The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1894-11-12

KICKING The. TIGER
Dr.. Scudder breaches on the
Lessons Of the Recent
Election.
GREAT PRAISE FOR PARKHURST
Other Ministers Discuss the Result
of the Balloting : Services
Throughout the City
Yesterday.
GREAT PRAISE FOR PARKHURSI

The Rev. John L. Scudder delivered a
vigorous sermon ON politics last night to
a large congregation. The Pastor named
his discourse. "A Tiger Talk" He said:
Last Tuesday marked a new era in
American politics. 1t proved to the
world the possibility of municipal re-
generation in these United States. Many
doubted this and had given themselves
over to political despair, but this over
whelming moral revolution in New York
city has inspired the people. with new
faith in Republican institutions and the
ability of righteousness to defeat rowdy-
ism at the polls. The influence of this
remarkable upheaval will be felt for "a
century.
Very fitting was it that the battle
royal should have been fought in New
York, the leading city of the Union. New
York sets the fashions for the Western
Hemisphere, and if this great metropo-
lis could cast off it's mammoth load of
corruption. every city in America can
cleanse itself with much less expendi-
ture of effort If New York could lay
low the great Tammany Tiger, surely
other municipalities can destroy the
smaller political clubs that worry them.
1t is now an assured fact that any de-
Spotic ring can be shattered whenever
the people are in earnest and really try
to assert their sovereignty. It is now
demonstrated that municipal misrule is
not an incurable cancer, as some declar-
ed; it is only a temporary collie, brought
on by carelessness and cured by a little
prompt attention.
ALL DUE TO PARKHURST.
''The signal victory of last week was
due in large measures to one man-Dr.
Charles H. Parllhurst. Today he is the
most interesting figure in both politics
and religion. Two years ago a man more
foully m%aligned could not be found i'll
these United States. He was the target
for low jests in barrooms and variety
theatres. Even the elect pitied his rash
ness and shook their heads. If he had
been a weaker man, the Tiger would
nave swallowed him without the formal
ity of chewing; but being a spiritual
giant, he hurled a javelin that sent the
beast into a death agony. People talk
of erecting a to Dr.. Park
hurst. I hope they will, but his own
fearlessness and independence, his patti.
hatred of evil, are qualities Of character
which have already built him a nlonu-
ment SO high as to be visible from every
part of this country. OF course, a vari-
q change of government in New York
city, but without doubt DR.. Parkhurst
was the prime mover in this reform
movement. If the Lexow Committee
NOH4ALC0 NAES 6oS y I@S -
Parkhurst lit the fire.
THE PRESS GREAT HE'LL.
Next to this heroic man, we must
compliment the great newspapers which
took SO active a part in this glorious
battle for law and order. Justice com
pels us to speak of them in terms of
highest admiration. What a tremendous
agency for good the secular press has
been in the recent electioni How would
this victory have been accomplished
without their prodigious activity AMI
worldwide circulation; their ability to
stir up public sentiment? We are . q
reading people, and public opinion is
If they range themselves against an
evil and commence to bombard it, it is
doomed. Every squib is a bullet, every
editorial a %broadside. If during the
pest few weeks the secular press has not
lone genuine religious work, then I
don't know what religion is. Well may
pulpit and press shake hands over this
triumphant victory.
And now, in the midst of this intoxi-
cation of delight. a caution may. not
come amiss. People shout. We did it!'
and talk loudly about the death Of the
Tiger, but let them not deceive them
selves. Tamrnany may be defeated with
out being destroyed; say the animal
is severely wounded, but not d~efunct:
if not carefully watched it will crawl off
to the jungle to continue its deadly
work. Now that the election is over,
there is greater temptation for the peo-
pie to go to sleep again for a dozen or
more years and awake only when this
same tiger puts his teeth into their flesh
let every lover of his country be per-
manentiy awake and regard his political
duties as an important and indispensa-
bic part of his religion"