The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1894-06-26

~ they will not divide. until New York
city IS one vast amphithcatre In which
the privilege 20 commit any kind OF
vice or swindling crime is sold by the
pollce 10 whatever criminal viii agree
20 divide the profits OF the swindle with
them.
Du, they no longer conhne their cor
r,ipt bargains 20 the criminal classes
They can make their greed and avar'ce
levy blacknaA in legitimate business
and they levy this backmail wherever
they can The privilege Of keeping boxes
Of goods upon the street In obstrucuDh
OF the highway and in violation OF u'e
law. Is sold by them TO merchants Oh al
Kinds. The steamships and other yes
sells entering the port are Ve1eu anu
harassed by interferences ana lhtsi'eP
lions until all vessel owners have come
10 look on II as a part Of the expense
~ their business 10 pay the police week
" salaries to let their business alone
N-or Is the nefariOus business confined
80 the pollce. How high the corruption
an extend no one can ever conjecture.
:, e. strongly suspected that Croker has
fed 70 Europe to keep from being put
unon the stand as witness. But TWO
~ the subordinate judges OF the CITY
have already been implicated In the most
a,-o~lous forms OF the infamy, one OF
them having been partner IN the CITY
most successful bunco game ana the
rea,,lar custodian Of the partnerships
capitaI and profits until divided poor
.r,,rs who kept an oyster and coffee
s.ans told on Friday last 10 the COM
mittee a pltiful story Of how ne was
O., aeeced by the police 10 procure
their protection" and then. When they
"nrotected" thieves who stole MS wares
and he complained 70 superior ponce au-
,horifies. he was bounded by the ponce
fo- n until they broke UP his business
aud drove him a wanderer INTO the
streets. and he concluded by saying ne
you'd not be treated in that way IN
Constantinople. II is plain that govern
mont in New York city is mockery anu
hire combination o. machinery by
~ ,be servants whom the public en-
,lov n administer the laws use the au-
tboritv that the laws give them TO sen
protection against the laws TO every vile
aIor,en, ~ society and 10 levy blackmail
and ,ribute upon every commercial in
terest that they can reach.
This bideous picture must force every
American 70 pause and ask himself II
his saturnalia Of crime is an incident o.
republican and free institutions. Every
dav evidences accumulate that corrap-
lion in politics is not confined 70 New
York Senator Allen. OF Nebraska, stat
81 in the Senate on Friday last that
within a few years past The newspapers
ooenlv charged without contradiction
ma, Al the Joint session Of a Legs allure
N elect 4 United States senator the
money with which votes were purchased
was passed around by the representative
Of 2 big corporation in yellow envelopes
He did not mention the LEGISLATURE. We
have ourselves. within the past year. seen
railroad corporations interfere in the
election Of Virginia's Legislature with
money. 10 a point that made her Legs
lature the representative Of the railroads
and not Of the people OF Virginia The
whole thing proceeds from the use Of
money in elections and the sale Of Offices
Cor "inf,ooence." II must be cut up root
and branch or our institutions are an
inter failure and Va are on the high read
10 the corruption and conseQu mt decay
Of old Rome.