Jersey Street and Jersey Lane: Urban and Suburban Sketches
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Jersey And Mulberry
_ I found this letter and comment in an evening paper, some time ago, and I cut the slip out and kept it for its cruelty:
TO THE EDITOR OF THE EVENING ----.
SIR: In yesterday‘s issue you took occasion to speak of the organ-grinding nuisance, about which I hope you will let me ask you the following questions: Why must decent people all over town suffer these pestilential beggars to go about torturing our senses, and practically blackmailing the listeners into paying them to go away? Is it not a most ridiculous excuse on the part of the police, when ordered to arrest these vagrants, to tell a citizen that the city license exempts these public nuisances from arrest? Let me ask, Can the city by any means legalize a common-law misdemeanor? If not, how can the city authorities grant exemption to these sturdy beggars and vagrants by their paying for a license? The Penal Code and the Code of Criminal Procedure, it seems, provide for the punishment of
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