Show new york morals you you yon are elte eite quite right sir quite quita q bite right we here in new york are badi badly y governed said a genteel looking young man to a country merchant with whom lie ho was conver converging ing iti in the reading room of a hotel the tho other day no wonder sip sir sir sin he continued that you gentlemen from the tile interior should be surprised and speak with surprise on the subject but how think you must we feel who have to pay the burden of such a government look at our police system rotten sir rotten to the core big thieves fill our big biz offices and steal largely but in a respectable way these thesa are aro bad enough but one of the greatest is the tho abundance of small emill em ill lii thieves and pickpockets pick pockets who ply their profession with almost perfect impunity thy they are scirce ly ever arrested and if ao unfortunate as lo 10 be so they can always find it easy to escape and evade evale the law awin in some way why sir you have HO no idea of the numb nur nut hiber fiber r of or pr professional 1 thieves in ia this city I 1 venture to say and I 1 speak knowin knowingly aly that they min win be numbered by thousands they are shrewd fellows and it takes a shrewd eye eya to recognize them many ot of them dress in ill the eight of fashion wear heavy gold chains chalus attach attached sd to their costly cosily watches lee les tee here he rethe the speaker took hold ofa ora of a heavy god gold eod clitia and examined ex exa exi mined his costly watch and look and have hiva the air of gentlemen why sir you might actually speak with one exchange cortesis s with willi him and not know it As sir ils is really surprising to 0 o one not posted but more surprising than ali nil that the citizens do not rise indian indignantly antly nully and insist on reform by ousting from office tho th thrives lives that fill them and bishan disbanding ding aing a police who are in league with tuii besand and pickpockets pick pockets instead of or lna ing ina the duties dugles for which they aro are eo so well weli paid som thing must be done or if not we will lose our trade country m merchants will forsake us from very tery fear ites ills but yesterday yester dar that a merchant from the west was robbed ofal oral of a 1 irge sum of money ahila sitting silling quietly in his hotel and was compelled to borrow from a friend to pay his way home tia itis really awful sir and andi 1 I 1 assure you that I 1 as well as ull all good lood citizens regret the exi exl existence hetico of iauch a state of things good it night sir i country merchant to n member oriba of the pre fre press A nice young man very ulAi nimy do you yon khow know his hib nam sir I 1 member of the press quietly I 1 reilly do not sir he has so miny Af merchant erchant astonished so many names sin sir whit do yon mean member of the press provokingly I 1 man sir ir tint thit th at very ulise tilee nice young inan man ii Is a notorious pickpocket merchant good gracious feels feela his lib pocket terribly excited face gets red jumps up franti frantl cally and swears by my moneis none gone and watal too wheres the police disappears barehead bareheaded eJ shouting fon for the poi pol police e member 0 of r the pres proa calmly takes buthis out liis note book puts down soma soini facts and hurles huries to ile llo office with a it fresh item tem ex |