Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1878-10-30

walked into this palace on Fifth avenue
and IN the name of. the eternal God put
an end to it, the priestess at the orgies
retreating, by suicide, into the lowest
world" 1t was now quite evident that
Mr.. Ialmage did not propose to confne
himself strictly to the subject suggested
by his text, but he was nevertheless
listened to with breathless attention
and frequently applauded. ''
While we were in one of the gilded
palaces of SIM" he continued, 81 the
officer said to me: Look anthem. now
IN three years, when, their beauty has
faded, they'll be a heap of rags in the
statlon-house.' Another officer pointed
out to me a daughter of one of the
Wealthlest families in Madison square.
Butl have something more awful and
amazing to tell you than anything [
have yet related. These places are
nightly patronized by heads OF families.
Fathers and husbands, with the awful
perjury of broken marriage vows upon
them, leaving their wives and children
behind them with a niggardly stipend
go forth carrying thousands l. in dia-
monds, wardrobes and equipages to the
ranks of sin and iniquity. In the name
OF high heaven | denounce them. [
hit one-half of the burden of maledic-
ton from the unpitied head of unoffend-
ing woman and hurl it. upon the
blasted pate of offending uu man.
His portion = will be bloodl
and fire! hell. TEMPEST. darknessl an
guish. despair! woe! forever, forever,
toreuer! There has got to be a change in
all this or American society will 90
down. | wish there might be police
raid lasting a long time that would go
into the haunts of sin, arrest all the
men found there, and march them.
through the streets, followed by about
twenty reporters to take their names
and put them in full capitals, big type,
in the next days papers. And I'd like
to go along, 1t isn't so much the boys
that need to be looked after; it's their
fathers and mothers This called for
long applause, after which Mr.. Talmage
remarked that he had not for
gotten his promise to replv to
the question, s"Why do not the
authorities put an end to this2" and said
that in regard to Brooklyn his answer
was, "they have already done it."
" Six years ago in the neighborhood of
the city Hall in Brooklyn there were
thirty-eight gambling houses in full OBJ
peration, but our police broke them up.
The ivory chips came into the station
houses in pecks. Within the city limits
of Brooklyn to-day there is not a gamb-
ling hell, or policy shop, or house of
death. applause IF, said Mr.. Tai
mage, walking first to one end ofthe plat
form and then to the other and shaking
a long finger at all portions of the audi
ence, you know, of any such place re-
port it to me at the Close of the service,
and in less than two hours Commits
sioner Jourdan, Superintendent Camp
bell and Inspector Waddv, with such
portion Of the Deceive and police force
as is necessary, will come down upon it
like (and the speaker lifted his hands
high above his head an Alpine
avalanche. Our authorities have
been backed up by IL. high
public sentiment. In city on whose
judicial bench sit such magnificent
men as Nelson, Reynolds, -McCue,
Moore, Pratt and others whom, I am
not fortunate enough to know, there
must be a mighty impulse upward to-
words God and good morals. When
the young men OF Brooklyn propose to,
do any abomination they must 90 to
New York. am told that there are
several evil places in that city supported
entirely by Brooklyn men and women.
But continued the reverend gentle
man, when the sensation produced by
this statement had in measure sub.
sided, ''you ask me, why don't the New
York authorities break up the places of
sin in that city, | reply, while there
is no doubt that peculiar difficulties be-
set the police, owing partly, to- the IN
fiux in the fall and spring Of strangers
and to other reasons. there is infinite
blame Ito. o be divided between three
parties police, the Dissatisfaction
ney and the moral and Christian peo-
pie who are guilty ola dreadful indlf-
feranceto the matter. | am told that
some Of the captains of police get a
percentage on every bottle of wine sold
in these haunts of sin In the twenty
ninth precinct of New York alone there
are 121 dens of death. In West Twen-
ty-sixth5 street, West Twenty-seventh
street and West Thirty-frst street there
are whole blocks that are pandemo-
mum. Not long ago a masquerade
ball was given in which these offenders
were the participants, and the police
think of it, the police!-dancing in the,
masquerade and distributing the prizes.
Oh! there is to-day a grand opportunity
for an American in authority who will
get, into the stirrups and say, Men, fol-
low!' and shall in one night
sweep. around and take 'all the
chiefs Of these places ofiniquity, saying,
i put my private property and political
aspirations and life against this evil
That man would be mayor of New York,
and would be fit to be president of the
United States The district-attorney,
l understand, is an honorable gentle
man, but has more work than he can
do. Let him have assistants. When
Tweedstole his millions Charles O,Conor
was engaged to prosecute MIN, and
committees Of citizens were formed.
But now every night there is a burglary