The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1875-01-25
TALMAGE'S TABERNACLE.

TALMAGE'S TABERNACLE.
THE UPRooTNe AND DEvoURING CLASSES
HORRORS OF THE RAYMOND STREET JAIL
THE WHIPPING POST FOR THE IDLE.
The Tabernacle was crowded yesterday fore.
noon by an attentive audience. who listened to
the continuation OF the series OF the sermons OF
Rev. T. De Witt Talmage on "Public Iniquities.~
The reverend gentleman said l propose ON this
occasion to point ont to you what consider to
be the uprooting and devouring classes OF society,
and In the first place point You TO the public
criminals and those who are offenders OF the civil
law. You ought not to be surprised that these
people make up large portion in almost every
community. OF the criminals that from
Europe take ship the vast majority come
into our own port. In 1889 OF the
$4,000 people VINO we're incarccrated In the
prisons OF the country $1,000 were OF oreign
birth. Many OF them were the very desperadoes
OF society. sloughed or from the Cowgato md
Shoreditch, o0zsng into the sums OF our cities
waiting for an opportunity to riot and steal and
debauch, Joining the large gang OF American
thugs and cutthroats There In this custre OF
Jalls-New York. Jersey CITY aud Brookiyn-four
thousand people whose entire business in life ia
to commit crime. That Is as much their business
as jurlspi udence or medicine or merchandise IL
OF body. Mnd and soul, and they look upon the
interregnums which they spend IN prison so
much unfortunate loss OF time, just as you look
upon an attack OF influenza or rheuma ism
which fastens You in the house for Q
lew days. Il 10 their lifetime business to
PICK POCKETS AND BLOW UP sAPss
and shopiiit and ply the panel game, ana they
have as much pride Of skill IN their business as
you have In yours when you upset the arguments
OF an opposing counsel cure shotgun fracture
which other surgeons have given mp or foresee
turn in the market you buy goods Just before
they go up twenty per cent 1t Is their business
to commit crime. ana don't suppose that once in
year the thought OF the immortality strikes
them. Added 10 these professional criminals.
American and foreign, there Is large class OF
men who are more or less industrious in crime.
In one year the pof1ce In this cluster OF cities
arrested 10000 people for THEFT 10000 for assault
and battery and $4,000 for intoxication, drunken
ness being responsible for much OF the crime, a.
you see; strong drink being responsible for
much OF the THEFT, since it con uses mans ideas,
and he gets his hands on things that do not belong
to INN. Rum 10 responsible for much OF the
assault and battery, inspiring men to sudden
bravery which they must demonstrate though 1t
be on the face OF the next gentleman. Seven
millions OF dollars worth OF property stolen tina
cluster OF cities In one year-seven millions. You
cannot as good citizens be Indifferent 10 that
fact; however elevated your morals you must be
touched by It. 1t will touch your pocket since
have to give you the TACT that these three cities
pay
SEWN MILLION DOLLARS WORTH oP TAXES YEAR
TO arraign try and support the criminal pOpula-
tion. You nelp to pay the board OF every criminal
from the sneak thief that snatches spool OF cot.
ton up to some man who enacts BLACK Friday"
fnncn aa fOp
this widespread moral depression must al.
feet all classes What Is the nre that
burns your store down compared with
the connagratton which consumes your moraisf
What 10 the theft OF the gold and silver
from your safe compared with the theft OF your
chiidren's morals on, we are all ready arra;gn
criminals: We snOut at the top OF our voice.
track We come out hatless ana IN our Shippers and
assist In the arrest. We come around the bawi.
he gets in prison what do we do ior himS with
great gustO we put on the handouts and hopples;
se ana 70, ss
seems to say to these criminals, "vnain, 20 IL
there and rot" when u ought to say, "You are
mean TO help yon:I Vast improvements have
prison, but we want something more than ham,
mers and shoe lasts TO reclaim these people. We
want more than sermons on the sabbath day. SO.
ciety must Impress these men with the fact that 1t
does enjoy tnsir suIIerings and that il is A.
some s Years ago. OF 800 prisoners VINO, during
the year, mad been In Sing Sing, 400 had been
there before: In house OF correction in the
country where during q certain reach of time
there had been 5000 people. 1900 0l them, ana
more tnan 5000. had been there be ore. so In ono
case the prison and in the other the house OF
correction did not do It's work. In 0tner words Is
left them just az bad as they were before. sup.
pose there are hundreds OF persons this day
DYING IN THE PRISON BUkKS
who would leap up at the prospect Of reformation
and On" You say =" sa sSen Ss
patience with these rogues. ask you, In reply.
ts esT UaS
had been blasphemcr and your father a sot, ana
You had started lie with BODY stuffed with EVIL
precllvittes and you had spent much OF your time
In cellar amid obscufities and cursing aud II at
ten years OF age you had been compelled to 20 out
and steal. battered and banged at night Il you
came In without any SPOTS; and suppose your
early manhood and womanhOod had been covered
with rags and Attn and decent society had turned
It's back upon you and left you TO cOnsOrt with
Migrants and War rats. how mucn better would
munity demand more potential in 1uence in behalf
OF public Offenders.
THE RAYMOND STREET JAIL.
Within nve minutes walk OF where now stand
there Is prison, enough 70 bring down the wrath
OF 9hs Am In Ga on u CITY OF Br9okyn That
II the jail lever should start IN that horrible hole
ike that which ragged in England during the SEES
SION OF the Black assizes, when 300 persons per-
ished-Judges, Jurors constaDles ana lawyers
Alas. that our fair city should have such pest
uouscl uuueIsbduu tndt bHc oHeTIu anu Ihe jail.
keeper do ali they can under the circumstances
Tor the comfort OF the prisoners, but have to tell
you that hve and SIX people are crowded into a
place where there ought to be but one or Two, and
that the air IS like that OF
THE BLACK HOLE OF CALCUTTA.
AS II swept through the wicket 1t almost
knocked inc down. NO sunlight Young men,
who had committed their first crime, crowded ID
among old Offenders ] saw there one woman
WHIP child almost bind, VINO had been arrested
Tor the crime OF poverty, and who was waiting
uDii the SOW law could take her TO the Aims
house, where she rghtInly belonged; but she was
thrust In there with her child, amid the most
abandoned wretcbes OF this town. Many OF the
Offenders In that prison are sleeping on the floor.
with nothing but veimin.cOvcred blankets over
them. Those people, crowded and wan and
wasted, are almost lnIurlated said to the men,
dow do you stand IL bereW God knows" said
one maj I've have to stand it, On, they Will
pay you when they get out. Where they burned
down one house they will burn three.
They will strike deeper the assassin's
knlle. They are this minute plotting