New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1890-10-27
ALL GOOD MEN MUST VOTE
DR. PARKHURsrs sCATHING ARRAIaNMENr
OF TAAfAiANY.
HIS KEEN SHAFTS CUT DEEP INTO wIewAN
coRRuPTIoN-1HE HEAVY RESPONSE
BILITY OF DECENT c1rIzESS.

, |ohhoFTION-IHE HEAVY RESPOSSA'
BILITY OF DECENT CITIZENS.
The Rev. DR.. Charles II. Parkhurst. in brilliant
ana eloquent sermon yesterday morning declared en-
pnsucaly In favor of the Peoples Municipal League
anu aragneo the present corrupt city government ~
his well known keen and vigorous style. The Madison
square fresoyteran Church was filed to OVERFLOW
Or' farkhurses text was the 9Th verse Of the Anu
Psalm: The wicked walk on every side when the
vilest men are exalted He said in part
The municipal administration that we have already
had two years OF and with whose continuance Tor wv
sI we are and se very
privileges PRIV OF ev which the Church. Catholic sHo
sna fE the
asked Inc few days ago WHY 1t that the clergy
this year TOOK such exceptional interest III the mune, s
pal campaign, said simply for the reason that We
have still some lingering respect Tor the Dccalogue.
we EhSy nothing about kepubaeans a. a. ps aSo
Gratis a. such, Tammany Democracy County re,
mocracy Eut we are At work for the coming Of the
God in this CITY, which Is the vital and pivotal
centres Of the world and know of nothing Just at
the way Of the coming Of the Kingdom that or
ganized band Of thieves: whiskey dealers murderers.
hands at the tiisr e Of tie cs government That IS
Would hs n tns sy
had been thoroughly showed under week Tuesday
hal had been converted Jesus Christ and baptized In
10 the Protestant Church.
THIS Is CRUCIAL SEASON.
There are crucial places and strategic seasons'
and tins Is ore Of them, And the character
OF these men who are our rulers, and who
arc now shaping the policy Of our city and de-
termining It's educational industrial. social and moral
tone, Is known. Their ante norton obituaries have
been thoroughly written and literally publisned-pub
and evsryd W decency and norality. And these
rtA haun haan tfaa1p all
word has been said In rvtOrt that has had the effect
70 break In the slightest degree the general strength
should be Rad. Men should read them and women
is important for you to read and to teach 10 your
children and to your sunday school classes what sort
the Judges whether it a nice thing in left handed
Ehud TO stab Eeon, whether iIebers wife did hand,
guest Sisera. whether great distinguished
by those executive features By those ethical qualities
Of Israets interests three or four thousand years ago
That Is true history but the history that is being en-
lust as anG sa Tou 1G e RooR OF
Judges and for you and for your times and Tor your
corded in the Book Of judge And it is as Wicked as
It Is silly to be ali eyes TO what Is written there ana
is an encouragement that your sex as such has risen
up and put itself on record this last week showing It's
directly concerns the comfort and health Of every house
hold and the morals Of the entire community
TWO WORST ENEMIES OF HUMAN CHARACTER
The two specific influences that are doing the most
to undermine human character and faint human life
in this city to-day the lquorshops and the houses
of prostitution: and each Of these two sorts Of in
situations rely for security and immunity upon the
sympathy and cOnnving protection OF present city
government, and some Of the money paid over the bar
by the Of some of our best families and some
of the money that has been paid into the brothel
treasury by the Of of best families will
go to swell the corruption fund that will be applied
to the continuance of the existing municipal
regime. Those OF you who followed with any attcn-
and summer to sbate the Sixth Avenue Hotel nuisance
know well enough that one Of the greatest difficulties
,,. way Of closing up house Of pue the
lion OF municipal security ana II an institution OF
This kind to next GSr h to ye ,S nS yon
would discover would be that sou were fitting not
with the proprietor Of the house. but with i5s gov
ernmental guardian either In the shape OF policeman
or more likely Commissioner OF Excise
Of the qqO, there Is not ono Of s the
what is campaign centre Of 1ammany propagandism
and probably there Is not one Of YOU proyded only
concern the events Of the last week. who feels thai
there any proper ground for questioning that con
wan and the Liquor Deilers' Association, the
after cvenanting support at The polls 70 be com a.
the part of the elected representatives Of the Wgwam
And all of that Is only confirmed by the understandlng
senate investigating Committee on Friday exists be
tween the stAct-Atorney's office and the Liquor
continued and drunkenness and proficacy and all the
evils that blossom from the rich soil of moral rot will
q the fs p our maheipality rga5 then gss asde
from the direct announcement gwen TO dishonesty
mnistraton Of government there is the fact Of the
very presence. conspicuous and official the very pres
derers imprisoned thieves anshackled rufans, this
Of moral purefacton. unfumieated and undeodor
touch is dirty conteGon.
MORAL DISEASE NOT GUARANTEED LIKE PHYS
ICAL CoNTAGION.
II is one Of the amazing things. the SLOW a7pr'i"Oi
sion that good men and women have of the moral
contamination that is wrought by the presence and
contact Of men that themselves morally tainted
Physical malaria dread. Bodily typhoid fever We
have even a horror of. The first suspicion Of any
odor in the house that is not quite what it should be
puts Us teegraphing for the health inspector and
sending to The plumber to rip out the piplng ana q
get SICK If we breathe bad air; Il man
is taken down with a malignant contagious disease we
we hustle him of to the pesthouse. We sorry for
him. but afr,i for ourselves and are anNiorS
shall reproduce itself and multiply itself and the town
become Inoculated with it, moral lepro.y Is the only
safe or reputable and the scker man Is morally and
The deeper ,he cOntaCn has eaten into his vtals the
e<s the efforts make % isolate him. and the freer
the opportunity we allow him Of impreSnatinG the
general air with the pollution Of his disease. Now'
hat is part Of what is the matter with New York
Phy steal sewage have conveyed of in barges and
dumped out at Bodily diseases Of malignant
and contagious character isolate. and pest houses
devoted TO such diseases put in outof-t way
nIaces which Will not involve the danger Of general
expOsure: but for two years past land afraid II
will be for two years TO Gomez this city has maintained
moral pest house. an ethical kper-shed. down on
Cjty Hail SQUARE, the most exposed and out-in the
air place in the town. In touch with the very yitals
OF the entire Municipality, and we land by that |
mean Won and and all Of u.s. have been gnawed into
BY the filthy incubation The foulness that has diff
M sed itself from that pesferous centre has polluted
the air 80 long and we have become saturated
and morally tainted and debilitated by the efiuvum
that we have hardly soundness enough left bones
10 rea lze that diseased and am afraid not
sufficient resduum Of moral purpose and energy re
naming to Us TO be able to rouse ourselves from our
Now. it is this aspect OF the case after all that Is
most fitted TO alarm ana 10 dlsheaLten Us We cannot
some Of the keenness OF our moral dscernrnent and
appreciation We adjust ourselves TO circumstances.
We level ourselves TO environment InQuity
ceases greatly TO shock u.s. We have learned to read