Bradford opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1874-1881, 1877-07-07
OUR NEW YORK LETTER,
The Temperance teal
uustness MISUNDERSTANDING soei-
etts-rhe Weather.

OUR NEW YORK LETTER.
The Temperance Observation-Disclosures
uustness OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES Noe
etis-The Weather.
THE TEMPERANCE MOVEMENT
Is going on vigorously. The oil
law, restricting licenses to sell IL
tOxicating drinks to those keepin
Inns, and defining Inn.keepers {
DO those persons keeping three bed
for the accommodation Of the public
has been revived, and its perform
ance insisted upon. The big bee
saloon under tho Tribune Building
put in three cots, to conform to I'll,
law, and put them in the loves
cellar. A temperance detective
thinking that such a concern woul'
not have the beds, and that an open
ing would bc had for n prosecution
went in last night and demande,
lodgings. GAN right" said the pro
prietor, "come dis way.' AM
down through long, winding cellar
he took him, till, in u dark vault
they came to three cots, of the hard
est, meanest description, and will
rats coursing over them. "Y0u vii
dake No. g" said the proprietor
"goot night" And he went away
leaving the detective in II plac,
from which no man nnacqnaintet
with the premises could escape
without "a guide. in II doleful moot
he passed the night, and in the
morning paid his dollar, thinking
it cheap, as he had the company OF
the rats. The League is working
vigorously and to the point. Where
ever they can catch liquor dealer
mapping, they bring him to book ;
and, as they have plenty of money
and the best legal talent in the city,
they are accomplishing something.
Tho breaking up of the Rings has
lessened the political power of the
gin mills, and the politicians are
willing to see them go to the wall.
note for the benefit of all kinds of
respectable people.] Politicians are
beginning to court the favor of de.
cent people, because the decent peO.
pie kicked in the traces and reius
ed to follow them, unless they had
at least as much attention paid to
their wishes rs TO the demands of
the rum sellers. Possibly what is
being done in New York may be
prOiitably initiated elsewhere.
POLITICAL.
The President is receiving acces-
sions daily. The ofliceholders who
have walked the plank, and those
whose heads hang lightly on their
shoulders, done like him, but the
people do. The Republicans who
have tried to have decent men in
Congress and in the Legislature,
but who have been overridden by
the trained cohorts of the Custom
House and the Post Office, whose
had axes of their own
to grind, are rejoiced that this is at
asst over, and that hereafter the
people will have a chance to be rep.
resented as they desire to be. 1t
was a nuisance and a curse. The
swarm of Office. holders made poll.
les a business, and it was no use
or the citizen to undertake to COM
)ete with them. Let them turn out
vt a caucus as freely as they might,
he machine men had twice the
there, men who were never
Known in their wards, but who act.
I'd all the same; and as a cOnse.
luence the worst, instead of the
)cst, men have represented the city.
Hayes order prohibiting Federal
)flicials taking part in primary pol
tics gives great satisfaction. 1t
axes out of the political field the
lemenis that were dangerous to
he people, and will go a great way
oward purifying politics. 1t is a
rood thing. OF course New York
S opposed to the remonetizing OF
liver, for the interests of a great
commercial city are always in the
Erection of keeping faith in the
pilit as well as the letter. The
PRODUCTION of silver has been so
normous as to lessen its value, and
Iew York insists that nothing shall
70 legal tender that is not par the
7orld over. There will be trouble
q this city if any attempt is made
D have a double standard, for it
'ould disarrange values to a de-
rec that would he disastrous.
may be the action of the
eople elsewhere, New York will
e Il unit against anything but gold. !
ABSOLUTE DULLNEss
'ervades the city now. The hot
Gather brings business to an end,
nd closes everything except the
in-mills and such churches as are
OF able to give their pastors Sala.
es large enough to enable them to
o to Europe or California. Such
astOrs find it more in the line of
leir duty to stay and preach the
Ospel during the hot months. 1t :
as been a disastrous year all
round. The theatres have all lost c
'oney, the business men who come !
ut even consider themselves lucky, !
le bars are all short and every. c
hing is stagnant. 1t has been a p,
Jason of economy and cutting a
own, and the spirit of retrench- t
ent has extended into places where
would not be looked for. The
visionary Societies have done lit \
e or nothing, the receipts barely :
aging the heavy salaries of the Of b
GERS. Speaking of $
MISSIONARY SOCIETIES.,
ne, society for aiding weak o
lurches, has just published it's re- $.
'rt, and funny reading it is. 1t Il
IS collected during the year S1S,- h
10, and paid out for rent, and sal a.
les TO its officers, S17, 465, leaving