrious and
frugal peasantry TO this land OF liberty but
when she ships to shores doses of smallpox
poison from infected lodging houses in Naples
then America is compelled TO protest. The men
and women whom che puts in the steerage 10
follow the westward course of the star of en-
pre should at least be free from contagious dis
eases.
Can IT be true tho current gossip that the
Democratic party has sent it's principles to a
rummage sale?
Some OF our Tammsny officials have tempers
of their own. and delight in explosive utterauces
But they imprudent when they forget the
obvious truth that there is great deal of give
and take in politics. When the Tammany Com
missioner of Street Cleaning berates the TAM
many Police Department. he invites reprisals
And he may be sorry ere long that he did not
bride his tongue
1t is pleasant to be assured that the Auto
mobile Club officially dsapproves and discour-
ages "scorching city streets. parkWays
etc. In doing II serves the best interests of
its members and of motormen at large. The
furious speed made by some i'll advised motor
men is calculated not only to bring the whole
fraternity into dsfavor but also to provoke
more stringent repressive legislati The
''scorching'' bicyclists have pretty generally
learned salutary lesson and their offences
now comparatively few. The motormen
will probably have to learn the same lesson, but
1t is TO be hoped they will learn it in less un-
pleasant manner.
The telegraph lines in Great Britain as man.
aged by the government affiict the taxpayers
with an uncomfortable deficit every year. That is
OF the things which they do not do better in
France but which are done better in the United
States.
Combinations and community of interests"
are not confined to the la ld in this eventful
period. but are rapidly extending their sway TO
the measureless oceans. The network Of COM
merce is steadily enlarging and its ties are con-
stantly multiplied. Violent hostility of compet-
ton among the steamship lines of the world is
lessening. and the great thoroughfares of the
seas will be traversed i'm this generation by
gigantic vessels owned by a comparatively small
number OF companies. The movement toward
concentration OF the control of traffic goes for
ward on solid ground and watery plains with
conquerinG strides irresistible that II must
prevail in time from equator to pole no
matter what temporary checks and obstacles it
may encounter.
With the dogwoods in bloom and the veeries
in song-not to mention a thousand and one
other attractions-the woods in these spring
days place of wcndrous pleasure.
The divorce evil is an appallingly great one
when confined bona fide with honest
testimony. The addition of dishonest cases with
the perjured testimony OF professional witnesses
Is utterly intolerable. and should be checked
with the most vigorous penalties known TO the
criminal code
Among the impressive and generous benefac-
tions which have been OF nestimahle advantage
to New-York the foundations and endow-
ments of great hospitals. What long and i'm
pressive array there Is of them! What other
city can surpass New-York in the bounty of her
phlanthropists? Hospitals established and
maintained by private munihcence must he in
cluded among the choicest Jewels In her crown