The daily morning journal and courier., 1903-05-02
AT LAST.
"Ar' Adams, Policy King, is in Sing
 Sing.

''Ar' Adams, Policy King, is in Sing Sing.
 ZAP Adams is at last in Sing Sing All the efforts of his clever lawyers and the power of his dirty money have not availed him. Stamped by public eXercration as the meanest of criminals, ] he has gone to prison handcuffed to a common sWindler.. It is possible to nave certain sympathy with bold burglar or highwayman, or with the forger or counterfeiter who starts out to measure his wits with society. We can even say something for the gam bier who plays straight game for the amusement, at their expense, of people who are at least supposed to be able to afford it.
 But the climax of nearness is filch- ing pennies from the poor and ignorant, teaching children to steal in order to play the so-called game which is only
 a sWindle, and in the name of gambling take bets from deluded victims on what is almost sure thing, for the mathe- matical chance of the numbers guessed being drawn in Adams game was pro- digiously less than the odds he offered The man who would take the pennies b off a dead mans eyes is proverbial, but he is in reality decent fellow compar- ed with Adams. He may lack respect for the dead and indulge in rather grue- some avarice, but, after all, he does not hurt anybody. The dead man will not i miss the pennies. But the poor wretch es who, penny by penny, built up Ad- ans milions-they and their families were dragged lower and lower by his snare.
 It was long lane, but it has turned ! at last. It is year and a half now since Adams ceased to enjoy the favor
 of the municipal authorities. Perhaps
 some people have been impatient with the slow results of reform, but here is one of them achieved with great diffi- culty It took a long course of police
 discipline to break down the bulwark which Adams had, with Tammany's
 aid, erected for his prot ection. The per- sistence which has finally landed him
 in state prison is more worthy of re- spect than would have been a sensa- tional conviction immediately after the downfall of Tammany to be followed by an era of self-satisfaction.
 From time to time in the last year
 and a half we have noted signs of pop ular impatience not unnatural consid-
 ering what human nature is, but we think there is growinf feeling of sat isfaction with the solid and more and
 more appreciable results of reform.
 From political point of view we are not at all sure that procession to Sing Sing of the criminals protected by Tammany, in office and out of it, will
 not be quite as useful as warning to evil-doers now as it would have been a year and half ago.
 Memories are short, and it is good that a row of Tammny criminals should stand up in line to remind people what Tammny is as it asks to be intrusted
 again with power: and if by chance it wins it will also be good for it's candi- dates to enter office with the fresh ex- ample before them of the wages of crime. It may help them to give us a trifie better government than they oth- erwise would, if it should happen that we fall into their clutches. Adams is
 one good warning, like the gibbeted figures that decorated old-time cross roads. We hope MT. Jerome will push the investigations of the dock scandals which have finally been unearthed, and that he will soon put out of suspense that long enduring and too little tried
 Scannell-New York Tribune.