Judge — July 18, 1885 — page 2: what you’re looking at

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THE JUDGE. PUBLISHED ONCE A WEEK. TERMS TO SUBSCRIBERS. (Usrrep States axp Casapa) Single coptes 19 cents each: THE JUDGE PUBLISHING COMPANY, 824, 326 and 328 Pearl St., NEW YORK. TO COR! ONDENTS AND CONTRIBUTERS. EP-CORREAPONDENTS WILL PLEASE TARR SOTICE THAT THEY DS Rink. WHERE #TAMIS A PHILOLOGICAL HERCULES. That isa Herculean task to which Mr. Chas, A. Dana has consecrated his declin- ing years and undiminished powers. He not only has undertaken to teach the exact and graceful use of the language and to supply to ‘the grammarless tongue ” the missing code which the late Richard Grant White failed to discover; but he has se- selected as a class to receive and radiate the new science the most unpromising ma- terial, perhaps, that could be found. It was like Mr. Dana’s courage and devotion to open his school first to those awful exam- ples of idiomatic aberration, the editorial writers of this country. We fear that Prof. Dana isa severe task- master, however. He should remember that philology is an abstruse study, belong- ing to the domain of metaphysics. In that use of faultless English which seems 80 easy and comes so natural to him, many of the ripest, and some of the over-ripest scholars, have sadly failed. Richard Grant White, Prof. Marsh and Prof. Whitney have blundered; Shakespeare and the Bible marred by linguistic lapses, It is study; beginners in it must be patiently treated. Moreover, these beginners especially need forbearance. Probably all editors have attended public schools. If 80, they were submitted early in life to the intellectual de- pletion consequent upon studying those absurd codes with many and varying rules, THE JUDGE. and ten times as many and more contra- dictory exceptions, humorously dubbed “English Grammar.” Many of them, later, went to high schools and colleges where the work of suppressing a knowledge of English was continued through years of Latin and Greck maundering, until they were nearly as badly off as was the learned little boy in | Boston,who said he spoke five languages, but “knew only two words of English— “ouse and ’orse.” But to an enthusiastic pedagogue, fired with the consciousness of mission, nothing is impossible. Dr. Dana will, we may be sure, break his pupils of bad gram- mar or break them all up; and we dare promise that he will continue patiently at his task until it can not be said that the Sun is the only English luminary extant that is not spotted and dimmed by jecisms. But if the Grand Old Purist do not live to sce this consummation, may we not hope that he may see the fruition of his toil in another and a better worl We hope and be- believe it, and when Gabriel shall order the curtain down and the lights out, we expect to hear him pronounce er tion’s valediciory in pore and undefiled Sun English. WILL TAKE A HAND IN THE GAME. To believe that the administration will take no part in the New York campaign, requires a degree of simple faith not often found ontaide of an asylum for non compos men What has Cleveland ever done—however he may have talked—to justify the charging him with running polities on Sunday school princi politician, so far as his own fortunes are in- volved. And there is no doubt that democratic success in New York i cither the success of his first term or the possibility of a eecond. The man who, as Governor, wrote the low-down political letter to Senator Grady, is not the kind of | Spartan who will lose any chances by stand- ing on principle and etiquette. It must not be ‘forgotten off'n your mind ” that this is not a Democratic, not a Mugwump, not a Reform administration, It is a Cleveland administration, first, last and all the time, And whatever is neces- sary to Cleveland's fortunes, the policy of the Government of the United States must become. It was not to please the Mug- wamps, but to tie the New York Post Office to his string, that Pearson was appointed. It was to chain at once the Custom House, the County Democracy and Boss Thompson to his chariot that Hedden was made col- lector. | New York elected Cleveland. New York must be held. What else does the appoint- ment of two cabinet officers from this State mean; what else the rapid ‘‘ reform ” of the les? He is eminently a practical | is of vital | consequence to Mr. Cleveland’s fortunes, for | patronage of this State, while the “ very hungry and very thirsty” of other States languish unfed? New York State is the key to the situa- tion, the Metropolis is the key to the State and Boss Thompson holds the key to the Metropolis. “The cause of Reform” can no more get | on without the consent of the second Boss Tweed than the church can succeed without filthy lucre, Cleveland’s career hangs on New York. As Uncle Remus “«*Pears like he’s ’bleedged fur to have it.” WHY NOT UNLOAD SILVER? It burdens the treasury, cripples the country and demoralizes the whole financial system of the nation. By refusing to pay out the legal coin of the country the treasury is depriving busi- ness of just so much good circulating medium. By with-holding it for the as- signed reason that it is unwerthy to ciren- late, the treasury is unnecessarily discrediting its legal money. Thus, it depletes the circulation, impairs confidence and besmuts the creditand honor of the government. ‘It is a foul bird that defiles its own nest.” The secretary of the treasury has lately gone a step further in the direction of un- dermining government credit. Ie has dis- credited silver certificates by ordering that they be not received for government dues. This is a totally superfluous stab at the Nation’s honor. ‘These are simply. certi- ficates of deposit good for so mach coin or bullion deposited against them, and hence as secure as any paper money can be. To crown the record of mischief, tur- pitude and disloyalty tothe country we need only say that the policy of the administra- tion on silver is unconstitutional and in direct contravention of the statutes of the United States. Why not pay out the silver? The people want it and to retain it in the treasury is dangerous and criminal. Brer. Bercner declares that he is no politician, but the way he gets appdintments from this administration excites the envy of the heelers of ‘Tammany. Of course, he doesn’t ask for favors, He doesn’t have to, That’s what they envy him most for. Deep, deep! It was so unfortunate that Secretary Lamar, who fought so bravely against the Old Flag and the Old Fourth, shuuld forget to raise the former over his department on the recurrence of the latter; but it was fortu- nate (for the Republican party) that he did not forget to put the Old Flag at half-mast | on the occurrence of the death of Jake Thompson incendiary and poisoner-in-chief to the late lamented but now exuberant Confederacy. comicbooks.com