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ADDRESS OF BOLTON HALL.
Given Thursday Night Before the So
cial Science Association.

cial Science Association.
Bolton Hall, of New York, gave the
following address on Thursday evening
before the Social Science association, at
the Church of the Messiah. Bolton Hal
is the son of the late Rev. John Hall, of
New York, one of the most eminent d.
vines of the country. The subject of
the address is 1.-THE Crusade Against
the Vices of the Poor"
The Bishop of Delaware, Citrate of
Souls, told us the other day that
drunkenness among women had in
creased faster than temperance among
men, and proposed as a remedy new
prohibitive law to restrict the sales of
liquor to women; that is, to poor wo-
men. Bishop Potter told us that mu-
nicipal corruption has increased faster
than population, and proposed as a
remedy to awaken the interest of the
well-to-da classes in REFRESHING vice
among the poor that is to arouse the
interest against corruption of those who
are well-to-do, just because they profit
by the social system that breeds cor
ruption. t
DR.. Parkhurst told us that there is
only one mark in this shooting match
that is Tammany, and he shoots at
Tammany under the skirts Of prosti-
tutes. But Tammany is the majority
and its Suppression would be the
suppression Of the well organized null
titude by the i'll organized few.
Even were these ridiculous remedies
of we'll meaning men put in operation,
the most that could be hoped for would
be the suppression of the symptoms of
social disease. Where there is a con-
stant, pressing demand whether for Ii
qior or for the emoluments of political
influence, or for the qualification of the
passions, there is certain to be supply.
While the conditions under which the
vast majority of our fellow citizens live
prevent them from obtaining or pro-
hibit their enjoying better things than
drink or spoils or lust, the liquor and
the jobs and the "lost" women will be
sure to be found. And the mass of
those who profit by finding them will go
unpublished.
1t is useless to harry the dealers in IL
quor or to scatter those miserable wo-
the beneflciaries of political corruption,
because were we to suppress every one
of these to-day a fresh supply would
gather around the social sore to-mor-
row.
1t must be so, as long as suppressed
tastes, with the consequent demand for
liquor; as long as the fear Of want,
with the consequent thirst for riches;
as long as poverty, with the conseqent
impossibility of early marriages raise
up, on the one hand, supply of PAN
ders, heelers and prostitutes; and on
the other hand raise up masses of those
who through them, can crafty their
natural but repressed desires
And all this we try to cure with
"Crusades Against Vice" in others
with Reform" movements directed
against the defenceless, and with at
tacks upon political organizations till
we have awakened in the hearts of the
people an echo to the cry Of a political
carrion crow of ''to He'll with Reform"
These methods are wrong and the ex-
perience of more than three thousand
years has branded them with failure;
yet the educators, rulers and especially
the clergy, are the first to urge them
once again.
But said he whom the clergy en-
deavor to represent, II say unto you re-
sist not evil" Resist not evil! Nay! |
rather remove the cause The speaker |
has asked in little slum halls and al the |
tall of a cart many, many times, after |
describing to the people the condition |
of their streets, the large rents they |
pay, the tyranny to which they are sub
jected, and the absolute disregard of |
their rights by the police, what does
Tammany ever do that you should vote
for it?" And the universal answer
when one can get an answer, is, "Ciives
us job"
These are not all political jobs. They |
are elevated railroad jobs street car
jobs, gas company jobs, and, perhaps
more than all, jobs entirely outside of
politics. In every district of the city
there is a good Tammany headquarters
open all the year round, and our good
government people would learn more !
by dropping in there (for they are open
to every one) once in awhile than by
any quantity of circularizng. These
halls are nicely furnished well heated
and lighted and supplied with papers
Many men do not want to drink still
more do not want to spend their mon
ey; they can stay there any time and
are always welcome. They make ac-
quaintances, and if a man is painter,
for instance, he hears. perhaps of some
one who is altering house, from some
one who knows him and will recon-
mend him for the job just from the
general kindness we all have toward
those whom we know.
A fellow says, "Well, / am a long
shoreman, but it is hard work getting s
anything to do and somebody pipes {
up, "Why don't you go to trucking? {
Now, there is a man I know, he wants t
a truczman, and will give twelve dol '
lars week, and 1 can get the job for |
you if you want it." If he gets the job
rammany gets the credit.
We are accustomed to read of the :
enormous amount of money spent by 6
he city government and to think of 6
is going corruptly. Doubtless some of c
t is stolen, but it is nearly all by the !
Dig fellows; and much of it is wasted, t
as most government money is wasted. g
But the late L. O. Daniel, one of the +
oldest employees of the city, who was Q
IN intimate friend of mine, assured me