Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1892-12-09
ABOUT NEW YURK'S MORALITY
The Police 0llcar Gives The Divine an
Earnest Lecture.
MORE THEORY THAN PRACTICE.
Tho Doctors chief Des,c iive irdIctet
by the Grand jury for charges
of Extorsion.

NEW York, Dec. s.-The Il ht be-.
tween Superintendent OF Police
Byrnes and the Rev. DIR. Parkhurst,
president OF the society for the sup.
preston Of Vice, Ia growing moro
bitter.
Byrnes camo out tonight In n lengthy
reply to Parkhurst's latest communica-
ton. In 1t ho produces statistics to
show that while there are houses OF
prostitution In New York, there ~ not
another city In the world OF IL sizc 30
iree from the evil. After talking Mt
great length Of the various methods
for the suppression Of this vice, Byrnes
says;
abr. Parkhurst has lived In this
world long enough to know how un.
charitable II IL to this class OF sinners
FALLEN womcn). How little he has
learned OF the lesson his Master taught
him whom they brought before Him n
woman seized In adultery. Let me
ask Parkhufst how many Of them no
has given shelter? How many his
society has taken from the street
where they were driven by the public
sentiment he Processes to represent
Theoretically there are two ways TO deal
with prostitution. One IA 10 suppress
II, the other to license II. Practi.
cnlly, there IL only ono way. sup.
pressed IL never eau bu. Even
Parkhurst will not claim that, though
he insists that tho police shall do IT..
License II we will not. There remains
only tho middle course, OF compromise.
IL Parkhurst chooses that, OF course II
Is TO thrust the evil ~ far rs possible
out OF sight. Hide II from public view
where II caunot corrupt the morals OF
our growing youth. That's all the
police can do aud they nro doing It Ia
tho best OF their ability. PafkhuIsl
may call II a subterfuge, but he knows
II, and every policeman knows by ex.
perience that in proportion 10 the
efforts made to suppress evil along tn,
only available path, II increases Ia
virulence, because the breaking up Of
houses Of ill.fame simply results IN
scattering the inmates throughout
tenement and apartment houses, where
they do Infinitely moro harm than
before.
"As to gambling houses, let me say
when teaching and preaching make,
good men then gambling will stop
Never In the history OF our city wa,
there as little gambling In public and
az much in private as today. Patrons
now gamble nj their clubs and In
private houses which the police cannot
reach"
In closing the superintendent says I.
"rruo charity begins Mt home. shall
be prepared when DIR. Parkhurst comes
to me in proper spirit OF inquiry u
show him the well.trodden path that
leads from tho very door OF his church
as II were, to the brothel hardly q gun
shot away upon which his 'shadowsi
might exploit themselves with adj
vantage TO the security and good 70.
pute OF his congregation, and with
better success than they have attained
In their present hunt. Such shadow.
ing as tho miscosduct OF Parkhurst'A
agents ana informers compelled me tC
| do In the Interests Of morality, has
convinced me that he has In his
paid agents and sples as great u set Of
scoundrels as ever misled a reputabl,
man nto slandering the fair name Of
the city where he makes his home"
PARKIIuRsT's DETECTIVE INDICTED
The grand jury this afternoon found
two indictments against Charles NJ
Gardner, chief detective for DIR. Park,
hurst's society, one ON the charge Of
extortion and the other for attempt
cd extortlon. The complaining wit.
noes was keeper Of n disreputablC
house.