Show ARTHUR 3 b LETTER the bigness of greater new york and the littleness of its mayor elect REVERENCE or OF THE AVERAGE NEW MEW YORKER FOR OFFICIAL POSITION THE BIG BRUTE IN THE background WHO THO IS THE HEAL THE BRUTALITY or THE SPORTS or OF THE HUGE NETRO metropolis POLIS THE BEAST AT THE BASE or OF HUMANITY BUT ON THE OTHER HAND THE GLORIES CLOS OF TICE ISE HUMAN RACE BLOOM MORE fruitfully THERE thene THAN ELSEWHERE correspondence tribune new york fork dee dec 12 22 in keokuk la cal and new york tork hum human an mure li 1 the th any more I 1 intelligent any y bigger eer one place than venture to affirm that jr ahe he other oilier I 1 adge smith of 0 Mil milpitas pitas is as aa dignified sd ai is as able tin an occupant of 0 the bench a M imlig ah it a contributor to its majesty es 0 judge van ran arck lipus hai been thou though gh ivr translated from the position of 0 jullie of 0 tile hie pence peace to tho thet chair of 0 the mayor ot of creater nw new york tork he has become a 0 personage BO 60 augurt that lae be citizen of oc the metropolis and the editor thereof cannot fk of him without alt hout trembling lne and arg irela it breath wit its impressive this site ate of official place judge van wyck u A cold matter of 0 tact fact is 1 little man in ID body and mind a decent gentl mari lychak abose hose virtues are all negative slid alto ho been reared la in th the S tammany falth would no more mor think of i disobeying croker than properly nurtured unil christian would think of 0 r to belling jehovah Nevart Nevert bele helcia now york falls down before van W wyck yok tind nl worships him he la Is the mayor 11 adal no cannibal nho has car carded ad r hiru blick an imago for his devotions has it i pro profound profounder founder cr veneration vrn rallon tor for hla his idol tin than has the v new for it the roan man of his own else that he has voted for or and made an official van p p AV ack ck understands Ms his kind hind from the gay of nl ilia nomination he be has riven given fiery needed proof of 0 this knowing e 1 to bo be it machine mime made nobody 1 h his haa striven to avoid any eunity to hi his 5 quality A mans 4 reveals ills quality van wyck 1 brine the campaign kept off on the slump and frd cl not a word elet til d lir he said all and since electron elect lon be has aft retrained from aft ins a word all ht he dm d m in li to hold his tongue and ran botn to lakewood to bonfer with f I 1 croker cr arifer ifer being I 1 lie polite word to adt rulx the receipt of orders had his honor lin bc n a candidate tor for constable of wi ritas lie be could not havo have been taw mr Rb resolved SOlved from doing v ykhing that braian brains for or thi the itu ing R rut t ahr judge a at t 1 att hui h ui a BOOI I 1 i none lies aware that hint hes a small aiato and try to bo be a hie ian he heona cant alti anil and he cant talk but hi he can keep still rod and lt let others do the writing and nil sz for or him nol dot burh to sav nav for r the chief mails anite of 0 the largest city tit in tile the united states but he be wore wor dortho tho ho he be ahat lie Is in tile the way ot of de ficken ata lo 1 and bi be besides As it ia s the mayor no not t belt bolier i g a man et c parts baci the discretion on t to 0 be b an anil and thel ea nothing the av frog new yorker so much respect as n I 1 n it frees him marrow s falth till awe we though tho the institution beof beo KB bin own making ilan wyck iq 1 11 all 11 right an actie man paid mald to me he leta tiou you airlie an all interview rind and after brok roller r has ha soon mm IL 11 and raid paid 0 K it af I 1 know tho the kind As every man lulu does and have for the th breed the th i contempt I 1 it t dowry es ea you tou really cant regard as ther miter than i a fraud tho the dignitary whose speeches ill hire have written ant and whose views view on ill all ports of public you bava as a fast att as your pen can run put but the coun country tri la Is full ill of 0 thern them I 1 dont don t want rut to insult hut but if 1 there Is 1 nes shaper published viere there 1 I 11 II bet t odd that the editor of it has loan U lured the state slate papers of 0 tho the met adl a 1 representatives of 0 the town and felt f nattered latt ered at being called on rate ricly IY to do it the press presa here stands off and views the greater now york with a sort borl of its ifa so 80 very v very ty ble big ro lie so BO awful ani and the 1 ires 1119 under the now new charter are so ter nf lit that the frie merely rely human mind Is 13 baqual to them diey tell judge van bick all this and urk him to alvs rl to it priestly sense of his l ties da tta ai 1 I 1 the he samo kuno time it la in 0 0 frommon common ti f in eveir ono one of oc t hege news r clr 4 ar r onico me 9 that the new mayor in II lut i nice little fellow n m ith good manlin nn an extremely ly modept in notion of 0 his dun n little abil lucs and an inbred lna inea ln a nelly to do eichert what the 00 of TAni many tell him to do and ACS the baw of Tamma tammany thit that pel holds chiq seat eat tit at a secluded illel in lakewood lAhe wood as aa mutedly ot of the metropolis metro polla ua as it if ho he re dit duke richard and new york his duchy its ifa no wonder that stead an should see ee in this tyranny th death of democh democracy cy for our duke bilta tut a low irishman tile the spirit of the MIMI ani incarnate he ha 18 1 an ill illiterate 1 h A hrire lighter and contractor alth lah political power and imbued with toe tea faloon view of life yet in 1 it he e go iwed by the burden that has ha b been cen hotd on hla his shoulders no ile known that t he 11 treat this bullet rn of 0 tile the gutter and la IA resolved renol ved to role na lah ath bonie wisdom with some borne re tart KM for the of 0 f such of hla his of c I cr as do not likes like b him im the hope rn la Is in I 1 1119 which the ex L e 16 atal 11 dot 0 irot understand that atit it en r the tyrant knows he hit has only K 90 S a certain for forbidden length in ory re r to arokae bromn even new nd ew york forel trill ra ile new york against him 18 at liberty to give him orders to A van wyck and mayor van 1111 ack is 1 at liberty I 1 to 0 accept those thoo orf in the interest of the poll political cor atlon tion chich call a itself tammany 1 those orders iera mu routt b t not be of a kind t here the den democratic aall hence asli I 1 not t fundamental terror in K ho h 1 I abe be behind a bowery I 1 t r mr n van it W byrk ack who li Is a non ll 11 t Y and as such h 1 oud be as a certain oril t office ice in 11 tas as aa in new i As I 1 write w artt the lt li i m Is IB harrowing t over ft a six day 1 bicycle rare rape it 1 uvil U vil in ill varden karden hero here acain P X un koehut and plu the reporters and i it ic v paper Pt per artlas nil 1111 space rith i poor eat alivn who art Innate hing them eliat exhaustion exha ution ind death iclal It Iw orial lal writer ilter whose whore highest inn it I 1 is to try to take the curse curfie colum little his hl afflit t this of nt human M rl Lery just as aade he W would U id do in milpitas Mil pitas mands la that the lexi legislature lature inno and tnie forbid under penalties les such auch RM nic 0 jt it Is in the lh ime pime P rial vor that li 19 heard en o horting lla tors 10 to t inh bring 1 alic inana oh ok to har tile the 1 football root ball player I 1 T himself 1 ix no mien enemy to h ey an a this hl 0 editorial ehnenn 1 I B the roll re loy boy tit nt fool hall see mang the kind of man who Is rid n a alth death it in ill alic garden I 1 fi in my juart ju art hathy walh biti ol nt pron person who he would I 1 liter ite rhen fth them alu m when the in too loo games game bei bein obviously fatal fata thy th y will not nol played t fuld until unell that lin happ fir mi I 1 to M any brade of being the mad ald can iatter he e than these aie un 1 1 trained asses of eyle eycle path and e rile a 1 gridiron tho liell use of th ir lionis and tile tho loss loi tf of naf ef to ill aa have may hc be a 0 bih lit mottle uhn hore bore them bru 1 heri who fort for tho he ir nant ant of en cn ham ebat a foud tl base baro h honein 0 pes upon society tic co great 10 loea nhen millen they go under there la is only one word to rt hi the spectacle nt at madlon square pardon garden and that Is disgusting and the hie word applies to lo krpec it stars os as well As aa to 10 the performers the tools fools on the n heels anyway have I 1 ls he incentive of money to ile bo vl won on to lo inspire c them hem to make peddling pedaling brutes of themselves but the cru anil 1 rn nn identified cel efdimis latis entitles entities that trail crotta d the place slid and encourage the professional bi cyclists sie aie the same bam bra brainless Ariess animal lot that list the amphitheater of rome teed of oc money re hi fie roller of tile ali slave ownby and rives u the gladiator clad lator and the populate populace tt i hav abtil us A new aorl c crowd at a show allow of tills thin kind shocks blocks lit in that hint effect JL it Is IA no diffrient from a chod else it la in dull faced nar row shouldered panting and vicious it 11 loles the of things it has r tho the strength reneth st nor nop the corrig coura iteld to engage in alence the lio nible yell vell or of joy N ahn hen a prize lighter gets sa the blow that floors ham anti and the roar four of gratl catlon fl mien a bicyclist ciany and limp from vant or of rest and ad alp Is roused rouck by A blow or a dash of cold water to make exertions that not lint one of tho the onlookers rs would he be capable of nf refund N new w york feels the roots rents of tta its har hair alive 1 when lien it sees collective bru of tills this mort still and In lindorme Indo dorme raea s tile the de di Pre callona callOns of 0 the editorial writer it I 1 Is unpleasant IL startling to ile be mo modo dl cal can heloun that tile average man iq u L beast but what lie he la im and tl there es 3 more 0 of f him here than vise elso in the country but it la Is in new york tork too that you meet more often anywhere the hie men iho male majie it an all honor to bo be human this belne being the blast city it has its proportionate drawns drawing power pollen you meet in n now new york more men lien worth knowler than you ran can mt meet in other AmP american rIcan cities I 1 doret dont ideall distinguished visitors theres a gi alt t n of them lecturing for money and not nu ot their true mcives while here so they dont count and in thlu judgment I 1 in n elud barrie the best ot of the iha scotch ROVell sta and of 0 tho the french academy it hurts burts to see neo men of 0 real bality aming amonia to gather their shells the men I 1 have in mind are tin the new yorkers with soule soula who pee flee N tew new york as aa it in IA and rage age against it righteously busly among these are father mcglynn and father ducey two men of god for vi hom a godless man can lime hae an endless respect father mcglynn Is 1 known he hia has fought a acht that it efm earned him the disgust of the alie respectable I 1 regarded recorded him an aj a troublesome priest until I 1 hoard heard him for tho first time sit at henry georges geci afes tuner funer 1 cioll he be was bevelled revelled revel revea led ledi to rn me us ua A man of bradna with the lire of 0 a jut enthusiasm in lilyn him one laho w ho for the make of would da tho the devil or god gea himself if father mcginn hal taken to evil instead of 0 good tho the world would have had to deal with great rebel there ther lq Is a might in him a foroe force that causes mo me to marvel that he can he h kept within ahm hounds of any or ecclesiastical or ocular it li 14 fauch it men mcglynn that save the raca from rotting why you have to hear him to comprehend why you see peo that ho he in IA bigger and better be ater than you arft that hl bl v motives are not those of nf the and that thai you ere axe in illa present senet of it man of 14 calls ma hip inspiration god and you aro are willing to worship if ho be kneels father ducy haa baa the th clr fite too but ho h presents presenta differently tito permona from the pulpit of st los a fashionable Cath catholic catholia olio church catch the notice of f the newspapers and appall the tha rs pec table lie he chooses to prears the gospel of the carponter of naas rrth to tell ill opulent that hot unless they have come by their money honestly there Is 9 day of erf wrath itil in store stor e tor for them H he 1 Is a henry george man and has haa no reverence whatever for fortu fortunes neg that have been got fot by flee fleeming fleecing cing the th poor ho faces face s tile the nodal problem courageously end ana alarms the conservative I 1 suppose Pose tho the impression given elven by father ducy ducey to everybody that dochat know him Is 19 that hes A sort eort of nf friar Inveigh inveigling inveighing ing against the luxury of the rich find and bidding for tho the applause app appl lauso atme of the poor in truth he li 14 tho the opposite of this fa camillar millar figure rather father ducey la Is a man of fortune I 1 am told todd he owes nothing to hla church 1 in n a material wily way and so far from b bein e ing a ragged friar he Is a man acquainted quain ted with luxury in me hia dally daily ufa that ts la he la is a antle pen alwan anan in his habith no ho rides in III cabe and dines dine s at delmont co a and goes into society and ana Is ono one of 0 tho the four hundred they ore axe acquainted quain ted with him at the clubs end and his hl friends number all ports literary mn arileta workingmen bleat shop social nis ista millionaires politicians and devotee I 1 dont donot know that I 1 can convey a better idea of fabb father r ducey than to t tell how he Impress od me the birot time I 1 met him it was at the union square hotel a modest moI ert establishment henry george and his hl wife had bad come to town to n for the we three were t to gother when a hen n mm man who I 1 looked ked like alk a film well wc ll groomed Int ellig english parson appeared him face was aleve and tor for an hour we talked I 1 give e you my word I 1 nver nerve r was print at al suc uch a 1 show of fireworks thero was no provocation for it except tit lu tho the mind of father durey poor henry george was weary lying back in him hl chair according to hla his later wont and lira george effacing herr henly lf dumy dum y talked lie george georee good hu mo as u a philosopher ele elevated vatI above common motives and than sailed into the th new york world an u he knew it lie he spared nobody or anything it was waa not bitter talk but true and his laughing tongue tona ue touched in a wily way I 1 list startled th the editorial writer my pelf tf I 1 conceived A very high opinion of father ducey to be frank frardi i I 1 nev never r hanl so brilliant an hours talk an and oil all through hla his burned hla him scorn for prete predence pretence pre tence nep ecclesiastical or official rf that alood between the man bims ahle to lw iv lp and tho the man in need of help father duy duney was waa for that evening tho the laughing I 1 have heard him ginop sinop on the platform and in tho the pulpit and he h in iff orviall r in both then than when ho in himself as a I 1 had haa the lewe of we eing him that la Is abt hard bard luck in having to conform to submit to leor men let u thank god cod that in new york tork lit it 1 IA the heart of tho the country thre th re are brave unselfish men of tho the order of mcglynn McGlyn ri and ducy ducey TI eliy ley mean man ARTHUR |