The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-08-11
TAMMANY ROLE JARRED.

New York people with the idea that it
had right to exist. Heretofore the
sessions have been pronounced farcical
and it's findings worthless. But now
New Workers are impressed with the
evidence that has been produced at its
sessions this week.
When the committee demonstrated
in its early sessions that the city was
wide open, no one paid any attention
to it, for every one knew that such
must be the case under Tammany gov
eminent. The average New Yorker
cares very little if it is, and good
many of the business men would pre-
fer that it should be. What Coney
Island is to New York, New York is
to the rest of the country With Coney
Island toned down to the ordinary sea-
side resort, it would cease to attract
it's patronage would fall off and those
who are engaged in legitimate business
there would long for the days when
Coney was wide open. New York is a
show town or a circus onsa large scale
The announcement thatAi is wide
open is an advertisement that is
worth millions to it, and of these mil
lions that are placed in circulation by
strangers who are attracted by. it's re-
puted wickedness, every one who is in
trade in the city expects to get his
share, and he probably does. So New
Workers. though pretending to abhor
conditions which they know to exist,
have had their consciences quieted and
protests stilled by Tammany's asser-
ton that business is better with the
lefty wide open.
Had the work of the Mazet commit
tee ended with demonstrating that
Iwickedness in it's most seductive forms
was rampant and unrepressed by the
police, it might have impressed some of
the good people outside of New York,
but as a disinfectant it would have
failed miserably.
But this week the committee has
bowled over Tammany's strong point,
Tammany people have never boosted
that the city was other than it is, but
they have always met the charge
that it was wide open under their rule
with this plea in defense and extenua-
ton: you may say what you please
about Tammany government, but there
lis one thing that everybody admits
| life and property are safer in New
York than they are in any other large
city in the world" Perhaps that used
to be the case, but it is not so now and
this is what impresses New Workers.
The Mazet committee this week has de-
monstrated that safety as regards both
person and property, is back number
Thieves, male and female, and thugs
infest populous sections of the city
and the Mazet committee has demon
lstrated that large proportion of them
are protected by the police department,
and that those who are robbed are
powerless. They can neither obtain
their property again nor have the
criminals brought to book. 1t is this
that has filled New Workers. with the
idea that Tammany rule is not all
right, and it has also given Tammany
rulers a chill. The situation in New
York is probably very fairly outlined
by the Evening Post of that city il
the following
The first thing to be asked of an,
| government 10 safety for the citizen
safety as regards both his person ant
MS property. The authorities mus
render 1t possible for him to go abou
the streets at all hours without fear O.
| Delng Killed, or even assaulted. They
| must make him feel free from appre
hension that he will suffer from thieve.
When he is abroad, and assure his HON,
and his place of business against rob
bery. Let any municipal administra
ton do this and 1t goes far toward,
| satisfying the demands of the averag,
man. If he feels that his life and hi,
| property are safe, tits hard to get hin
| greatly excited over stories of misrul
| by the authorities in other directions
always provided that such misrul
ooes not result in running up his take;
too high.
Tammany consequently could no
nave done shrewder thing when it re
turned to power at the beginning O
last year than to make this old claim
valid during the present administra
ttSA, w lCHuSI IL always DOSSlDle Una
the apologist for it's rule could use thu
life and property plea. Busy ant
Woodworking people would overlook
great deal of alleged, and even dem
onstrated, stealing in other direction
| II they never got robbed themselves
You never had anything stolen from
you, did you? You haven't any frienC
whose house or shop was ever robbed
have you? Well, then, what are yol
talking about?" So long as a defende
of Tammany could ask such questions
with assurance, Tammany might fee
that 1t was all right.
Mr.. Moss found evidence from tn,
robbery books kept by the police tina
the records of robberies are garbled
that false names are entered, and rea
names twisted out of all semblance t,
their originals that in many precinct,
no record of a robbery is kept unless
an arrest is made. In short, no candle
/ person can read the report of yester
days investigation without becoming
| convinced that the decentralization O.
the police force has gone so far tina
| property is no longer safe, and that thu
nominal protectors of it are oftentime,
/ standing in with thieves and rob
bers.
Yesterdays revelations will open tn,
( eyes of many people who have hitherto
been blind to the evils of TammanN
rule They will see that it really comes
home to them. They will come to un.
derstand that corruption cannot per.
manently prevail everywhere else If
| the government without at last affect.
ing It's very foundations. They viii
realize that the old life and property
plea no longer holds in New York citv
| and that If they want to be safe in thei,
houses, their offices. and their shops
they must have a different kind OF
municipal administration.
DEATH OF JOHN l.. DAWSON.
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