New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1860-06-29

IN uuderynIue their property, anf thus admit thcm
4, ahare in the spoil. Our Astors. Issnnoxos
Crosbys, and other great proPersy.hold"r'' never
take a, noticeable part in the direction OF our
City Affairs. They ought, Every man OF them TO
be Supervisors, Aldermen, COuncllmen; It IS al
once their daily ard their interest 50 to be, they
could be elcctcd if they only would; but II il easier
and laner to stand alooto sneer ut ofiice-seeking
as disreputnble, az privately dsnource republic N
institutions us an absurd failure-when in fact the
failure il here's in them, not in the institutions.
The Astcr estate would be worth to-day One mil'
H,u ID liars more than il could now be sold for If our
CITY were but honestly aud frugaly governed. Bot
If the Mionaires treat this practically as oil no
consequence, what have they right to expect from
the Mobf
The men Of property, Of culture, OF LEISURE
having ubdicotsd, the actual government OF our
City to-day rests on this basis
]. A conspiracy of Ten Thousand Rumselers to
get rich OF live uselessly at the general cost The
lur requires them to pay thirty dollars each rs
license moi ey for the privilege Of adding OF least
sIOO each TO the public burdens through the in
crease of crime and pauperi-m. They find It more
profitable to pay $40 each per apuum to defy the
law than $50 10 obedience to it. So they bank
their capital, hold their weekly councils hire their
Law ,ers, aud say to our Democratic functionaries,
Hmrass us at your peril. IL you crowd us, we
81. " III upset you next election" SO Judges, Pros
ecutor, Mayor, &c, become their humbleservitors,
their affect tools, and they defy the law and swell
the public burdens from year to year with impu-
pii,.
g Next in order come the great army Of R,ughs,
sympa,hizng al d cooperating with the Rune Hers.
and sometimes, but not always, Identical tn
them. Thy get up and figure in pugillstic eahi-
billions keep rst-pits, shooting galleries, gamiog
bonsts, broibels, &C., and attach themselves,
wherever possible, to engine companies, in order
Ia mi. cad, debauch, and manage the Grcmsn or
these at least ninety-nine in every hundred are
natw,l and powerful champions of the eIistiog
Democratic a.cendeDcy, wherefrom thy expect at
lea.t the utmost possible IMMUNITY, with now and
then job or an office. They make Mayors,
Judges and Aldermen, aud reasonably expect that
there .ba remember their political creators.
Hence the "finta.tic tricks" in the way Of ap-
poinncnts discharges from arrest, sham trials,
mock sentence, &c, which often puzzle plain
citizers who do not '.Bnow the ropes"
We have thus roughly outlined the practical
government of our City as it is to-day. 1t is de-
ploratly bad; but its evils are perfectly durable.
If our citizens who do not want to steal, and do
not Ike being robbed-who do not aspire to make
their living by drbauching their neghbors, nor BY
defyire the most wholesome laws-shall see fit to
say detisively, "This shall be no longer We viii
81 mite to stop if !" it will be stopped, and that
within the current year. If they will cot de this,
VINO can they Justly blame but themselyesl