The Lake County star., 1877-11-22

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Our New York Letter.
The Temperance Aovement-LJe Msur-
amce StCindters- The Vanderbilt Case
--0ne Gent Dianers- Business and
the Weather.
NEW YORK. Nov. II, 1877.
The managers of the "Law and
Order League" have departed from
the plan laid down by DR.. Crosby,
and are making raids on the fash
ionable drinking places. Last week
all the big hotels and restaurants
were assaulted, and their proprie-
tors required to answer. 1t was an
astonisher on these people. The
great hotels had favored the move
ment upon the rum mills, but the
idea that their places would ever
be interfered with never entered
their heads. Therefore when Off
GERS 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 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 re-
spensible. The little doggery can
not do this, for it never has but one
room, and its trade must necessari-
ly be open and without cover. DR..
Crosby was right. Of course it
isn't logical to squelch Tim Rafferty,
and let the Fifth Avenue 60 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 sell
ing liquor. And it has the further
reasen that the people who drink
Mt the Fifth Avenue are less in
iured than those who swallow Raj
ferty's poison. Rafferty, actually
takes the bread out of the mouths
Of women and children-.the swells
at the Fifth Avenue, it is true, kill
themselves, but is the world any
the worse for it? If liquor can be
kept from the laborers a great point
is made--by arraying the swells
against the movement, big risk
is taken that it will fail entirely.
At the Astor last Sunday, regular
drinker at that bar found it closed.
"Step into No. g." whispered the
attendant who stood there to direct
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 liq-
uor.
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
life insurance fraud is now upon the
same level with the sawdust swim
dler, and gets the same penalties.
Gilman, the forger, is serving out
his time in theN penitentiary, and
now Rob't L. Case, one of the most
intensely "respectable" business
men of the city, has been found
guilty of perjury, and on Friday
morning was sentenced to the State
prison. Case was the president of
the defunct "Security" Life. When
the affairs of the rotten concern
were examined, it was found that
Mr.. Case had sworn to cash bal
nnce Of nearly a million, when in
fact few hundreds only were found.
He had sworn to all sorts Of myth
ical assets, and in short by sheer
force swearing to false statements
had kept the swindle shop going
for a long while. Mr.. Case is an
old man, and put in the plea that
he signed and swore to the state
ments without examining 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 perjury. Cases
lawyers made piteous appeal to
the jury, begging mercy for a re-
spectacle 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,
fifty-6ve thousand women and chill
drcn, and swindled them in the
meanest way possible, by taking
advantage Of the best impulses in
men. Aid they very promptly
brought him in "guilty." Allen.
the Vice president, also an old re-
spectabiIity, will be hauled over
the Goals next, and he will follow
his chief. Then comes Lambert,
Of the American Popular, and Sted-
well, Of the New Jersey Mutual,