The Morning herald., 1876-05-25
NEW YORKLETTER
Arsw Jorr1xes FROM GOTHAM

tho Rum POWer-NeWs-
paper Frauds, Moral |
and Innoral.
NEW YORK, May "A. |
Awakened at last by the energetic pro-
ress of less favored and therefore more en- |
erprising rivals, and in particular by the
niouitous luck of Philadelphia, in having |
,een the seat of the Revolutionary Govern
nept and hence of the Centennial Exhibi.
ion, New York is shaking herself |
ike q giant from his slumbers,
md as q strong man that shouteth
" reason of mucq wine. We are not to be
in the celebration of 1ndepend-
,nce: but the contrary. Not only shall we
claim our geographical precedence in the
reception Of the Fourth, as it hies over the
high seas in its flight from Old World des-
potisn, but we shall anticipate its arrival,
and in fact greet its departure from the
Turkish empire with the most diabol1cal
midnight racket that old roundsman Time
ever met with on his beat. None but the
dead shall sleep that night. Torchlight
professions shall illuminate and fumigate
the city: bells, cannon and the horrid howls
of countless steam whistles shall Gin tune
full concert strive" to drive all rational crea
lures mad while the slow Philadelphians
are sleeping away their opportunity only to
wake up and find the day already cele-
brated.
1t is not wonderful that our police are
subject to spasms of enforcing the law
against one lawless trade that makes more
than half the crimes and disorders with
xrhs hsoh khnr- hoy thn dow
trade in drink making the policeman's Sun
day, and the police justices Monday, harder
them all the rest of the week. 1t is not
strange, on the other hand. that the hard
ened class of men whose only time to take
from the working mans family the bulk OF
his Saturday nights wages, is the Sunday
of lawless debauch, and half of whom
would have to go out of the business Us il
Brooklyn, if they were compelled to respec'
the law as useful trafc is, should grow fran
tic with rage whenever the police attemp
to reduce their pampered privilege from
purity with divine worship to the common
level of secular callngs. Neither is l.
strange, in the third place, that the police,
with prowling mob Of tens Of thousands
Of lawless LIQUOR dealers and their retainers
before them, and an apparently Indifferent
public behind them, represented only by
trucking press, base enough to talk of the
law that governs unqucstioned every citizen
not in the liquor busiuss, As an " absolute
sumptuary act,' and is not strange that the
police regularly retire beaten and discour-
aged from the contest. But one thing is
strange. Not, perhaps, that .the selfish,
time serving kind Of men who succeed as
editors of newspapers should truckle to the
insolent and disregard the timid, but that
from public journals that refuse one word
of encouragement to the police in such a
fight as this, dare to sicken the earth and
high heaven with theft strutting pretensions
to public virtue, interference of official cor
ruption, &c. l have in these few points
generalized the history of all our sunda,
law raids, and what will be the upshot o
the present and greatest ever attempted b,
our police; in which all the gin mills of tn
city are now stopped on Sunday, and no su
dible voice to say amen Why the friend
of order and law cannot or will not organ
lie to sustain the police with the Who'll
power of respectable public opinion, is
wender deeper than any of those have her
exploded.
Centennial Philadelphia is the undispute
metropolis Of ephemeral trade this year
which, Of course, include: most kinds {
fraud, for which the genus Is pereluis
(thanE God, not eternalJ, the species ar
transient. Hence, the mantle Of ungod,
New York has fallen broadca.: on the cIi
ker City. The exodus Of rogues, pimp
gamblers and sharpers Of every descrip:iC
TO Philadelphia, has left New York, a.
venture TO estimate, more virtu0us ci
than it has ever been within The memory
its eldest inha ol.aDt. All kinds of bOgl
enterprises now bait from Philade phi
That fraternity celebrate the Centennial
q new fraud. among others. are the new
paper premium plan. In that system,
which some of our most successful pape
have attained their first footing, swndle
have discovered rich and soft place.
sell of large quantity of cheap and gau'
chromos for ten times their value, it is Oh
necessary TO start paper with prospect
the bigger the better. as promises &C
such people nothing. ,tartit, observe IL
is all. 1t will stop of itself, BY the tin
your grand army Of canyassers have do
their duty. One of the really fine and E
peneive chromos of the illus,rat
weekly, as learned the other day, havi
been spoiled by an incompetent printer,
the extent of $4,000 copies, which w
thrown back on his hands, snowy new
paper has actually been started by irrespt
sible parties for the sole purpose Of VOL
ing them Off Canvassers who receive mon
for chromos on delivery and papers "to ;
rive" should be subjected to vigorous te
Of the responsibility of their employers,
every tempted individual who does not W
to stand nine chances out of ten of be
swiDdled. V1DI