The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1901-01-09
FINANCIERS TO BLAME
Frank Moss Holds Them Re-
spOnsible for Corruption.
HAVE GRIP ON GOTHAM
PHIL REPUBLICANS
DECLARED CROOKED.

New York, Jan. S.-Frank Moss, ex-
president of the board of police COM
nlissioners, speaking last night at the
Universal Thought salon at Winter
burn hall, on the topic, Things in Gen
eraI,' blamed the men who buy special
privileges for municipal misrule in New
York He said among other things;
This unanimous pointing TO poor
Senator Sullivan, Martin Engel, Percy
Magic and Chief DeVery is suspicious.
II is suspicious that all the newspapers
agree in attacking vice II is suspicious
that Tammany itself points to the par
ticular vices of gambling and disorder
~ houses. I am inclined to look be
hind and see what greater evil is shield
ed. The men who might start an or
ganization to overthrow Tammany are
themselves guilty Of doing practically
the same thing. The men who have
been building up this system of cOrrup-
ton know that the men who were in
control in New York life were buying
privileges and were fattening upon the
fruits of special purchase privileges.
''Devery is bad enough, but he is
mere creature. a mere product The
commissioners are as guilty as Devery,
yet they talk of taking one of them TO
be the single head Of the department.
He is the very man who broke his
no fault to find, to put Mr.. Devery
where he IS at the behest of politicians
and gamblers. There has been all TINS
discussion about vice, but he has done
nothing. There has not been a single
trial, but he is not the ultimate Grim
inal- He is the crea ture OF a system
Financial Powers Real Culprits.
Croker is certainly an object against
which we have to turn our batteries,
but 1 don't know that he is the worst
one. There are men in New York who
are great financial powers and who
have been furnishing the brains for
Tammany hall for years and prOhtinS
by it and they have been using the
rough man who is the nominal head to
control the masses and they have given
him the rough mans price"
Mr.. Moss described the enormous
value of the subways as an illustra-
ton of the special privileges which h.
said a certain few men were Interested
in, and he said that it was to protect
them in the enjoyment of that mon
OpOly that they maintained Tammany
and through Tammany prevented d
construction of the pipe galleries which
would carry wires in competition with
the subways.
This is the condition, yet the mis-
cradle public is amused over dives and
gambling dens and the holders Of spec
ldl DilN AltHtS SlglN HdN We II otG il rfG
can't get the TefOTmeTs to put in nom
inatiOn for mayor some man who won't
interfere with our special privileges.
Builder Tells of Blackmail.
zone of the biggest builders in New
York said to me: If I were to tell you
some of my experiences it would turn
the city upside down
Why don't you tell me2' I said.
20, it would end me-, was the reply.
What white livered men we are in
New York l have seen men turn pale
when 1 suggested that they speak out.
Though vice is bad it is not the worst
thing II il was not for corruption
in business life there would not be
so much in politics. One can be a rail-
road wrecker or an abSOrber of cor
porations and be considered respect
able. The strife that is now on Will go
on until a force of men who have pa
triOtism and civic pride viii redeem
the city"
Tammany Denies Blackmail.
Charges that members of Tammany
hall and New York City officials have
been collecting blood money from
gambling houses and other disreputable
places OF the city is officially denied by
the Tammany committee of five.
Lewis Nixon. who is chairman of the
committee, has made public a state
ment in which he says.
There is an organization of men
known as the combine that is or
ganized for systematic blackmail. and
they cloak the workings by pretend
ing to be paying Tammany hall the
money they collect for the protection
they are supposed to furnish in its
name"
Ex-Mayor A. s. Hewitt, interviewed
on the subject of vice in New York,
said.
THE remedy for tha evils of which
the people complain, now lies entirely
in the hands of the people. When l
was mayor, I looked thoroughly into
the conditions of vice on the east and
west sides. and I concluded that the
root Of the evils lay in the tenement
houses. recommend that the tene-
ment houses be torn down and recon-
structed and that this work be done
as d necessary matter
Republicans Are Corrupt.
If local leaders can be found to car
~ on the fight. Bishop Potter will as
sist in launching an anti-vice crusade
in Philadelphia and viii speak at a