The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1892-05-08
GOTHAM UNDER TAMMANY
"Rudyard Kipling, Novelist" Works OF
q Lot OF Accumulated Bile.
New York, Its Streets and Unvirtuous Rulers
Scored BY the Foreigners Pen-A City
Run BY Aliens and Lawless Breed.

LONDON. May Z-"Rudyard Kipling,
novelist" sends to the Times his final
Impressions of New York city. He says:
The more / studied it tho moro
Rrotesquely did it grow. 1t was bad in
the paving of its streets. bad in it's police
management. and bad in its sanitary nj
rangements. No one that talked to has
approached the management of New YORK
In q proper spirit, regarding 1t as the
shiftiess outcome OF squalid barbarism and
reckless extravaganza. No one 10 likely to
do so, because reflections cast on the long.
narrow pig trough are construed as
malevolent attacks against the spirit and
the majesty Of the great American people
and lead to angry comparisons. Yet, II All
the streets In London were permanently
torn up and all the lamps were taken down,
this would not prevent the New York
streets, taken in q lump. from being hrst
cousins to the Zanzibar fOreshOre. or kin to
the approaches OF a katfir kraal.
One of these days. you aic told. every
thing will be taken In hand and put
straight and the unvirtuous rulers of the
city will be swept away by cyclone of
popular indignation. Everybody will
unanimously elect the right men, who will
justly earn the enormous salaries at pres
emit paid to inadequate aliens. At the same
time the lawlessness ingrained by the gov
errors among the governed during forty
years of brutal laXity OF pubic coincidence
and suppling of public morals, the reckless
disregard for human life bred by impotent
laws and fostered by familiarity with
needless accidents and criminal neglect
will miraculonsly disappear,
I'm q heather land three things are sup
posed to be the pillars of moderately de-
cent government. They are: Regard for
human life. justice. criminal and civil.
and good roads. Yet. in this Christian
city they think lightly of the frsr-their
own papers, their own speech and their
actions prove it. They buy and sell the
second at . certain price. openly and with
out shame. and are apparently content to
die without the third. The blame of their
city evils is not altogether with the gen.
tlomen. chiefly of foreign extraction, who
control the city. These lind the people
made to their hand. q lawless breed. ready
to wink at one evasion of the law if they
may profit by another. and IN their rare
hours of leisure content to smile over the
details of clever fraud"
He then says: 1.-The cultured American
says: Give us time. We shall arrive
The otherwise American. who is aggressive:
etraightway proceeds to thrust piece of
half-banged. municipal work under the
nose of the alien as a sample OF perfected
effort. There Is nothing more delightful
than to sit for q strictly limited time with
q child who tells you what he means to be
when q man. But when the same child,
loud voiced, insistent and unblushingly
eager for praise. but AS thin-skinned as the
most morbid hobbledehOy, stands about
all your ways, telling you the same story.
in the same voice. you begin to yearn for
somebody finIshed-say Egypt and q CON-
pletely dead mummy.
ut is neither seemly nor safe to hint
that the government of the largest city in
the United States is q despotism of the
alien. by the alien, for the alien, tempered
with occasional instructions of decent
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