Arizona republican., 1903-03-30
JEROME VS.. CRIME
Story Of the Work Of Greater New
York's District Attorney.
BY HAHRIE DAVIS. y

Commencing with the April issue !
Pearsons Magazine will tell the thrill |
ing story of how District Attorney Will
liam Travers Jerome has, sinSle-hand-
&c, undertaken the desperate task Of
riding New York City of its vice and
c:imc. Tha story is too large to be told
in any one issue of the magazine. It
Will be tod il three parts appearing
in the April, May and June issues.
Astounding facts regarding the deal
irgs of politicians aE1 police officials
who were in league with keepers of
dCns of shame. gambling resorts 2C1
the like, show how these guardians of
the pence and public safety have ac-
ceptcd bribcs in return :Cr protection
frcm prosecution. The inside facts and
secrets Genre from Judge Jerome him
ec-t. and the boId.lcss and earnestness
CT their prcsenteticn will astOund the
public. Some idea of the condition of
affairs rs they existed can be CLEANED
frCm the following, which is the COM
piote first installmort as it will APP
pear in the April Pearson's)
Part l.
Some years ago, not Il great many as
years count in the life of a city, four
men were in the smoker of a Pullman
car returning from the Adriondacks.
They were discussing moral conditions
in the United States. One of them, 4
member of Tammany Hall, a philan-
thropist Of clean and broad mind-therA
were and are many such in Tammany-
was depIo,ing the Generalization OF
what had been known as the finest pc
lice force in the world. The others were
c~ga MIA ton they held responsible for
it. They were interrupted by Il young
man who was modify smoking cigar
cite in the corner.
1T would be laughable," he said, "if
ii were not so sad
The speaker WAS William Travers
Jerome, the present district attorney If
New York county. His words struck .,
chord of sympathy that is today bear
ing fruit for New York city, and for
the communal life at large. They
started discussion that spread mora
or less broadcast until it eliminated in
the victory of "Decency against indie
cSncy'' in the municipal campaign In
New York in 1901.
Just Z word here about Jerome. y
curious combination he: man of high
religious sentiment. outward form coz
Germs him nothing when his feelings are
excited: of lofty aspirations, he has lit
tie CT no personal ambition. He Is Il
practical mystic; part strenuous ath-
( lete, physically and mentally; part
k!sl-strung crank: part Puritan. A
strange mixture OF physical, mental
and moral chemicals truly, but wholly
]
Born of 2 well-Haown family, which
was American before there was any
United States, jerome came by his love
of country fairly. He is a native of
New York city. His early education
developed in him the habits of self
dependence and fostered that antagon-
ism to injustice which has dictated all
his movements for reform. III health
! kept him from school in his early days
and forced him from college in his
freshman year. His reading was dI-
/ racted by tutors form the neighbor-
ing Union Theological seminary. Among
( these tutors was Il man who had sper;
much time in study of the German
physicians; he was a scholarl,'
man, always looking for the underly-
ing truth in everything, of the class OF
mon who never regard consequences il
the underlying principle calls for ac-
| ton. lie taught that it is not the in
tiividuaTs business to question =. use-
qucnces. but so to act that he might bt
in accord with the principle. Young
Jerome took kindly to the teaching ant
lie ottca speaks in his softSr moments
Of what he owes to William r. Lord
graduated from Columbia college Ian
school. Through family influence ht
was appointed a deputy assistant o:
the staff of the late Justice MARITIME
/ then district attorney. From his frs
entry into public life he was a reform
er. Early a member of the Reform
club. at the formation of the City club
associate counsel in the Lexow investl
Cation. chairman of the committee o
seventy, and justice of the court o
special sessions. Mr.. Jerome has JUST
fed his birth and training.
There is no intention here to max,
a hero of Mr.. Jerome. The condition:
il New York as he found them anC
what has Been done to better them are
presented merely to illustrate condi
lions that prevail more. or less in ever
great city in the world. Mr.. Jerome j
introduced Us an object lesson to snow
what can be done by one man who has
as the impelling forces, the patriotism
that inculcates civic duty and the de
termination to ignore consequence
while acting fer principle
Fer five and twenty years-aye, ever
longer-the great cosmopolitan heart .
this vast continent had been sufferin:
from organic disease. Like many othe
cases of functional disorders, whethe
in the individual or the body polite
preliminary symptoms We're UNDECIDED
Careless methods and general listless
ness presented no obstacle to the in
sidious malady. 1t grew apace. Tn
citizens pointed with pride to thei
municipality, and indeed it made a fai
showing to the outside world Their
was nothing on the surface but mad
Il brave array. So civic duties wcr
neglected.
Indifference caused lack of discern
mcnt It was not generally seen tina
much that looked like gold yv1c npJ-