Bradford opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1874-1881, 1877-05-05
OUR NEW YORK LETTER.
Life Insura nee-Ths PHupers-TWeed-
POltttc1l-The weather.


Another Life Insurance Company
has gone up. Tho "Amerian Pop
ular," company organized for TAX
ing graded risks. passed into the
hands OF the State Committee, aud
n most highitul degree OF rotten
ness was shown. False entries,
false swearing, false everything was
developed, and the officers are to hc
prosecuted. 1t il to 10 hoped that
the law can reach these swindlcrs.
aud that u Lie Insurance President
may be added to the States collcc'
ton of criminal curiosities. The
good companies are suffering from
these exposes, hut they are never
theless glad. IL will injur the IN
terest for u time, but II will be the
better for the really good ones when
confidence is finally restored, M all
the frauds will be out of the way
They will not be exposed to the M
healthy competition Of tho frauds
who never expect to pay, aud who
therefore can ito business Tor moth
my.
now Ii,EN IivE,
There arc mt the present. timo one
hundred thousand men IN the city NJ
New York WHO live, somehow, with
out labor. They are nuisancos In
the worst sense of tho term, for
every mouthfnl that goes down their
throats in paid for 10y some ono q NJ.
rhCV have no Ura'",, 90 work. NV
49,. S ~. 4" ,'"dcu,, ,nry stand on
the streets and hey for charity. when
they lack IN opportunity to steal
safely. You SEQ them rvrrywh here
ON the streets, the offices and stores
ara infested with them, each with
his story of "tamily to support,
and no work SUR and u cnrsc II
you refuse them. And there are ns
many women ny men, and more chill.
drcn than either, engaged in the
same calling. Women viii sit by
the hour on curb stones, with u sleep.
ing child, it's rags so displayed as
to excite sympathy the child, bp
it known, drugged with laudanum
to keep it quiet, and with sores an.
listicalIy painted on its little arms
aud legs to attract attention. These
children are in most cases not their
own, but are leased to them by the
day, by women who make % bust
ness of collecting them and renting
them out. Then comes The vast ar.
my of men, women and children
who have small articles like pencils,
pins and matches for sale, which is
only another form of begging, for
the articles are such rs nobody
wants, and the offer to sell is always
an appeal to charity. "Plcuse buy
"a pencil, sur, and hiIp u poor man
who has no work and u large family
to support" Or, ''for the love nv
God, buy paper NV pins and hllp
"A poor woman who hcz six small
aud husband sick at
nome and her Iint to pay" The
small children, the family and the
sick husband are all my this, the mon
ry obtained going straight to the
nearest gin shop, the food nccessa.
~ to keep life in the bcgger being
from The charities, and the
garbage barrels. An office in the
vicinity of the postoflice that does
not have hundred of these half.
halftraders and all
thieves in them every day is lucky.
And woe he to the Over.Coat, peck
IT knife, gold pen or anything else
Of the value of cent that is expos.
ID for u minute. IL il of no use to
'osL up notices lorbidding them to
inter, it is no use to kick them ont
they expect thAt--tIey come and
;ome in one drcary procession till
he eve tires of them, and patience
s exhausted. They are worse than ,
he frogs of Egypt. OF COURSE
ninety nine per cent. of them are
orcignrrs, the Irish prcdOminating
argcIy. Thousands upon thous ;
Inds of the very scum of European ,
titles are landed yearly, to swell |
he volume OF mendicants, and they ,
III stick to the great cities. The, |
Won't work, they won't go away, {
nd so they poster New York. 1t .
) a pity that some law cannot be -
asSed to contine these people, and a
make them work for their bread |
+ is II heavy tax upon the city to }
upport this army, but there ap- II
ears to be no law to reach them. g
THE TWEED CONFESSION u
AS hight have been expected. b
very man mentioned in Twepd's 7
oniession rs having had money OF -
no Ring, denies it vehemently, aud {
he Boss does not yet produce the Ii
roof necessary to convict them. is
he old fox is holding back his cvi. v
ence III he is sure that his contes u
on will bring about his release. ~
10 has it in his hands to unearth :,
ie viIlainy of which he was the p
,ntrc, but he will not do it till he /,
AZ what he wants, his liberty. In it
,e meantime, there is trouble Is
,ough among tho New York poll
clans. Men, who in the flush times !,
the Ring received ten or twenty ",
: fifty thousand dollars, and who II,
,ve almost forgotten the transac. re
On, are turning pale when they y,
low that it is certain that Tweed NJ
we'd his check books, as well as pr
of all his transactions, ;"
vi that he can state with accura "
where every dollar of the swag
ent TO. Respectable men, who W
ok his wages surprising it would Vi
forever II secret, are thronging G.
his room-bcgging for immunity, a,
1t to ell OF them the Boss has one OF,
swer: 81 am in prison, poor h,
II are out, rich. Get me out, with ac
to live upon" Aud so a ex
st number of men are talking tw
til suspicious plentiiulness of the II
,dships the old man has been
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