The sun., 1890-09-29
BITS or pulpit PoLTTIcs
Thomas Dixon, Jr., OF tbs r. NJ. l.. Taikr
About Abnsen In the CITY Qovernnent

Thomas DIxon, Dr., OF tbe r. NJ L. TaIk :
About Abuses In the City Government
The Rev. Thomas Dixon, Jr. pastor of the
Twenty third Street Baptist Church. preceded
his talk yesterday moi ming by brief address
| on The Municipal League" The appeal fol-
municipal reform, he said. was based on these
facts;
This city Is now the victim Of the meanest
politics. The Government is run not for the
bonent OF the people, but for the politicians
who faithfully work the machine for the DOODLE
there ia in It
The people of New York pay moro for their
Government and get less return than any city
in the world. It 10 estimated that % 900 900 Is
expended is wasted. every year on extra
Doodle for the boys, for which no return is
given The return We receive for tho remain
ing S24 900 900 that is expended, is In brief the
meanest school houses for our children to be
found In any great city in America and not
enough of them, 80 that We have turned into
the streets some 14000 boys and girls; dirty,
filthy Streets inadequate hospital service
disease and starvation among the poor re-
lieyed only By private charity; dirty, checress
wretch is kicked and lett upon the foor inad-
eQuate facilities for travel-foul air and not
enough of it-and an ignorant. insolent and
From the fact that franchise after franchise
has been bartered away to corporations for
politicians have amassed fortunes in kribes.
Comptroller Myers has estimated that tho en-
o hesS Il the city had shs
them. These constituencies plotters have
stood in the way OF al progress md public i'm
proyement, demanding their bribe from the
public benefactor as well as the adventurer,
These crimes have oil been accomplished
TIE party flag has been the CLOAK beneath
which these assaasins have concealed the dag
s patty sh Rsye bsen
hesitation our most inalienabe rights, and the
honor Of the % city has b been r., BETRAYED without
and harassed the local boss has driven them to
sleeve as he eTaeEed the party T6 Whip " over sr
their heads. The people have come to feel
that It Is hardly wise to vote on national ls-
and the Jimmies, the GilhoolEs and the Mikes,
the McGoogans and the O'Tooles, laugh and
within, the past year we have seen the
judiciary disgraeed, the public Isils den Of
Sheriff. The ric6es( ofllce next TO the rresident
criminal and debauchee. We have seen the
police protecting criminals instead OF crush.
Sunday and the officers OF the law heI ing on
the Job the dive and gambling hell flourish
and the officers share tue profits.
smells TO heaven. Decent men have come to
feel that they can no longer escape by holding
their NOSES; that if we are TO AVOID pesti-
God-given task they have determined not to
be frightened by the shout or whip Of party
henchmen. Therefore the people are rising in
their, might. They have suffered long, but
now In the name o. Col and humanity they
demand that these things shall be STORED.
plause. In the, sermon which followed Mr..
Dixon said: There Is something wrong when
q n th,a
devil. Verify do ! say that man who is
trained for citizenship in Tammany Hall cam
not enter the kingdom OF heaven. The eternal
The Rev W. L. Harshaw OF the First Union
Presbyterian Church at Eghty-sixth street
and Lexington avenue; preached upon The
Christian IN Politics last night. after a
was talk ing ahout, he, said: II we were to use
the word politics in the low, degraded sense in
which 1t is often used, 1 should hesitate ABOUT
speaking upon 1t here"
Mr.. Harsbaw compared the citizens Of
government to the tockholders Of corpora.
tion. The man who doesn't vote" he de-
clared, is traitor to the interests OF the city.
administrati0n OF city affairs will ever Tree that
citizen from responsibility. Politics can never
be purified until the Christian gets in.'