La Junta tribune., 1900-11-03
Facts About the Organization Which Mr..
Bryan Considers Worthy Of Especial
Honor and Commentator.
What wide Open Town" Liz Under Democratic Rue
and Example Of What Other Places May Expect Should
Tmmany Become as Influential IN the Nation
q ii Now is IN New York City

inmates and habitues of the place went
into shrieks Of laughter. No more piti-
full exhibition ef unconscious child de-
pravity was ever given. The police
protect that place as they do scores se
othsrs ON the East Side. One man
could stop 1t all. II he would
chiIarsa Are Heavy Ssfessers.
Take another phase Of ths terrible
penalty children are paying for the
wide-open town. On the authority Of
man closely associated with work
In dispensaries and the like.
am able to say that thoFp = scarce
ly an institution Of this Kind in
town, especially ON the East Side,
whose officers have not been shocked
within the last year by an enermous
increase In crimes against children. Of
the most inhuman and deprayed char
actsr. OAs can only hint At matters Of
this kind, and yet I can STATE it rs
fact that 20 grave, 70 shocking. - over
whslnIng had this matter beeene, that
enc of the best known philanthfopists
OF this city, 4 man whose name Is
known In business circles the world
over, q man whose wealth 10 measured
by millions. and the kindness Of whose
heart 10 limited only by his ability To
do good deeds In u sensible way. . man
whose name stands for the highest pro-
bity In New York city, had to 60 to
police headquarters and solemnly pro-
test against this matter. He did Il with
out ostentatlen. His heart was Wrung
with the knowledge OF what had been
revealed in the dispensariea, especially
Jewish dispensaries, and with indigna-
tion his voice rang out, not for mercy,
not for pity. but for Justice t. tha In
nocent sun erers from . wide0pen
town. Some OF the TammaDy Han
leaders know who that man was. They
can give his name IL they win. DeveFy
and York know It. What q scene In q
civilized community! A millionaire, q
business man known on two conti-
nents. q philanthropist. whose spare
time II given mp to doing all the goed
he can. begging the Tammany Han
police to see that at least the children
are spared In the money cleaning frum
the harvest of crime!
Nor does cost OF this money harvest
stop here. l went up to the OutDoeGs
Poor Department Of New York city,B
charities. and an oEilcial there, whn9e
name do not give because II wsu3a
get him into trouble and who gave ~
the Information unsuspecfingly. said -
me frankly that within two yean thGEN
had been q great increase In abhosfonE
diseases among children, especially
those relating to the akin; that th1Eo
had been fully q twenty per cent n
crease In what are known as q pecul-
lar kind Of abandonment cases; thnt
the number Of wronged young womon,
especially from the Bohemiana a11
Russians on the East Side, was reach.
ing alarming proportions. This o6icial
--he was one high In Ruthority-RAyB
me these figures as samples: For De
six months ending September 80. 10oo.
the city paid out SIC, 191 90 In certain
kind OF abandonment cases For tha
six months ending March 81, 1900, tha
amount paid In the same cases WnD
SIT .9o4.S3. I went to Randalls hland
TO investigate the report that there haa
been . great increase In chIldrens
cases that would be the direct result -
alarming moral conditions on the East
Side. The books up there. like IL
books OF most Of the city.s institutionn.
what might be cxlled mere day-book
entries. An enormous amount a.
searching would be necessary to d..
cover what the books really show, ar.
therefore. / am compelled to fall haek
upon what the Tammany o61eial who
| gave the figures I have Just Quotan
told me. Another of3ciAl In the Rranf
dispensary ut Bellevue hospital, whero
the poor are treated free, told me that
certain public ofncials had cent -
there aoking II Il were true that thas0
had besn N increase In cases OF year
women who have suffered the most =.
fortunate penalty Of indiscretion TIT
can come to any one. The clerks yeF0
willing to hunt up the data. The ~
quest was sent to the higher otlcaalG
- this one told me, and there waa y
conference about Il. The result wea
that the men who were seeking ~
kind Of Information were told d.
they had better look for some otheR
kind Of statistics.
issMiei1ss lneFeaoe Thess-EeaA =
! Tea Yeaea.
| Now take another grade Of police -
tisttcs and see whether Tammany Ha1n
II really costing actual Aesh and hloc2
Here b the record o1 arrests for he1N
ci0ao mr. ten yeaFS back: lN6D. 90: ~
q: 1&D1, -; 1eo2, o.: 1o0a, l30; l0DI
IA; 11e4 10l; 1oD& 170; 1Gu7. 20:
1ec4 "a: 1eoo: x77. n ~ yeass o.
hos 6oea . thres-Hes1 lne1lase 8 ~
k0zn11 e eEiAA WIN an0 one say g.
XA1env rule 0ees ~ cau fer ku1I1
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