The Sunday morning news. [volume] (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1886-1891, 1891-10-18

funniest thing about it all was that
the Blaine men did not discover what
was really going on until too late TO
help themselves.
A slight concession was made to
them-they were given just enough
taffy to keep their mouths closed un-
til within the hour of adjournment.
But they went home breathing vows
of vengeance which will bear fruit
later in the season,
The Swindling short Term Orders.
AT last, Insurance Commissioners
Duryea has begun active work for the
suppression Of the short term orders.
He has caused the arrest of one
Brown, the Newark agent of
the Progressive Benefit Order, !"
one of the worst offenders
in this system of organized bunco
steering. The charges against him
are all of violating the insurance laws.
They are presented in nine different
shapes, SO as to constitute nine differ
emit legal offenses, and for each of the
nine the State demands a penalty of
$500
Apart from the certainty of en-
forcing the penalty if the cases are
vigorously pushed, the action taken
by Mr.. Duryea cannot fail to have a
good effect. The expenses OF defend
ing the cases in the courts must have
a tendency TO diminish the profits of
the swindling concerns, and the mere
fact that the State is fighting them
will make the gulls timorous and
business very slow.
The success that these orders have
had is not perhaps strange in a coun-
try where policy shops and lotteries
can do a paying business. They APP
peal to the gambling instinct of weak
| people. They do so insid-
iously, it is true, for they
| gid the game with specious talk
about frugality and economy; but
that they back gambling game is
the best thing that can be said of
them. If their plan is not a gamble
it is a conscious swindle; there is no
third alternative.
1t is to be hoped the war now begun
will be vigorously pushed. 1t is not
| pleasant to think that it was only
opened when one of the victims
forced the issue upon Mr.. Duryea.
But he is in the fight now Let us
hope he will not show either weak
ness or Incidence in its conduct.
It is odd that a State which
Furnishes policy and lottery playing
should have tolerated these tontine
juggIers SO long. Mr. Duryea will
have all thinking, right-minded peo-
| pie on his side in the struggle against
them, and the best wishes of such
people for his success in crushing
them.
THE Kendalls are playing at the
Star Theatre, New York, an engage
ment which, they announce, is to be
their last in the United States. Let
as hope they mean it. OF all the
fakirs that have ever worked the
American press and public for fools
| they take the palm. Their cool, I'M
blushing effrontery is only equalled by
the Stiffness with which the news
| papers and the theatre-going public
! fellinto every one of theirsnares. They
have had more free advertising, more
adulation and more money from this
country than they would have been
able to earn by honest work, even il
they had been the great artists they
pretended. They came to this coun-
try assuming that loud self-assertion
| and vulgar pretence were the things
] that paid here. They paralyzed
| everybody by their impudence.
I They were taken at their own valua-
ton before people realized what they
really were. After while they began
to be found out, and they are Just
leaving the country in time to escape
! the coolest frost that ever overlook a
pair of bumptious, brazen, British
! buffers.
| 70 be quite fair. we are bound to
say that Mrs. Kendall, though far the
more offensive Of the two off the
stage, is very good actress on it.
4 Kendall is a stick in every walk of
life.
The Republican organs in Ohio are
bowling against the Ballot Reform
law. The kangaroo ballot. as they
/ call il Is Knocking all Mex inIavfs