The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1898-03-10
kind visited his place. =

kind visited his place.
tsDoes he not manage a similar place
now, that which you keep"
My place." angrily replied Beck, "is
as respectable at the Fifth Avenue
Hotel"
'sHigh-toned. eh?" sarcastically OBJ
served Judge Noonan.
''Our place is respectable, and l try
to keep it such.'' snapped the witness
.'Yet it is open at all hours of the
night and all kinds of loose people fire.
quent it?" observed the lawyer.
81 have never seen any. 1t is as re-
spectacle as any place in New York.,
Beck hotly answered
women sit around there and drink,
don't they?"
."rhey come there for refreshments
''And you have white and colored
crooked women there?' persisted the
lawyer
s'No, sir; I never allowed colored peo-
pie to enter" returned Beck, angrily.
"Oh, you draw the color line there,
hey?"
1t is in order, here, to ask the Jour
nal'' why Beck severed his connection
with the place if it is not a dive?
Also, what he gains in moral standing
by severing his connection with it at this
somewhat advanced stage of the case?
Continuing the sentence, last quoted
above, the Journal says
certain other place in New York City
to which the author of many of these
scandals took one OF the Jurymen DUR
ing the progress of the Noonan-Simp-
him into believing that Mr.. Beck
owned such a place as he showed him.
A reporter for 1.-The News" was seat 10
Mr.. Rappleye of the journal" yester-
day, to ask him who was meant by the
words, author of many of the scandals, !"
and refused to say.
In view of this refusal it can only be
said that the statement is a cowardly
and blackguardly piece of buncombe.
''The News" will pay to Mr.. Rappleye,
personally or to any charity that he may
select, ONE HUNDRED DOLLARS if he
can show that any member of 'The
News staff has done the thing alleged
above, or If he can show that any person
not member of 1.-The News" staff, in
regular standing for months if not years,
has written or contributed one single line
ject of the Noonan-Simpson prosecution
or the Winfield crusade.
So far as ''The News is concerned, the
Journals allegation is a falsehood as
unqualified as the statement that the AL
banesius arson case was never brought to
trial, a sample of accuracy and truthful
ness which, Mr.. Rappleye is well aware,
cut a prominent figure in a Journal as
sault on the character of man whose
ruin it sought for its own profit.
The journal thus ends IT'S wall
In ali these scandals the method is
sd, mean, and the lies SO foolish, and
the purpose is SO clear, that further de-
mails would attach Importance to
them.
If the method is mean, 1t is not as
mean as the Journals" for 1t does
not descend to the employment Ct
pimps to trap the Journals" men or
to SPY upon them. 1t is at least brave
enough to frankly admit mistake when
one is made. 1t does not persist in a
policy of sulky silence as the Journal"
does. though its gross libels on the dead
Winf<Dd have been so exposed that they
must be plain even to its perverted
sense.
The Lies" may be foolish; but if they
are the much regretted one which has
led to this statement is the first which
the Journal has ventured to assail.
The purpose is clear. If it is not, ''The
News desires it to be so. 1t is to bring
upon the Journal the discredit and dis
grace which it deserves for it's prostitu-
ton of an honest calling, for its insult
to honorable men by dragging into the
same caste with them fellows of degrad-
ed character and associations, for the in-
jury which it has wrought to the good
name and fame of this community, SO
that the name of Hudson is printed in
fiaring headlines from Maine to Califor-
MIA and from the Lakes to the Gulf, as
the synonym of vice and corruption.
This is the purpose, and it will be
pursued relentlessly until the Journal
purges itself of its moral leprosy.
If any errors are made at any time,
they will be cheerfully rectified, as the
mere matters of detail. In its general
position, "The News is impregnable
THE EDITOR OF THE NEWS
RON TOMS OVEROROWDING.