Evening journal., 1895-01-01


view which we have been brought to oc-
cupy in respect to him. We have had no
selfish object to snbserve. We have given
to the committee the benefit Of our work
and the resources Of our office We knew
the inwardness Of the department before
some OF the rural members of the com
mitteee were probably aware that we had
a police force We have had opportunities
in our three years warfare of ascertaining
the true complexion Of matters such as
has been impossible to the committee, not
withstanding all their fidelity. | should
have supposed, IL they had the disposition
to make thorough and earnest with the
matter, they would have conferred with us
would have gone in a careful and detail
ed way through the long fight that we
have been waging and won from us the
outlook we have 30 expensively gained.
They have sought nothing Of the kind,
nor did they allow for the examination Of
Mr. Byrnes sufficient time to avail Of any
such disclosures even il they had secured
them.
The Lie Direct.
"Byrnes hated us and kept tab on us
and tried to make us contemptible in
public esteem by showing that our agent
was levying blackmail, which, as shown
by the Loxow committee was precisely
what his agents were doing and precisely
what we are Obliged to presume he knew
his agents were doing
within three days of the attack on
Gardner, our chief agent, he struck our
society another blow by trying to discredit
its president. Unless all the newspapers
Of that date lied, he called together the re-
porters and in terms of unrestrained Bit
terness published to the world mass Of
blackguardism touching the motives Of
my work, the base impulses that inspired
it, all of which was solid and contempti-
bic falsehood. am writing this without
animosity, but he lied all the same, and
the object of the lie was to break the pow
er that / was exercising against the vi.
| ciousness of his department.
He even perpetrated a vilo sneakine
| insinuation against my church by saying
| that he knew of well trodden path
that conducted from my vestibule to a dis
reputable resort. For low lived vicious
ness that taunt is easily entitled to thI
| prize, for ho has since conceded that thai
| path was trodden by one individual, anS
he in no proper sense a member Of mn
congregation, and the business card o
that individual party has come into m,
1 pbaccahlOu lIuIil D1Iutb OWu uibun-
"Our agents, acting in tho legitimat
discharge Of their duties as representative
of q society chartered by the state, wer
mobbed year and more ago by the tough
and thugs that sprang to the relief Of Nh
Byrnes and his department when W
pressed them uncomfortably at the Esse.
market police court. The papers mex
morning were full of the details Of tn
outrage, but Mr.. Byrnes. on examination
was unable to discover that any outrag
had been committed necessitating actio
on his part, and in that way official an
nouncement was made that the agents q
our society need not look for official pre-
lection and were to be considered as legit
mate prey.
An Enemy of Long Standing.
NOW, that is Byrnes He is the ma
that we have had steadily in our eye fc
three years. and he has had us just g
steadily in his eye. As the communit
knows, our work has meant nothing br
the overthrow of misrule in this city
Byrnes has known that as well as tn
public, and yet he has fought us. Nov
why has not the senatorial committe,
through its counsel, made themselves Fl
miliar with these mattersg We have urge
prior to the senatorial investigation
was knowing Of the rottenness of the p
lice force
, He either was, or he was not If
was and still kept his mouth shut, he WI
unspeakably vile and If he was not
was unspeakably an imbecile. Now, WI
, did not the committee insist that M
Goff, in his characteristic manner shou
broil Mr. Byrnes on that bifurcate dileI
MAJ / am nothing but minister, but
| / had been a lawyer of MIR. Goif's ability
would have put Byrnes ON that testii
/ iron, and l would have guaranteed
broil out Of him all of his official reput
+ bility inside of one days session, provide
Of course, the committee would have
lowed me to do so.
let me state in conclusion that ha
, no interest in this matter save profoui
. and passionate desire to see work that
a thorough. If Mr.. Byrnes, with charactt
: Of the yoke, says that he has been so han
Z icapped as to be practically powerless
l. want to say that all such excuse is eyasi
q and cowardly.
n I'VE are not prowling for promotion n
S burning for popularity, but the Socie
/ For the Prevention Of Crime was here
8 fore the senate committee came down a
y viii be here after the senate commit
a has gone back and the uncompromisi
n line that we have followed in the past "
Z be the line that we shall Just as studioi
10 ly and unswervingly follow in the future
"a "JeaIousy,p Says Lexow.