New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1871-09-05

has not been told and that the credit of the city 70 In
imminent danger by the acts Of those whose duty 1t
to and IT ahsse ~ the
value of the eity property, which may be made oy
experts in real estate the mass OF that property
NEEDED for and is mot F ' Ssst
people to be paid by taxation.
The prosperity of this city, felow-ctizens, Is due
solely to it's natural advantages Its growth In spite
of the negligence ignorance, and corruption OF luz
Government, and while commerce 10 shaekled ana
burdened by unjust exactions from the moment II
into BAY and
and referees seeks the protection OF purer admin
istration Of Justice it still thriyes. But deadly dis
honorable has become business Offices are created
not much to reward political favorites as to pur-
chase the aid of corrupt men to stamp out liberty In
our midst Inc most etSrbtant salaries are pad to
city, as it now stands is mere act OF perfdious
legislation, conceived and framed to prolong the
legislation the Government of this city has become
am Oligarchy. The right of suffrage Is practically
abolished. Elective offices are shon of power, and
scarcely the form Of democratic government re-
mains to us in this city. Wealth. wrung In the shape
of taxes from honest toll aunts itself in the public
gaze in gorgeous array-in SPLENDID equpages and in
dent, unaduterated, incorruptible and radical de-
mocracy of its possessOrs. To eradicate these evils
will require the 9se Of the cautery and the knife in
the hands of bold, sklltul, and faithful operators
rather than the quack nostrums or pretentlous
placebos of any literary mountebank.
This city, fellow citizens, so magnificent in extent
50 liberal in its welcome and hospitality and bound
less in its charities. now calls her people to their
duty in this time OF her humiliation.
CITY PRODIGALrTY ROBBERY OF LABOR
confess fellow-citizens that have been a long
time surprised ut the stlessness and apathy of the
people of this city, and especially OF the mechanical
and laboring portion of our population in not giving
the subject which appears to excite some inter
est, earlier attention, when 1t must have been long
patent to everybody who has the ability to think or
who lays claim to the least knOwed OF his own IN
terest that every dollar improperly not to say fraud
ule1ty expended by the City Government. must b pc
buildings which shelter them in the price OF every
garment which clothes their families, and OF every
mouthful of food they eat, and | here denOunce as
all classes of citizens should denounce, every act
of prodgality or jobbing by the City Government
robbery of labor diminishing its comforts and dis
sipating its enjoyments, but, feow-ctizens, having
said these things before without exciting any atten-
tion will not detain you longer than to add that
the remedy is with you the city will be saved when
the price of liberty" and securt y. To enjoy these
privileges you must pay the price in full to the ut
teTmost farthing The cross must precede the crown
when men sleep, the enemy sows tares.
Fellow Citizens! There are no special copartner-
ships in politics, any more than in religion, where
furnishes the capital and the other does the
both work and pay, and whenever the body of our
citizens each acting for himself, shall resolve that
card the interests and prejudices of party and make
earnest and fai thfu effort to overthrow the wrong
doors, and establish reform in the government of
our City, the good results which you expect to flow
from this meeting will be secured
| As the Mayor, in recent communication to the
Common Council declared it to be due to their
stituents and to the public credit to permit any un
| biased, unexceptonable and bipartisan committee
of tax payers desiring to participate in the abors
of that body in investigating the accounts Of the
City, there Is to hope, that the duties of any
such committee you may appoint for this purpose
might otherwise be expected, and repeat. with
sober and earnest emphasis, to the people Of this
you hero assembled the question which has been
derisively put to disappointed and dissatisfied in
anrers for information concerning the state of your
own affairs, when, now ask yOn In conclusion
what are you going to do about It'll
At the conclusion of his address. Mr.. Havemeyer
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