Morning journal and courier., 1893-08-15
A NIASTERLY DISCOURSE

A MAsTERLY DISCOURSE Delivered by Rev. Clarence Greeley at the Law and order Congress In Chicago - Many Notables Present. MT. Greeley Rendered the Position of Secretary and General Manager of the International League.
 At the recent session of the worlds con- gress held in Chicago Rev. Clarence Gree ley of Mt. Carmel Center was one of the speakers, his subject being "The Need of Voluntary Organizations for the Enforce ment of the Law" Among the other speakers were Hon. Seth Low, Hon. Fred erick Douglass and Judge Bonney. The doings of the congress were under the aus pices of the United States government and will be sent to every European govern ment.
 The law and order movement is rapidly spreading throughout the states and is heartily commended by such eminent gen tlemen as the Lord Bishop of Nova Scotia, Rev. Dr. Huntingdon of New York, Rev. Drs. Lyman Abbott and T. T. Munger, Senator Henry Cabot and others too nu- merous to mention.
 Rev. MT. Greeley has been asked to take the position of secretary and general man. ager of the International League of Law and Order Societies. This is the outcome of the efforts of the local Law and Order society in Hamden; otherwise there would have been no law and order congress.
 Rev. Mr. Greeley's speech at the congress was able and eloquent and reached to the very root of the question at issue. It was in part ss follows:
 The question at issue Is as follows: 1. May good citizens, having elected and secured the appointment of the public off. cers, properly leave the enforcement of the law to those officers, or
 2. Does an efficient administration of the laws in free government require the con. stant and active attention of all good citi zens?
 We maintain that the attention of all citizens Is abstractly required, and when this Is impracticable they should be repre- sented In law enforcement associations. The Law snd Order congress meets to day under the auspices of the department ! of the government of cities.
 l. The Law and Order league is, per haps, the most fundamental agency in the | solution of the municipal problem, the most important question of the age. Dr. Mackenzie, author of Social Phil l osophy," thinks that the problem of large cities is the greatest of all modern aues tions; but men like Dr. Parkhurst hayt proven that official complicity with law breaking is the great danger in moder1 cities. And even when new officers art elected it is found that the same old temp tations which afflicted their predecessor beset them. Voluntary associations fol the enforcement of the law are essential tt the settlement of the municipal problem the greatest question of the age.
 l Said Phillips Brooks (of the city O. Bestop) not only, "The one imperative duty of the hour is the enforcement O. the law," but also. "The Law and Orde League is the only thing that stands be tween us and utter despair"
 9. There are special reasons now, tha were not so strong in the past, why citi zsns may not leave the enforcement of lav to the public officers alone.
 Corrupt governments have existed sine Roman emperors, by virtual bribery. di verted the attention of the populace iron | steam has brought new dangers It ha made possible gigantic corporations flo evil as we'll as for good. It has masse the people in great centers. There ar trusts of municipal and even national pro portions which are able and willing to def the law. Formal freedom, or mere i1 divtduslism, which is another name fo anarchy, is no solution. Berlin, nearly a large as our metropolis, and under
 monarchy, is maintained for the money would take to pay the interest on the det of New York city. Said Professor Bryc. "rhe government of cities is the one COT spicuous failure of the United States" We are not asking whether in ancier | times or in despotic lands law enforcemer might be left to the officers alone; our p, 2 | sitiOn Is that 1t is not practicable so to q | in our country to-day. The Law and Ord,
 league arose in our cities as 8 makeweigl against combinations tending to lawles
 ness and disorder. It contended with o
 gsnizsttons to promote avarice and al
 petite to support gamb bling in Louisvill
 the Sunday theater in Cincinnati, Sunds
 baseball in St. Paul or Toledo, prostitute
 ven, or the sale of lqucr to minors in Bo
 ton and Chicago It was a fnanci
 oligarchy that caused the fugitive law !,
 be enforced against the timid slave tn,
 was marched down State street, Bostol but it has been against financial oligarchie
 go far as they have been lawIess, that tt law enforcement societies have been volu1 tarily organized during the present qua ter of 8 century. The age of stea, brought the new problem and the ne method.
 gay new method, for that relic of ba
 barism called the Lynch law (which is | law) whether named after Mir. Lynch ( North Carolina or Stephen Fitzgeral
 when the officers refused to do so, Is jul
 the opposite of the law and order idea; dispsusss with law, and is therefore ind viduslism, another name, in emergencie
 for mobccracy. The modern law-defyin association is danger in great citit
 which did not exist, in this form, befol they arose.
 3. If it is esid that there should be no II reference with the public officers to aid the enforcement of the law, we reply th ! Law and Order leagues arose because thel was interference with public officers to pro | mote the violation of the law.
 The Tweed ring worked through th courts ss we'll ss the legislature. The lsrg cities of New York state have found | necessary to maintain experts at Alban | to see that the laws are properly framed committees to see that ths laws are proper l ly carried out are quite as important, an they should, perhaps, be paid in some wa by the municipality. Jndge Bonney ha suggested that the law and order agent should have for their support the fines se I cured by their convictions.
 Phillips Brooks illustrated the law an order idea as opposed to law-defying in reference with officers, by likeniug tn public officer to the man who is lay ing your sidewalk. When someon (namely, the corporation for law oresking) is hindering your man (the pub lie oficer) you go out and stand by hir until the work is done-then you are la, and order league. The same thought is ii the statement of the elder Harrison, adopt ed as the early motto of the New Yorl Tribune,>'I wish you to understand tn principles of this government. wis them carried out. ask nothing more.
 There are no less than four powerful or ganizations in Boston to prevent the car | rying out of the principles of this govern ment and the execution of certain laws Said Senator Evsrts: "The eyes of the law breaker never slumber nor sleep" Perhap the chief influence of the Law and Orde league consists in tho prevention of inter ference with public officers for sordit ends.
 4. The modern age of steam brings witt it great temptations to cause public officer