New-York tribune., 1871-05-04
OURSELVES As OTHERS SEE Us.
THE REFORM ASSOCIATION OF NETWORK.
N, Inndo5.

A very remarkable, though we greatly fear,
very hopeless movement is Just now going on IN New
plunder it, snr which monopolizes all municipal power
has recently ade move which has fairly frghtenea @
sthy Under the guidance of some man who must have
genius for political organization these nave
nrepared and IL is believed will carry through the state
Eegsiat1re series OF bills which w az they believe
not only 1t 1ns Sayns for rs
object political REFORM" and more than HUNDRED oa
accepted Office upon its Executive Council They called
their meeting the etb inst, and Il appears TO
zens who cheered the strongest statements OF orators
like Mr. Barrett, Mr.. Beecher, Mr.. Evarts, and DIR.
motest hint at the mpoyment of force At this meet
ing the denuncatons Of the yenaity OF the Judges who
upon which have cost the city eight or ten
times their value to write at desks which are ncarnate
pieces of corruption" were boder even than those OF
under which New York pays taxes were OF the most -
sparng kind and the resolution. were yer one mass 0i WIN
there the action OF the meeting ended Anything more
and from end to end of them there is not one practical
suggeton except that possibly one day the poor would
that they were being Ioopea oI ~o s
caed that all classes becoming corrupted by the
@ hss as w TSh
bought by wealthy clients tnat tne clergy t1ahd
sbPaGail tbd salaries Should fail Of The taIeaherers
said Mr.. Evarts, haunt their riches In the race
OF the ys resolution, unanimously adopted by
the meeting "the control OF the local and state Govern
ments Is left TO iders ana adventureIs u B no
longer a matter Of pride to be New-Yorker yet says
Dr. Bellows all eminent citizens hold aloof from pubic
lfe "peadlng excuse only the doctrine OF despair
Not one OF tie speakers had working remedy to sug-
eest-such for instance change in the suffrage linn
ting 1t to Americans or In the elective char
desatnre Mr. Evarts did indeed, hint that good citi-
s an Hs %%
n & 5y one gs1e4 SI the se only
nre the public conscience to educate the people 10 Sc
iect good men"as the people thought they were Sc
lecting bad Ones to form out OK potn parties neT
~ fr making the ruling party cynical in their dsnon'
esty How Ia the public conscience 10 DC ptckeu hoIo
deeply than it is when the pulpit Is SILENT when tne
was repeatedly stated at the meeting, the resduum OF
edIv for punderI shrewd Mr.. Beecher indeed hinted
that he was particularly opposed 10 the Cathoo
grants thinking apparently that the priests might prefer
- accent them from honest people; but everybody else,
while ali but despairng Of cure, seemed 10 peneye ths
there might be only o peope %Sea suppc
the people, with free press ana iree PPit' au hoo
right Of meeting and long habit OF Po cnrpunon anp
ia thew will for example, rather tolerate unjust judges
than give up the right OF appointing themIwhat nope
agency into doing what their owners must
already quite well aware nsy asensT ousHt 70 be
IrSnger or more widely di1used than the press tne
pulpit and the lectureroom, which, u IL " m 10 tau
The plain truth s that the ssS peopes the thirst for
San has in NewYork Caught the politicians, and the
remedy lies in rd9m in
onn naptV DO tie one thing about which nob9dys con-
cnce nnon thorough and final reform OF the judiciary
Nobody's conscience wants any prlckag aoHue % i i.
Nobody in New quesos ses instice
for money is the supreme valD anu nopouy ih a,ern
smallest effort to terminate system unaer wne f y, ~
indge has every human nature can ee 10 NC
ymi1st Eeced Judges are generally unjust judges. ana
H. knowing that the populace VIII hot resikn t i.s ss @
Of election the populace DEGREES injustice anu inuS' p''
tna uaIfv