The herald., 1897-01-23
NEITHER DEAD NOR ASLEEP
Parkhurst Society Is Yet Above
Its CaIumniators
MORE CASES TO BE TRIED
All the Evidence Claimed Is Safely In
Hand
The Society and the Directors of Simp-
sons Tabernacle Are Indignant
at the Morning Hoodoo.

A few people in Los Angeles are de-
luding themselves with the idea that
the Parkhurst society is dead, basing
their conclusions on the fact that of
late there has been lull in the crusade's
prosecutions With too many of these
self -deluded people the wish is father
to the thought; but if wishing, hoping
and cursing could have had any deter
rent effect upon the socety's war on
vice. there never would have been any
interference with those who deemed
themselves secure in the violation of
the municipal laws. The Parkhurst So
ciety is not dead, and as The Herald
learned yesterday from the most au-
thoritative source, is not even sleeping
The work of fastening guilt upon those
who disregard the ordinances is going
right on, Notwithstanding the opposi-
ton of those directly aimed at and the
guerilla warfare waged by the Los An
geles Times upon the ministers who
have undertaken the work of reform.
The cause of the Times vicious at
tack upon the chairman OF the investi-
eating committee of the Parkhurst So
ciety, Rev. DR.. c. C. Mclean, has al
ready been explained in these columns
The editor of that paper has not the
manliness-if he is sufficiently inde
pendent--to give the pastor or his
friends a chance to reply through the
same medium, for every utterance of
DR.. Mclean and the members of the
garbled and distorted before 1t sees the
light of day in that papers pages. The
attempt OF the directors of Simpson
tabernacle to deny the Times story Of
DR.. McLeans enforced retirement from
the pastorate was thwarted by some
editorial pencil in the Times office MAX
ing the gentlemen say things they had
not thought of saying and suppressing
entirely their real utterances.
The Times has never said that men,
bers of the official board of Simpson tab
ernacle denounced as an unqualified
lie the story it printed about opposition
in the church to DR.. Mclean, and yet
certain directors so expressed them
selves in the editorial rooms of that
paper
AS result of the Times malicious
personal attack upon DR.. Mclean and
its falsehoods concerning the church.
large number of church members and
other Christians having expressed their
disapproval in a substantial way. They
have ceased to read and patronize a
paper that has convicted itself of be-
ing an opponent Of law and morality,
and more will follow their example
At the meeting of the Parkhurst So
ciety last Monday resolutions were
agreed upon denouncing in unmeasured
terms the conduct of the Times and its
editor-the paper as a lying defender
of immortality and its editor as a ma
licious double-dealer, and recommend
ing all good citizens to show their dis
approval of its course by disseminating
their patronage.
DR.. Mclean will say nothing more
at present for publication. He says he
and his motives are now in the hands
of his friends. While he retains the
craftsmanship of the committee, all in
formation about the society must come
through others for the time being. He
will not be led into fight with his de-
tractors.
The active spirits of the Parkhurst
crusade yet hope as a result of their
labors to see the saloon laws of Los
Angeles formed after those of certain
other cities, where no screens, NO pri-
vate rooms. no music and no free lunch
or other allurements are permitted in
places where liquor is sold, and thus do
away with some of the most vicious
features of the places The Herald is
convinced by the best possible proof
that the Parkhurst society has the
great amount of evidence the committee
has been claiming to possess, and also
that the prosecutions are going to be
renewed as soon as some legal prelim-
inaries are arranged.