The Idaho world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1864-1918, 1871-07-27
NEW YORK and PHILADELPHIA FINANCES.

'sTammany ring in New York city, and de-
nonncing. the extravagant expenditure and
waste of the public moneys by the city author
titles. TheSfgures Of the city debt are paraded
as conclusive evidence of the corruption which
! they aver exists in all the departments OF the
city government, and no credit is given for the
magnificent public works which are the pride
and glory of the city.
According to the Philadelphia Age, New
York city has debt trife over $4,000, 900,
over and above the sinking fund, and owns
real estate enough, aside from her grand parks,
which can readily be sold for more than enough
to pay off every dollar of her Indebtedness.
The New York Evangelist, a Presbyterian
paper of the Radical faith-anti-C Catholic, anti
Irish, and anti-Democratic, -confesses that
things are not half as bad in New York as has
been imagined. The editor of the Evangelist
recently had q four-hOurs' interview with
Judge Hilton, who is one of the Commission
ers of the department of public parks, aud
who has for nearly twenty years been the init
mate friend and legal adviser of A. L. Stewart,
the millionaire merchant. The interview was
to learn the true condition of the municipal
affairs of the city, and Judge Hilton, though
Radical, answered with frankness all the ques-
tions propounded to him. In giving an account
of the interview, the Evangelist says;
He did not pretend that everything perfect hut
he did declare most distinctly his belief that things
lo,,N haa
pected and that on the whole we had fair and hon
est government,
To general question, he made this answer which
Is tolerably explicit; II believe the government Of
New York is better to-day than it has been since
have known itand that is over forty yearsthat ii
is more efficient and economical. True, the
expenditure is great but the wealth of the city is
enormous SO that the rate of taxation is not great
Then far my observation goes, the departments
better organized they filled with better men,
they do more work and the people better served
than they had ever been before"
The Evangelist says of Judge Hilton, that
he has long been in public life, and not whis-
per has ever been heard against his honor or
his integrity; and that sufficient proof that he
cion, is the fact that he manages the immense
business of \. I. Stewart, who would certain
ly not entrust the management to any man of
doubtful integrity.
The taxes in New York city are not high,
the message of Mayor Hall showing that they
are only about one-third as much as the Fed
eral taxes, and yet. because the city is gov
erned by Democrats, there is no end Of abuse
of Boss Tweed" and the "Tammany ring"
Why do not our Radical friends have something
to say of the wholesale robbery and corruption
the city of Philadelphia! Simply because that
city is under Radical rule. The annual mes.
sage of the Mayor of that city, recently laid
before the City Council, shows that under Rad
ical rule affairs are hundred fold worse in
than in New York, under Dem
ocratic regime. Philadelphia is now grooming |
under q debt Of over $4,000, 900. aud last
year it required forty per cent. of oil the
money raised by taxation to pay the interest
on the debt. As the latter is steadily iucreas-
ing, it will doubtless require fifty per cent. of
the revenue, this year, to pay the interest.
The Philadelphia 4ge, in an article upon the
Radical mismanagement Of city affairs and the
reeking corruption which prevails in the diff
ferent branches of the city government, says:
"This city has comparatively nothing to show
for her vast debt" The Public Ledger, an
other Philadelphia paper, IN an article upon
the same subject, winds up as follows
''And still the burdened and complaining taxpayer
and voter permits himself to be dragooned or de-
luded into voting for unworthy INCOMPETENT
Councilmen, ignorant faithless members OF the
Legislature, and VIGOROUSLY unfit and progate can
didates for city Offices under the leadership OF
TWO or three dozen men who do not care how high
the taxes and debt piled upon others SO that
they secure their thousands and tens of thousands
annually out of the pile"
Admit rs all must that peculation and cor
rupton exists in the government of the city of
New York to some extent, as it doubtless does
n the municipal affairs of all large cities, how
much more glaring is it apparent IN the affairs
Of Philadelphia under the rule of Radicals
We think the comparison between the gov
eminent and the condition of the finances of
he two cities anything but advantageous to our
loyal" breathren. They are "hoisted by
heir own petard," and if they were aware of
he condition of affairs in Philadelphia, they
lave forgotten the maxim, and been engaged
n throwing stones while living in glass houses.
Il
A New POET.-A Yankee poet, named Joa-
Iuin Miller, is creating quite "a sensation in
lterary circles in London. He is said to be