The Republican journal., 1892-07-07
Lashing the Tiger.

lied BRIGANDS.
The Rev. Thomas Dixon, Jr, SO far from
being deferred from attacking Tammany
Hall and its officials by his recent arrest on
charge of libel, has returned to fight
| with undiminished zeal. In sermon de-
livered Sunday he followed up his former
arraignment Of Excise Comnls sloner
Koch by sweeping assault on Tammany
and all its out posts. The title OF his
sermon was Municipal Corruption. "
Among other things he said:
1T is conceded without discussion by
81, 600, 600 people in America that the
rottenest city government in the English
speaking world is in New York.
''For this we have to thank Tammany
Hall-an organization Of civilized brig
ands' banded together for the sole pur-
pose of plundering the public treasury.
1t knows no principle save that of self
interest. 1t wears the cloak OF national
party, beneath which to conceal the assas-
sins dagger. The only power recognized
within its royal domain is the power of a
pull.
at has transformed the government OF
the second city of the world. that holds
the key OF the New World, into a comedy
OF thieves. The name Of the municipal
government of New York is the Joke of
two continents. Our municipal record
under this band Of plunderers has formed
the worlds international huresuue of
free government.
I'VE are the laughing stock Of Europe
and the recipients of the pity and con
tempt OF Our fellow Americans.
with shame werecognize more truth
than poetry in the whitening scorn OF Rud-
vorl L<itlint, la InS,,ihps Manhattan
Island as "a long pig trough between two
sewers This certainly is a moral if not a
physical fact. For all of which we have
to thank Tammany Hall.
Into Your city treasury every year pours
a Niagara of gold, more than the sum total
required by the governments OF twenty
four of the greatest States OF the Union.
"And what do we get in return? In
brief we get the meanest schoolhouses of
any great city in America, and not enough
of them, turning annually thousands OF
children into the streets to become criml-
mails: filthy, ill-paved streets fire traps and
death traps dotting the city IN every dl-
rection, that violate the laws, until the
coroner sit over the ruins and the in
surance company furnishes money for a
new building: vermin infested station
houses, dirty and cheerless into which
the shelterless wretch is kicked and left
upon the floor: unrelieved disease and star
walton among the poor.
IAN Inadequate OF i'll managed water
service, poisoned by 1000 catalogued
nuisances in its watershed; thousands of
betrayed trusts in the granting of city
franchises to corporations that hold our
highways and pay nothing for the priv
ilege and give us inadequate facilities of
travel: a police service declared by grand
jury to he the friends and protectors OF
crime and criminals, receiving, by the estl-
mate of the foreman. at least 81 600, OOOan-
nually as the price of official blackmail
and retaining on its pay roll men charged
i'm opencourt with the foulest crimes known
to civilization: a Judiciary that has been
lisgraced by the elevation to the bench
OF a saloon keeper who wds chronic
violator of the law, and of other political
thing of equally shady antecedent, who had
not the first qualification on attainment to
redeem the infamy OF their appointments: 4
police power that cannot see five thousand
open saloons on Sunday and hundreds Of
gambling hells and disorG2rly houses until
pointed out by DIR ParkInrst, and vet who
can easily Get q warrant for the arrest Of 4
grocer. Who sold d cake of soap on sun
ldN anu VI al l'lCdNIlti, WV 'tttlCh III HIS
pulpit to apply soap to a foul city govern
ment.
'..As IA fitting climax for all this we
have a mayor presiding over the city, when
not otherwise engaged npresiding over Ii
oluor dealers conventions, who has branded
himself rs selt-confessed criminal, and
received second term rs mayor in vindica-
ton of the criminal confession that while
in office he had appropriated so, 00Oin lille
gal fees.
s'Back Of him stand the governing com
mittee of Tammany Hall. Back Of these
men stretches an army Of rum soaked, licen-
tiolls volators of law whom Tammany has
fostered and upon whose ill-gottten gains
the deep tribute of blackmail is regularly
laid.
''The strength OF Tammany Hall is found
in the old guard of sixty thousand men
who marched to the polls and voted for
William NJ. Tweed's candidate for Regis
ter, while the city yet reeked with the
exposure OF that notorious regime. This
trained army of thugs would vote f"l
Judas Iscariot at the bidding OF their boss.
Therefore Tammany detics every pulpit
that may thunder at her villanies Her ar
my asks no question. With the experience
of years as a heritage. and the audacty
of the devil as birthngllt, Tammamy
defies the moral sentiment of the world
''Shall men, who believe in truth and
right, crinee before this hea~t?'
cor shall we challenge the brute to NOR
tai combat and lift up our PROSTATE and
| diseraced city?
| ''Let every man in New York who be-
ieves in purity and home and righteous
ness and God give now the weight OF his
manhood to the regeneration Of the city.
Let us separate this question from State
and national issues and pledge ourselves
to know no parties until this work is
done.
''If what | have said be not true it may
| be libellous. Let the henchmen and hire
lings see to it. If it be treason let the
dastardly tyranny that is crushing the life
and manhood out of our city make the
most of it.
''lf it is necessary in the present de
bauched life of the city for an honest citi-
zen to serve a term in prison for daring tt
speak the truth, | am ready to serve my
/ God in the penitentiary, as in this pull
pitt