The Carbon advocate. [volume] (Lehighton, Pa.) 1872-1924, 1888-01-07

AMAhuAN ANA q uoNoAs W hNt WooAo VI
money you say Oh, no; the manufacturer
Of these thing has given profitable employ
ment to thousands Of workmen and women,
and they are paf for by people who can
well spare II out of their abundance. Even |
the ruin to which they all come is good for
trade, for the successes of 1888 are built up
on the ruins of 1887
"Plate sin with gold, and the strong lance
OF Justice hurtlesS breaks;
Clothe 1t In rags, pigmy straw will pierce it, |
Last week women was before the courts |
and hardly escaped States prison for the
wrongful appropriation of less than sixty
dollars. She had purchased some furniture
on the installment plan and had paid on It
eighty-five dollars. Her husband died, her
entered the house, the weather was freez-
ing too so she took the furniture on which
there was cbattel mortgage and sold It
piece by piece to save her children from
freezing and starving. At last she sat in
her desolate home with nothing but the
bare walls left, expecting every moment to
be thrust into the street. The man who
had sold her the furniture came around for
his monthly installment to find everything
gone. The mother was arrested for larceny
and was torn from her dying and starving
children, and looking pretty black for the
poor widow. A city paper mentioned her
hard case; unknown friends came forward
the next morning and the debt was settled
Money was raised on the spot to put her
back in her home with comfort; good
Samaritans came with gifts of all kinds:
one brought sugar; another, tea; others,
bread and coffee, chickens, turkeys, ham,
and money for medicine for the sick child:
some one sent in half toa of coal, and
one generous soul sent cooking stove
with all the pots and pans; so that on
Christmas Eye, instead of being a criminal
behind the bars of Jail, she was back in
her home surrounded by every comfort.
Now mark the difference: General Cut
ting was left by his father to administer on
the family estate. The Cuttings represent
our old blue bloo6-nothing bluer in the
line of American royalty. The estate was
worth several millions, and Gen. Cutting
occupied the position of guardian 10 his
dead brothers children. Besides spending
his own enormous fortune, which he had a
perfect right to do, he took eight hundred
thousand dollars out of the family estate,
and either gambled It away in Wall street
or lost il somewhere else; at any rate eight
hundred thousand dollars had vanished.
The widow of the dead brother appealed to
the Courts on behalf OF herself and her
children and all these facts were proven.
The penalty for this offence is States Pri.
son and when the hard alternative was
presented of putting Cutting in striped
suit and having him march to the lock ster
alongside of Ward, Fiske, j eahne and homo
genus, at Sing Sing or Auburn, the widow
weakened, compromise was effected, and
General Cutting escaped the penalty of his
offence. Another individual, friend oi
his, took three hundred thousand dollars
out of an estate he had been entrusted tC
settle, and ganblsd it away on stocks, ant
never attempted to make any restitution
whatever. Both of these gentlemen ar,
members of the Union Club, and when yor
say a man Is a member of the Union Club
it is just as if you put the goldsmith's mari
upon your sterling silver. Two such un
savorY defalcations as these reused some o
they called on the governing committee TO
an investiga ion, and what do you ihinl
the reply was-Phoo! Phool we can't b.
troubled with these small affairs we hay
more important matters to claim our atten
ton. The widow came near going to State
Prison for the constructive appropriation
of eighteen dollars, and these two aristo
: cratic gentlemen escape even the censur
. of their fellows for the downright robber
of hundreds of thousands; so l repea
Shakespeare's immortal lines:
: "Plate sin with gold, and the strong lance
d OF Justice hurtless breaks;
Cothe 1t in rags, pgmy strawwill pierce it.
a The other day met Anthony Comstock
# Probably in our million and half of pee
n pie there is no man in whose personality an
work there is greater difference of opin
70 ion. Ask gambler and he will tell yo
ts that he is a sneak. a spy and blackmaileI
a Ask the burglars, thieves and prostitute
their opinion of him, and with one accor
&c they will tell you he ought to be hung
n Go TO the publishing houses that hav
% piled up colossal fortunes on filthy picture
"a and obscene literature, and they will tel
70 you that hanging is too good for him; h
+ should be drawn and quartered in addition
| Tho no ria1S and Ot1flo ~ onoiafu hau =,
= good word for Anthony Comstock. An
, no wonder, for he has placed them unde
"a small obligation.
- The battle in which this man is engage
- is terrible one, and needs stout heal
r and courage that can stand mistaken
~ the face of death. Fighting like Yaliar
soldier the battle of the right, be carrie
his life in his hand every hour of the da,
and never leaves his home in the mornln
with the certainty of returning to it {
night. His mission is to shield the youni
and in their defence he has braYed peri
it that might well appal the stoutest hear
IT. This city swarms with assassins who,
nd trade he has ruined. and whose bushes
on he has destroyed, and there are hundred
ry of them who would be willing to swing fl
lis the pleasure of killing him. This he know
as well as any man. Yet with a cal
~ courage almost without parallel he hi
a gone steadily forward in the performan,
SIX of his duty, perfectly satisfied to meet h
To- fate, come in what shape it may. In pc
wv son Mr.. Comstock is about middle heigl
lily strongly built, with face that is the pc
de feet embodiment of calm self-reliant h
no man conrape-Ihe cast of his face IL