The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1894-06-19

MI. Rachard Croker-not dead but
gone before.
Commenting on the Lexow invezti
CATION the New York Times Oem.)
says:
One of the most disheartening results
OF the investigation is the demonstdga-
ton of the increasing holiness and
openneSS with which THE blackmai is
levied. That is what we might expect
1t is in the nature of sinful man the
longer Judgment for an evil thing is
delayed" to feel more and more secure
in doing evil things, and to disbelieve
that Judgment is ever coming.
/ OF course, it is absolutely impossi-
BILE that a police force of which such
things can be proved can be an efficient
or trustworthy police force for amy pur-
pose whatever. A force differed by per-
sens who have paid largely for their
places and manned by persons who
have paid brides to the extent of three
or four months pay must be mainly oc-
CT pied in schemes for getting its mon
ey back.
New York seems to be peculiarly I'M
fortunate in THE matter of municipal
corruption. But then Tweed died in
prison and Croker has gone abroad, so
there is till some hope. But New York
should cease to call her police "the
finest in the world
The exposures of municipal corr,ip-
ton in New York by an Investigating
committee of the state senate fully JUS
tify all charges that have been made
in that relation. DIR. Parl1hurst has
lbeen numerically Tidiculed and ira
duced for his efforts to bring these ug-
ly facts to light by legal evidence, but
DC 1f-s1r
doubt as to the correctness of his state
men'ts and the integrity of his motives
The story is a most TeplIlSiVe one, with
details of criminality involving every
form of official misconduct. 1T is shown
that the worst kinds of vice have been
permitted to flourish by paying stipu-
lated sums for police protection The
leVying of blackmail by the officials
has been systematic and widespread,
and those refusing to make such con-
tributionS have been prosecuted in eve
~ conceivable way.-St. Louis Globe
Democrat Rep).
DR.. Parldhurst is doubtless what
some would term a crank, but as The
Autocrat says, cranlls move the world.
The Populists have no right to COM
plain of Governor Waite. He is typi-
cad of their party. He represents those
! BOIBllCdl LUCAS dilQ TllOSG AlGDT1eS OIL
government for which Populism stands
If they may with propriety repudiate
him, the plant may i'm justice find fault
with its fiower.-Denver Republican
Rep9.
People have no right to kick when
thew make their own choice of officials.
But the Colorado Populists should kick
themselves for choosing such a man as
Waite.
Before the government concludes
ANY further treaties with China at
should see to it that the Chinese au-
liberties are. bound by the strongest of
diplomatic terms to protect every
American citizen whose business or
pleasure makes ii necessary for him to
dwell in or travel through the empire
commonly referred to as the "FloWery
Kingdom" The Star recently printed
a communication from an American
missionary, who resides in the province
of Chellidng, in which the straightfor-
ward charge is made that .the United
States makes every concession regard
ling Chinese, especially scholars and
merchants in our country, and demands
nothing regarding American citizens in
China, who are merely merchants and
scholars. Washington Evening Star.
Every American citizen abroad
should be protected in all his rights,
and our diplomats should see that they
are granted. But our treatment of the
Chinese has not always been that of
doing unto others as you would that
they should do unto you"
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ling any silver but small coins at the