New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1894-11-05

can let slip the super-emnent opportunity of sound;
ing tone that shall transiX the situd,lOm
pierce the vitals Of the ndividral ana coleo'Fe
Conscience; :, s.,v exal,ed this
week or Il is going TO be morally blighted. There
can be done in one week OF crisis what ca:lio p w
hand The circumstances here in New-York TO-
day different from those , RECORDED ic IN rea
eNsrY a5ss% Should be
day' as there was why jeremiah, should be
jeremiah in his day dealing Titanic blows upon
treacherous scoundrels who trod under foot pre-
cisely the same laws that are BENG crushed m,o
mails who are determining our cltys history ana
destiny.
A HIT AT THE OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES
OFFICE.
Let us also clearly understand that it is not a
question whether things have not for consioer-
able time past been equally as bad as they are
now That is one Of the lines of defence that Is
protectors OF public virtue against whom our war
fare is directed The District Attorneys ONO,
the pivot upon which. according TO repute, theIe
hinges as much in the way of travesty Of justice
in other single department 4f our cmy SIt t
chief exponent has just given the pubic TO utafL
stand that the present situation Is Dnber o
previous administrations Surprising that II De
true we may NAVE op own tba is true that does
not touch the matter. , ,,,,., -,
CIV Hall Souare and that il had been there for
ten years yes for hundred years, and that. as the
Shape men should begin 10 look more and more
quizzically at that cesspool ana TO resen, Wiz t
fetid and typhoid-fever producing properties 10
what degree DO you think it would satisfy the IN
was an indgnity to the pool to find fault with II:
that 1t smelt worse and caused no NOR nor'Hy
that is exactly what we have down there on lily
m nd Sc an open not Dor it's
stencil sweetened, by its having sad ior IL tnat
u mas been po1utnG 'he hor ro' are deveiopng in
the community certain strenuous convictions as
TO contrive system of piping that shall Dram
that political ouagInire. and see II we cannot gst
and the length of time that il has been lying
there is neither interesting nor pertinent
YOUNG INTEGRITY AT STAKE.
7 want now that you who ara parents should re-
feet upon what all this municipal condition means
in its relations to your children. YOU were told
here almost three long years ago, that II is your
boys that are at stake. The influences with which
the air is saturate ted are boring into ana honey
eombing the tissue Of youns integrity ibough h i
were right without working in the conscience
S %ors 9 dd o Boys
hood than to gain early impression that the
is not quite stragAG is more an flair Of magma
ton than it is of fact Now law that is simply
than ~ a conscience pulverizcr \ man who is in
very close alliance with the liquor interest OF
and in its enforcement and who appreciates dis
tnctly the fact that there Is nothing that viii ao-
letting him imagine that law is not fact but
recently tod ba, tG go of s IS Og
and it is sunday and the law says i; shall net be
Now the budding conception in that little chaps
mind that law really means nothing in particular
bilities Of ruin. temporal and everlasting. are in,
it with ingredients Of the immutable and the eter-
because
handled though it had It's grounds In the eteI-
se up P0f to be- bowed down nor principle
treated possessing the power OF an endless ne
and abiding from everlasting to everlasting. chdr-
acter is Gespoled of is virty and vivid conscience
and muscular integrity are tending 20 become one,
potency. working among us in stern but sustain
Ing Imperialism
vILENEsS OFFICIALLY EXALTED.
But still more productive OF young irresoiution
and degeneracy Is the presence In our midst OF men
who are officially exalted. but yet whom we know
to be personally v,e-indivi1ual incarnatons OF
every Imaginable breach Of commandment whether
Of God 1t does not lie within the range OF
possibility that should have Mayor or judges
or the heads Of important and responsible depart
ments who either themselves hdlNuudlIy
syInpai.sI Win those who a X tainted without
that fact operating with The power OF an ii.es,T.
ioe and ncurabe blight in particular upon young
who grow up with an instructive respect Iot
high official position, and who theref9r;e cannot
contemplate the occupant or such P'sitiInt .o
ever con1esse3y vicious and conteTp, DE wlthout 70
degree rd denn o ne P9sb e sm of he pc
insinuate Itself into his conception OF Inc iIhc-
onar ana SarT ash %1tn ' VIXEN You tell over
the inventory Of the murdercrs thieves, perjurers,
that are dischargng high Official functions in this
city to-day remember that each OF them nelps 10
little less repusive to the moral taste q your dear
boy and when you 20 to the polls on Tuesday
But it is no; only as parents. but as patriots
look inteD an
alton of city at this juncture without Zee.
G ng hai IN and qs Of the Country
implicated in Il. There Is not town OF any con ~
be ennobled or degraded by our own municipal
issue Tuesday. Just that relation is appreciated
s Te weak mnny saans grip on NeWYork this week
there anxious spirits scattered al through me
Ing, "Wel. IL they DO 1t in New-York' We can
do It in our town AND they VIII 40 bere Su Wss
haitian Island will create thousand echoes far
and wide across the continent ana mean po Io
fiIthier and elevated statesmanship will appear
grander the mind I'd heart o every honest
Il is a simple statement Of historic fact TO say
the one here in progress that have been initiated at
the impulse OF the movement here, and every one
in long leap toward contamination II they see see
the efforts Of this city cuminat'ng IN success iis
is not thrilled with gigantic impulse Of snch con,
sderatiSn IL a. ,Ss great bodv polite and
produce an influence that should strengthen the
pulse beat in every separate vein ana artery OF the
''''e'" ITS NATIONAL BEARINGS.
This reference to the National bearings OF our
present situation suggests point which needs TO
he made carefully. but which am sure can be made
safely II 1t Is made outspokenly one special
phase Of current National anxiety has It's grounds
in the wide prevalence at home and abroad or what
Is scientifically known anarchy; and when II was
intmated some days that there was a movement
among certain Anarchists in this city looking 10
combination for the repia cement OF our present
CITY government by that was better. the In
slant conclusion in certain quarters appears 10 nave
been that II the latest instance or Belzebub
brief for the Anarchists. and with no intention at
all of pleading for their eccentric method OF REFORM
ing history | submit your consideration that
there are Anarchists and there Anarchists.