Waterbury evening Democrat., 1889-08-09

as Q thief or pickpocket turns his pocket inside out at the police station, it is not to all this that the saloon keepers object. But what they do find fault with, and what they are justified in objecting to, is the petty spirit in which the law is used as a means of persecution by grasping pros ecuting agent whose zeal for money is far ahead of his zeal for temperance or good order They have a light to object, when they have done all that a reasonable construction of the law suggests, that they should be expected to cover up some little hole in which nothing but a rat or the money grasping eyes of Agent Colley could hope to find refuge They have a right to ob- | feet, when their bar and premises are so | clearly exposed to public view as to utterly | preclude the possibility of doing an illegal business without detection from outside,
 that they should be hauled into court and
 persecuted ill order that money snatcher may add a few more dollars to his ill-
 gotten pile. They have right to object
 when not even Colley could find on the
 premises sneak hole large enough to hide
 his diminished person, that they should be
 branded as criminals because an ice box
 or supporting wall is so arranged that
 nothing smaller than Cclley's eyes could l find refuge there. They have a
 right to object, after showing laudable | intent to observe law that is pregnant
 with possibilities of persecution, that such a petty, narrow and sordid spirit should animate the prosecuting agent
 Certainly there is nothing to be gained
 for the cause of temperance or good order
 by such a course as our selfish prosecuting
 agent has pursued. If men doing legal ized and legitimate business, for the priv
 ilege of which they are charged far ill ex- cess of q fair proportion, are to be hound
 ed and prosecuted on petty technlcal grounds ill order that q selfish prosecuting
 agent may dip his fingers into their pock-
 cts, it is to be expected that they will look for means of evading tie law and es- caping its obnoxious enforcement. If they are to be at the whim of creature
 like Colley whenever he thinks ho has an opportunity to ''crack their crib" it is toe much to believe that they will continue to respect the law itself as they have cer- tainly so far shown disposition to do. Men are not to be dragooned into slavisl subserviency in a country where they art
 supposed to enjoy equal rights with theil , fellow men.
 THE WORLDS FAIR FUND.
 There is not going to be worlds fair il any city of the United States in 1892 unless
 there is sufficient fund raised in that city to assure in advance the financial solvency
 of the enterprise. That fact is certain
 It being conceded that thero ought to be
 fair and that it ought to bo held ill one O.
 the largest of our American cities, tn cities that are competing for its location
 are confronted with the duty of raising fund that will assure it's success.
 Chicago and New York are displayin
 the most energy, both through their re spective newspapers and public actiol toward organized effort, ill pursuit of tn project. James w. Scott of tho Chicago ! Herald has already subscribed $25O, ,0OO t, the fair fund, and it is proposed by thos l who are moving to have the fair held il - the windy city to raise at least twent l times that amount. New York has alread r fallen behind ill the matter of contrbu
 tions and must step lively if she woul, 0 not be distanced by her younger and hust @ ling rival of the west The New Yorl 0 Herald recognizes this and comes to tn e front with a plan for raising fund s It suggests that stock oompan, should be organized, with capita of S10, 900, 900 having one million shares tn l par value of which will be $1O each ) believes that, if these were offered for sale they would be eadily taken up by yer s large number of people that the wealth
 citizens who are thinking of subscribin 0 $1 ,OOO to the enterprise could be readil f persuaded to take from S10,O00 to $2O, | 900 in stock, while the poorer citizen S would, for the credit of the city, talk
 single shares to a very considerable mum , Der. It may be remarked, however, tha f this plan, while it looks exceedingly at e tractive and promising on paper, offer
 difficulties that will not be readily su, mounted In the first place it is very ia from certain that worlds fair, even i e the great metropolis of the continent " would be such profitable financial ven ! ture that it would attract the attention O ] investors as desirable speculation Tn
 history of worlds fairs has been in tn r contrary direction. Nor is it at all ce1 , tain that municipal pride would be s strong in the citizens of New York tha F they would be led to take stock in such [, company with the certainty befor Y them of placing their investment ill n losing or at best an unproftable venture New York citizens have been known gene1
 ally as thrifty individuals, and there is lii
 tie reason to believe that they would loo
 upon worlds fair other than as mean
 of bringing grist to their own financis
 mills. It is quiet evident, therefore, thai s un1eSS cOnpraSs shows a 1ispocifio, f., o~