New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1871-08-08
THE RRDDEIYN RING.

THE BROOKLYN RING.
The City of Churches owes much of its
prosperity TO the fact that il ia suburban TO
York. Its best dwclling-paces and most
healthy and eligible locations for homes are
nearer the business part of the metropolis than
nine tenths of New-YOrk's own residences are.
Property il cheaper taxes and rents arc
lighter; the means of transportation are ade-
quate, and less INSTRUCTED than those of New
York; and altogether it is most attractive
place for people of quiet tastes and light
purses Its growth in consequence il very
rapid, its population very largely on the in
crease annually, and its general prosperity
highly encouraging to its property owners and
residents.
Perhaps al this should have been written in
the past tense. There are those familiar with
the city and interested in its welfare who
think its prosperity at the food, and who
predict that turn in the tide must follow
unless tho barriers to its further progress be
at once removed Our suburban ncighbor 10
afflicted with a Democratic Ring" which,
like that of Tammany, eats away VAMPIRE
like the substance of the city upon which it
has settled. This organization has grown
I'D there within two or three years past,
against rigorous opposition of propcrty-owncrs
and the feignod resistance of officials who
have since proved trcachcrOus. 1t controls
every department of the City Government
cxccpt the Executive which il has rendered
almost powerless; and the Bench is its willing,
active ally. It's control of the strect-paving,
opening, and widening though without war
rant of law. is absolute; and the Improvements
l. ~, nd tom -
the Water Board, which is in reality the Ring
itself, affect injmiously the value OF all
property.
Several of the principal frauds of this
Infamous clique are fully exposed IN the
elaborate article which we print III another
column perusal of it will reveal that the
"Ring" of the suburban city is certainly
metropolitan in it's frauds. The Clinton, Pierre
pOnt, and Union-st. pavement frauds are paral-
lei swndles to those of Fifth and Seventh
ayes. The proposed widening OF Flatbush-ave
presents opportunities for fraudulent purchase
of property and Illegal and unjust assessments
and allowances for property, equal to those
developed in the exposed Broadway Widening
schemes. The members of the Ring have
already scared for themselves the benefits to
expense, of Westinghouse. The Bridge itself,
necessary as its completion is to the pros
perity of Brooklyn, is feared to be "a job,'
involving as many millions of expenditure as
the New-York Courthouse.
These schemes, accomplished and projected
are not half told in the article we refer to-
but enough is revealed to indicate the strong
grasp which she "Ring" has upon Brooklyn.
If she cannot, by desperate effort, shake 1t
off at once, it will lead her to the verge OF
bankruptcy as certainly as New-Iork has been
dragged there by Tanmany. Brooklyn has
few of the resources of New-IOrk; her re-
Operative powers are not nearly SO great, and
her extravaganza "Ring" will ruin her ire
parably in a much shorter time than the des-
perate one of New-York accomplished its
financial discredit 1t is dOubly important,
therefore, that her citizens should make
strong. united effort to throw off the yoke
under which they labor. This can be done
only by prompt and determined action, direct
ed by men of known energy and honesty, and
the sooner these are enlisted in the reform the
sooner the downfall of the Ring can be re-
corded.