The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1892-03-27

authorities, and he appraised his congrega-
ton of the cheering fact in this ways
Time and again during the past week as
have, between the hours of IL and in
the morning. sat in company of women of
class almost too disreputable to be men
toned in this presence. have heard that
there is not much doing Just now for the
reason that the authorities are scared"
The doctor evidently made this state
ment from the pulpit simply to assure his
congregation that he had not been neg
Letting his great work of downing" Tam
many, a work to which he had consecrated
himself, as Mr.. Cleveland would say, in
his unctuous way. The public will now
snxiously await the unfolding of the evil
!. dence which this earnest and eloquent
Z preacher has found in the gilded purheus
Of vice whittier his wandering and mid
night steps have been carrying him. Arte-
mus Ward escaped from the Mormons with
his virtue unimpaired, and it is under
stood that DR.. Parkhurst returns from his
hunt for evidence in a position to cast the
first stone and follow it up with many
others. The outcome of this ministerial
assault upon the wickedness of a large
town will be awaited with more than
common interest. The contention of the
preachers is, as it always has been, that
vice cannot be held in check or regulated.
but must be stamped out absolutely. Like
the fair young female delegate under
the Gainsborough hat in the
Peoples party convention in st. Louis
Y ncently, they demand that all persons
hall cease drinking liquor the moment
resolution is adopted to that effect, and
that, henceforth, all corn shall be fed to
the hogs prior to and not after its con-
version into the liquid form. A great
many persons think the best way to beat
the liquor vice, as well as some other
Troublesome vices, is TO regulate them by
license But this is only side issue with
Parkhurst He has gone into the business
OF ferreting out political corruption in the
city Of New York, and, like the man who
started in early in the spring to make
maple sugar. if he likes the business he
may work at it ali summer.
1t is not generally known that DR.. Park
hurst fell into this line of work by succeed
Ing to the presidency of the Society for
the Prevention of Crime on the death of
the former president. the Rev. Howard
Crosby. After his election to this Office
(which he did not seek, he began to look
about to see where he could prevent or
suppress crime, and found no end of OPP
portunities. He seems to have found his
Society powerless to accomplish much good
unless he could quicken the public con-
science and alarm the authorities, whose
consciences are supposed to be beyond
quickening. By taking Calling gun into
the pulpit ne has succeeded in doing both.
DR.. Parkhurst is 80 years old, and. of
course, comes of Puritan stock. He was
born in birmingham, Mass. He attended
.Ae school in his native town, and when
10 years old entered a dry goods store, and
ior couple of years sold coffee, tea, to-
oacco, ribbons and what-not His mind
appears TO have been in another direction,
however, and jumping out Of the store
window. as it were, he fed to college, and
graduated from Amherst in 1862
since entering actively upon the at
! lars of life, he has been princi-
! pa of thes Amherst High School,
Professor of Greek at Williston seminary,
East Hampton, Mass. He afterward went
10 Europe and made much more than a
superficial study of German philosophy
anu theology. The young student also
made quite hit in studying Sanscrit. and
has since printed work entitled, The
Latin Verb Illustrated by the Sanscrit."
This makes the outlook quite bad for
Tammany. because a man who has
mastered Sanscrit enough to write about
1t is equipped for almost any kind of
Struggle.