The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1891-12-06
KNcx's BIsTHDAY.
Some Interesting Facts About
Gothsm's Policemen.
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Copyright 1891. By the United Press.
NEW York, Dec. 81 have Just re-
ceived q letter from a friend, who
sends me birthday greetings. and hopes
that since my last birthday,
have received enough of the good things Of
life Of late, to justify me in being thankful
for these last forty years.
am thankful, but not as much for the
presence Of the good things that came 70 me,
as 1 am for the absence Of the evil things
that did not come 70 me. may not have
added many of the ''glittering baubles of
wealth" to my possessions, but, then, 1 did
not lose neither a lawsuit, an election bet,
nor diamond pin, and my COW did not die.
For tho things that did not happen TO me,
but that might have happened, am filed
with gladness.
/ have Travelled daily on the elevated rail.
road and didn't get cinder in my eve. I
didn't fall of into the street in a derailed
car, nor was l brutally assaulted by the
employees of the road. This is remarkable,
and tOot a thank or two for that
NV enemies have not troubled me, and
my friends have been kind to me. Maj.
McRidley of Texas spent several days in
the city last week and didn's borrow a cent
from me, although it wasn't his fault that
he didn'6 b. b. Valentine spent an evening
with me recently, and did not tell me the
plot Of a new play OF which he is about to
be delivered. Bill Sterritt, whose muse has
been working both week days and Sundays
of late, came into the office yesterday, aud
10y requeso kindly refrained from
reading four-foot poem Cd me. sound
| the loud timbrel for that.
Yes, iDdsed, have much to be thankful
Tor. While many man Is going through
the world to-day tortured by the cares of
wealth, and with his heart full of envy, his
liver out Of plumb, and his system saturated
| with bi-chloride of gold, ] am not kept
awake by the noise made by the div
idends declaring themselves on my in
| veStments, | am using an excellent quail
ity of health, and l am at peace with the
| world.
Thanks, awfully.
About the New York policemen 1 would
| like 10 drop few setting thoughts un-
derstand that there are over 2 900 languages
spoken in the world. do not know one OF
them thoroughly, but if knew all of the
1000 l could not find in the whole lot
| enough tough and severe words to empha-
size my opinion of some of the New York
( policemen. l will say. first. that l believe
that the majority of the New York police
men are as respectable, honorable and
manly a force of men as can be found in any
civil or military service in the world. But
| there is a good-sized majority Of tOughs
scattered emong them, and they should be
suppressed.
| There are more men dubbed by the police
| of New York than are dubbed or abused
! by all the other thieves, thugs and toughs
| in the city. For proof Of it go to the police
courts" Resisting an officer" is the excuse
a 6-foct policeman gives for bruising the
face and cutting the scalp of 81 foot in
ebriate. 1t is not an excuse, it is charge,
| and the Justice, more shame TO him, takes
the word of the policeman and seldom
| listens to the injured and abused man, who
| is fiued or sent to jail. If he is poor no time
| is given him to get witnesses or lawyer, aud
justice weeps, not the police justice, Yop
know, but old Justice herself with the cap
| ital and the scales.
Occasionally policeman is punished for
| the sake of appearances Look at this case:
Policeman Michael J. Sullivan. w.
Twenty-seventh street, who assaulted girl
| named Alvine Garrison, was fined thirty
days pay" L quote from the columns Of
the daily papers.
Surprising you or ASSAULTED a girl, would
the value Of a policeman's thirty days pay
| settle the case?
| ! trow not.
| We would be incarcerated in a donion
keep, and it would take expensive lawyers
and influence" 10 keep us out of the peni-
| Tertiary. There instead of a Slime men
| that Michael ]. Sullivan gets we would get
our pictures in the paper under a scare
| heading like this:
CRUEL AND BRUTAL ASSAULT
On a RESPECTABLE YOUNG LADY.
A PROMINENT CITIZEN CHARGED WITH
THE CRIME.
HANGING Too GOOD FOR THE CULPRIT.
The reporter would gloat over the sicken-
| ing details aud write it up in his pulsating
and narrowing 'Steen -dollars-a>collum Ian
guage.
All, that reporterl He and he policeman
are more to be feared in New York than all
the other criminals combined. The pirates
Of the Spanish main, the brigands Of Italy,
the priests Of the inquisition, had some fesI-
ing, a speck of justice tempered their atr0c-
tiles. and they sometimes had fellow feel
| ing for their fellow man, but the New York
policeman and reporter-well, neither OF
them has ever injured me, but. all the same
| l am afraid of them. J. ARMOY KNOX,