The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1892-05-17
Manufacturing a Monster.

-Ha 80 . NAOtNhtSEse No..
Rev. DR.. Parkhurst is going through
the process OF being made ovcr. Under
the akillful manipulation of the very
good people who have taken him in
hand the New York clergyman is fast
assumingthe outward characteristics Of
A monster OF so hideous mieu
+ As TO DO hated needs but to be seen.
He is portrayed as a worse person
than anybody who aver kept the kind
Of resort which he invaded, the worst
human being who ever entered such a
place, altogether vile because he saw for
himself, an utter abomination because
he told q jury what he saw and induced
the jury to convict on his testimony.
Tho height and depth and breadth
ofhis offsnse are aggravated because in
securing'the conviction Of two profes.
sional debauchees he convicted ut the
same timo the police force and the
powerful politicians at the back Of the
police force.
Before the making of tho monster
goes further it will not be amiss to stop
long enough to inquire who this man is
and what he has done that he is to be
denounced as no chronic maleiactor
has been denounced for years in the
city of New York.
Heis a minister Of the gospel and
president of the Society for tho Prevein-
ton OF Crime. AS president OF that So
cicty he learned that in that great city
are human burrows SO vile that hardly
the fires OF hell could purify them. He
learned that these places are under the
protection of the police and that sup
porting the police is an army OF poll
i]ticians of all degrees. He endeavorcd
tomake a good citizens use of the in
formation he had. He was promptly
branded rs a sensational liar.
Taking up tho challenge he did the
one thine-a bold thing it was-that
could put him in position to prove be-
yond the possibility Of a doubt the
truth of his accusation. He did not in
duce the keeper and the inmates Of the
Adams house to do any unusual thing.
There was the bill of fare ready to be
served to all corners as it had been
served a thousand times before, as it was
likely to be served as many times more,
as it was being served in countless other
establishments on that same night in
that same city.
It was as though he had gone to tho
theatre to see the regular play and to
determine its quality. 1t was not q nice
play he saw,in tho Adams. house, but
his motive in lookingonit was the best,
the noblest, tho most philanthropic.
He not only convicted the keeper Of the
house Of maintaining a hell-hole; he
convicted also the local authorities Of
knowingly permitting that sort OF thing
to go on at frishtful cost to the moral
health of the city.
Or. Parkhnrst, at what cost to his
own s%cnsibilities may be Imagined, has
made out his case. His victory over
vice in that n bout should shave
aroused to desperate action every de.
cent man and woman in that great city.
The voices raised against him should
have been only the howls OF rage and
despair OF the outcasts who keep and
those who %patronizo the places :of i'll
SAVIOR, and the politicians who9protect
the disgusting traffic,
The very nico people should have
been ashamed. to proclaim themselves SO
very nice as they profess to be--so aw-
fully shocked that they would rather let
vice stink them out than to DO told how
to get rid Of the bad odor in the noigh-
borhood.
The law and order people Of Pitts
burch are after the publishers Of; Sun
day newspapers in that city. Tho idea
~ al thnuo oorroot fall &. jonL tho