New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1894-10-08
WORSE THAN TIL f CLUBBERS
r,,rRE RESPONSIBILITY FOR POLICE
ROTTENNESS LIES.

TUE MAYOR AND TIE COMMISSIONERS
TIE APPEAL TO YOUNG MEN AND
WOMEN TO WORK FOR THE OVER
THROW OF TAMMANY.
=. .Ao Eighteenth Street Methodist Episcopal
<-trrch last night the pastor the Rev. Dr. John \.
% wilson. IN a prelude to his sermon said in part;
An hour with the Lexow Committee Is the theme ne
ms presentation. on Wednesday last for the
2, g. ~" Tine ! visited the famous seat Of war no
ia hat a great crowd OF police officers was pres,
ent IN ,o,t n,nety had been subpoeraed who had
ina ma Convicted by the Board OF Police Commission
er S o FOR which they had been convicted were I'M
mentionable and unnamabie II the ninety pres pres
81 81 the law upon the force. want to congratulate
me police Of the city upon the showing Hard IN.
calling 1900 strong with but per cent going wrong
in several wears The showing IS spence ioI I .nt
r .1s darnabe indeed for the Police Commissioners
and the Mayor who hold them in power unchai-
In my hour at the investigation heard much ev;
;ence read upon when 9icerS were hier ~
,nyiry during my stay denied under oath the
:ha' ssy5ence Mas sucen to convict them Of the
orences. which from clubbing 10 crimes IN
nama5.e Yet the uniform penalty seemed 10 be
fines u three or more days pay ana ,nen t ise
nsrurera and scOundre,s were again turned loose
md ouiet | was especially impressed with the bad
record Of one officer who the Tf
he various grades until from living on Tender
ion" as captain Of the Nineteenth Precinct, he
graduated inspector.
Ani the Mayor of this city. with the power Of APP
bower at least protest against such malfeasance
II office But has any heard of protest from
Rim concerning these wrongs upon the city by the
crsltures of his creation? II not. why not?
Look my people, to these men in high places who
from poverty and Obscurity grow suddenly rich
without any visible means OF support except their
salaries. and tell me Il II IL not time 10 ma OUT
where they got It, We II to God. TO the munich
Ia
make this kind OF thing odious All the great work
AZ DR. Parkhurst and all the investigation OF the
ieyow Committee VIII be lost II IL fails 70 awaken
Indignation white hot against these abuses ani
against the cuthroatS and ROBBERS VINO fdtien upon
perjury and backmaN
You have no right TO be so busy attending 10 your
own business that the public business can have
none OF your attention. You must remember that
YOU first Christians, next patriotic citizens, ana
then men % private business. The patriots OF lao
mad small reason for revolution as compared with
The outraEes in this municipality in any week for
the las; years. and yet with their smaller
ground u complaint they sacrificed every personal
AMI private interest ana plunged into a war OF
eigh; years But good citizens OF New-iOrk can
moi for the public good even serve upon a jury
scarcely 20 10 an election. Louis KOssuth. when in
mis- country. said in the old Broadway Tabernacle:
"If shipWreck should ever befal your country, the
rock upon which il will split will be your devotion
70 your private interests at the expense OF your
dirty 70 the State Citizens of New-IOrk. We are
living in the midst Of that hazard now. Ye older
men may have become too much accustomed 70 the
selfish chains cast them of but call upon these
young men by the love OF God and country rise
and throttle this monster II il beggars you or lays
YOU in martyrs graves. Mothers sisters, young
women | call upon you 70 help fire the hearts OF
Young manhood 70 the work OF wping from the face
OF our fair city the accumulated shame of fostering
rotennesi gathered under Tammany rule and rulers.