New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1892-05-08
KIPLING'S IMPRESSIONS OF THIS CITY.
THE GOVERNMENT OF THE LONG, NARROW II"
TROUGH" DEsPOTIsM OF THE ALIEN,

TROUGH" DEsPOTIsM OF THE ALIEN.
BY THE ALIEN, FOR TIE ALIEN.
London, May 7.-Rudyard Kipng, the novelist
sends TO "The Tines his final impressions OF New
York City. lie says
The more l studied IT, the more grotesquely bad
il grew. II bad in the paving of it, Streets oau
in its police management, and bad in It's sanitary ar
,angements. No one that talked to has approached
the management of New-YOrk in proper spirit re
c.,rling II as the shiitless outcome OF squhhu OAR
barism and reckless extravaganza. No one Is hHo'S
10 do So because reflections cast the long, narrow
pig trough are construed malevoent at'ac"> "s'S'
the spirit the majesty OF the great American peopN
and lead to angry comparisons. Yet, II all inc scc's
OF London were permanently torn up ana All tie
lamps were taken down, this would not prevent ING
New York streets, taken in lump, from behis nr'E
Cousins TO the Zanzibar foreshore or kin To the ap
proaches OF Kafir hraal.
lone of these days, you told, everything VIII
be taken In hand and put straight, and the nnvrtnous
rulers OF the city will be swept away by cyclone oil
nopulor Indignation. Everybody will unanimously
elect the right men, who Will justly earn the enormous
salaries at present paid TO inadequate aliens At the
same time awlessness ingrained by the governors
among the governed during forty years OF brutal e'iS
OF public conscience in regard to public duty. the
toughenng and suppling Of public morals the reckless
disregard for human life bred by impotent laws ana
fosered by familiarity with needless accidents ana
criminal neglect will mlraculously disappear.
ain heather land three things are supposed TO be
the pillars Of q moderately decent government They
are Regard for human life; justice criminal and
civil: and good roads Yet in this Christian city they
think lightly Of the frst-thelr own papers, their own
speech and their actions prove it, They buy ana
sell the second at certain price, openly and without
shame and apparently content TO do without the
third. The blame OF their city evils is not altogether
with the gentlemen. chiefly Of foreign extraction who
control the city, These find the people made to their
hand, lawles breed ready to wink at evasion OF
the law il they profit by another. and in their
hours OF leisure content to smile the details OF
clever fraud"
Mr.. Kiplng continues: "The cultured American
says: Give us time We shall arrive The other
wise American, who is aggressive traghtway proceeds
10 thrust piece OF half hanged municipal bOtchwOrk
under the OF the allen sample of perfected
effort. There IS nothing delightful than To sit
FOR a strictly limited time with child who tells you
what he IA be when man. Tut when tho
same chd-Oud- voiced, nsstent and unblushngly
eager for praise but thinsknned the most morbid
hobleic hOy-stands about all your ways, telling
the same story In the voice. YOU begin vearn
for somebody inished-say Egypt and completely
dead mummy.
1T Is neither seemly safe 10 hint that the
government Of the largest city IN the United states
La dcspotism Of the alien 10y the alien, for the allen
tempered with occasional Instructions Of decent folk"