The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1906-09-26

inc ledueIS OF ldmmany Hall, who
thrive on graft, make millions of
money, in return for which the Sleep
ers are to be nominated for high Of
flee. The cheapest thing in New York
is the gabby reformer, whose pretense
is only equalled by his lack of SINGER
ity.
Underneath the froth and foam, OBJ
served only by the transient visitor
and the newspaper reader, there is a
great big mountain of good in the city.
1t is most self-respecting mass. The
"fashy" and the wild chasers after
pleasure, so much in the eye of the
public, are not the native New York
ers-Pittsburg's steel, Nevadas gold,
and Colorados silver send us the men
and women who do the abnormal and
the unnatural. They no more typify
the real New Yorker than does the
bottle the wine of the old vintage
An army of several hundred thous-
and men cross Brooklyn bridge every
morning and recross in the evening
clean-cut, well-dressed and self-re-
specting. They work in legitimate
trades and businesses. In other parts
of the city, mainly at night, there is
the other army of men and women,
ftashily dressed, wild-eyed and hysteri-
cal with pleasure; they are those in
the illegitimate trades and businesses.
But their number is small in compari-
son with the other army. But yet
those who don't live in the city are
taught to believe-and most of them
do believe-that the vicious and the
vile make up most of New York's pop
ulation.
There is more true Americanism in
the public schools, to which the poor
children go, than there is in the pri-
vate schools to which the children of
the rich go. On the East Side the
Declaration of independence is read to
the children of the oppressed, and
means something; on Murray Hill it is
largely considered a collection of
worn-out platitudes On the East Side
among the poor there is the family
life, In the residential portion of the
rich. not alone do the children not
lead the family life with their parents,
but most of the parents each live a
separate family life from each other.
It is the old story of the virtues of pov,
erty and the vices of wealth.
The one big thought however, III
the minds of the four million is money
and the getting of it. 1t isn't the
survival of the fittest" that controls
but the survival of the strongest
New York city, as whole, has no use
for anybody who can't deliver some
thing. Those who cannot make them
selves useful in money way to the
community at large are neglected, II
not scorned The influence OF the
churches is sorely limited, and II II
was not for the public school system
as we now have it. if there were not
universal education, New York city
ten years hence would be place OF
wild anarchy.
There never yet was city like New
York. The great city of antiquity
and modern times are wholly unlike
it. The forces that made it are eX'
ceptionaI; it's future will be as unique
as it's present. It's morality Will al
ways be on a level with the morality
of the individual, which have falth
will improve. l also have faith tha'
the brains of the coming generations
will be better than those OF the pres
ent and past, and that clear thinking
will go hand in hand with plain living
and honest purpose.