New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1892-07-11
JOSEPH COOK breaches.
HE TALKS ABOUT GOVERNMENT.
CRAVE PROBLEMS BEFORE PEOPLE IN BIG ciiih'
A CROWD AT PROHIBITION PARK.

GRAVE pPOpIrMs pEFoRE PEOPLE IN BIG CliiES
CROWD AT PROHIBITION PARK.
Auditorium, Han. at Prohibition Park. Port n'cN
mond s. l.. was comfortably filed yesterday mo''n"s
The congregation was thlckly sprinkied WIN "'",
of the Society Of Christian Endeavor. hihone n
who were seated Joseph Cook were the ne' -
ID. ;. Gregory and DR.. !. X. Funk. Inc oonsss
tonal singing clear and strong Inc So
opened with a hymn. and after the usual oe.o"o''.
exercises Joseph Cook began his discourse. nc ss.e
his Prelude Municipal Government 10 this enoos'
"The only road for Americans 10 safe government
Is through self-government. God be thanheu ''"s
we have now In this country slave ana no King.
bat under universal suffrage the right management VI
cities is a sphinxriddle which We must answer or
perish. After about 1910 1920 our caty popu.a-
lions Will cast more than half the votes Oh u's
whole Republic. Municipal misgovernment Is the
blacklist threat In our future. Much may be dohes~
remove 1t by political methods and by rapid trahSs'
the extension OF suburbs scientific neasure.
Of sanitation and also by compulsory education. bne
no scheme OF municipal government Will be successru.
that does not make the liquor traffic an outlaw. ana
prevent the completely Of city government with crime
The pulpit, the parlor. the press must be u1naee'
In view Of the pertls arising from municipal ms
government the pulpit has vast and new RESPONSE
bilities Pnrkhurst is one spark from Pentecost we
need a tempest of such sparks. kndling moral con-
nagration In. the whole land. Men differ somewhss
ne 10 his methods but no weninformcd ard sensi1as
man doubts the correctness OF bis motives or INC
vaue of the results he is achieving. lie has eS'a~
Ished the completely Of certain parts OF city govern
ment with crime. He has done 70 by legal euaenoo'
He has the moral support OF the best part o. me
population of NewYork City and Of the land, ana tho
-, ,nurno,s defend him. He has aroused the
enthusiasm of young men by the thousands for munss
nal reform. His work, It is TO he hoped, Is D.
just begun ..s. -
- church saloons as absurd and amazing, sua cbsW
the prelude by advising his audience 10 iono" As>'
hurst as one spark from Pentecost.'
A discourse on "savoriess salt In Guy Churcnes
,lIoxed in which Mr. Cook discussed the respensh
h.es Of pulpit and pew In the suppression OF crime
some of the sources savoress salt were inquired nt
I'm detail such unsound theology low s.ahuHu' "
club life sunday dissertation, luxury caste anu ull'
developed resources. Mr.. Cook euioszed Certain
classes Of city club but merclessly criticised otio
clubs especially such as keep open bars 'iuo"ici'
who were church members but not total aDstainers,
sometimes "held club over the heads OF preachers
II they advocated total abstinence and the ouua"rs oh
the Ha,ior traffic There were now, said Mr. ,ooA'
thirty-six states In the Union which mao laws lor GYM
pulsovy scientific temperance education similar Jaws
governed the Territories, District OF Coiumpa' 'ns
naval school at Annapolis and the military school, AZ
West Point All the approved textbooks he went o.
10 saw issued by the great firms for use IN sGenuho
temperance Instruction were keyed up to tne iecs
sntrmed that a man in mAdle life had one third better
chance of long LIE total absalner tan a. m
,aied moderate drinking behind the schools ana
benchted and belated.S Pulpit and pew should arise
at least TO the level OF sclehuhc Temperance ni'"""
Mr. Cook closed his remarks by congratilating tho
Yonnc Peoples society Of Christian EndeaNtr upon ~
Good work and its successful convention ,...
The Rev Dr. Charles +. Deems opens the sxtecntn
summer session OF the American Institute OF CHRISTIAN
philosophy at Temperance Park tomorrow. Joseph
Cook viii deliver sermon Fast and Loose Theories
- Fcointion and after the session he VIII deliver
Sermons AT the various summer schools, going West ~
far as South Dakota