Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1884-12-19
WHEEIING W. VA. FRIDAY MORNING. DECEMBER 19. 1884
TWO SUBJECTS
Widely Different, But Each Deserving Pub
Inc Attention - Minister Foster on the
spanish Treaty-The immoral Tending
sfNeW York.


Inc Attention - Minister Foster on the
Spanish Treaty-The Immoral Tending
sfNew York.
From GG.h's Letter 10 Cincinnati Enquirer.
The Spanish Treaty.
Mr.. Foster, who made the Spanish treaty,
was asked yesterday what was to become OF
the Louisiana sugar producers, and he an
swered cit cannot be denied that the ten
dency will be to seriously injure the cultiva-
ton of cane sugar there, if that industry has
not already been destroyed by the beet root
oyerproduction of Germany. The price OF
sugar is now so low that it can not beproht-
ably cultivated in Louisiana, notwithstand-
ing the enormous duty by which tits pro-
tected. With free sugar from the Spanish
islands there will bs such reduction in price
as will still further embarrass the Louisiana
planters. But it is to be borne in mind that
for twenty years past Louisiana has
been projected by q duty which now
amounts to about 100 per cent. And yet
in the last ten years under this great slim
ulation, and with the stimulation caused
by an increased consumption OF sugar
smo- -nting to 800 per cent the planters
there have been able to attain production
of only 81 per cent of what was grown.in
like period before the war, when the duty
was very small. These statistics will con-
vince the whole country except the score
of Louisiana planters, that such system is
bad policy for the general interests OF the
country and that it ought not to stand IN
the way of securing for our oyerproductions
of ofagriculture and of manufactures an open
and extended market in the tropical coun-
tries Of America.
Cards of a Nude Description
are to be attacked here. Under the new con-
ditions of printing in colors it is cheap and
pretty to get out picture which will attract
to a window or a store. The liquor and
cigar people have been publishing these
placards, and sometimes they get photo
graphs of variety actresses and furnish them
10 customers. Of late they have been taxi
ing particular variety actresses like Pauline
Hall, who strip themselves next to nude. and
have them printed in colors in good large
style. New paintings from the French aud
are taken and redraSn and made a little
more suggestive, and these are put up in
shops kept by women. One of the worst OF
these pictures is that of rather pure faced
blonde girl, who is sitting in such a manner
that her leg to the knee and her blue stock
ing is exposed. Howard Crosby said to-
day:
IL have noticed this outbreak Of indecent
advertising. The pictures are to the last
degree offensive and demoralizing, and they
are among the things we have in mind to
turn our attention to when the proper time
comes We did speak about one OF them
to the firm that issued it. 1t was most
outrageous portrayal Of nudity and wanton
postures. Why, said the firm, You surely
can find no fault with that. That is copy
ola great work by one OF the French mas
;ers. The picture represented, believe,
Silenus surrounded BY dancing bacchantes.
1t was lewd and indecent in every way.
But it is no use 10 move for any reform
now, and for several months | have re-
mained quiet. never in my life saw the
affairs of the city in so deplorably loose and
corrupt condition as now. 1t permeates
all the departments, the police as we'll as
the rest. do not say this as to the rank
and file of the police. Nine-tenths Of them
believe to be gallant and faithful men. 1t
is of the heads that complain. Not even
in the worst days Of the Tweed era was the
situation in our city government half so bad
as now, and it was bad enough then, we
all know. Corruption, looseness and
irregulsritys reigns or oil hands. 1t
is always the case that when such
a state of affairs exists in the city govern.
ment, the infection spreads to society, and
all forms of immortality creeps into the foul
atmosphere and flourish in II. This out
break of indecent pictures is an instance
in point, and there are others on all sides.
Street.walking has increased to lamenta-
ble extent OF late. Even Fourth avenue,
that used to be tolerably free from the
evil, is now infested with street-walkers."
1t would appear from the above that
there has been no real reform in New York
City at all, Notwithstanding the alleged tri-
umph of reform in politics. l fancy that
we are going to have more dishonesty in the
New York City Government in the next
''~n or three years than Tweed ever dreamed
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