New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1893-09-21
RETURN OF DIR. PARKHURST.
HIS VACATION HAS SHARPENED HIS Ape
TITE FOR FIGHT.
VIGOROUS CAMPAIGN AGAINST POLICE COR
RUPTION AND TAMMANY HALL
WILL BE WAGED

WILL BE wAGED
The Rev Dr. Charles II. Parkhurst returned yes
terday on the Teu,onic from his threemon;hs' out
ing IN Europe. At his home last evening he said
10 a Tribune reporter:
Il went directly to our little resort. Nevey. on
Lake Geneva. and rested three four weeks. Later
l spent several weeks in climbing the mountains
an exercise Of which am very fond Coming back
TO Vevey, ! rested awhile and then returned by
way OF Paris to London, where 1 devoted cou-
pie of weeks to study.
Referring to the Society for the Prevention OF
Crime of which he is president DR.. Parkhurst de-
clared that its work would be prosecuted with as
much vgor in the future az in the
past. adding that excellent force of detectives
had been secured and the past lives OF all were
thoroughly well known to the officers. meeting
of the committee will be held to-day to outline the
course to be pursued.
In reference 10 Captain Deverys statements
Dr. Parkhurst said:
THE Devery letters were prepared before went
away Devery asks why. If the society wants TO
exterminate these bad houses, we do not go to
him? Does the community realize that 1t Is
Captain Devery. not personally but in MS ornc'ai
capacity. that after? We took DeVei!
precinct because it is the nastiest OF the lot' ana
most valuable for our purposes. And we are
going pursue this line, not so much ior the
effect of wedding out these houses az TO seek TO
break up the practice Of converting unchasuN
and the like into real estate and corner lots we
are going to try and settle the question whether
men who are paid by the people to execute the
laws are TO be allowed to receive an additional
salary for the non-execution of the laws.
I'VE are asked why we do not prove the passage
of money from these people to the men charged
with the execution of the laws. Now, supposlhs
you and | are looking out over wheatheld
say the wind blows from the north You say
YOU cannot feel any wind. l point to the fact
tha 81 a bending
waving toward the south and hence the wind
must be from the north. You reply. i do not ieei
any wind; there is wind Now apply this
illustration to the police and you find condition
Of things that you cannot explain without the
assumption Of the passage of money. Men go on
the force without dollar in their pockets In a
few years they become captains and live at "A
rate of expense two or three times the amount
of their annual salaries. There is not a stalk that
does not bend in harmony with the assumption
have stated"
OF course we understand that there is no
possibility of a complete overthrow Of the existing
condition of things until Tammany is pluckcd out
root and branch. Anything that can be done in the
way Of making it difficult for thc department to
enter into pecunary arrangements with these crimi-
nails is so much accomplished in the direction OF
destroying Tammany because II helps TO cut OH
one source OF its revenues. Tammany would not
encourage the enactment OF law permitting open
saloons on Sunday They could not afford ii.
People sometimes say that there Will soon be
proposition license houses OF ill-iame 90 not
think there is the slightest danger OF H. ram
many cannot afford it. because one source o. us
revenues would be cut of.
I'VE are fighting Tammany not as branch ol
true sense of the word in Tammary. II Is not
Rppubicansm or Democracy. TaTmany Is an or,
name II is simply "A superbly organized band OF
brieands Now we fighting Tar1many. and We
are taking this way fight IT, We have no noir
Of awning bette until 1t is rooted out. and al!
self-rcspecting men both Republicans and Demo-
Gratis ought to combine against H.
DR. Parkhurst will preach from his pulpit IN ihe
Madison Square Presbyterian Church next sunday
rnornir. -. ,..h
DR. Parkhurst said that the report that Joseph
Britton was be agent OF the society io' the
Prevention of Crime was not correct