The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1878-10-30
WICKED NEW YORK.
The Rev. Talmags's Second Broadside
Against Metropolitan Iniquity.
Time Of . woman's Pilgrimage from q
Marble Palace 90 q Water
street Cellar.

The Rev. Talmase delivered his second
discourse on his travels by night through
the evil places in New York, Sunday morn
ing, at the Brooklyn tabernacle. He took as
his text Isaiah XXI; IL: Policeman, what
of the pigbt?'' the rendering from the orig
NAL being his own. He said that there were
roughs and thieves and desperadoes in
Jerusalem Just as there are in New York
TO day, ard force Of police had TO be main
tanned to keep them in order. The police
headquarters were on the top OF the city
wall. Solomon reports In one OF his songs
having met one of the officials while wander.
ing about the city incognrto. Solomon
must have had large number OF
police 10 guard his treasures and TO keep
the peace among his COO wives. As no two
women married TO one man were ever able
to live peaceably in one house, what must IL
have been when GOO were under one roof?
Laughter The Jerusalem police were
divided into three walches-one IRON sun
set until 10 p. m, the next from 10 p m.
until 2 q. M, and the third from q. m. un
Ill sunrise. A few weeks ago the speaker
determined to ask, Policeman, what o. the
night?' In addition TO his powerful police
eseortege, be took two of his elders, not that
they were better than the Others, but because
they were more muscular Laughter He
bad resolved where anything more than
Spiritual defense might be niece s:ary to refer
the whole matter TO their hands lGrcat
lauehter1 He had been preceded by Thomas
Chalmers. by Thomas Guthrie, and by every
other mao who had ever done ANYTHING to
balk crime, but, above all by Him, who,
though derided by the bypOcrites OF His
day, persisted in dipping into the
moral slush of His time, and herding
with sdulteresses and lepers. Those who
had decried the sep were Iepers who
did not want their scars touched, and
who knew that the speaker would show up
upper classes. The devil howled. because he
knew he was 10 be hit hard. The speaker
noticed that the haunis of sin are chiefly
supported by men of wealth, who go 10 them
from the fashionable avenues of New York
and Brooklyn, or from the prominent bust
ness centers of Boston, Chicago and Cincin-
natl. Il could call names" shouted Mr..
Talmage, "snd may before / get through.
though il wreck the fabric OF society"
lGrest appisuse.l Judges OF courts, officers
of churches, political orators, stock brokers,
large importers. Wholesale grocers, and mer-
chants of every character were among them.
The speaker preferred that heathe nism that
wallows in filth and disgusis the beholder to
that which covers its putridlty under a cam
els hair shawl and point lace. What was
needed was about fifty Anthony Comstocks
TO explore and expose the corruption OF high
life. For eight or ten years there stood in
sight of the most fashionable New York
drive a brown stone hell -oD-earth, which
neither the judges nor the police dared TO
touch. Comstock worked himself into that
palace of damDation, and in the name OF the
eternal God put an end to it, The priestess
who presided over its orgies reireated
through suicide into perdition. 1t tases but
from three 90 five years for a woman 10 make
the whole pilgrimage from a marble palace
to a Water street cellar One officer said to
the speaker: Look at them now; in three
l. T.. H.. 10
ton house." Another said: She is the
daughter of one of the wealthiest families
in Madison square, Another fact that the
speaker noticed was that the haunts of sin
are chiefly supported by the heads OF fam.
ilieS-husbands and fathers. Such men
should be hurled out of society equally with
the women they herd with. In the speakers
opinion the eternal perdition OF all other
sinners will be ks ayen compared with the
punishment of him who turns his back on |
her be swore 10 deieno, ana goes forth 10 seek
affectonal alliance elsewhere. There has got |
10 be reform in this matter, or American |
society will go to pieces. Nin.-tenths of the
iniquity is perpeuated under the head OF
of temper. That Is no ex- !
cuse. II WISH" shrieked the speaker, THAT |
I here might be a police raid lasting some |
time, and that all the prominent citizens |
found in the haunts of vice might be gath |
ereo in and marched through the |
streets, followed by about 20 re-
porters, who would take their names |
capital letters. (Great laughtsr.l I'd like !
to go along [Renewed laughter 10 six |
months there would be decrease Of 80 per |
cent. In public crime. 1t Is not so mach |
our boys that need to be looked after as /
their fathers and mothers" The speaker |
went on to lavish ex,ravsgant praise upon
the Brooklyn officials. He asserted that /
OWING TO their frmness and incorrupubility |
there Is not a gambling hell, a policy shop, |
or "house of death ia the city limits |
Noticing the general smile OF incredibly !
with which this was received, he shouted,
If you know OF single exception reporsit
to me, and I'll warrant that within two
hours the police will come down upon it
like an Alpine avalanche. tUproariOus APP
plause II you don't, it is because you are
a coward, or are in sin yourself You shall
lear the responsibility, and notthrowit upoo /
our hard working police. Where, then, he
asked, do the people OF Brooklyn go? To |
New York. [Laughttr.l | am told that
some places there are almost entirely sup
ported by Brooklyn men and women" Tae
blame for not extirpstiDg the evil rested on /
three parties. First, on the police OF New
York. They have great discouragements 20 |
contend with. When they make |
appear fer fear of terminating them
selves, and many suits have-been brought
against them for defamation of character,
but after long research the speaker bad come
10 the conclusion that the New York cap
tains OF police are guilty of completely with
the criminals. There were men getting &c.
600 year for winking at the existence OF
vile resorts Some captains receive per-
centage on every bottle of wine sold, aud
are given a regular share of the other profits
of these shambles. In the tventy-ninth pre-
cinct there are 121 "dens OF death untouch-
ed. In West Twenty-sixth, Twenty.seventh
and Thirty first streets there are whole blocks
that are a perfect pandemonium. In the |
whole of New York city, where there are 2
500 police, there are between 500 and 600dens
of darkness Not long agas masquerade bail
was gotten up by the denizens of these places, !
and the police danced at It, and distributed
the prizss. The grludest opportunity ever |
Offer, d to any American lay within the grasp |
of that high Official who would break the |
evil up at the risk of his private property, /