Show A SAD PICTURE sixteen murders have been perpetrated in this city since the first of april pd r i 1 about which time mayor wood began to t develop e his bis pro gramme of violent resistance t to t the ie laws an and d the he whole army of grog sellers bade defiance to any legal interference with their desolating traffic there have been at least twice sixt sixteen een attempts at murder besides vio lents assaults and ruin rum hole fights without precedent ten thousand hardened and hopeless tess fess female outcasts swarm the streets at night two thousand children under the guise of pe peddlers adlers dd lers from the ages of 10 to 16 penetrate every public building store and office in the city to beg steal spy for burglars and on their own account to practice those vices which cannot be named in respectable language five thousand great and small gamblers prey upon the credulous and infatuated standing all ill day dav at the doors of their dens in broadway Broad as well known in person and profession as the mayor himself ten thousand lazy drunken Lr short boys swill boys killers roughs boughs and rowdies of other names lounge on the rum cursed corners of the streets making day disgusting night hideous and travel dangerous to all who can be suspected of having respectability or money thousands of emigrant lers mock auctioneers lottery dealers policy brokers pick pockets hall thieves burglars wharf rats area sneaks pimps and vampires practice their knaveries veries as openly and with as it little ta tie tle fear of punishment as though they were engaged in the most virtuous and legitimate of human pursuits N Y tribune what a picture of society in the metropolitan city of our nation and terribly corrupt as is that picture yet the tribune has not colored it one tenth so dark as the truth requires why is not riot the standing army of the united states stationed at or near new york city tinder under geni harney to cut out the loathsome disgusting ulcer that ulcer suits many tastes and dispositions too well for them to wish to meddle with it hence they send an expedition against utah where they KNOW that the purity peace and good order of society so far I 1 exceeds that in new york solely with the view to dragoon t sabre shoot and bayonet the cities of the saints into the same sinkhole sink hole condition of rotten corruption as are the cities of the world only do as we do say the world only deny the truth only deny dehy f prophets apostles revelations and god and then subscribe to the dogmas and precepts of hireling priests and participate in the awful abominations of our civilized society and all will be well we will then cease persecuting you in a land dedicated to freedom of conscience and worship self righteous and s self seif elf eif loving ovin m world compliance with your wishes is altogether too expensive even were it not otherwise a altogether 10 to 10 objectionable for it would entail not only temporal but spiritual death i |