National Republican., 1888-06-09
THE WARS OF TIE STREET.
An Interesting Talk by Rev. T. DE
witt Talmage.

of the street" Following is what the rev.
orend gentleman said on the subject
Patrick Campbell, superintendent of Brook.
lyn police, who keeps his Office through all
styles of admnistratio Republican, Demo,
Crat, and Mugwump- because he Is unequaled
for skill and fidelity In that position, ana the
city cannot do without him, this week sends
me a copy of his annual report, and qocu'
ment more thrilling for facts and STATISTICS
has not for q long time come 10 my table, hne ,5
and professions from which the criminal
classes come, the i,2si who had no occupation
at all, the 1,11G persons. who, In TINS city OF
make max nm a budget Of information that every
good citizen should study. Al national.
tiles are represented n tlls piack mer,
6SY g9Swn S 81 IrSamS SElmiG9Eo"p 68 nc& ' stSSs S
12iG9; China, O2. That proves that the Chi-
ueso must 20. If they cannot steal potter
than that We cannot have them here. only
g2 from China, as compared with the more
than 2,COO of one nationality, and the
more than COCO Of another, and the more than
1900 of another shows such lack OF enter.
prise in crime that we cannot stand these
Mongoiians. Besides that, the most of these
Chinese are engaged in the business OF wash
ing, and we do not want 10 be waSheu, ine IN.
removal Of so much dirt exposes the system
10 sudden colds. AS the Chinese; according
TO this annual report, show such duliness for
crime, and as II Is generally established that
they are doing such devastating WORK, with
pose for the political platforms of all the par
ties the following phrase, "Contound the
ChnCse,n
Bnt nothing in all this police report sc. Is,
presses me as the thirty eighth page, ',ilon ,,n
states that among the arrests OF the 20 20 iiIt Ill
were 1,10l children between the NJ nco ", az
and fourteen, and 4,39S youtllST'C. tni V,l
ages of fifteen and twenty; school in ali the
cities Is the street. ,ytt,, ,r stu,on1,rs
IL has got TO e,Fdnne With thc destitufe
import what Is tTeets. or the r ragamuins, CAV s Is
cnutyl niat'. W cIously calls them We, must
aC, nGon I'm, or they will act upon uG. We
Ts must ttPCIb Ibfionize them' or they viii Ineathen.
i2I .a6Sver this land, what mulnfudes of the
.sdneess, and the houseless. and the goddess.
Could you gather them all together what a
Ntiong If you couldHee those little feet ON
u ". broad way to>death which, through
na,1o ar1sI%I nm GharitT ought to be pressing the
aYt w0Tds q, OF @ curing blistering those lips which
ought 10 Deslnging the praises of God, II you
G0uia seq those hearts which, at that age,
9mgnt ,ng,.l not TO have been soiled by one vile
lMluity, through which floats the most dis
,gusting depravity, II you could see these suf-
lcring little ones sacrificed on the altar of
very 9piionss sp passion and scalded wth
your soul would recoil from the scene crying.
"Begohe, thou dream of hell!n
The Spartans who threw their sckly chill
dren TO the wild beasts. were mercitul com.
pared with that stolid Indifference which, in
this age, would give up the destitute youth of
our country TO be eaten up of their own de-
prayity.
These socalled ragamunins are coming up
to be the men and women. That spark of
iniquity which you might put out with one
drop of the water of life, will flame up into q
planted in the soul, and that which was in.
tended to be a temple of the Holy Ghost will
be Ia Scared and blasted ruin, every light
quenched, and every altar in the dust.
and took yard of cloth. from your counter
will be the hlghwayman of the forest or the
burglar at midnight picking the lock of your
money safe and blowing up your store to hide
The villany. 4 great army with staggering
step and bloodshOt eye and drunken hoot,
they will come on, gathering recruits from
every grogshop and den OF infamg, to take the
ballot box and hurrah at the elections.
The great, hard.knotted fist of ruiflanism
will have more power than the gentle hand of
sohriety and intelligence. Men bloated, and
with the signature of crime burned In from
the top of their forehead to the bottom of
their chin, will look bonest men out Of counte'
nance: Moral corpses which ought to be
buried a hundred feet deep to keep them from
poisoning the air will rot in the face of the
sun at midday. Industry. In her plain frock,
with her hand at the spindle, will be unappre.
ciated, while multitudes of able.bodied men
will wander about in utter. idleness, with
Oh, what a terrible force there is in iniquity
when, uneducated, unrestrained, and un-
blanched. II goes on concentrating and deep
cning and widening and gathering momentum
until 1t swings ahead with very triumph of
desolation, drowning like .surges, scorching
like flame, crushing like rocks ,-.
Cold indifference meets these desperate
ones and says: what pity. but 1t can't be
helped" The law meets them and says
..'The, house of correction and the prison are
ness meets them, and, gathering up its robes
them touch me-"
4 city missionary gives his conversation
with one of these outcasts:
We'll, my boy, what do you wantE'
"A home, please, Sir
what is your namef"
''lTain't got no name, sir; the boys call me
"Wefl, Pickety, where do you liye''
Don't live nowhere, sir.n
But where do you stayi"
II don't stay nowheres In the daytime, but
] sleeps in hay barges, sir, and sometimes In
dry goods boxes, and down on the steam
gratings in winter till the NJ. P.'s came along
and Just now a cove has taken me in at th'
Iron bridge! What do you meang"
Why, them holler iron things what hold:
the bridge up. He got 1t first, and he lets me
"Pickety, who is your father"
"IIain't got no father, sir; he died afore
knew, and me mither, she drlnked and bate
me, and we was put out by the landlord, and
something like shadow came over the cum
ming blue eyes.
"Pickety, did you ever hear of Godt"
Yes sir; have heared the fellers swear
about Him, and ! know it's lucky to sa!
something to Him when you sleep out in bat
ibid you ever go to school, picket:, or t'
'No,s sir: never went to no church MOI
school. should kind o. like to learn some
My hearers, these unfortunates are all abou
us.
There are many about us In boyhood and
girlhood in comfortable circles that are goinl
to be something very good or very bad-yery
make their parents glad with an infinite glad
ness or pain them with an infinite sorrow
They go bounding through the hall; they shou
aeyy s hat tSS nSy sRcs E Re e bS siRG and
the race, and rolls the hoop, and flies tn,
Kite, will soon be ready for, the higher game o.
life, where fortunes are to be made, and repu
tations achieved, and temptations combated
and immortal souls jcopardized and king
dOms of glory won.
call up that child; push back his hair
beneyolence,, or Scared and ,pinched ant
blasted with low eNCessesy Shall those eye
become more and more intelligent, or slial
they. acquire the dishonest glance and thu
0NlNllS NONHCuNls Iul NDuI manu- Ou lIld
child's heart. Shall IL always beat with nobl,
impulses, or will II be a thiefs heart COW
ards heart, traitors heart
My soul stands back abashed and over
whelmed In the presence Of these yOunG
princes of God these sons and daughters o
Immortality, these .VOyagers eternity bound
They have started out on Journey whicl
viii never end.
I have so much faith in the advancement OF
our race under the Gospel that | suppose til,
rising generations are, to, have In their mum
ber more noble men than their predecessors
] suppose that every day we are walking un
consciously among EnOchs, and Augustines
and WilhcrfOrccS and ClarksOns, and MOftit :
There they are on the back seat In the mis-
sion school. There they are playing marbles
In the low alley their knees out, their elbow
out, their toes out, their hats rimless, and
there Is printed on their cOuutenance
tragedy of unutterable pain.
ul.L.ll - IL