Ashtabula telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1874-1880, 1877-07-06
TEE TEMPERANCE MOVEMENT

VIC AIAOuhe DunQlng put IN three cots, 10
conform to the law, and put them in the
lowest cellar. A temperance detective,
thinking that such concern would not
have the beds, and that an opening would
behad for a prosecution, went in last night
and demanded lodgings. ''All right,
said the proprietor, ''eome dis way" And
down through long, winding cellars he took
him, till, in dark vault, they came to
three cots, of the hardest, meanest descnp-
tion, and with rats eOursing over them.
''You will dake No. 2, " said the proprietor;
''gOOt night" And he went away, leaving
the detective in a place from which no man
unacquainted with the premises could es-
cape, without guide. In doleful mood
he passed the night, and in the morning
paid his dollar, thinking it cheap, as ne
had the company of the rats. The league
is working vigorously and to the point.
Wherever they can catch liquor dealer
mapping. they bring him to book; and, as
they have plenty of money and the best
legal talent in the city, they are accom-
plishing something. The breaking up of
the rings has lessened the political power
of the gin mills, and the politicians are
willing to see them 60 to the wall. Poll
tieians are beginning to court the favor of
decent people, because the decent people
kicked in the traces and refused to follow
them, unless they had at least as much at
tention paid to their wishes as to the de-
mands Of the rum sellers. Possibly what
is being done in New York may be profta-
bly, initiated elsewhere.
POLITICAL.
The President is receiving accessions
daily. The ofice-holders who have walked
the plank, and those whose heads hang
lightly on their shoulders, don't like him,
but the people do. The Republicans who
have tried to have decent men in Congress
and in the Legislature, but who have been
overridden by the trained cohorts Of the
custom-house and the post-office, whose
proprietors had axes Of their own to grind,
are rsjoiced that this is at last over, and
that hereafter the people will have chance
to be represented as they desire to be. 1t
was nuisance and curse. The swarm
of ofice-holders made politics business,
and it was no use for the citizen to under
take to compete with them. Let them
turn out at q caucus as freely as they
might, the machine men had twice the
number there, men who were never known
in their wards. but who acted all the same;
and as a consequence the worst, instead OF
the best men have represented the city.
Hayes order prohibiting federal officials
taking part IN primary politics gives great
satisfaction. 1t takes out of the political
field the elements that were dangerous to
the people, and will 60 great way toward
purifying politics. 1t is a.good thing. Of
course New York is opposed to the remon-
etizing Of silver, for the interests of great
commercial city are always in the direction
of keeping faith in the spirit as well as the
letter. The production Of silver has been
so enormous as to lesson its value, and
New York insists that nothing shall be le-
gal tender that is not par the world over.
There will be trouble in this city If any at
tempt Is made to haYe double standard,
for it would disarrange values to degree
that would be disastrous. Whatever may
be the action of the people elsewhere, New
York viii be unit against anything but
gold.
are still excited about the order excluding
them from the summer hotels. Every Tab-
bi in the city preached on the topic, and to
read the papers Monday, one would sup
pose that all the bravery, all the virtue, all
the capacity, and all the good qualities that
have ever blessed humanity, were concen-
trated in the Jews. They may be excused
for stopping over somewhat, in view Of the
insult that was put upon them, but with
out all this there is much to be said in
their favor, There is an enormous popula-
tion of them in the city, probably sixty
thousand, They are the heaviest mer-
chants, the heaviest bankers, and the best
fnanoiers in the city. There are thou
sands Of small retailers, and thousands of
rag-pickers and all that, among them; but
there are no Jew medicants, and very few
Jew Criminals. They take care of their
poor better than any other people on the
globe; they are the most charitable and the
most enterprising. Here the Jew has had
q chance, and he has shown himself to be
great in more ways than one, The ghost
Of Stewart, who is known as Hilton, made
grave mistake when he insulted a race of
such wonderful capabilities, capacity and
means. They cut altogether too wide
swath to be lightly considered or cavallerly
used. The Jews of the country have all |
withdrawn their trade from the Stewart |
concern, and it makes hole in their
profits.
TENEMENT HOUSES. |
Abuilding six stories high, in which over
four hundred people existed, commenced
eaVlng in at eleven O'Clock in the morning, |
and at four in the afternoon it fell with a
mighty crash, embracing in its ruins all /
the worldly possessions of the people who |
inhabited it. Fortunately the cracking
walls gave timely warning of their inten-
ton to go down, and no lives were lost.
Had it happened in the night the loss of
life would have been terrible. There are
thousands Of such buildings in the city, the
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