The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1900-10-19

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which there were four of these
places recently. Do you want
your children exposed to such in
fluences? Does even the average
Tammany man want his children
exposed to these inhunces? No.
Why then do they exist? Some one
is making money out Of it. Tam
many dare not shut down on this
kind of tribute and allow Others to
exist. Well do | remember going
into "cider saloon" just off the
upper end of the Bowery in gath
ersng material for this article. Its
name was ssThe Name. A doz-
en- mattresses were there. A rel
alive of the proprietor of the place
brought in a three-year-old little
girl, gorgeously arrayed. They
put her on a table.
"Do as they do on Allen street,
Rosa" was the request. The lit
lie child Kissed through her teeth,
winked her eye, tossed her head
backward, while the inmates and
habitues of the place went into
shrleks of laughter. No more pit.
iful exhibition of unconscious child
depravity was ever given. The
police protect that place as they
do scores of others on the East
Side. One man could stop it all
if he would.
CHILDREN ARE HEAY SUFFERERS.
Take another phase of the ter
rible penalty children are paying
for the wide-open town. On the
authority of a man closely associ
ated with work in dispensaries and
the like | am able to say there is
scarcely an institution of this kind
in town, especially on the East
Side, whose officers have not been
shocked in the last year by an e.
normous increase in crimes against
children, of the most inhuman and
depraved character. One can
only hint at matters of this kind,
and yet can state it as fact that
so grave, so shocking, SO over
whelming had this matter become,
that one of the best-known philan-
throplsts of this city, man whose
name is known in business circles
the world over, a man whose
wealth is measured by millions,
and the kindness of whose heart is
limited only by his ability to do
good deeds in a sensible way, a
man whose name stands for the
highest probity in New York city,
had to go to Police Headquarters
and solemnly protest against this
matter. He did it without the
least ostentation. His heart was
wrung with the knowledge of what
had been revealed in the dispens-
aries, especially Jewish dispenser
les, and with Indignation his voice
rang out, not for mercy, not for
pity, but for Justice to the inno-
cent sufferers of the wide-open
town. Some of the Tammany Hall
leaders know who this man was.
They can give his name if they
will. Devery and New York both
know it. What scene in civil
lied community! A millionaire,
business man known on two CONT
nents, philanthropist, whose
spare time is given up to doing all
the good he can, begging the Tam
many Hall police to see that at
least the children are spared in the
money-gleaning from the harvest
OF crime.
POLICE COURTS REVEAL TAMMANY's
GUILT.
Come now to the police courts
for proof of the degeneracy of the
town and what it costs. Here are
definite fgures-hgures that York,
Devery, Van Wyck, or any other
man, cannot dispute or pretend to
controvert. The report of the city
magistrates for 1899 published re-
Gently is eloquent with facts that
show Tammany's alliance with
crime and the easy conscience with
which crime is allowed to exist.
The arrests for the year 1899 were
1894 fewer than in the year 1898,
the total for 1899 being 98,917.
The number of males arrested
was 77,127, and the number of fe-
males was 21.79o. Compared
with the previous year, there was
a decraace n, the number IF roa1ac