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ABOUT TAMMAXY.
Rev. Tbos. Dixon Pays His Respects
to the “Tiger.”
Rev. Thomas Dixon, Jr., of New
York, in his sermon on Sunday July
11th, pays his compliments to Tam
many as follows:
Tammany Hall is the mcst power
ful coterie of organized criminals
that ever dominated the life of any
people. It makes and unmakes
judges and juries, feeds and breeds
on vice and crime. With iron heel
it crushes the weak, intimidates the
half hearted and defies the strong.
It is a -withering curse to the city’s
life, damning with hot breath of cor
ruption every ramification of the body
politic. Like a cancer, it literally
eats the heart out of the honor of the
young manhood of our day. And
though it is such an organization it
lives and thrives and continues its
reign with supreme impudence. I
have said many emphatic things
about this gang in the past. I have
never had occasion to regret one ut
terance, to take back one sentence.
The more I have studied them, the
longer I have lived among them, the
better I know them, the more utterly
impossible it becomes to find lan
guage sufficiently emphatic to give
any adequate notion of the actual
facts.
Glance for a moment today at our
government and test its character.
We behold on the judge’s bench a
man who is about to be arrested for
rascality and who had became a drun
ken loafer, who now receives a sala
ry of SB,OOO a year. We have the
great and only Paddy Divver on the
judge’s bench with his noted compan
ion. A biographical sketch of the
Hon. Patrick Divver, commonly call
ed ‘“Paddy,” leader of the Tammany
hosts in the Second assembly district,
relates that “he is the keeper of a
sailors’ boarding house and is the
proprietor or has interests in several
liquor saloons. He is an ex-member
oi the boar;! of aidermen, a race track
frequenter and the friend and confi
dant of gamblers. He is on terms of
intimacy with Johnny Matthews and
Jake Sbipsey, two members of the
sporting ami gambling fraternity,
whose particular methods of gaining
a livilihood are unknown to the fre
quenters of Paddy Divver’s and other
rumshops on Park row, where they
are generally to be found.”
We have also on the judge’s bench
the distinguished ex-chairman of the
board of excise, a man whom I de
nounced from this pulpit in unmeas
ured terms at the time of his reap
pointment on tne board, and who
carries the brand of that arraignment
as originally uttered, though he in
voked all the machinery of the courts
under the influence of Tammany to
protect him from its force. This
man,’during the pendency of indict
ments for penitentiary offenses, was
elevated by the present mayor of the
city to the position of judge. He
has shown since h& elevation to the
judgeship that he is about as thor
oughly fitted for the position as would
be any criminal -who would be taken
from the stockade at Sing Sing and
placed upon the bench. He pleads
for the fact that he was graduated
from Columbia law school, and yet
he laid aside bis judicial duties a few
days ago and appeared as the attor
ney for a saloon that desired to open
a rum hole within less than 200 feet
of a church.
AN INTERESTING BIOGRAPHY.
We have among the recent batch
of appointments by Mayor Gilroy,
elevated to a position of high respon
sibility, a man who is a common con
vict for theft, who was convited for
stealing as any other ordinary thief.
We have also among these appoint
ments the notorious John J. Scan
nelh Mr. Scannell has been made
chairman of the board of fire com
missioners at a salary of $5,000 a
year. The biography of Mr. Scan
hell has been recorded briefly as
follows:
“He is Tammany’s leader in the
Eleventh district, was a saloon keep
er and professional gambler. For
many years he kept the Compton
House, the ill repute of which extend
ed over the whole city. His reputa
tion as a professional gambler is that
of one of the best known men in the
profession. He began his political
life by committing a murder in a
gambling house at Twenty
eighth street and Broadway, where
pools were being sold on an election.
While Donohue, his victim, was pass
ing through Twenty-third street, at
the corner of Third avenue, one
night he was approached by a man
believed to be John Scannell. He
was a tall, thin man, precisely like
Scannell in appearance, and was dis
guised in a wig and slouch hat. As
Donohue and his friends approached
the man he drew a revolver and
fired. The bullet struck Donohue in
the body, passing through a rib and
lodging in the back without doing
him serious injury.
“John Scannell disappeared the
'same night, and nothing was seen of
him for nearly a year. About two
years later Scannell met Tom Dono
hue in a pool room m the basement
at the northwest corner of Twenty
eighth street and Broadway and
killed him by firing five bullets into
him. At the first shot Donohue fell
to the ground, but Scannell fired the
remaining four shots from his pistol
into the prostrate man’s body. Don
ohue died instantly. Scannell was
arrested and tried about two years
afterward. He was acquitted of the
murder on the ground of emotional
insanity and sent to the lunatic asy
lum, from which he was discharged
at the end of five or six months.
Scannell has been a very prosperous
gambler, being a partner of John
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Daly, and is reputed to have accumu
lated a fortune. He was a candidate
for the office of fire commissioner, the
basis of his candidacy being, accord
ing to current gossip, the fact that he
had raised $50,000 among the gam
blers for Grant’s campaign. Scan
nell’s pergonal contribution to the
campaign fund was a check for
$5,000.
“His prominence in Tammany
Hall politics is due to the friendship
of Dick Croker and Ed Stokes, which
he secured under peculiar circum
stances. The three men were all
confined in the Tombs at the same
time—lß74—each awaiting trial for
murder. Croker was innocent of the
crime imputed to him, but Scannell
and Stokes were both guiAy. The
last named was the slayer of Jim
Fisk and was atone time under sen
tence of death for his crime. The
friendship contracted under these ex
traordinary circumstances has wield
a more or less powerful influence in
Tammany Hall ever since.”
Yet Tammany usually decides
who shall be Psesident.
Light for a Savannah Goldbug.
Atlanta Constitution.
In addressing ourselves seriously
to the merchants and business men of
Georgia we took occasion to set forth
the disadvantages under which the
farmers of the South were placed by
the demonetization of silver. We
called attention to the fact that the
demonetization of silver here, com
pelled the cotton-producers and
wheat-growers of this country to pay
a bounty to the Indian farmers equal
to the difference between the coinage
value of the rupee in India and the
market price of silver here. We set
the facts specifically, and they have
drawn this comment from The Sa
vannah News, to which we invite the
attention of our readers :
Perhaps the reason business men are
not aroused by The Constitution’s state
ments in respect to silver is that they are
not yet satisfied that those statements are
altogether correct— particularly those re
lating to the Indian rupee. It must seem
strange to them that the Indian mer
chants, who are about the sharpest traders
in the world, do not buy silver at its
present low price, have it coined into ru
pees, which, The Constitution says, have
not depreciated, and thus grow enorm
ously rich,
From the best information we can ob
tain, and it is excellent, the faoe value of
a rupee in our money is about 48 cents
and its purchasing power and its power
to pay debts is between 32 and 33 cents.
This is very different from The Constitu
tion’s statement. If we are wrong, The
Constitution will, of course, set us right
by presenting unquestionable authority
for its statement. There is another state
ment of The Constitution that is worth
noticing. It is that English traders can
get $1 worth of Indian cotton for 64 cents’
worth of silver. Does The Constitution
mean cotton worth $1 in depreciated ru
pees, or in gold ? The inference is that
it means gold. If it does not mean that,
there is no point in its statement. But is
The Constitution sure that 64 cents in
silver will buy a gold dollar’s worth of
cotton in India? Perhaps on second
thought, it will not be quite sure.
The truth is, taking in.o account the
grades and qualities of the Indian pro
duct the same prices are paid for Indian
cotton as for cotton grown in this coun
try. The prices are made in Europe on a
gold basis. Silver cuts very little, if any,
figure in the transaction. The Constitu
tion says t,hat “ the South is paying
bounty to Indian producers.” If that is
so, it can be shown to be so. It would
be interesting to have it shown,
We propose to make the fact so
clear that 7’7?e Savannah News will
not permit its excellent authority to
come from behind the scenes. The
first authority we shall quote is Daniel
Manning, Mr. Cleveland’s first Secre
tary of the Treasury, who, in his
second annual report, (1886) made
this statement:
It is a direct consequence of the mone
tary dislocation that wheat of India,
which there fetched 3 rupees per quintal
fourteen years ago, and there fetches 3
rupees per quintal to-day, can be sold in
London for as little as the gold price of 3
rupees to-day, a fall of 25 per cent. This
lowered price of wheat in London has
had to be met by a lowered price of wheat
in India. * * * The price of our sur
plus wheat determines the price of the
whole wheat crop of the United States,
so that the monetary dislocation has al
ready cost our farming population, who
number nearly one-half the total popu
lation of the United States, an almost in
computable sum. a loss of millions upon
millions of dollars every year.
“ Monetary dislocation ” was Mr.
Manning’s phrase for demonetization
of silver. The losses he deplored
have grown greater and greater as
the gold price of silver has fallen,
and the loss of our farmers in both
wheat and cotton has swelled into
billions of dollars.
In one of Beerbohm’s trade list
issues of last year is to be found a
confirmation. Beerbohm is lately
dead, but any gram merchant of Sa
vannah will tell The News that he
was the accepted authority and sta
tistician of the British grain trade.
In the trade list referred to he said :
The material decline in the price of
silver, and in the rupee exchange (in Lon
don) has naturally facilitated shipments
considerably. * * * Indian wheat
can be sent to this country for about 2
shillings per quarter less than at this
time last year, leaving the Indian pro
ducer the same net result.
The Savannah News will observe
that this is evidence not only of the
effect of demonetization on the Amer
ican farm.er, but of the unchanged
value of the rupee. A decrease of 8
cents a bushel in the price of wheat
in London, says Beerbohm, “ leaves
the Indian producer the same net re
sult.” The result is precisely the
same with respect to cotton. Sir
Robert N. Fowler, M. P., the London
banker and eX-lord mayor of London,
is on record as boasting that “ the
effect of the depreciation of silver
must finally be the ruin of the -wheat
and cotton industries of America, and
be the development of India as the
chief wheat and cotton exporter of
the world.”
This is the reason, if our contem
porary will pardon the momentary
digression, why Mr. Ernest Seyd, the
agent of the Bank of England, framed
the act of demonetization of 1873,
which passed a Congress in “which
but two men—John Sherman and
Hooper, of Massachusetts —under-
stood its purport.
[What hindered the Democrats on
the committee from unde: standing the
purport of the act?—Ed. F. P. P.J
Moreton Fewen,* the well known
English financier, in a recent article,
says:
In this consideration we have to guide
us all the evidence collected by the two
royal commissions in England, as also
the evidence of independent inquiries in
India, so that to-day the fact that the
value of the rupee at its home in India,
has not at all diminished during the last
fifteen yoars may be accepted as demon
strated? The meaning of this is that an
ounce of silver —say three rupees—will
buy as much produce or labor in all the
up-country markets of India as it ever
did.
In The Forum for January, 1893,
Hon. Henry Huck Gibbs, ex-governor
of the Bank of England, showing that
silver would not be “ dumped ’ here
m case of free coinage, has this illu
minating remark: “Why should the
Indian, whose runee, though worth
less gold than it was, buys him as
much of the necessaries of life as it
used to do, spend three per cent in
getting it melted and turned into
dollars ? ”
We refer The News to Pedda’s sta
tistics prepared for the parliamentary
commission, and to Micchels copy
righted tabular reports from all the
departments in India. We refer it
to any prominent cotton exporter in
Savannah who has looked far enough
into his business to understand the
effect of Indian competition.
With respect to the proposed cur
rency changes in Europe, the casual
reference of The News to our edito
rial article of last Sunday enables us
to correct a mistake glaring enough
to correct itself. Referring to the
proposition of the goldolators to take
the American prop from under silver,
we said: “ The result has been al
ready foreseen by England, and ar
rangements are going forward to de
monetize silver in India and remone
tize gold. Here the credit was omit
ted. It should have read : “ The re
sult has been foreseen already by
England, and according to the mono
metallists arrangements are going
forward to demonetize silver in In
dia.” We were taking an argument
of the goldolators and throwing it
against them.
As a matter of course there is no
movement looking to the demoneti
zation of silver in India, but there is
a movement inaugurated by tne offi
cial class, which draws its salaries m
India and spends it in England, look
ing to the temporary closing of the
mints to free coinage. But England
is the government of India, and the
free coinage of silver there will not
be suspended—at least not while the
profits to British traders are so enorm
ous and the bonus to India cotton and
wheat production so stimulating.
The News says it must seem very
strange to business men “that the
Indian merchants, who are about the
sharpest traders in the world, do not
buy silver at its present low price,
have it coined into rupees, which the
Constitution says have not depreci
ated, and thus grow enormously rich.’
Well, our business men are not silly.
They know that India is selling every
rupee’s -worth of her products that
she can rake and scrape together for
our depreciated silver. They know
that India is taking all the silver she
can pay for in her produce—cotton,
wheat, jute, indigo and other stuff.
They know that the gold and-silver
that go there never come out again.
But if they know no more about these
matters than The Savannah News
seems to know, they would not under
take to discuss the matter.
The News says it has “ excellent
information ” that the rupee has de
preciated. Will it give us the in
formation in detail and the authority
for it ? If it is to engage in the busi
ness of goldbuggery, it should be pre
pared to go to the bottom of the
question.
An Astor Baby.
Farmerfc’ Journal.
A baby was born in New York the
other day. It was an Astor baby,
and is heir to $150,000,000. The
New Nation thus figures on the
wealth and income of this one baby :
At 6 per cent the interest is $9,-
000,000'per year, or $30,000 per day
for, say, 300 working days. It there
fore would require 20,000 working
men at $1.50 per day to pay the in
terest, and somebody must pay it.
Or, look a little further. When this
baby is 21 years old, the $150,000,-.
000 has doubled twice, and it is
$600,000,000. Then an army of 80,-
000 men must work to pay this in
terest. But we must leave at least
$1 per day for the laborer and his
family for his subsistence. Then it
will take an army of 240,000 laboring
men to keep this fortune up, allowing
each laborer to be a man of a family
and five to the family, it follows that
not less than 1,200,000 persons are
interested in the fortune of that
$150,000,000 millionaire baby.
A Negro Boy’s Brave' Act.
Washington, June 9.—One of the
bravest and most daring incidents
connected with the calamity here was
performed by a colored boy named
Basil Lockwood. As soon as the
floors collapsed and the dust cleared
aw.ty, realizing the danger of those
at the rear windows, who were wildly
climbing out and calling for aid, he
climbed up a large telegraph pole as
high as the third story and lashed a
ladder to the pole, putting the other
end in the window. By this means
twelve or fifteen were assisted down
the ladder in safety.
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