Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1877-11-22
OUR NEW YORK LETTER.
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New York Nov II, 1877.
The Temperance Movement.
The managers of the "Law and or
der League" have departed from the
plan laid down by DR.. Crosby, and
are making raids on the fashionable
drinking places. Last week all the
big hotels and restaurants were as
saulted and their proprietors required
to answer. 1t was an astonisher on
these people. The great hotels had
favored the movement upon the rnm
mills, but the idea that their places
would ever be interfered with never
entered their heads. Therefore when
officers entered and shut them up,
and when they were called upon to an
swer, their Indignation was beyond
telling. 1t doesn't make any differ
ence, however, with them. Guests
simply order drinks to their own
rooms, and there is in each of them, a
room in which liquor can be had
served by an irresponsible party, and
without making the hotel responsible.
The little doggery cannot do this, for
it never has but one room, and its
trade must necessarily be open and
without cover. DIR. Crosby was right.
Of course it isn't logical to squelch
Tim Rafferty, and let the avenue go
on, but it happens to be the case that
Tim Rafferty, can be squelched, while
no law that can be made can prevent
the Fifth Avenue from selling liquor.
And it has the further reason that the
further reason that the people who
drink at the Fifth Avenue are less in
jured than those who swallow Raffer-
tvs poison. Rafferty, actually takes
the bread out Of the mouths OF women
and children-the swells at the Fifth
Avenue, if it is true, kill themselves,
but is the world any the worse for it ?
If liquor can be kept frem the labor.
ers great point is made-by array
ing the swells against the movement,
a big risk is taken that it will fail en-
tirely. At the Astor last Sunday, a
regular drinker at thet bar found it
closed. "Step into No. g." whispered
the attendant who stood there TO di.
rect the regular customers. 81 wish
to God No. 6 could be closed too"
was the response of the victim. But
he went and took his drink all the
same, and after two or three was
cursing the league as heartily as
though he had an interest in liquor.
The Troubles of Life 1nsu rance
SwiudIers.
Thank heaven the courts of New
York can no longer be said to favor
rich swindlers while they are severe
upon lesser ones. The respectable
lite insurance fraud is now upon the
same level. with the saw.dust swind-
Ter, and gets the same penalties. Gill
man, the forger, is serving out his
time in the penitentiary, aud now
Robt. l.. Case, one of the most in
tensely respectable" business men of
the city, has been found guilty of per-
jury, and on Friday morning was SEN
fenced to the State prison. Case was
the President of the defunct ''securi.
ty" life. When the affairs of the rot
ten concern were examined, it was
found that Mr.. Case had sworn to
cash balance of nearly million, when
in fact a few hundreds only were
found. He had sworn to all sorts of
m Mythical assets, and in short by sheer
force of swearing to false statements
had kept the swindle shop going for a
while. Mr.. Case is an old man, and
put in the plea that he signed and
swore to the statements without ex-
aiming them, and that he knew
nothing at all about them. But the
court very properly held that that
had nothing to do with it. He had
sworn to a certain condition of things
which did not exist, and it was PERU
ny. Cases lawyers made a piteous
appeal to the jury, begging mercy tor
respectable old man, who stood
high in society and all that, but the
jury were grimly reminded that this
respectable old gentleman had
swindled eleven thousand families,
hfty-five thousand women and child
rem, and swindled them in the mean
est way possible, by taking advantage
of the best impulses in men. And
they very promptly brought him in
equity" Allen, the vice president,
also an old responsibility, will be
hauled over the Goals next, and he
will follow his chief. Then comes
Lambert, of the American popular,
and Stedweli, of the New Jersey Mu-
tual. when he is caught, which he will.
finally, be. The insurance frauds are
now about broken up, and the sound
companies are rejoiced thereat. 1t
has had the effect OF stopping the bu-
siness, almost entirely, but now that
irresponsible and fraudulent concerns
are out of the way, it will revive and
the old companies will be stronger