Smyrna times., 1878-10-30

the awful perjury upon them OF broken !
marriage VOWS and while many of them |
keep their families on niggardly portions |
with hardly enough to sustain life, have |
thousands for the diamonds and the ward |
robe and equipage. In the name Of high |
heaven | cry out against this popular |
iniquity. Such men must be cast out from |
social life and from business relations. If
they will not reform, overheard with them |
from all decent circles. lift one.half the |
burden of malediction from the unpitied |
head OF woman and hurl it upon the blasted
pate OF offending man. What society
wants Is new division of its anathema.
BY what law Of justice does the burning ex,
corlatlon Of society pursue offending woman
down OFT the precpices while offending
man goes kid-gioved into respectable cir
cles, invited up if lie have money and
means, forwarded into political recognition,
and all the doors of high life opening to
the rap of his gold headed cane? If you
take one back | demand that you take
both back if one must 60 down, then let
both 60 down. Applause. l think the
eternal perdition of all other sinners will
be heaven compared with the punishment
everlasting of that man who turning his
back upon her whom he swore to protect,
support and defend until death, and upon
may determine, goes forth to seek atfec
tional alliances elsewhere-fire and hail
and tempest and darkness and blood and
anguish and despair for ever and ever.
tell you there must be reform in this mat
| ter or American society will go to pieces.
Under the head of ''incompatibilty of dis,
| position nine-tenths of the inquity of the
| day is committed. What did you get mar.
lied for if your dispositions are incompati-
BILE? Oh, you say, | rushed into the mar.
| riage relation without thought Then YOU
ought to submit to the punishment you
deserve for making a fool of yourself.
| \ ou have no business to have incompati-
! bility of temper. TO say the least, YOU are
| responsible for at least one-half of the in
compatibility. Why are you not honest
and willing to confess that YOU either do
not control your own temper or that you
/ have already broken your vows? In
compatibility of temper is in nine hundred
and ninety-nlne cases out of a thousand a
soft phrase to cover up wckedness already
enacted. | tell our cities and l tell the
world this morning that these houses are
supported by the wealthy heads Of families
Would to God that by some raid of the
police, lasting for the next ten years, every
morning the frequenters of haunts Of
(
police court, followed by about twenty re-
porters to take their names and give them
in large capitals in all our newspapers. 1t
is not so much the young men and boys of
our cities that need to be looked after at
present as their fathers and mothers.
Sensation among the elderly men.
Without the support of the heads of
families in one month the most of the
haunts of sin in New York, Philadelphia
and Boston would crumble into ruin. But
here comes up the question, why do not
the police eXtirpate these places of in
iquity? In regard to Brooklyn | have to
tell you that the work is already done.
Six years ago within a radius of a dozen
blocks about our City Hall there were
thirty.eight gambling houses, and they
have all been broken up. The ivory OF
wooden chips of the gambling table came
into headquarters by the peck. All kind:
Of inducements were offered TO our high
officials, such as it will be worth one OF
five or ten thousand dollars to let this &C
ahead" But our officials, mightier than
. all bribes, have continued their work until
while outside the city limits there may bt
exceptions, within our city to-day is not {
/ pronounced gambling house or policy shoI
or home of dissoluteness. There are nt
I am not speaking of rum shops to-day
| Every Monday all the districts are hear(
| from. At the start of this reformation tn,
police captains said 1--WE can't get in til,
door to see" Then said the Commits
. soners, break down the doors The
= said: These things have been going on S
Q long they cant be crushed" Then,
e said the Commissioners, 1--WE viii put othe
( men in your positions" And now, if an
5 reformer wants the city authorities c
r Brooklyn TO show him these haunts of sir
n there are none so show. | now declar
). that if you have any knowledge of an
!, such case report it to me at the foot Of tn
y pulpit at the close OF this service, and
o will warrant that in two hours from tn
il time you give me the complaint COmmi
/. sioner Jourdan, Superintendent Campbell
.s Inspector Waddy and as many of tn
Is twenty-five detectives and five hundred an
!. fifty police as may be necessary will com
d down on it like an Alpine avalanche.
N you don't report the case the responsible
II rests upon you, who are too cowardly {
as too much in sympathy with sin to repo
h. it, and not upon the hard.working an
IF heroic police and detective force of I'll
" city. Why this general clearing out
ID houses of gambling and uncleanness? B
m cause the police are backed up by hig
re moral public sentiment A city that h
"a on its judicial bench such magnificent me
n. as Nelson, Reynolds, Moore, Pratt al
TO other men whom 1 am not fortuna
ne enough to know, must feel an impulse u
#, ward toward God and good morals. B
Of we have in Brooklyn our full share Of Il
a wicked. Where do they 60 to comm
he their denominations? They 60 to New Yor
,y l am told that there are haunts of inqui
nv entirely supported by Brooklyn men al
oe women. We are, after all, one city, NJ
ife York and Brooklyn. 1t makes no diff
At. ence as to the character of sin, whether
Nh is on this side or the other side of {
,al river.
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les TINE TO ENJOY THE COUNTRY.-Duri
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