The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1873-02-06
Developments In the Ring
Frauds.

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Further Developments In the Ring
Frauds.
We are promised more developments in the
ring frauds-not the live existing Credit
Mobilier Ring, but the outlawed and defunct
Tammany Ring. The aggregate plumber
said, reach nearly twenty-five millions, all
told. The share of Tweed in the audit steal
is declared to have been one million and
half, instead of one million or whereabouts.
The figures are to be put in tabular form,
new indictments against the parties imph-
Gated in the frauds are to be found, and the
public is to be once more astounded by the
disclosures that are to be made. Well, let us
by all means have all the facts, and let the
guilty parties be compelled to restitution and
held to punishment in accordance with the
law. Let the prosecution be carefully con-
Quoted, so that no loose practice and no lack
of shrewdness and diligence may leave loop
hole for the escape Of the criminals or render
possible the empanelling of an improper
jury. Let there be no more bargaining and
intrigue; no further condoning of crime for
the accomplishment of political ends. The
people have o right to demand that the money
stolen from them shall be restored and that
the public robbers shall be brought to justice.
But the Tammany thieves are now out of
Office, shorn of their power and incapable of
working additional mischief. The Credit
Mobilier corruptionists-the men who have
betrayed sacred trust sold themselves like
cattle to grasping and dishonest corporation,
and added perjury to the offence Of official
bribery-are still in power and in position
to injure and degrade the nation. Let us not
against the dead Tammany Ring forget the
living Credit Mobilier Ring, whose members
are still befouling our halls of national legis-
lation and filling Offices next to the highest in
the gift of the American people. 1t is very
desirable to follow up Tweed, although he is
out of power, for the sake of justice and ex-
ample; it is far more important to pursue
Colfax, Wilson, Garfield, Dawes and the rest
who are still clinging to the trust they have
betrayed, for the protection of the country
against their practices as well as for the sake
of justice and example. When we have
driven poisonous adder from our house we
may follow him to his hole and kill him if we
please, although we need fear no danger from
him; but if the reptile remains cooled up in
our bed, we must take his life for our own
protection.
Let us have these additional Tammany dis
closures and be nstounded at them if we will;
but when the partisan journals which are
suppressing the damning evidence of the
Credit Mobilier corruption, assailing the
character of any witness who may prove the
guilt of their political friends, and endeavor-
ing to persuade the people that Wilson and
Harlan are saints, that Colfax is an injured
innocent, that Garfield and Dawes and Patter-
son are all pure as the snow, raise fierce
outcry over these new startling Tammany
developments" let not their clamor distract
public attention from the Congressional
pariahs who still disgrace the halls of legisla-
ton. Tweed and his gang are disposed of,
so far as their power of public mischief is
concerned. Now let us deal with Colfax and
his fellow corruptionists.
THE PUBLIC HEALTH. Legislature
should be on the alert about the patent pro-
jects that may be laid before it in regard to
the preservation of the public health in this
city. What are wanted here are q good,
thorough, ramifying street cleaning system
and more perfect plan of sewerage and
drainage. These are prerequisites to health
in a city like this, and without them oil the
deodorizing schemes that may be suggested
! will prove Of but little actual benefit.