The Progress., 1893-06-17

nanG II glove with Tammany Hall sim
ply because the valuation of their taxa
bic property is manipulated to suit theil
notions. Millions on millions worth OF
property goes untaxed. and the burder
is borne by the poor.
SEVEN THOUSAND SALOONS.
Another causs 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
blcrs are a fraternity. The brothels
make common cause And the hosts of
the ssoon, the gambling hell and the
brOthel form triumvirate ever ready 10
do battle in common. They present a
serried 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 10000. the saloon controlling, each
rectly or indirectly. at the lowest calcu-
lation.
Add the vote of the saloon and the
gamblers together. and you have 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
tion because of the overshadowing in-
tuence 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:
Elrst-ln 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
and the evil minded Ii is
fact that the lowest and vilest elements
of the citys 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
lind the center of government in a cor
rupt society answering to nobody save
Is boss and the elements of corruption
)n which it lives and out of which it was
BORN
ORGANIZED CRIMINALS.
Tammany Hall is the most powerful
'oterie of organized criminals that ever
dominated the hfe of any people 1t
makes and Inmakes judges and juries
eeds and breeds on vice and crime
With iron heel it erushes the weak. in
the half hearted and defies the
trong. 1t Is withering curse t0 the
ity life. damning with hot breath of
orruptiOn every ramifcation of the
ody polite. Like cancer, it literally
ats the heart out od the honor of the I
Dung manhood Of our day And
hough it is such an organization it
ves and thrives and continues its reign
nth supreme impadence. / have said
lany emphatic things about this gang
4 the past. have never had occasion
D regret one utterance. to take back one
antence. The more have studied them,
ne longer have lived among them, the !
etter | know them. the more utterly I
it becomes to find language
emphatic to give any ade-
uate notion of the actual facts.
Glance for moment today at our gov
rnment anu test its character. We be
old ON the judges bench man who is |
bout to be arrested for rascality and ,
rho had become a drunken loafer, who
ow receives salary of $4,000 year.
We have the great and only Paddy
)ivver on the judges bench with his {
oted companion. A biographical sketch
f the Hon. Patrick Diver. commonly
allied Paddy" leader of the Tammany I
osts in the Second assembly district, Io
ates that "he is the keeper of sailors
'oarding house and is the proprietor or
as interests in several liquor saloons,
lie is an ex-member of the board of I
ldermen, a race track frequenter and
he friend and confdant of gamblers. q
lie is on terms of intimacy with Johnny
datthews and Jake Shipsey, two mem
'ers of the sporting and gambling fra
erniiy, whose particular methods of
aiming livelihood are unknown to the !
of Paddy DIVERS and other
on Park row, where they are
to be found"
We have also on the judges bench the !
ex-chairman of the board
f excise, man whom l denounced I
rom this pulpit in unmeasured terms at
he time of his reappointment on the l
oard. and who carries the brand of that {
rraignment as originally uttered.
hough he invoked all the machinery of
be courts under the influence of Tam
lany to protect him from its force This {