New-York tribune., 1901-09-26
BISHOP POTTER SANGUINE.
uE SEES THE END OF EVIL CONDITIONS
HERE.
THE PEOPLE DEMAND THAT THE CITY GOV
ERNMENT SHALL NOT PROTECT
VICE. HE DECLARES.

All that our citizens have asked is that the gov gov
ernrent of the city shall not be employed to pro pro-
eft Of political organization The case is entirely
clear No Meghstophean cunning can sydence
that the end of such condition OF Things Is N''
far off.
| The above extract from the address OF Disnop i
Potter delivered yesterday at the annuai corNeii'oi
of the Eniscopal Church in the Diocese OF New
York at the Church of Zion and St IinothS' az
No. 3S2 West Ftfty-seventh-st. expressed MS Wv"
as TO the outcome of the battle against iai,a.'
the preliminary skirmishes of which are no" oe'iis
waged.
On the same topic he said further:
corrupt system whose infamous details have
since then been steadily uncovered TO our a5
by those who were fattenng on its spos and the
world was presented With the sstoTnnn ipn nmeehansm
was largely employed in trading in the p3Iles @ne
has been published in this connection is but the
merest hint OF what exsts-and exists most appall-
the seal Of confidence in overwhelming volume and
force to demonstra te-under system oI teTroris tt IN
denounce 1t means the utter ruin. so far as all their
worldly interests concerned of those who dare
This Infamous organization for making merchan-
fenceless men and women has adroity sought to
people are entirely clear by saying that vice can
not be wholly suppressed. The police force of TINS
come to abhor the situation and their own slavery
far more widely than is suspected; and the people
the households which this infamy most OF all in
"a not deceived by the M sns eer
mined that ii shall come to end.
answered viii depend largely upon the answer
which we here and those whom we represent shall @
Gated and refined, the possessors of wealth and in
as they are are no higher than those of their less
privileged sisters. the clergy and their people al
for God and our ciNs honor. We face great
crisis May the Master whom we profess to serve
] anal 10 n rrIa
Regarding the assassination of President Nc
Kiney Bishop Potter said:
I may not attempt, within these limits. dis
cusson large and in aspects of IL so intri-
refer at % ali TO this dark tragedy in our national
history without reminding myself, and you, that
forty years. however @ dfferent nay have been their
eaiy arfaisns Before the bar Of % the Worlds M juds
mont civic and social conditions that we dare not
speech or of conduit. mean unbrdled license. and
the knife or the pistol OF the ASSASSIN; nay more.
II our careleSsneSs concerning our brother means
that ignorant and credulous people may be the prey
the foundations of social order. then hrst-
hittsr as i may be to tonal conceit much dis
that we have erred In our primary conceptions of
wadt ngertg Is: ana taen we must enthrone sound
place.
The business meeting held in the afternoon,
the Rev. Or. Morgan Dix presiding I'm place OF
| Bishop Potter. who had boarded express train
| for San Francisco to attend the General Conven-
| tion.
The following were elected 10 attend this con-
! vention: The Rev. DR.. p H. Greer, the Rev DR.
| w. NJ Grosvenor the Rev. Dr. j. l.. Parks the
Rev. Or. W. r. Huntington the Rev DR. E A
! Norman. j. Pierpont Morgan. William Bayard
| cutting. Francis Iynde Stetson and Henry Lewis
| Morris. Or. Greer introduced a resolution pro-
! viding that a petition he made to the delegates
| attending the General Convention asking them 10
present To the convention a resolution asking for
! uniformity of divorce and matrimony among ali
| churches "