New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1892-03-04
BAPTTST'S HEAR ABOUT CRIME.
Ex-PREsIDENT MLEAN. OF THE POLICE BOARD.

EX-PRESIDENT M'LEAN. OF THE POLICE BOARD.
AND ANTHONY CONSTOCK MAKE SPEECHES.
The Baptist social Union of Manhattan Island held
It's regular meeting la,t evening at DclmOnlco's.
business meeting. AT which new members were
proposed held at o'clock and dinner served
AT 80 O'Clock in the ballroom About eighty persons
sat down to NE tables The guests Of the evening
were Charles F. Maclean. eXpse>idcn Of The B0anl o
Police Commissioners, and Anthony Comstoct, secre
tary of the society for the Suppression Of Vice. The
president Of the union Edward :. CInch, presided
Others present were Vice Presidents A. 6. Chcu'v and
W. D. Murphy the secretary. DR.. James T.. Ne comb
the treasurer. W. d. Morse James L. Colgate. Dr. J. H.
Cunning. Herbert F. Andrews. William NJ Batch'i der
l.. A Chaplin Charles :. CrOssman. Robert H. troIler
and George A. Gale.
The topic for discussion was "Tie Prevention Of
Crime in Nev-YOIk~ President Cinch in brief open
ing address introduced Police Commissioner NacLcan
who discussed the general subject from the point ~
view of those charged with the administration OF the
laws believe" sand the speaker that most Of the
community the police officers who are equipped
with the power Of and who expected TO
detect crime. do the people Themselves fully di'
charge their duty In the line Of the suppression OF
crime 1t IS the duty OF the police 10 uphold al
the statutes Of the state. and that all
the laws against lewdness and gambling aud
such thing, complied WITH the offences
suppressed and the offenders prosecuted The police
are exposed 10 many temptations. and among Ia Sc
the practices OF husil-mOncv and bribng. The
citizens themselves not sufficiently in earnest In
securing the enforcement OF such laws have.
II the socety for the Prevention Of Crime could SEQ
10 il that all the statutes observed IL would he
great support the administrators of justice. one
evil Is the the public allows the pole magis
trates to deal with the police. II + graz drawback
TO the zeal Of the police that when they bring persons
into the police courts the offenders are 80 often dis
charged and the officers making the arrests ~
Tn ,vf,.O tIatn In
SUNDAY morning make tour Of tie CITY p'lce courts
and witness the conduct OF the police magHtnit@s
one person after another Is brought up, perhaps fr
drunkenness OF disorierly conduct Of some kind until
the call hs ppens strike poor ltalnn, and he
il sent to the island. II would surprise Il see
the way the policemen mailing the arrests treated
and tall ed to by Of the magistrates.
II you will give your attention 10 II YOU sup
press thing that IL bad the lottery. and that
is the pOolroom u is u the worst forms Of
gambling ID the community, and II YOU VIII
Join together AMI awaken publ' sentiment
It will be much more the purpose than dcnouncng
the lottery In NewOrleans.'
Yesterday was the twentieth anniversary Of Anthony
Com5,ock's entrance upon bis work agent Of the
society for the suppression Of Wee. When President
Clnch made this announcement and Mr. CJm,tOch roe
10 his feet he wa, heartily cheercd. he be-n hi ad
dress by com .incntiry alspn b. the present al
nnlsfaOn of The Police Board and do clared II TO 6e
his judgment that the police force VI New ,rk va, tie
best In the world. lie said that he did not know Of
a single instance vuhn the last three years when he
had appealed 10 the Commissioner, and failed 10 re-
ceive their Garnet support. In regard 10 thc sup
preston Of crime he expressed the sentiments Of Com
missioner Mclean that the people hrmrelVc- were
lacking earnest support Of the authorize, and that
publlc sentiment did not demand it should the rcid
enforcement Of the laws He believed the way to pre-
vent crime in New York 10 prevent s propagation
10 stop the sources from which ii cmanates lie gave
some lively accounts OF his own experience. hih bN
comparisons Of fifteen and twenty years ago with the
present illustrated the remarkable advance IN ELI
cheney III tn" enforcement Of the laws over
that of the earlier days mentioned. lie i"ld
that there stil studied and wifu indif
ference IN the matter Of preparing complaints
and recommended ;!aI there should be competent
clerk in every police station charged with tie rcspOn
slldlty Of drawing up the paper on bolnif of the
officers making the arrests. Willie rc'errins I the
existence Of the city pOofOOms. Mr.. C0mst1ck r.
ferrd T. Senator Hin the would be ncNt President
of the United States. who. when h. vas Governor ana
before he was elected Senator sold Out TIE STATE Of
New Ycrh to the gambling fIntrni'y." He also I'd
vocated strongly the repea Of the Ives law; .
The next meo ting 81 the union will lie held on me
first Thu SHAY evening OF April AT the Metropolitan
Opera House.