The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1877-07-11


New YORK, June 30, 1877.
THE TEMPERANCE MOVEMENT
is going on vigorously. The old
law, restricting licenses to sell in.oxi-
eating drinks those keeping
inns, and defining ~inn-keepers to be
those persons keeping three beds for
the accommodation of the public, has
been revived, and its performance in
sisted upon. The big beer saloon
under the Tribune building put in
three cots, TO conform to the law, and
put them in the lowest cellar. A
temperance detective, thinking that
such q concern would not have the
beds, and that an opening would be
had for . prosecution, went in last
night ssd demanded lodgings. "All
right" said the proprietor, come dis
way" And down through long,
winding cellars he took him, till, in q
dark vault, they came to three cots,
of the hardest, meanest description,
and with rats coursing owe them
"You will dske No. 81 said .he pro-
prietor /; "Good night" And away
he went, leaving the detective in q
place from which no man u
quainted with the premises could es-
cape, without a guide. 10 q doleful
mood be 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 vigor-
ouslv and to the point. Wherever
they catch a liquor dealer mapping,
they bring him to book; and, as they
have plenty of money and the bss.
legal talent in the city, they are ac-
complishing something The break
ing 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 decent people. because the
decent people kicked in the traces
and refused to follow them, unless
they had at least as much attention
paid to their wishes as to the de-
mands of the rum sellers. Possibly
what is being done in New York may
be proitably initiated elsewhere.
The President is receiving Access
sions daily. The oliee-holders who
have walked the plank, and those
whose beads hang lightly on their
shoulders, don't like him, but the peo-
pie do. The Republicans who have
tried to have decent men 10 Congress
and in the Legislature, but who have
been overridden w the trained CO.
horts of the Custom-H House and the
POST fice, whose proprirtors bad
axes OF their own to grind, are re-
'ioiced that this is at last over, and
that hereafter the people will have q
chance to be represented as they de-
sired tc be. 1t was a nuisance and n
curse. The swarm of office-holders
made politics a business, and it was
&c use for the citizeas to undertake
to compete with them. Let them
turn out at a caucus as freely as they
might. the machine men had twice
the number there, men who were
never known in their wards, but who
acted all the same aud as a conse-
quence the worst, instead of the best,
men have represented the city. Hayes
order prohibiting federal officials TAX
ing part in primary politics gives
great satisfaction. 1t takes out of
the political field the elem ents that
were dangerous to the people, and
will go a great way toward purify
ing politics. 1t is a good thing. OF
course New York is opposed to the
remonetizing Of silver, for the inter-
ests of a great comBsrcial city are
always in the direction of keeping
faith 10 the spirit as well as the letter.
The production Of silver has been so
enormous as to lessen its value, and
New York insists that nothing shall
be legal tender that is not par the
world over. There will be trouble
in this city if any attempt is made to
have q double standard, for it would
disarrange values to a degree that
would be disastrous. Whatever may
be the action of the people elsewhere,
New York will be a unit against any
thing but gold.
THE JEWS
are still excited about the order ex-
GLIDING them from the summer hotels.
Every Rabbi in the city preached on
the topic, aud to read the papers
Monday, one would suppose that all
the bravery, all the virtue, all the ca
pacity, and all the good that ever
blessed humanity, were concentrated
in the Jews. They may be excused
for stopping over somewhat, in view
of the insult that was put upon them,
but without all this there is much to
be said in their favor. There is an
enormous population Of them in the
city, probably sixty thousand. They
are the heaviest bankers, the heavi-
est merchants, and the best linanciers
in the city. There are thousands of
small retailers, aud thousands Of rag
pickers and all that, among them /;
but there are no Jew meLdicants,
and very few jew criminals. They
take care OF their poor better than
any other people on the globe I; they
are the most charitable and the most
enterprising. Here the Jew has had
a chance, and he has shown himself
to be great in more ways than one.
The ghost of Stewart, who is known
as Hilton, made a grave mistake
when be insulted a race of such won
derful capabilities, capacity and
means. They cut altogether too
wide a swath to be lightly consider
ed or cavalierly used. The Jews of
the country have all withdrawn their
trade from the Stewart concern, and
it makes a hole in their profits.
TENEMENT HOUSES.
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