New-York tribune., 1901-08-18
WEAPON FOR EAST SIDE USE
DISCLOSURES OF POLICE ROTTENNESS
TELLING ON VOTERS THERE
INDICATIONS POINT TO REVOLT AGAINST
CROKER OPPRESSION AND ROB-
Berry TENEMENT HOUSE
JEWELLERS AROUSED.


The latest police scandal has made campaign
work infinitely easier for the anti-Tammany
people the lower East Side Lexow Com
mittee stories had lost their vote winning power
Something new and startling needed. The
trapping of the police by the Moss people. show
ing criminal collusion between the police
and the poolroom men. exposed to view the
PFC fit sharing machine. with all its we'll creased
wheels revolving
The uncovering of the latest rascality in the
Police Department has given a brand new
fighting issue the East Side, said OTTO
Rosalsky ex-Assistant District Attorney. refer
ring last night to the crusade work against vice
by the agents of the Society for the Prevention
of Crime.
1t proves our contention that there is an
active, working and enormously profitable part
nership between corrupt policemen and gamblers
all over the city The Committee of Fifteen
contends that the dsorderly women should and
can be driven out of the tenement districts
The Republicans of the With District say the
same thing Now / want to say word about
vice in the tenement districts. You often hear
the suggestion that vice fourishes In tenement
districts and that the conditions for It's per-
petuation are made easy among the poorer peo-
pie. On that particular point I want to say
that the tenement dwellers of the lower East
Side already have, and keep fostering. the
keenest resentment toward disorderly houses
and their inmates. The rabbis of the numerous
synagogues and the Catholic and Protestant
clergynen unit in their opposition to the
liberation Of vice. No matter how humble or
cramped the home, when appeal to the in
mates over in our district against the sufferance
of disorderly women in the neighborhood there
is an instant response. The fathers and mothers
don't want their boys and girls TO grow UP
gamblers and dissoute Thousands of our peo-
pie were born n dest.tution on the other side.
They are here because moved by a mighty
impulse to become better men and women-more
cleanly, better read and happier. If they hadn't
had that impulse they would have remained in
Europe. When ask them II they want their
girls TO grow up TO be wicked women they an
swer with No that is at once desperate and
meaningfuL II is not at all hard 10 demonstrate
10 them that vice and destitution ana corrupt
civic conditions so hand in hand. The trapping
OF the gamblers and the confession Of Whitney
have produced profound moral effect. We don't
even need a conviction to nail IL fast IN the
memories OF the people that Tammany officials
have been getting rich by selling indulgenCes-
That Is what ~ amounts 70, IN the last analysis
the sale OF indulgences-just as Balzac and
other writer's picture them in the Dark Ages
Followed out this sort OF corruption invariably
results in making conditions harder for the
poor The big nsh the weaker ones, and
the weaker ones in turn prey on those stih less
able 70 defend themselves. The Tammany boss
s. sem oTesds Big John Does and ftrle 1ohn
5c-s eac' with his hand for his miserable
Lribe
1t is a game OF cash up and shut up. from
Dick Croker clear down 70 the meanest little
human yellow dog wearing the Tammauy badge
our people ere beginning 10 realize the situa-
ton. The Tammany system is an alluring one.
appealing largely 10 the cupdty and sensuality
OF the who vote. But when they think II
all out for themselves they against IT,
More and more the sense of right prevails. The
indications point tn a revolt against Tammany
all over the East Side this fall. Thousands OF
our people fed from oppression and petty perse-
cUtion the other side Or this side they are
determined 70 have the liberty and decency that
they came here 10 ind"