The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1874-12-16

NEW YORK, Dec. Il, 1874
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Ross TWEED.
The wicked old man is on the sur
face again. Tired 0 fliving in prison.
that Gov. Dix VIII no.
pardon bin, and that the GoFerno'
elect. I idea. dare not. If be woui0i
he ap raied once more to 'ne
court lie was .aken out OF PRISON
on a ar:t Of haJeos corpus, . H.
ken iri,re the courts, where he pcii'
TONED 10 be discharged on the score
hat the court that tried him had nc
Jurisdiction. Judge BARRETT deel+
ded OF course, against the illustrlou'
thief and back be went. y ednesday
night a rumor prevailed that lie bad
lriyen the officers the slip. aad had
got away TO Europe, and the lie was
for an hour generally credited. j
was the mere readily believed, foI
everybody knows that if the Boss bas
the money be is credited with, be
can buy bis way out without trouble
And the comment upon it was not
encouraging to one who wants TO be.
lieve in the honesty of mankind y
am glad the old man has got away,
said n merchant in my Tearing
"Whv glad" / asked. "0h, be has
been punished enough" was the re.
Div. And that vas the expression
of a full half of the people Curious
isn't itg Here isa man who pluncer'
ed the taxpayers for years in a way
that would have made a pickpoekel
blush-a man who stole right anc
left, not only for himself, but a horde
of Followers mar who, by sheer
stealing and an adroit use Of what be
stole. held the city aud State in the
hollow of his hand, and even aspiEed
to the control of the country; this
thief, swindler, and robber is pitied
bv the men be plundered. | can't
help but think that the men who pity
him. envy him, and that, placed as
be was. would have done the same
thing The newspapers Of the city,
TO their credit be it said, insist on his
being kept where be is till his full
term expires. Public opinion will
probably keep him there till he buys
bis way out.
And speaking of the Boss, Gov.
Dix did a good thing the other day.
He supposed, as did all the world,
that the rotund old thief was dressed
in stripes and doing prison duty the
same as other criminals. Becoming
better informed, be addessedsa COM
~munication to Mayor Havemeyer
protesting against giving the man
who had plundered the city OF s2O,-
600 600, a suite of rooms, servants,
citizens clothes, and other luxuries,
and of allowing him visitors at bis
own pleasure. Very properly, the
Governor characterized this discrim-
ination between one thief and another
as a "moekery of justice" But the
protest will do no good. The Boss
has means at his disposal, and be
will be a prisoner of state as long as
be chooses to stay.
RENTS AND EMPTY STORES
The exorbitaat rents demanded OF
Broadway are telling on that street
Between the Astor House and l4tf
sire ct there are over U hundred ele
CANT stores, in the windows Of which
are displayed the dishearteniDe
legend "To Let" and this legend Is
growing more common daily. The
Broadway wner put up rents yea
after year, without any regard to th'
value of the property. $4,000 Sl5,
900, $40, 900 per annum were com
mon figures. This was all wei
enough during the war and the hnsl
era that followed it, but when thu
oinching times came it could not b
endured. No business that could b
transacted on the premises could pa.
this rent, and house after house wen
down in the vain endeavof. th
landlords would not reduce, for the
had faith if Smith wouldn't keep tn
store Jones would be glad TO take !
and as they had become accustome
to living in the style of $4,000 rent
they did not like TO come down. Bn
Smith either quit business or he wei
over to some of the side streets, an'
Jones knew too much to go into rul
bIindfold, and so the stores are empt,
This is as it should be. There is n
reason in keeping up to war prices
anything and rents ought to be ii
first TO come down. True, it depr,
ciates real estate; bat why should
mott There is nothing made by cal
ing fifty cents a dollar. Men cann'
labor forever for landlords.
And, by the way, speaking
coming down." there has been an
is being
CONSIDERABLE ECONOMY
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