Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1893-06-22

family mllilonalres IN this city who are
hand in glove with Tammany Hall sim
| ply because the valuation of their taxa
bic property is manipulated to suit their
notions. Millions on millions worth Of
property goes untaxed. and the burden
is borne by the poor.
SEVEN THOUSAND SALOONS.
Another cause of the present condition
of debauchery is that the good are di-
vided and the bad are united in the city.
There is power of cohesion in the forces
of evil in our civic life that has never
been attained by the forces of good. The
saloon men stand together. The gam
blers are a fraternity. The brothels
make common cause. And the hosts of
the saloon. the gambling hell and the
! brothel form a triumyirate ever ready to
/ - L-...ie II common. T.-,y present a
serTied host in every contest. We have
1000 saloons in this city, every one Of
which employs no less than three men.
This makes direct voting constituency
of no less than 81 900 voters. There are
10000 gamblers in the city This makes
about 30, 900. the saloon controlling, each
of them, more than three men. either di-
rectly or indirectly, at the lowest calcu-
lation.
Add the vote of the saloon and the
gamblers together. and you have a con
stituency in this city of not less than
$4,000. This is about the vote which
Tweed's candidate for register polled
when the boss was wearing striped
clothes. They stand together in season
and out of season. in every contest and
under all conditions. They have no re-
gard for public opinion. Ethical stand
ards in no way interfere with their deci-
sions.
The corruption of government in our
great cities is rapidly assuming pro-
portions that, unless checked, must
soon threaten the life of the nation it
self The debauchery of the city of
necessity must affect the life of the ma
ton because of the oyershadowing in
fuence of the modern city. We do not
stop here to discuss this point. which we
have presented again and again during
this series. We observe the fact:
First-In the supremacy of the slums
in the city. BY the slums do not mean
the poor in money. BY the slums /
mean the vicious and the degraded, the
criminal and the evil minded 1t is
fact that the lowest and vilest elements
of the city's life practically dominate it.
Take New York as an illustration. 1t
is an illustration of what is true in all
the greater cities in lesser degree We
find the center Of government in cor
rupt society answering to nobody save
its boss and the elements of corruption
on which it lives and out of which it was
born.
ORGANIZED CRIMINALS.
Tammany Hall is the most powerful
coterie of organized criminals that ever
dominated the life of any people 1t
makes and unmakes judges and juries,
feeds and breeds ON vice and crime.
With iron heel it brushes the weak, in
timidates the half hearted and defies the
strong 1t is whitening curse to the
city's life, damning with hot breath of
corruption every rami6cation of the
body polite. Like cancer, it literally
eats the heart out of the honor of the
young manhood of our day. And
though it is such an organization it
lives and thrives and continues its reign
with supreme impudence. | have said
many emphatic things about this gang
in the past have never had occasion
to regret one utterance, to take back one
sentence. The more have studied them,
the longer have lived among them, the
better | know them, the more utterly
impossible it becomes to find language
sufficiently emphatic to give any ade-
quate notion of the actual facts.
Glance for moment today at our gov
eminent and test its character. We be-
hold ON the judges bench man who is
about to be arrested for rascality and
who had become a drunken loafer, who
now receives a salary of $1,000 year.
We have the great and only Paddy |
Diver on the judges bench with his
noted companion. A biographical sketch !
of the Hon. Patrick Diver, commonly |
called Paddy" leader of the Tammany
hosts in the Second assembly district. Ie
lates that 'he is the keeper of sailors
boarding house and is the proprietor or
has interests in several liquor saloons. |
He is an ex-member of the board of |
aldermen, a race track frequenter and
the friend and confdant of gamblers.
He is on terms of intimacy with Johnny |
Matthews and Jake Shipsey, two men,
bers of the sporting and gambling fra
ternity. whose particular methods of
gaining a livelihood are unknown to the
frequenters of Paddy DIVERS and other
on Park row. where they are
to be found. y
We have also on the judges bench the
distinguished ex-chairman of the board /
of excise, a man whom | denounced /
from this pulpit in unmeasured terms at |
the time of his reappointment on the
board. and who carries the brand of that |
as originally uttered,
though he invoked all the machinery of 4
the courts under the influence of Tam