New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1872-09-19
FOB HUMANITYS SAKE.

mated discussion ~ TO the strict prOpr1ety vi
| The TRIBUNE's method Of investigating
abuses in Insane Asylums, we may possibly
be permitted few words on the SUBJECT
We might well be content TO rest with what
the ablest and most enterprising Journals Oh
the country have voluntarily said IN com
mendation of that investigation Tor thelr
nraise has been unequivocal and most liberal.
Every journal which lays just claim I'd DC
considered an organ of public opinion, and to
furnish all the news, has Endorsed In generous
terms an undertaking as successful as IL
was novel. We might well be content 10
assert that the great ends gained justified the
means. for events which are the current news
of every journal, and the subject of indignant
nav. horrifed-comment in every pubic
spirited journal, have been brought to the
light and made notorious and revolving
mainly through that enterprise. But, fur-
Their: we know, from the innermost wards
of Boomingdale, that, az result OF our In
vestigations, the food furnished to the I'M
bappy patients there is greatly improved
in quality and increased in quantity; that the
| medical attention has been more liberal; that
the greatest preparations are making for the
| expected visit of the Commissioners by the
reftting and refurnishing of rooms. baths, &C.,
and that 1--WE specify in detail that all may I'M
derstand we know whereof we speak, BRAD
"ley, on Hall ILL.,, has hung up his tuneess
"fddler which formerly so exasperated
patients. We regret to add that, at
this critical time, when DR.. Burrill Is
| on trial before the Trustees, DR.. Porter,
second in authority, is absent in Connecticut,
H.. alra IN
New Hampshire, and that the youth of eighteen
who is in charge of the institution Is a late I'M
portation from Blackwelps Island Asylum. In
the mean time the horrors which have been
developed at Wards Island in themselves war
rant all that THE TRIBUNE has done.
But the enterprise about which the Press all
over the country has made such general COM
ment is nothing new to THE TRIBUNE. year
ago we investigated Ludlow-st. Jail, and ex-'
posed system of oppression and outrage
then unsupported in the community. Certain
reforms were secured; more which we hoped
for, existing laws rendered impossible. We are
free to confess that for the exposure we have
been more heartily thanked by Sheriff Bren-
nan. whom we held primarily responsible for
existing abuses, than by any other person,
and he has, rs we know, done all he could to
improve matters, while the release of scores
of prisoners. ordered in q moment of impetuous
but we believe genuine sympathy by that
compound of reckless good humor and good
natured rascality, Judge Barnard, is already
known as one result among many of
orr exposure. We made full and complete
revelations of the villainies by which
DR.. Carnochan, as Health Officer of this port,
swindled its merchants and perpetrated
series of most mOnstrOus frauds. The truth,
the full and crushing truth, in that matter,
which Dr. Carnochan could not reply to and
never attempted to explain, was obtained only
after weeks of research by an active detective
reporter, and by the expenditure of several
hundred dollars but it was effective, as all
know The truth in regard to the thieving of
Judges CardOzo and Barnard and Ingraham,
and their Gratzes was obtained only through
the Jealous labOrs of gentleman whose name
has never been mentioned in connection
Herewith, and il not to be named now, but
who deserves greater credit individually for
his efforts to arouse public opinion when the
laborers in that particular viney0rd we're few
than any lawyer or legislator who labOred for
the reform which ended in the disqualification
of Barnard the virtual disqualification of
Cardozo (for the end is not yet in his CASEY, and
the deprivation of Ingraham of all powers for
mischief We might mention other reforms
of Importance, secured by the same means, as
for instance the breaking up of the Harbor-
Masters Ring, the Emigrant Robbers Ring,
and to come to merely social topics, the traffic
in Explosive Oils, the sale of Diseased Meats,
the adulteratiOn of Milk, and other like meas
ures. But enough has been said to show that
the Bloomingdale business was not novel
enterprise to THE TRIBUNE.
There are other fields yet to be reaped, and
THE TRIBUNE proposes to keep its reporters
diligently employed in all that concerns or
benefits the public. There have been of late
frequent and serious complaints in regard to
the manner in which immigrants to this port
are treated on shipboard and on their arrival
here. This has seemed TO TIE TRIBUNE q
subject worthy of its most serious considera
ton and careful investigation. reporter has,
therefore, taken passagein the steerage of one of
the main lines from England to this port; he
has suffered and experienced the dreadful pas
sage from shore to shore; he has been
through Castle Garden and one of the board
lighthouses which are offered to immigrants on
their arrival; and he is now part of the living
cargo of one of the immigrant trains west
ward bound on main line of railway His
story, to be told as soon as it can be prepared,
will contain the whole truth-no more, no less;
and while it may establish nothing new or
strange, we promise, from passages of it
already in hand, that it will be interesting to
every foreign-born resident of the country,
and hope that it will prove contribution in
the interest of humanity.