The Red Cloud chief., 1894-04-20

. h"s' "eI, you say, II I'M going
take q long walk up Broadway and Z
: turn around into the Bowery. lam u
ing to study human life" Good. .
walk through Broadway at 8 o'clock q
night is interesting, educating, fascina,
ing, appalling, exhilarating to the las
degree. Stop in front of that theate
and see who goes in. Stop at that salooI
and see who comes ont. Sec the grea
tides OF life surging backward and for
ward and beating against the marble o
the curbstone and eddying down int
the saloons. What is that mark on tn
face Of that debauchcep II il the hectic
flesh Of eternal death. What Is tina
woman's laughter? 1t is the shrek Of
lost soul.
Who is that Christian man goin,
along with q vial Of anodyne TO the dy
ing pauper on Elm street, Who is tina,
belated man on the way to q prayer
meeting? Who is that city missionary
going to take a box in which to bury
child? Who are all these clusters OF
bright and beautiful faccs9 They are 20.
ing to some interesting place of amuse.
ment
Who is that man going into the drug
store? That is the man who yesterday
lost all his fortune on Wall street. He Is
going In for q dose OF belladonna, and
before morning il will make no differ.
ence to him whether stocks are up or
down. ! tell you that Broadway, be.
tween z and ~ O'Clock at night, between
the Battery and Central Park, is an Aus.
~terlits, a Gettysburg, a Waterloo, where
Kingdoms are lost or won and three
worlds mingle in the strife.
LIES DARK SIDE.
! meet another coming down off the
hotel steps. and I say. Where are you
going!" You say: II am going with a
merchant Of New York who has prom.
ised to show me the underground life Of
che city. am his customer, and he Is
going to oblige mo very much" Stop!
A business house that tries to get or keep
your custom through such u process ms
that is not worthy of you. There are
business establishments in our cities
which have for years been sending to
destruction hundreds and thousands OF
merchants. They have a secret drawer
in the counter where money is kept, and
the clerk goes and gets Il when he wants
to take these visitors to tho city through
the low slums Of the place.
Shall ! mention the names OF some OF
these great commercial establishments?
+! have them on my lips. Shall II Per.
haps ! had better leave 1t to the young
who In That process have been de.
stroyed themselves while they have been
destroying others. ] care not how high
sounding the name Of a commercial ca.
Establishment IL II proposes to get custom.
ers or to keep them by such q process az
that Drop their acquaintance. They
Will cheat You before you get through.
They will send you n style Of goods diff.
ferent from that which you bought by
sample. They will give you under
weight There will be in the package
half dozen less pairs of suspenders than
you paid for. They will rob you. Oh,
you feel in your pockets and say, us my
money gomez" They have robbed you OF
for which dollars and cents
can never give You compensation.
When n Of these western merchants
has been dragged by one Of those com.
agents through the slums Of the
city, he Is not fit to go home. The mere
memory Of what he has seen will be
moral pollution. I think You had better
Iot the city missionary and tho police at.
END to tho exploration Of New York and
underground life. You do not 60 TO a
smallpox hospital for the purpose Of ex.
ploration. You do not go there because
you are afraid Of contagion. And vet
7ou go into tho presence Of a moral len.
'osy that is as much more dangerous to
ron a. the death Of the soul is worse
nan the death Of the body. will un.
to say that nine.tenths OF tho
men who have been ruined in our cities
ave been ruined by simply going to OBJ.
r without any idea of participating.
hef fact Is that underground city life il
hithy, Tuning. rocking, pestiferous
Iepth which blasts the eye that looks at I
l. In the reign Of terror In 1909 in ,
arts people escaping from the officers :
! tho law got into the sewers Of the
ny n crawled and walked through q,
lilies OF that awful labyrinth, stifed !
nth the atmosphere and almost dead. a
or them, when they came ont TO 8
river Seine, where they washed :
lemselves and again breathed the fresh :
II. But l have to tell you that q great a
iany OF the men who go on the work of :
kploration through the underground :
ntters OF New York life never come out .
any Seine river where they can wash ;
I the pollution of the moral sewage.
tranger, il II of the representatives q
q commercial establishment proposes y
a X you and show you the sights" 3
h town and underground New York. r
y to him, please. sir. what part do !;
~ propose to show me?" =
EXPLORING Till sLuMs. 4,
About 10 years ago rs a minister OF @
'liglon l felt l had a divine commission d
explore the iniquities of our cities. l "
a no ask counsel Of my session or nv d
'esbytery or Of the newspapers, but O
king tho companionship OF three a
COMMENT police officials and two OF the $,
ders OF my church l unrollod my com. o.
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