New-York tribune., 1897-10-11
CITY FIGHT PURELY.
OUTSIDE PROPOSITIONS HAVE NO PLACE
IN IT.
NO YIELDING TO THE FANcIED SUPERIORITY o7
WASHINGTON OR ALBANY-sERMoN BY
PRESIDENT sTRYKER N DIR.
PARKHURsT's CHURCH.

PARKHURsT's CHURCH.
At the Madison Square Presbyterian Church yes
terday morning the Rev. Or. Melancthon Wooisey
Stryker president of Hamilton College. had some
impressive things to say with reference to the ac-
ton Of those politicians who are low engaged IN
trying to make the people Of New-York believe
that National issues the ones most az stake
in the municipal election OF next month. DR..
Stryker will occupy the pulpit of Dr. Parkhursrs
church every Sunday this month.
Among the things that DR.. Stryker said TO his
large audience, and which will prove OF Interest 10
the voters Of this city, the following
our Christian duties and our civil are not sep
arate. A cannot be good on his right hand
and rad on his left. In this country We are the
rulers Government Is partnership, and ou'
governors are simply executive committee ap-
poin Ted for the sake Of convenience Consequently
a man Is as much called upon to aIn,ain the law
as to mind 1t, and high principles toward God are
the lest equipment for leaders and the best en-,
dowment OF patriots IL IL to be remernDered by an
citizens that the severa parts cannot be immoral
and the whole moral. and that absolute secuarisin
Wholly ,mpersonal and Irresponsible since this
world is not in the last analysis democratic. God
The paramount concern of each community s
its own public morals and Its homes. The welfare
of the civil and the domestic bound together
like the strands OF cable. The tendency Of our
times is toward cities. and 1t IS obviously one OF
the perils of the times. AT the beginning o. tns
century on,y one-thrtieth of our population lived
in cities The close Of the century finds one-thirl
of the population so living. Great rewards beckon
great rascals to the cities. Men living In politics
for revenue only are the increase in cities. our
deprecate and deplore. Unless we wish to dee
gate permanently TO base men. bound hand and
foot this land the cities must be rescued for the
whole is only the sum OF all the parts.
True public spirit begins az home, and 1t takes axes
more public spirit to be Il faithful Alderman than
to be a United States senator To surrender the
impartiality of citizenship 10 the fanced support
to the less This Is era for speaking straight
out The beginning of wisdom s found in 10 al
equity It is fact that moral aziness Is the arch
enemy OF municipal reform Al decent pcopc
agree that city should be run on business princi'
pies and that rings its ruin. but few are win
give the time needfui to cleanse the cesspool
be pessimist than 20 wipe out the tigers air.
Let remember that II Is better to be good than
10 be- fat. Unless this city wishes TO make an eX-
hbiton Of It's moral nakcdness II must renounce
NewYork ought not tc be manned in its cradle
and Tat its possibilities ought to rejoice rather
than Having under tine recent administration
done much flushing OF the sewers. VIII the men
OF Manhattan consent to have them filed again
Have they not had enough OF the demdgoSue? Will
the men who good citizenship yet allow the
There are only two parties in this and in other
cities the bad and the good for the houses of the
bad are all connected In the Easements You are
10 decide which party is to prevail New York
skirts and paste diamonds. Honest y. ] believe
that yorr next election has more to DO than your
last with the morals Of this whole Nation OF ours.
The usurpaticn % the city by outside contingen-
cces will be the ruin Of the city by the fancied s
poriority of Washington or Albany.
The appeal * to the people. II Is an august hour.
Meet II 70 be able to say. We have strong
city" The demon Of stolen patronage can prom
ise anything Let conscience stand Ike Gibraltar
at the straits OF this complicated time. There
has come another Gettysburg I'm American history.
hy and for the people Is not rhetorical fancy. but
an inperishab'c. inyulnerab.c fact.