New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1854-03-06

NsYork 1t least an absolute los- in c,'he'' stocks
# GOOD, end household furniture Of from Fse'o Tea
Million Dollars !ear.
There j. Dor q re.prctibiy dressed person o. 'n'
Civ Who Oh ised 70 be m the streets every GAY u
the week or FOR single Jay il the week when 'A'
winter flih tuned into GGsi Ike the SIMEON Of tAs
3e. ert sweeps along choking speech sai sAui'n5 on
MIN. Whose personal loss the deterioration Or de-
,trretiou of clothes from that alone, would no.
reach sum Of I've or tel dollars. Ii there are aln
dred thousand OF mis- class which there certainly are
tere loss Of At least Lalf million Of dollars 10
single week which there is doubt occurs aud tll'
20 say nothing Of tie loss 10 goods in the shops IN
Broadway and al the other streets the destruction Of
curtains carpets tapestries, and above all that "nicn
no money can estimate the destruction Of health AMI
Of life which must be enormous Tls annual simeon
il close at hand and this week may bring it on Us +;
horrible as is this present pgue Of mud it ID as moth
ing con pared with that Of dust
1t il extreme folly to suppose that political wrongs
ceased when We separated FROM Great Britain For
We may truly consider the Government OF this City SO
faras the comfort deceucy morals anl heah are con
cened IN this matter Of the streets utterly base and
tyrsucal and is the duty OF the citzene thA; Gov-
erlmeut continue TO neglect its duty % resolve them
selves into Committees Of Safety afOrding themselves
their own protection 1t is their duty, If the streets
are lot cleaned 20 refuse 70 pay taxes. When william
~ tue to Lis order wished TO shrk the signing Of
the Reform bin Londoners put out placaris On their
doors and windows bearing tie words " No taxes PAID
.'Lere unle.s the Reform bill be passed Let
US have little OF this spirit, or that OF 10.
pf al mas MIN
Oar people in the mere pursuit. Of money forget lib
erty. When citizens speak Of this enorml'y among
themselves each one shrucs his shoulders, aud says
We must grin aud bear it, for whatever Is every
bod 5 bu mess il nobody's business Vow W. say
10 citizens let US make it every bodys business Ii
five thousand respectable citizens to Placard their
dwellings and stores with the words" No taxes p1ii
here until the streets are habtualy and thoroughly
clcaued"--they incontinenty would be cleaned
Tie sum Of a quarter Of uilliol dollars has been
pail annually for what is termed street cleaning See
Ing tie small results from this expenditure many we'll
Dteutioned citizens while camorn; for reform have
determined that no larger shall be appropriated
or even that this amount shall be curtaed Now let
them remember that there is such thing aS beng
penny wise and pouAd foolish quarter OF millioq
Of dollars s not more than the O1efOrtleth OF the
actual money loss as have cited above 70 say nom
ng OF the loss of character the loss OF health the loss
Of comfort and the loss of those decences which be-
come q civilized community
This question Of clean streets has, in fact, very
! great notifications The foreign immigrant, for ex
ample used 70 dirt aud slavery in his native village
should encounter, on setting bis foot the wharf in
free America visions Of cleanliness, which speak OF
liberty or of people pure in material well as 10
political or moral attributes But, instead OF this lie
ends beastliness boggishnes,, variety of filth and
steuches, which might make him suppose that New
York 10 the dungheap Of the universe. What 10 the
result of this The foreigner if stopping here keeps
up his sayish filth lie spends his evenings in lager
bier chops ard rumhOles instead of being elevated TO
that high platform Of perceptions which beht land oil
liberty ss tits ought TO be, where the mechanic or Ia
borer may become a gentleman for the first time y
tie history OF tie world.
The youth of our City, Of both sexes, become caous
to the filth around them. They lose the hereditary
habits of tdnefs which distinguished the Dutch found
ers Of the City. Their standard of morals is lower.
Tie Warden of the Philadelphia Pententiary prison
which is conducted on the separate system, and in
which under his Quaker administration cleanliness
U
criminals on entering the prison, the severest trial
seemed to be the thorough forced additions they were
made to undergo. They seemed never to have been
accustomed to anything like the systematic applica-
ton of soap and water and, in fact their filthy per-
sons appeared TO shape their criminal conduct
Now il is utterly impossible for City like New
York. the first in the nion and proPheticaly the first
in tie world, not to have lower standard of morals
and Of manners from this bodily eacasenent Of filth in
which her hundreds of Thousands of inhabitants live
The progress of New.York, great as it is, must be
mpeded from the fact thar the dirnoss of her streets
is proberb throughout the Union with every person
who reads newspaper
Let u. in word have reform The streets must be
cleaned instantly cleaned thoroughly cleaned, and
bsbualy cleaned at whatever cost. If the Govern
ment will not do its duty means must be found TO
make it.