The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1871-09-30

| IDjuncsIon-The Incitemenfs TO Riot.
The modification of Judge Barnard's injunc-
ton SO as to admit of the carrying on of the
work on the docks, parks, boulevards and
avenues of the city, and the prompt payment
Of the laborers and others employed thereon,
relieves the public mind of much anxiety, and
will do more than any newspaper arguments
could effect to defeat the efforts Of q certain
set Of designing agitators to involve the
metropolis in Q disgraceful riot While the
people have been earnest In their
desire to secure q faithful administration
Of the municipal government, and to put q
stop to the lax and corrupt financial manage
ment to which they have been subjected for a
number Of years past, they have never wished
or intended that the great system of public
improvements, under which New York is grow
ing so rapidly in wealth and beauty should be
abandoned or even delayed. When the injunc-
ton was first granted, while everybody
acknowledged the necessity of checking the
payment of money out of the city treas
ury on such accounts as those Of
the Ring printing associations and the
new Court House contractors, there was
a general apprehension that its effect
might be to embarrass the publlc works,
and many Of the members of the Committee Of
Citizens, as we'll as others who had been
prominent In the reform movement, fastened
to protest against such calamity, and testified
to the confidence felt in the integrity and COM
of 4Hn oNQon NJ h. hno ~ <ba 4
partments of parks and DOCKS Judge Barnard,
therefore, is strictly in harmony with plblic
sentiment in making it plainly understood, by
supplementary order, that the money neces-
sary to carry on the works Of those depart
ments may be raised without let or hindranoe,
and that there is no intention on the part Of
the Court to interfere with the expenditures
by the proper officers. But there appears to
be some hesitation on the part of Deputy
Comptroller Green TO carry out the spirit Of
Judge Barnard's order and to make the
necessary advances to the Department of
Parks. 1t is to be hoped that this
difficulty will be removed, and that Deputy
Green will not suffer any personal pique or
prejudice to interfere with the interests or to
thwart the will of the people in this direction.
the public works. In case of stoppage the
avenues and places which are now in prepara-
ton for grading would soon become filled with
stagnant water, to the detriment of the public
health, If not at the risk of pestilence. The
works on the parks and on the docks, now
in, <O tom ots Let
season when frost might soon set in and render
all that has heretofore been done dead loss
to the city. Deputy Green knows better than
most men the serious amount of damage that
would be inflicted directly upon the public
works, and indirectly upon real estate all over
the city, by the adoption Of ex-Mayor Have
meyers policy of stopping the supplies" and
he should not risk his reputation in the new
position that he has been called upon to fill
to crafty any feeling he may harbor against
his old associates on the Park Commission.
Another most serious evil that would result
adopt the spirit of Judge Barnard's order,
and to provide the necessary funds for the
departments of DOCKS and parks, would be
the sudden throwing of many thousands ofpoor
men out of employment, as well as the post
ponement of the payment Of their just claims
for services already rendered. 1t is crafty
ing to find that every respectable
paper in New York, Of whatever shade
of political opinion, denounces the
recent infamous attempt of a disrepu-
table Tammany advertising sheet and an
English edited partisan journal, to inoite
riot in the city; and yet there is no doubt that
very great excitement would attend the dis
missal and non-payment Of some fifteen or
twenty thousand men whose daily earnings
are their only means of subsistence, and
who would not be able to find work
all the winter if their labor on the
parks and roads should be discontinued at this
time. 1t is to be hoped that Deputy Green
will bring no such misfortunes on them,
especially as their toll adds wealth to the city,
and as the money they draw is returned
hundredfold to the owners of property, who
are taxed to pay it, in the rapid increase
have at the same time serious
word or advice for the laboring men
who may be affected by the probably unavoid-
able delay in the settlement of their wages,
and by the fear of being thrown out of
employment. Whatever may be the result,
let them set their faces resolutely against all
those evil advisers who would incite them to
acts Of lawlessness and violence. They have
only to reflect upon the character
of those who talk so glibly Of mobs
and riots, and of bringing down"
Objectionable citizens, to be convinced
that they are not the friends of the laboring
men. The paid tools who do the bidding of
the worst men in the ring Of corrupt officials,
and Englishmen who are ignorant Of Ameri-
can institutions and who have British sub
jects natural prejudice against the young