Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-08-08
ASSAULT ON INIQUITY
In a Model Yankee City by One of
DR.. Parkhurst's Disciples.
LAW AND ORDER LEAGUE FORMED
Whose Object Is Not to Tempt People to
Break the Laws, but to
SEE THAT REFORMS ARE CARRIED OUT

ESPECIAL rELreRAM TO THE DIsPATcH.1
NORWICH, CONN.,, Aug. REV. Dr..
Leonard Woolsey Bacon, of the Second
Congregational Church, to-day again made
furious onslaught on iniquity in Norwich.
He advertised his attack and great crowd
turned out to hear him. Not long ago DR..
Bacon organized law and order league,
after Dr.. Parkhurst's society, and induced
the lately elected Republican Mayor, Har-
wood, to promulgate a proclamation early
in July, commanding all keepers of dives
and disorderly houses to pack up and leave
town on or before August 1. Some of them
owned property worth many thousands of
dollars but all closed their doors promptly.
In his pulpit in his stone church on the
hill this forenoon DIR. Bacon gave them a
scathing farewell, and also paid his respects
to city officials, past and present, in way
that made some of them very nervous.
were ex-Mayor H. H. L. Osgood, deacon
of the Park Congregational Church, and ex-
Consul Ruggles, owner of the Burlington
Hotel
DR.. Bacon's principal helper in his cru
sade, besides the Mayor, is Rector Nelson,
of the fashionable Christ Episcopal Church.
federation and sanction Extended.
Having complimented the present Mayor
on the aggressive step he had taken and his
official predecessors on their policy of
supineness, the doctor said: "You have
the authority to destroy this evil. You
have no authority to tolerate and sanction
it. know you have done this unlawful
and wicked thing through your ex-oficers
of this city. You have taken on yourselves
all the shame and guilt, without the pre-
tended GOOD that was to come with
it. You have extended federation,
inals 1t is not understood that the reIa-'
tion of the police to this business has been
a not unfriendly one, like that which has
subsisted between the police and the gam
bling business
SIN less than wear from now the oppo-
sition will come that will test the quality
of your citizenship. By that time, as the
city election draws near, the present
Mayor, if he dQes his duty as he has be-
gun-and believe by the grace of
God he will-will no longer be the
20 be. here will have grown up violent
and cunning opposition to his administra-
tion-not in one party, but in both, dex-
terously using the secret party machinery
of both parties to set back the city govern
ment into the old ruts and make it again the
accomplice of the social sinner and the
gambler.
Politicians Tricks to Be Expected.
'You know the trick by which you have
been fooled year after year. 1t is going to
be represented to you that these tremen-
dous questions of Iife-and-death interest to
the homes and families of this city are
somehow entangled with the question OF
protection, free coinage, of the seal fish.
cries, of Democracy or Republicanism, and
that, of course, the less must give way to
the greater, and you must vote the regular
ticket"
In conclusion the doctor admitted the
fight is not won, but said the Law and
Order League is going to battle with the
evil in question in whatever form it may
take. at is possible to conquer it, and,''
he added, cit is possible even to close the
Buckingham House bar(a swell local hotel),
even though its owner were ten times a
Christian and hundred times member of
the Broadway church" ="
The congregation was invited to sign a
paper indorsing the mayors act, copies of
which we're at either end of the sanctuary.
Dr.. Bacon preached sermon on similar
topic to the women of Norwich, tonight