The daily journal. (Salem, Or.) 1899-1903, 1901-11-22
NEW YORK
COMPARED
TO THE WEST
Well Known Newspaper Man
Hits Tammany
Our Standards of Morality
Applied to Gotham

| Colonel Pat DOnaO, ire well known
western newspaper man, is IN New York
at the present time and as usual is
putting in good word for the west
when opportunity presents itself The
following highly characteristic letter
from him finds place in the New York
Commercial Advertiser:
Sir-DurinZ the past few days all your
city papers have hashed and rehasbed
this London press dispatch of Oct, %
The London Times of today publishes
a special cable letter from New GDrk
containing many startling statements
which have been sent all over Europe
The correspondent declares that n reign
OF terror exists ia the American mt
trOpOlis, aud adds: at il no eXaggera-
liUn To say that New York today ia as
dnsafe as a western mining town Of a
generation ago. One OF the results o.
the political importation Of tramps aud
criminals has been to turn loose in the
city many OF the most dangerous men
in America. Part OF the price paid as n
promise of immunity from punish ment
and, resulting therefrom. an incredible
wave OF crime is sweeping over the city.
Shopkeepers are in a state bordering
on panic. Citizens walk the streets at
night literally at the risF Of the their
lives. The more prosperous shop
keepers are employing private watch.
men, 20 great is the distIust OF the
police"
Your official miscreants and maleiac-
tors, your criminal bosses and chiefs and
squires, your thievish and dirty Dicks
and Tins, Vans, Ikes and Mikes, have
united in savage howl OF denunciation
Of the article, as a slander upon the city
they live - plunder, and by plundering.
l rise to denounce it, from an altogether
different viewpoint.
It's reference to Western mining
towns, as a standard OF comparison in
outlawry with New York, isa wanton
and infamous libel on every mining
camp in the American West. There are
mere murders, robberies, atrocious at
saults, brutal outrages on women an 4
children, and other heinous and bastard
ly crimes, in your Tammany-cursed
city every II months, than there have
ever been in all the mining campo from
the Yukon to the Rio Grande put to-
gether in any 10 years of their history,
In the widest days of Deadwood-the
widest mining camp this hemisphere,
or perhaps tue world, has ever seen
life and property were safeT in the |
rugged gulches OF the Black Hills than
they are on half your streets and aven-
ues today; and the standard Of honor
was higher In Dick Richards saloon or
Colorado Charley's gambling hell, than
1t is in large proportion of your politi-
cal headquarters, your municipal coun-
Gil halls, your court rooms and your
gilded social clubs.
Baker City, Sumpter, Butte, Rossland
and Dawson are, and always have been
models of the prayer book, quiet and
peaceable living, in all godliness aud
honesty" as compared. or rather con-
trasted, for their is no comparison, with
any Tammanyized ward or district on
Island. either above or 'be-
low Fourteenth street. "
For thirty odd years, from Bill Tweed
and his gang. to Dick Croker and his
gang, your whole municipal government,
with rare and brief intervals of semi.
decency, has been a pronlonged, hid
Ious debanch, carnival of crime and
outrage and shame; and your chosen
rulers have been beastly thugs and
thieves, whom no typical western
mining camp would ever have tolerated
IWenty-hours longer than was necessary
l' briOg them, a vigilance committe and
a few stout lariats together.
For the monstrOus misrule of these
anspeakable scapehells-these Orokers
and sullivans, Deverys, Murphys, Van
Wyoks, Ungers, Frommes, ct id omne
genus hellionorum- who have made the
very name OF your city "a Kissing and
byword, proverb of iniamy through
out ereation-you give up 500, ,OOO, 900 a
year in pirate taxes and at least $780,
OOO,OOO more in iblackmail, thieyage.
pulage, fraudulent contracts and fran
'hises' bagnio tribute, rake-offs and
'hake-downs, and miscellaneous and
assorted blood money aud wages of Gin
Tnis is gigantic, appalling total of
lsOO'VOO'OOO a year-within a trife of
he entire expenses OF the United States
'overnment, with its $1,000. 200 in
iSSO-and twenty times more than the