The Carbon advocate. [volume] (Lehighton, Pa.) 1872-1924, 1885-10-17
BT0adbrin'S New York Letter
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suit; dozens of other notorious rascal.
have been punished; the great soldier
whom lie brought to ruin and shame |,
in his grave but the arch swindler still
remains unwhipped of justice,
Why is this2 What mysterious power
clogs the wheels of justice? that there
is something behind not yet fully known
Is apparent to every one. The only
question is, "What is its' For weeks
past there have been mysterious rumor,
and whisperings concerning almost five
millions of the funds supposed TO have
been stolen by Ward. Mr.. Wards liv.
ing does not account for 1t; none of the
se1uestered property remains in sight
Mr.. Wards brother is said to have TOLD
a reporter that the bills Of Ferdinand
Ward at Ludlow Street Jail were footed
by his unfortunate family. A great cry
has been made at Mr. Wards style OF
living, Why should he not live welli
1s il not principle of our jurisprudence
that every man shall be esteemed limo.
cent until his guilt is proven2 And what
haYe we proved against Ferdinand
WardP He may have his piano, his but.
tonhole bouquet, his champagne and
his pates; his jolly good fellows around
him. and an occasional run to the
Theatre or the Opera Bouffe, and if his
friends can pay the shot, all right.
But in the disposition of the tivc mil.
lions, Mr.. Grace, the Mayor of New
York. is said to have profited by the
swindles of this notorious rascal to the
tune of many thousands of dollars. Mr..
Grace was intimate with James d. Fish,
the thieving president of the Marine
Bank; he was friendly with Ferdinand
Ward; he was director in the defunct
Marine Bank, by which the city lost q
million. The scandal caused by this
discovery is deep-seated and bitter. and
the public awaits with anxiety the
promised revelation of Mr.. Ward, which
is to give us the disposition of the mis-
sing five millions. 1t is the hope of
every man who has the honor of our
city at heart, that Mayor Grace may be
able to show that whatever transactions
he may have had with Ward were strict
ly mercantile, and within the straightest
line of honor. But Sl47,000 is large
sum to be made in few months by an Y
honest speculation. We have been
running loose in our moral notions of
late years; if a man got money in any
way, without cracking a safe, or picking
u pocket, he was considered smart; he
might sell stock, or piece of property
to his neighbor, and represent it to be
worth ten times its value, and if his
neighbor had the misfortune to believe
him, he was fool. and the other was
considered smart-because he lied to
him. This miserable rule is prevailing
here to-day. You see it in the streets.
in the stores, in the banks, and on
change. The whole drift of business
seems to be to corner somebody, or get
the better of somebody, and to rob them
of their money, by giving them the very
smallest equivalent. Mayor Grace has
been very successful business man.
The greater part of his life has been
spent in South America, where he laid
the foundation of his fortune. This is
the second time he has been elected
Mayor of New York, and he is more in
dependent in his office than the Presi-
dent of the United States is in his.
New York has had many violent revo-
lutions. In the last twenty years, she
has seen three Judges of the Supreme
Court dragged from their exalted seats,
and with the brand of digrace upon
their foreheads, driven from public life.
She has seen her Comptroller, branded
as felon, a flying fugitive from justice.
She has seen her Treasurer in banish-
ment, and her Mayor a disgraced exile !;
and-last of all-she has seen the man
who sat for years as an autocrat, squan-
dering her hard-earned millions, diving
in prison with convict's stripes upon
his back.
We hope that the period of our worst
disgrace is passed, and that the threat
of Mr.. Ward against our Mayor is only
The effort of blind Samson to engulf
his friends and enemies alike in the
ruins of the building he pulls down.
But if it shall appear that Mr.. Grace or
any other public officer has been impli-
Gated with this rascal in his robbery of
the people, | sincerely hope that such
an example will be made OF him as will
make the recurrence of such an offence
impossible for many years to come.
I he evil effect of bad example was
never more powerfully illustrated than
in the events of the past week. 1t Is
just year ago since brute in Chicago
a al hn
fessed to love, then making the only
reparation he could make to society by
blowing his own brains ont. Since that
evil day thirty cases, exactly similar,
have occurred in different parts of the
United States, ten OF them occurring in
New York, Brooklyn, and Jersey City.
Two OF these cases have occurred with
in the last week, the most startling and
atrocious being that of woman past
middle life and boy scarcely out OF his
teens. The story seems more like the
legend OF madhouse than a history of
every day life. The husband hears the
story OF his ruin from the lips of his
falthless wife, and then condones her
offence, and takes her betrayer beneath
his roof. When he finds her mad in
fatuation for this boy-who was young
'ubuGh 10 ne utI SOn-cOllu not De
broken, he offers to send the erring pair
to Germany, Then they resolve to die
together; IL is no sudden impulse; !;
everything is arranged like clock-work; ;
the wife sits down and calmly writes to
her husband that he will find her body
in Central Park at such a time, and,
true TO her appointment, the body lies
at the designated place at the exact
hour! Hardly anything in history or fic-
tion can equal this latest horror. New
York has had to suffer in reputation for
this crime,and vet not one of the parties
lived in New York; all of them were
foreigners, and lived in other States.
Our sister city, Brooklyn, is much ex-
ercised 10y an attack on her fair fame by
one OF the lay preachers who attended
the recent convention in that city. Ris-
ing in his place on the last day of the
convention, he denounced it as the
wickedest city in the United States, or
the world. it would be interesting to
know where this person got his inform
alton, for people who have been living
there all their lives failed TO make the
discovery which this blatant donkey
a