The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1877-07-04


insist that they are IS quiet and gen
tlemanly IS any other class, that they
pay their bills and have q right to all
Recommendations that other peepls
have. And the Jews OF the United
States are Withdrawing heir trade
from Stewards. add there is . war
risaling 10 bitterness the ons raging
in Europe. 1t is true that there srs
a class OF Jews OF the kind Judge
Hilton describes. Many . banker
now worth his millions aud living 10
gorgeous style, came int, the city
with his pack Oh bis back. and made
his commencement ia The alleys aud
by-waya Manners don't come with
money, and il Is not TO be expected
that such a man should possess all
tue graces Il goed society. Ills daugh-
tiers. dress they evvr SO well. will be
vulgar. and his sons. no matter bow
large tie diamonds they wear. will
be nothing bot snobs Soch are doubt
less disagreeabls Ut hotel-, aud are
not to- be desired. and it is o the
Jews have more than their share Of
them. Bur il is true, on The other
hand, that there are thousands Of
Jews VIII, have both wealth aud m u :
uer-, and who are rs wsn grounded
in all that inskrs The geutis,nsn or Ia
dy a apyhody. Hilton made q mis-
take in rejecting the Jews AS race,
he should have rejected the bad
Jews. The people will not brook a
line so drawn. Class distinctions are
out of place in this country, and forty
Judge HiItons with forty times the
Stewart c.tate back Of them, can not
make them. 1t will kill the the trade
of the Stewart establishment, and
will hurt the Grand Union Hotel.
For whether one likes Jews or not,
fair play Ia the jewel The papers are
full Of the subject.
Tue TWEED SUIT.
Townsend, Tweed's attorney, pull
lishesa tremendous srraignmen, Of
Fairchild, the Atiorney-General.
Townsend claims that Faircbild de-
ceived Tweed, by promising TO let
him 60 If be would make q clean breast
OF il; that Tweed did SO promise and
stood ready to give Information that
would Lave saved the State two mil
lions, and would have brought the
whole gang TO justice but lhat Fair
child in the interest of John Kelly
and to smirch the reputation of GER
tain men, used such portions of what
Tweed eonGded to him ss would serve
his purpose, and then refused to let
him go on the score that his testimony
is worth nothing. The rue inward
ness of it ali is that Tweed is about
as honest as a thousand more who
are 10 both parties. There is a very
widespread dread Of seeing him on
the stand. which is probably the rea-
son why be is kept in duress. There
are Republicans who took Tweed's
money. in fact his gigantic frauds
could not have been carried out with
out help from the Republican party,
and they are shaking 10 their shoes
There are plenty Of Democrats whom
the public esteem who are spotted
with it, and there is a widespread
uneasiness that Tweed, when be does
get on the stand, will prove a bull in
a china shop and kick owe a great
many very pretty kettles Of fish No
one knows whom the old man will
strike when be gets within striking
distance. and there are hundreds who
do not want him to have a chance to
hit. ASH stands, the prosecution has
been an absurd farce. No one has
been punished but Tweed, and be is
no worse than the rest of them.
Sweeny gets eff by paying back about
a twentieth Of what be stole, and In
gersoll was out within g few weeks of
the time be went 10, and the rest Of
the gang have never been hort b par
ticle. The prosecutions have cost
the city four times as much as has
ever been realized from the thieves
by restitution, and so absurd has it be-
come that the moral effect Of Tweed's
Imprisonment is gone. For, owing
to Fairc1ild's treatment Of the case and
the ski fl manipulation Of his attor-
news, Ts.,di- now looked upon as 8
martyr. aud i, more piued than blsm-
ed. II is = sad eoding. New York
is 10 as bad bands to-day as it vas
when Tweed reigned. and is entering
upon another term of fraud and cor
rup.ion. The twenty millions that
the big ring stole. only served to whet
the appetite Of those who got a bic
of i, for a full meal.
POLITICAL
The city Is stirred up on the silver
question. New York Is inGexibly op-
posed 10 the remonetizing of silver,
and the business world stigmatizes
the making silver q legal tender ss
only another form Of imitation. Debts
due other countries can no more be
paid in silver thaa they Ear in green
backs. and the production is 50 enor-
nous that q still further decline is
considered certain. The city viii
fight it to the death, and gold is the
only standard that Is acceptable I;
every Member from the city xilI be
Instructed to favor no financial scheme
that looks to make anything but GOLD