Litchfield enquirer., 1878-11-07

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 of things this is? In the Twenty ninth pre- cinct Of New Yorkythere are 121 Cens of death night after night, month after month, year af- ter year, untouched. In West Twenty sixth street and West Twenty seventh street and l. West FhirtYfigst street there are whole blocks that dfeA pdHdemo monitIEiI. There are between five and six hundred dens of darkness in that city of New York where there are 2,5OO po- licei There was a masquerade ball, in which these masculine and feminine offenders of so- ciety were participants, and the police danced in the masquerade and distributed the prizes. Oaughter.) There is the grandest oppOrtuni- ty opened for any American. It is for that high official who shall get into his stirrups and say, 'Men, followl" and who shall in one night swoop round and take all the chiefs of these places, saying, '1 will take the respon- sibility, put my private property, my pOliE- ical aspirations and my life into this crusade against the powers of darkness" That man would be mayor of the city of New York and would be fit to be President of the United States. ''f
 The second part of the blame I must put at the door of the district attorney of New York. understand there are so many cases he has not time to attend to all of them. It is the business of New York to give him assistants
 
 under quick retribution.
 | The third and heaviest part of the blame l l put on the moral and Christian people of our cities, who are guilty of most culpable indiffer- ence on this whole subject. When Tweed l stole his millions large audiences were assem- I bled in indignation, Charles O'Conor was re- l tained, committees of safety were appointed. But night after night there is theft and bur ! glary of city morals as much worse than Tweed's turpitude as his was worse than that of the common shoplifter New York wants indignation meetings to compel the authorities to do it's work and send the police with revOl- vers and lanterns to turn off the colored lights of the dance house, and mark for confscation their trunks, wardrobes, furniture and scenery, | and gather up all the keepers, inmates and pat rons and march them to the Tombs with fife and drum sounding the "ROgue's March. ' | Daughter I tell you there are raging under heath our great cities COtopaxi a Stronlbo- | Ii, Vesuvius, ready to bury under deep ashes our cities, ashes and scoria deeper than that which whelmed Pompeii and Herculaneum. Oh, wish the time was come for the plough share of popular indignation to push through and rip up and turn under those parts of New York which are plague to this nation Now is the time to hitch up the team to this plough. share; now, when Mir. Ely is mayor, and MT. Kelly is comptroller, and MT. Nicholas com missioner, and Superintendent Walling wears the badge of office and there is on the judicial bench of New York an array of the best men that have ever occupied these positions since the foundation of the city-Recorder Hackett Police Magistrates Kilbreth and Wandell and Morgan and Duffy; and with unstained judi cial ermine such men as Gildersleeve- plause)-a Sutherland and Davis and Cur tis; and on the United States court bench sucf men as Benedict and Blatchford and Choate Now is the time to make an extirpation of in iquity. Now. is the time for great popular crusade, and for all the people of our cities, ir great popular assemblages, to say to the polict with our lives our fortunes "s and % our UaU honor" s....-., .... a. a.. ..r..