The Mesilla Valley independent. [volume] (Mesilla, N.M.) 1877-1879, 1877-12-15
FROM OR NEW YORK CORES
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EDTruRs ISBErESBKNr.
/ a,a Ii receipt. of several .ntrni,ess Of soar
paper and congratulate y1u On is nne ap-
peagauce snd a.so on the matter II contains,
Except IN sls great cities the publication Of
newspaper 5 bot very pEadsaDle business.
yrt sas a ere,Ilsa.,le effort as yea have n.A,is
al.serses success. The ISDErExDExr would
.s.e l.s ,ss;5- ss....-sss .iss-.
gine Mesilla 10 be, I ana Induced to make
tl.ese rg.AArss Ey the fact iI.ss your paper j.
% far superior % aay eos.ntry newspaper
Il 4ei1t fIzEE sEIs. Iisa, it as once attracted my
Atissiisn ike lhe a4.ae a your paper.
aud ais gFzI1Iie,l 10 discover taat your journal
IS indepea,leni IN ss.nething besides name;
ue l.ass number o. so-ealled independent
Journals il Aca York, Aut not one of them
taI tie ss,arage 10 announce the vote c=st4
fr ihe woskingInaA's ticket the day after
,he election. although they polietI "a very
large vote taking into consideration the fact
! that large portion OF the IaboFiag class in
I iilis city weEships at the shrine Of Saint
Tammany The sza claims to be iasleIsenaent,
but ifs Independence consists 10 scnrrIlous!y
abusing and yilIiaHes>i, slsnd..riug whoever,
u ~l,=ieFer happens 10 be unpopular ylfh
ihe class from ni,on. i obtains is support
The HsrHsa is ueatiefo,ek ey2d rlore Sc
1 ihaa .iuriag the lifetime OF is<fsunsler. Al.
the great slaiiies are iev1s1d to some party
u interest, and vepslre the assertion that
rfTrr7 fJssTtiy independent Journal
! published n. he City Of New York
cRINR
/ L6i,serve that yod are trouhled with evil,
,eIosrs ia xoaF section am not at all sur
prasei ST hat, for such characters AS you
icscrisse . : handitti 4 infst all frontier
communities; bHt here In New York the "a
/ pid increase Of crime IS absolutely appalling
! This may be attributed to grea; extent to
the wide sprcsd desiitution among our ra-
employed labor, but that does not account
| foe it all Not taking into consideration the
educated aud professional criminals that in.
les, all iar1rciiies al all times, it u easy 10
understand how the ponr shiyering. houselcss
starving wretch. unable 10 obtain work should
steal, and thankfully welcome the sentence
| that seeaues him TODD and shelter during the
winter montlls within the walls cf prison.
that appears to him palace, when he con
,rasts his prison life with his late homeless
starving freedom.
Bat what sad commentary upon our
whole system Is the spectacle ui q wealthy
banker pew holder and prayer meeting 4t
tender of Plymouth church, leading ctti-
Een ami exali-sr member Of society. deliber-
Ately aud systematically pIandefing friends,
relatives, tie public widows ana orphans
until he i discovered, es,es to the states pr
~on, aad seilsis bls Wife 70 aa Insane asylum
sucl, cases are gr,,irg to be of corauon oc-
cdrresoe The maaia for
sr0cK GAMBLING
appears to be on Ine increase and its Victims
are legion. know Of broker vino FIVE
days ago eeaid draw Ais check for quarter
Of a-miliion With certainty u having IT
iionore,l. les than week since he drove to
the Stock Exchange in lbs magaidcien, turn
cut with liverieti servants; an hour after
war,is he emerged ruined mta, His Fifth
Avenue mansion. bis horses, his carriage,
iisene.' sArsants, all were gone; he had been
cnrnerci on the Great Hifaintin or some