The Progress., 1893-01-28
TRUTH is BETRAYED.
REV. TRCNAs CW0N SCORES TIE
CORRUPT AND VENcL SRESS.

New Yoa-. J2n. 42.-i.ev. Thomas
Dixon, Jr., reviowcd tins i4o-aing be
fore the sermon tie recent scandals IL
official lie in Europe and america. and
especially the appointment il New Iorl;
of the notorious John y. Scannell as fire
commissioner and Joseph Koch IS police
justice. He said:
believe that the age il which we live
is the greatest and best in the history Of
the race. We are approaching the trop-
les of civilization. The good are getting
better; the bad are getting worse. The
struggle between good and evil must yet
become fercer. As we approach the
tropics the flowers are more luxurious,
,the skies brighter, nature moro marvel
Gus, but the beasts are fiercer, the rep
tiles more numerous and venomous.
With all the marvellous progress of our
age in philanthropy, in liberty, in states
'manship and religion, there never was
an hour in the history of the world in
which the role of the public rascal was
as daring as it is today. There never was
time when scoundrels played the part
of saints with such genius and consum-
mate insolence.
In Canada we are told that official life
has become corrupt in every department.
Germany echoes with the battlecry
of the socialists charging crime upon the
highest officials
France trembles upon the verge of an
archy before the long roll of 173 high Off
GERS of government accused of robbing
the people of millions of their hard earn
ings. In America rascality has become
a fine art. Official villainy has become
with US the stepping stone to public
preferment. He who proves himself the
most consummate political crook is
crowned king of his party clans and has
first claim upon the senator's toga and
the judges robe. Rogues thus reign be-
cause the people sleep-not because the
world would choose the rogue to rule.
The most conspicuous example of can
onized public villainy before us today
is exhibited just now in New York city
A person of the name of Gilroy was ap-
pointed mayor by Mr.. Dick Croker, the
boss who rules the city. The name of
this man was printed ON the official
Democratic ticket, and under the cover
of a national contest he was declared
mayor elect. He took his seat and pro-
ceeded at once to carry out the wishes
of his master. 1t took him only a few
hours to show that there was nobody in
the mayors chair of New York save the
puny stool pigeon of the criminal rul-
ing element of Tammany Hall. Hugh
]. Grant was bad enough. While he
confessed to the emisappropriation of S2O,-
600 as sheriff, and while he gave us the |
Hon. Patrick Diver, saloon and dive
keeper for judge, be it said to his honor
he always refused to appoint John j.
Scannell, the assassin, to any Office. Il
Before the first appointments of Gil |
roy-John j. Scannell for fire commits |
sioner and Joseph Koch, who ought to
be in the penitentiary today, to the
judges bench-public decency stands
dumb.
We would almost feel like nominating |
Hugh j. Grant as a reform candidate |
for mayor! At last the so called new
Tammany throws off the mask of pro-
fessed decency, and Croker boldly takes |
his stand as high priest at the altar
where the lamented William NJ. Tweed
once stood. We are in for two years of
the most consummate villainy a civil
ized community ever witnessed.
Think for one moment what the nom-
nations of two such men as Koch and
Scannell means in Christian commu-
nifty! This fellow Koch is made a Judge
at a salary of $4,000, appointed for term
Of te" years.
A few months ago Koch went before
his pal, Grady, and swore that used in
this pulpit the following language con-
cerning him: THE city government bids
defiance to the moral sentiment of the
community. Mayor Grant has Just re-
appointed Koch excise commissioner.
This fellow was the biggest scoundrel of
al the board, the one man of all men who
deserved to be kicked into oblivion. He
stands indicted for the violation of his
oath as commissioner and ought to be in
the penitentiary today" B
1t was never denied by anybody that
to1s language was used as reported Mr..
Koch had all the machinery of the courts
ae his command to vindicate himself
rom the attack, if false; but the dis
trict attorney thought that in view of
the fact that he had been trying to put
the fellow in the penitentiary for some
time it would not be wise for him to
sex yindication-at least while indics-
ments for penitentiary offenses were still
pending.
l beg leave to paste this bit of infor-
mation in Mr.. Gilroy's hat for his fu-
ture reference. l also beg leave to pre-
sent to Mr.. Koch copy Of that sentence
OF which he complained as buttonhole
bouquet for his Inauguration day. That
language stands as originally uttered.
But since his further vindication and
canonization it will not count, of course.
But one more act is needed to make !
the degradation of police justiceship
complete from the poetic point of view. I
Billy McGlory should have a seat be-
fWo00 Koch and n,vva~, Tlu