New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1896-03-24
PARKHURST-S PLAIN WORDS.
HE SPEAKS OF THE RAINEs AND CONSOLE
DATION BILLS.

IN HIS LECTURE IN THE PLYMOUTH CHChCh
BROOKLYN HE DECLARES HE WOULD
BREAK THE TEN COMMANDMENTS IL
THEY HAD BEEN RUSHED
THROUGH AS THE FORMER
MEASURE WAS.
The Rev. DR.. Charles H. Parkhurst lectured on
the New Spirit of Civic Reform before Inc
Municipal Reform League. in Plymouth Nnuie"
Brooklyn last evening The first part OF MS auuieSS
largely directed to the Raines BILL.
There is" he said, "a National as well as al III
dvidua damnatlon. 1t is not foreign in'"s
that have fear, but an Internal rot ~,
disclosures In New-York have shown Hsresa'o
for constituted authority which taints the pooy po
itic and like the human body 1t can s'ahu Jus
so smuch and more. When that line y pd9
the question will be not OF recovery pu' VI " go,
ton. do not mean that every one IS q Id" -"
err but that people do not feel bad 10 'e"'" ""'
others are aw-breaking. For Instance there 10 a
law to close liquor stores here on Suhua''' ""u
they are open. / believe and how much s''ep ~
the average citizen lose the fact
IF were the Mayor OF Brooklyn. and there ""'
a law prohibiting tho sale OF liquor upon "uiu''
I would bring every available force to bear 10 en-
force the law even II l made Brooklyn 100 "o'
TO live In and had to go out under escort
Speaking OF the condition of New-fork ne sa''
.1 do NOT care what the views OF the Police COM
missioners OF New-York may be any more ina"
do of a boy hire 10 shovel off the snow from NY
sidewalk The city hired them to close the "tuo.
stores on Sunday and they have done much IN 'ha'
direction" &C.,
"Writ.ng on Saturday night said II the "o'-
ernor of this State signs the Raines bin IL SHOWS
that he has sacrificed the State TO personal a"o'
,,or p.rsona,ly | would rather vote ten times
over were II possible for any honest pe'"o.'r
rather than / would vote for a man J suspec'eu Vi
sacrificing the pubic veal 10 his private hg
II the ten commandments had been Jdll,heu ~ w. al
az Tho Raines hill has I would break thc" a'i'
prolonged applause , ...,,,h h.couse the
The Ra mes bill was rushed through 49, - =,
legislators feared that the tide OF opposit'" 49,
woud become so strong that they ~ou;u mo- u. :,
10 face IT, These rascals ought to be ol.ia, in Tho
and quarered. and there are many iS sat- who are
eastern and western parts OF the 1t"''
ready 10 do the drawing and quarlerins a., eco-
"The Greater NewYork bal Is so lar Ss,n'iie 4,
mace 10 speak upon 1t. 1t brisiies' no~eNet "an
n oral differences | say spea,kihs ron co'ossal mis-.
lake to have this bill. passed now ~ a.. ysars
Ncw-York was fostering with disease Nv dsscsr,
ago but II is now beginning TO be halfway y. "a
,ov'r II IL Is let alone, and not interrupted an,
thrown into confusion. there IL chHnNa !, b,s
viii become remarkable FOR decenSy a. asny s
back and force Us to begin the work oil reuee''"h
it aSbn: the people really want down here is no,
an item in the account II Is SAID that iIdt' anu
the stitesmer who jump In his Albany iuhch anu
Judy don't to whether II is iQ p Wv 'I'ia
or not for the plums that are IN inc c' a.
lion budding The consolidation measure should De
first put before in condition IN "hich II can De
understood and II they put the bill through IN JUS
nresent state we will have to organize frank cru
SADIE against such Assemblymen as nave )amihei
the measure through. | am not pleading asaihs,
maj its foundations need 10 be laid In truth ana
righteousness