The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1870-03-16
THE PANEL GAME.

THE PANEL UAME
From the NJ Y World
The tariff robs, but it also swindles. 1t
can garrote, and likewise play the ''panel
game" Two instances of this latter form of |
rsscality are as follows
Had Mr. Kelley whom we will here take as |
the Pennsylvania iron interest," moved In |
committee to raise the duty on rails thirty |
cents per hundred pounds, Mr.. Schenck, or |
the West, would have resisted that proposi- |
ton. The sly Kelley therefore thim6ie-rlgs,
and prooures in the bill as now drafted the |
following fair-seeming clause, ride page II,
line 391:-
'on iron of any size or description, not included,
embraced, or enumerated In this act one cent per
pound"
Iron rails not being anywhere "included,
embraced, or enumerated in this act, it fol-
lows that, should the bill pass as written, Mr..
Kelley will, by his 'panel game" have COM
passed duty of 81, instead of as now 20
cents on each hundred pounds of iron rails
an increase of 43 per cent.
Mr.. Hooper, of Massachusetts,, operates
the second game. In that State, as in
Europe, there is manufactured from COW
hair and calf-hair certain heavy fabric, used
for padding the toughest purposes of cloth
ing, and in other rude ways, In England,
this fabric which weighs 1-5 pounds to the
yard, costs shillings sterling or Y cents
gold yard, and to protect the Massachusetts
manufacturers, duty of 30 per cent. al
| val0rena is imposed on the foreign article.
This not being enough for M Massachusetts,, it
| is desired by Mr.. Hooper to clap specific
duty of so cents pound on top of the 30
| per cent dd OdtOTem and, fearing direct
| proposition, the ''panel game" is resorted to.
On page 10, line 2l4 of the bill we ind:-
"Of all manufactured articles composed wholly or
in part of WOOL worseI, hair OF goa ats, or other
| animals, and not otherwise provided for, 80 cents
per pound, and in addition thereto, G5 per cent ad
yalorem"
''Other animals" takes in COWS and calves
very well, and as this rough fabric from their
hair is not otherwise provided for, Mr.. Hooper
| juggles in his desired increase quite hand
| somely. What that increase is may be thus
| Scent
| PROPOSED RATE.
Price of yard of cow-hair cloth in Eng
| Ad valorem duty, 35 per cent. ........... 25
Specific duty, ~ lbs, at 5o............ 1lO-s2O7
PRESENT RATE.
| Price, as above. OVe........................... $012
| Ad valorem duty, as above. rs 9I
To Or. of "panel game" s11O
| which gives duty of 1S6 per cent. on first
cost, and an increase of the proposed over
the present duty of 440 per cent. AS may be
imagined, this cow-hair fabric, 80 far as it is
employed for clothing, is used only by the
very poorest and most needy classes; and yet
these ''panel- game" operators have the effron-
terry to tell US they spare the poor.
THE DEMOCRATIC CLUBS OF NEW
YORK.
From the Springfield Republican.
All of our readers have of course heard of
the Manhattan Club, the headquarters of the
genteel Democracy, where Manton Marble.
! Augustus Schell Barlow, Belmont, Tilden,
7 and other dignitaries meet to discuss national
and State affairs. This club is not so much
\ Il,Yxy1, nLl -I11
, by men of wealth and social position.
) 1t is now cast in the shade, however, by the
Andrew Jackson Club, which is composed of
l the ablest and most energetic members of the
Young Democracy, whose star ID beginning to
, mount towards the zenith. This organization
is particularly interesting at this time as
: being the centre from which the future local
i policy of the Democratic party will emanate
D and it has become very influential of late. II
0 was founded in March, 1867, mainly to ad
y vance the interests of Sheriff James OBrien
: the leading maguate of the new party. Its
g | headquarters were at first in the eastern par
t of the city, but, as it's members grew in
d power and popularity, it was removed
It to its present location on the corner
of Thirty-third street and Lexington
Q avenue. 1t numbers about 200 members
:, who are all shrewd and active politicians
!, stoutly opposed to the present ring, and who
@ combine the intellectual and muscular ele
o ments of the party. Congressman James
It Brooks, Henry l.. Clinton, Leander Buck th'
u President, Thomas Reese, one of the ables
If Democratic politicians, and formerly clerk o
IL the Board of Education, and Bicksby McCa
o hill Genet, and Norton are among the bes
IS known members. Jimmy" 0'Brien, as he i
10 popularly called, is, of course, the leading
'r spirit of the organization. He is represented
n to be q charitable man. who neither drinks
le swears, or uses tobacco in any form. He
W remarkably retlcent and intelligent for q maj
st of SO little education. He resembles Brio
I'd Pomeroy in his lack of the smaller vices, an
le controls his rough followers apparently b
10 his personal magnetism, and has gained tn
ly respect of the educated Democrats who az
le pear to think highly of him.
10 There is a third important political club il
r. New York, called the Blossom, from wha
at cause know not, but presume on account O
a, the inclination of the noses of somepolitician
40 to blossom like that of Nasty, as drawn,by th
GO clever hand of Mast. This body is compose
lg of the great men of the ring, including Tweed
ps Sweeny, and Oakley Hall, together with tn
OF leaders of the corrupt portion of the Republ
m can party, who have affiliated with the rim
d, in their corrupt schemes The Blossom holt
O. its meetings in an elegant building on Fift
a avenue, near Twenty y-third street, fitted u
in the most sumptuous STYLE One OF III
O. great unwashed expressively described til
m luxury of the rooms by saying that If yo
ld struck a sledge-hammer on the floor 1t woul
Ir- not be heard yard off, on account
an the thickness of the Turkey carpet I'll
RS decorations and furniture are SUI
'r, posed to have been paid for by Andre
,s. Garvin out of the profits OF the new Cou