Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1892-12-12

He Tells Him to Stop Quoting Scripture AID
Attend to Business.

Attend to Business.
For some time Rev. Dr. Parkhurst and Su-
perintendent Byrnes Of the New York police de-
partment have been at war In the newspapers
Of tina: city. Early last spring Dr. Parkhurst
charged shat the police department of that city
with beng either inefficient or dishonest The
police department denied the charge and de-
Inanaed proof. DIR. Parkhurst, with a couple
OF associates, then made that celebrated
trip which resulted in the OK
posture Of certain dsreputable places and
practices and claimed that here was his proof
The March grand jury of New York made a
prescntment sustaining Dr. Parihurst's charges.
From that time until lately. when Gardner one
OF Dr. Parkhursts associates on the before
mentioned trip, was arrested charged with
b!achmaiiing the keeper of a disreputable place.
This brought DIR. parkhurst up to attack BY
Supt. Byrnes The latest communication on
The subject has been written by DR.. Parkhurs..
II j. as follows:
In his letter Mr.. Byrnes jumps from vi.u-
paration to theology. If possible. he is a worse
theOlogian than he is a police superintendent.
There Is such a thing IA the Gospel and there
Is such a thing rs the law. Both are good when
kept distinct. but both are spoiled by being
mixed. The Gospel requires Us to deal lenientlY
with sinners. Mr. ByrEes deals leniently with
sin, which il another matter. His business is
70 take iuiquIty and make il eXecrabie in the
public estimation. which is exactly what he is
not doing and has not the remctest intention OF
doing
HE saws he has raided and closed 4lO house,
of Ill fame. Granted, and yet lie knows there
never has been a time during the past ten
months when the social vice practiced more
hasrautly than it was three weeks subsequent
70 the November election. 1t is not the closing
Of house that tells. II is the moral purpose
il is done with. and that is exactly what Mr.
M is to
make law majestic. and he does not. He
MAKES il contemplate. He plays with infrac-
tons Of II, and unless the March grand jury
we're utterly at fault, stands at the head OF a
department that coins wealth out of the very
vice II Is constituted to suppress. He cannot
have effective department till the animating
head Of it lis a moral Inspiration to the force.
He says thst have found crime and that
any one viii find il who seeks it long and per-
sistentiy enough IN the midnight hours when
good citizens should be in bed. What do we
have night police for if il is not TO seek it ont
and find it when respectable people are in bed?
~ would go farther and say that respectable
people have no busiGess to go to bed when they
know that the superintendent of police is
letting the city so to the devil when they are
aJed. lie save he can show me a well-trodden
path that leads from the very door of my
church, as it were, to sbrothel nearly a gun
shot away.
Il am obliged TO you for your. unsolicited
confession. / loath the man with unutterabe
contempt who, occupying the position of splen-
did at ,hority that Mr. Byrnes does. darcs 20
come out and publicly confess that he is per-
hitting. which is another way Of saying that lie
l. aiming, one OF these hell holes into which,
he says. he knows that young men are being
en.icod.
IN the name of the two hundred and eighty
second section Of the act Of consolidation and
in the name of the wretched young men of my
congregation whom that accursed den, under
you. protection. is blighting and running de-
mand OF YOU, Dir. Byrnes, that you put your
official hand or that bro:hel and crush it.
For the lords sake. Byrnes when you
quote don tculogize the Gospel in the same vile
breath with which You make that damning self
inc-ilnination. Your case is strongest when
YOU say least. You had better quit the homily
business and attend to your legitimate con-
ccrus.'