New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1870-02-08
NOW SHdLL OUR CITY BE DELIPERED
From MISRUIE7


The World having at length proclaimed the
notorious fact that our City is most cOrruptly
governed we were moved to ask it, What
"will YOU do to put an end to corruption 7
viii you help us to break down
" the power of these bad men and drive them
" from place ?"-To these questions, 1t responds
as follows:
"IIep you, The corruponists of this city count
with absolute confidence upon your betrayng any ally
against them Ten years ago. You inaugurated the
reign Of corruption, howl which, instead of re-
forming is your stock IN trade Then good city gov
eminent was possible You made impossible for these
long years. 1t sheer impudence for you to pretend
desire break down the poser OF bad men and to drive
them from place Their presence in places of power is
exactly the thing you have always abored to secure 1t
is one lever with which you have lifted the Republican
marty into place elsewhere You care less for honest
government and economy in public expenses than for
partisan victories For the sake OF partisan victories
YOU give consent TO, and have organized, corruption
You destroyed the Board of Education which had given
and giving the best common schools in the world
solely to get Republicans the Board than you
we're entitled though knew their presence there
would further the purposes Of the Ring. make
control of the Board by honest Democrats difficult
II not impossible.
"'What will we do to put end TO corruption Mr..
Greeleyl We will inform the public that you and your
Journal can be trusted a. s sties buwarks-tha you
will play into the hands Of Democratic thieves at every
Opportunity-that the honest Democrats Of New.York
can rely upon you and your TRIBUNE for nothing but
exaggerated portrayals Of corruption which you will do
your best TO proong the means of party power in
Washington where the stealings millions instead OF
hundreds Of thousands That is thing Will do TO
put an end TO corruption
What else We will do Is none Of your business for we
would escape yOnr perfdy. and know the value
OF your proferod help"
Comments by The Tribune.
/. In so far as the above seeks to make q
personal issue with u.s. we let it severely alone.
1t needs no answer, and we refuse to be thus
diverted from the serious business in band-the
deliverance of our City from gigantic corrup-
ton and misrule. What is the fountain of that
corruption! How may it he effectively resisted
and overcome3 Happily, The World had al
ready proclaimed the vital truth in an article
to which we have already drawn attention.
that of Saturday wherein it said:
1.-The reform needed above all others a rectifcaion
Of the abuses which prevail in the city elections Unless
this reform DC accomplished, IL matters compare.
lively little what the charter does does not
tain long clique o. Office hOdtrS baibigre-
eject themselves dHd their parasites, using heir Or
me Ciy expenditures 10 poeiade their porsr IL is sheer
mtOcH ana stmpttOnSm 10 Sdnd fOnehduV J0r mOre fre-
qen elections as ToDedy for abuses. IL absurd
to insist on frequent battles with an enemy 70 much
stronger and better organized that he you
in every encounter
at Important, in This cOujuucure, that the people
and the Legislature shonld consider where this business
OF municipal reform hinges. You may construct costly
min after approved model; every part OF the
cbiuery BE- admirable and perfectly adjusted; aud
yet IL the water wheel is placed that the turns
nil he eiaHa i'm ia M
g,so need Of HiS eitV is municipal system that cH gire
us pure ctsiOas. II matters 70 shaped and fixed
that the elections thwar instead of executing the will
Of the people. y the water wheel. the great moving
power machinery. turns backward everything will
10 wrong" .,.,.
Here, you see, is the gist Of the whole
matter: "TLe great need of our City is a mu-
"nicipal system which will give MS, pure cleo
"tions." For once. The World and TIE