Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1894-10-16
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The moral fotlounsss Of the "nnelt
police force Ia the world" has been
exposed In rs loalhsgms details during
the past few weeks before the Lsx1w
investigating committee In Now York,
and the work OF unvoillng IL still
going on. The brutal character Of
many Of the mon to whon is entrusted
the duty Of preserving and represent
ing law and order In the great msifop-
oils was shown Ia the TACT that a
whole army Of those officers were
attaignei Tor assault upon peaceful
citizens. They seem 10 have used
their clubs merely Tor the pleasure u
gave them, ani were kept on the force,
notwithstanding the complaints made
against them from time to time.
Besides this. regular system of bribo'
taking IL shown 10 have beoni In vogue.
Persons carrying on legitimate bust.
ness had 10 share tho profits with the
police In order 10 avoid being hHraased
In various ways, and owners OF places
OF iniamy OF various Minds escaped
prosecution by paying the police frgu-
lar contributions. Tho money thus Oh.
tanned was divided between the men
aud some Of their superiofs. Every
day during tho remarkable hearing
new discoveries ~ shooking nature
have been brought 10 light
Probably the most sensational yet 10
the announcement by the New YORK
World, on what thst paper con.
siiors good authority that those
Interested In tue clntisuation Of the
corruption have actually gone to the
length Of Offering Mf. John Col, ooun.
sci fer the Lexow committee, large
sums Of money for Withdrawing ifom
the case. Thestory goes that that able
was approached by high
official and offered go, 900
10 give up the Investigation. Later,
" hen II became evident that the
soaTohlight was TO be thrown upon the
stage evan behind the police depart.
meut aud higher up, he was, according
TO tue report, offered 100000. Both
Oilers were Indignantly refused. A,
last no was given 10 understand that u
he would accept the nomination for
mayor OF New York, he would be- en-
dorsed by rAmmAny hall. Again hV re-
fused and resolved, IL Is said, TO add
his testimony TO that OF this Others.
on the subject, Mr. G1n
refused 10 talk for publication, fact IN
itself rather susplciuuf; for II he had
not been approached at all with such
oilers, the most natural course would
have been to deny the rumor. Bu, an
intimate friend Of Nit. Gon did not
hesitate TO say that the Word would
not DO much mistaken Ia publishing
tho information.
ltishumilialing enough to oonttm.
plate n case Of total depmylly IA any
public servant In whom the ppOplc, by
virtue OF their own majesty, have
placed confidence. But II IL w1rse
alill, that such ind,scribible corruption
and deception ~ arc referred to are
part Of a machinery by which a whole
community is being manipulated
against ils own moral interests. lfsuoh
thugs are possible In one OF tho lafg-
est cities u the world, the metropolis OF
this country, once the God.given
refuge u men and women who He'd
from the corruption OF the Old World,
II 10 time to pause aud consider
remedy which shall be adequate to the
purifying the body polite from heal to
foot.
The struggle Of DIR. PArkhursl
against the iniquities OF New York
concerns the whole Republic, and the
fnal outcome Of II will be watched
with the grsatest Interest. The Ioal
question 10 whether the institutions OF
this country eau be used with im-
puulIy Tor the urtherEnce Of selhsh.
ness, greed and vice, or whether In.
diyiduals, who thus lay unholy hands
ON the sacred ark Of liberty, viii not a,
Last he smillen rs was ULEah st the
threshing iijor Of Nachon.
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IMPENDING CHANGE THERE, 700,