The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1893-12-09
Parkhurst the Sewer of Pollution.

Parkhurst the Sewer of Pollution.
We are Informed that a number OF
ladies of the scarlet variety have been
conspicuous in the lower streets oil
Jersey City, the last night or two.
They hail from the Tenderloin,
We are told. and they are some
of the soiled doves whom DIR.
Parkhurst has f1uttered from the
dovecotes of that far famed section of
New York.
Truly this a great moral triumph
for the nti-Tammany doctor-to fill
the streets not only of his own but of
neighboring cities with d~isorderly
women, who would otherwise be
hidden from the public in the re-
cesses of their own dens. This is the
Doctors idea of publication of
morals-to spread the germs of moral
pollution broadcast through the
highways and the bYeways. to force
it upon the observation of the young,
the weak, the innocent.
We have our faults in Jersey City;
but at any rate our police have thus
far made our streets clean as respects
this sort of foulness. No doubt they
will suppress the present invasion.
too. But we certainly have a right
to complain that foreign corruption
has been turned loose upon us, just
because DIR. Parkhurst desires to
prove that the New York police are
venal and TamInany Hall is corrupt.
Inspector Williams of New York
who, by the way, is a dyed-in-the-
wool republican, teaches the same
doctrine held by wise practical NOR
alists and shrewd police officials every
where, viz: that the way to hold vice
in check was to district it, to isolate
it, SO far as possible. This was done
in the Tenderloin. The result of
scattering It'll apparent from the de-
velopments upon III own pavements.
To those who really desire to see the
community safeguarded, it is simply
appalling to think of the conse-
quences of sending an army of bad
women out into the fiat houses and
tenement houses of New York, into
the private residence quarters and
into the teeming streets of the east
and west belts, where the sons and
daughters Of the poor dwell in tens
of thousands.
But what matter who may be
poisoned in soul for all time, says the
good Doctor, I have scored my point.
l have downed the police and beaten
Tammanyi
The Street and Water Board Charges.
The charges submitted TO Mayor
Wanser, Thursday. are formidable
rather as affording a basis for formal
accusations of malfeasance. than as
embcdying themselves any specitica-
tions on which definite action can be
taken. As we said, yesterday, they
afford capital material for the Grand
Jury to work on. There can be no
doubt but they give ground for in
dictments for conspiracy, bribery and
general malfeasance; and yet it can
hardly be said that they are in such
shape, that Mayor Wanser can take
them as they stand and recommend
that Governor Werts remove the
Commissioners.
The work, as it stands. has an
amateurlsh lack of point and definite
ness. 1t needs a shrewd lawyer or
two to take it in hand, put it in
shape, bring out the conclusions that
it indicates, clearly, and in general SO
dispose it that it will stand analysis
and dissection by the courts, wherein
the removal OF the five guilty COM
on certiorari.
1t is remarkable too, that solne Of
the worst features of the fraud and
extravaganza of the Street and Water
Board have been ignored in this array
of charges. If any well posted
citizen-Mr. Joseph A. Dear, for
instance,--had reviewed their bills for
printing and stationery supplies for
years back, we are mistaken if the
most astounding fraud and robbery
would not have been discovered.
We suggest that in the further at
tacks on this board which are planned
land we believe there are several
lnaturing-this subject. be given a
thorough ventilation. 1t certainly
will not do to cover the rottenness in
this direction up, just because one of
the beneficiaries happens to be a re-
publican.
The Voice From TooIey Street.
Speaking generally, almost every
thing said by the Tooley Street Demo
Gratis in their manifesto. yesterday,
was true and wise and public spirited.
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