The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1901-11-24
PAT DORIAN PROTESTS.
Western Writer Resents Comparison
Of New York to SIiping Camps.

Western Writer Resents Comparison
Of New York to SIiping Camps.
(Letter in n Y. Commercial Advertiser)
During the past few days all the
city papers have hashed and rehashed
this London press dispatch of Oct. %:
The London Times Of today publishes
a special cable letter from New York
containing many startling statements
which have been sent all over Europe.
The correspondent declares that a
reign Of terror exists in the American
metropolis and adds. 1T is no exag-
geration to say that New York is as
unsafe TO-DAY as a western mining town
of generation ago. One Of the re-
suits Of the political importation Of
framps and criminals has been to turn
loose in the city many of the most dan
ger ous men in America. Part of the
price paid is a promise of immunity
from punishment. and, resulting
tseFefrom an incredible wave of crime
is sweeping over the city. Shopkeep-
ers are IN a state bordering on panic
Citizens walk the streets 1t night lit
orally at the risk of their lives. The
more prosperous shOpkeepers are en-
plOying private watchmen, so great is
Your official miscreants and maIefac-
tors, your criminal bosses and chiefs
and sqci-es. your thievish and filthy
Dicks and Tins. Vans. likes and Mikes.
have united in a savage howl Of denur-
citation of the article, as a SANDER upon
he city they live TO plund4r and live
by plundering. I rise TO denounce it
and protest against fl. from an alto
gether different viewpoint
It's reference to western mining
towns. as a standard of comparison in
ouJlawry with New YORK.. is a wanton
and Infamous libel on every mining
camp in the American west. There are
more murders, robberies, atrocities. as
saults brutal Outrages on women ard
children. and other heinOus and das-
tardly crimes in your Tammany- cursed
city, every twelve months. than there
have ever been in all the mining
camps from the Yukon TO the Rio
Grande put together in any ten years
or their history.
In the widest days OF Deadwood-
the widest mining camp this heni-
sphere. or perhaps the world. has ever
Seen--life and property were safer in
the rugged CLUTCHES of the Black Hills
than they are on half your streets and
avenues today. and the standard of
honor was higher in Dick Richards
saloon OF Colorado Charley's gambling
hell than 81 is in a large proportion Of
Your political headquarters. your ms
nieipal council halls. your court roon
and your gilded social clubs.
Leadvil'e Cripple Greek. Mercur. Ia.
ker City, Sumpter. Butte, Rossland
anu Dawson are and always have been
models of the prayer book. quiet ana
Deaceable living. in all godliness and
honesty" as cOinpared-or. rather. con-
trasted, for there is no comparison
with any Tammanyized ward or dis
trict on Ianhat tan island. either above
or below Fourteenth street"
For thirty-odd years from Bin
Tweed and his sang % Dick Croker
and his gang. your whole nsunicipaI
government. with rare and brief inter
walls Of semi-decency. has been a Dro-
longed. hideOus debauch, a carnival az
'rifae and Outrage and shame: and
our chosen rulers have been beastIv