Ashtabula telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1874-1880, 1875-09-17
OUR NEW YORK LETTER.
The Irish I'm New YOrk-The Times
and Rents-MOney-Fash
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THE IRISH IN NEW YORK.

Morrissy and Kelly are fighting for su-
premacy in the Democratic organization
in the city, which means control OF the
Democratic party in the State, and New
York looks on with breathless anxiety.
What is it ali about? Any question of
policy involved? Any great diferen C e
of opinion on matters of great moment
between these leaders of a great party,
these arbiters of destiny. these makers of
Presidents? Nothing of the sort. 1t is
simply fight between two Irishmen-
one of them professional gambler, and
the OF her a worse man-as TO which shall
dispense, TO other Irishmeu, the offices in
the city, This is all there is about 1t.
Do you realize the extent ofIrish rule
in New York? Do you know that the
police mostwithout exception are5 Irish?
That the schools, the public works, the
well everything, in short, is from the head
to the foot in the hands of these people2
In vast majority of the wards it is i'm
possible for a man not an Irishman TO hold
any position, and the consequence is, the
CT ty is sure and certain in their hands
1t is regular pyramid-the Irish people
at the bottom, and Cardinal McClosk ey
at the top. The voters are in squads of
fifties and hundreds; then captains and
police men, and rum-mill keepers; over
them all comes the heavy contractors and
higher officials; over them the Morrisseys,
Kelleys and O'Briens; over them the
priests and bishops. and over all the Car
dinal, who wields all this power. He
really directs the politics of the city, and
to very great extent the state.
And that he knows how to use his DOW
er, the property the church holds in the
city is sufficient proof The church has
acquired from the city block after block
Ofthe most valuable real estate as free
gifts. 1t escapes the payment of taxes,
and it manages immense appropriatlons
from The public treasury for the suppo IT
of its hospitals, asYlnms, schools, and
converts. In short, the Irish Catholic
Church is supported by the tax payers.
But this is the least expense the Irish
are 10 the city. They furnish the crimi-
mails almost exclusively. Read any proc
lamatiOn describing murderer, and the
words "of Irish birth" will be found in
nine cases out of ten. The reports of the
police courts read like a poll book in
County Cork 1t is all Nc and o. The
sssulting, the knitting, the garroting the
robbing, is ninety per cent OF 1t Irish.
In short, almost all the lawlessness that
makes New York to-day an unsafe city
to live in, is nIne-tenths it, the work of
the Irish. They rule the city; they hav e
control of the offices, they make laws and
break them; they are at once the judges,
criminals, and jurors. Talk about the
oppressed Irishl Those in Ireland. if they
are groaning under English rule, should
come at once and join their compatriots
All that the English put upon them they
are putting upon the American branch of
the same family. New York has more
Irish in it than any city in Ireland, and
that the Irish cites are better governed
than New York is simply because the r.
Ish are not permitted to govern them.
This condition of things in New York
will continue till the Americans get time
to attend to politics. They are in nu-
merical majority, and if they would unite
and act they could put down their foreign
rulers.
THE EFFECT OF THE TIMES UPON REAL
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