Cañon City record., 1900-11-01
Facts About the Organization Which Mr..
Bryan Considers Worthy Of Especial
Honor and Commendation
What wide Open Town" is Like Under Democrats Role
and Example Of What Other Places May Expect Should
Tammany Become Influential in the Nation
as ii Now Is in New York City

inmates and habitues Of the place went
into shrieks of laughter No more pitt
full exhibition OF unconscious child de-
pravity was ever given. The police
protect that place as they do scores of
others on the East Side. One man
could stop 1t ail, II he would.
Children Are Heavy Sufferer.
Take another phase OF the terrible
penalty children are paying for the
wide-open town. On the authority Of a
man closely associated with work
in dispensaries and the like,
am able to say that there Is 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 enormous
increase in crimes against children. of
the most inhuman and deprayed- char
acter. One can only hint at matters of
this kind, and yet l can state 1t MS n
fact that so grave, so shocking, so over
whelming had this matter become, that
one of the best known philanthropiats
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
0O kOou oCtu6 liz IL StubiUit way - utNu
whose name stands for the highest pro-
bity In New York city, had to go to
police headquarters and solemn1y pro-
test against this matter. He did It with
out ostentation. His heart was wrung
with the knowledge OF what had been
revealed In the dispensaries, especially
Jewish dispensaries, and with indtKna-
tion his voice rang out not for mercy,
not for pity, but for Justice To the ins
nocent sufferers from wide-open
town. Some of the Tammany Hall
leaders know who that man was. They
can give his name II they will. Devery
and York know 1t. What a scene in a
civilized community! A millionaire,
business man known on two conti-
nents, .phIlanthropIst, whose spare
time is given up to doing all the good
he can, begging the Tammany Hall
police to see that at least the children
are spared In the money cleaning from
the harvest of crime!
Nor does cost of this money harvest
stop here ! went up to the Outdoor
Poor Department of New York city's
charities, and an official there, whose
name l do not give because 1t would
get him into trouble and who gave me
the Information unsuspectingly. said to
me frankly that within two years there
had been a great increase In abhorrent
diseases among children, especially
those relating to the skin; that there
had been fully a twenty per cent. In
crease In what are known us a pecul-
lar kind of abandonment cases; that
the number OF wronged young women,
especially from the Bohemians and
Russians on the East Side, was reach
ing alarming proportions. This official
he was one high In nuthority-gave
me these figures as samples: For the
six months ending September 80, 1880,
the city paid out SIG, ,191 .63 In a certain
kind Of abandonment cases. For the
six months ending March 81, 1900, the
amount paid in the same cases was
SIT 7,994.S3. I went to Randalls Island
to investigate the report that there had
been great increase In chlldren's
cases that would be the direct result Of
alarming moral conditions on the East
Side. The books up there, like the
books OF most of the city's institutions,
do not present summaries. They are
what might be called mere day-book
entries. An enormous amount of
searching would be necessary to dis
cover what the books really show, and.
therefore, l am compelled to fall back
upon what the Tammnny official who
gave the figures l have Just quoted
toiu IHc- ADOtnnr OII1ciul In the great
dispensary at Bellevue hospital, where
the poor are treated free, told me that
certain public officials had sent up
there asking If 1t were tue that there
had been an increase In cases OF young
women who have suffered the most un-
fortunate penalty Of indiscretion that
can come to any one. The clerks were
willing to hunt up the data. The re-
quest was sent to the higher officials,
30 this one told me. and there was n
conference about It The result was
that the men who were seeking that
kind Of Information were told TINT
they had better look for some other
kind Of statistics.
f1omicides Increase Three-Fold In
Ten Years.
Now take another grade Of police sta
tistics and see whether Tammany Hail
Is really costing actual flesh and blood,
Here is the record OF arrests for horni-
cides for ten years back: 1880. 90; 1890.
81; 1891, 98; 1892, 01; 1893, i3D; 1894.
134; 1895, 1914; 1893, ITS; 1897, 21e:
1898, POI; 1900; 277. In ten Year, there
has been a threshold increase IN thig
grade Of crime. VIII any ONE say that
TAmmany rule does mot cali for human
victims to an undue excess7 II human
life a. safe as II Waaf The Marek IN