Los Angeles herald., 1907-08-11
SAYS ONLY INFERNO Is
WORSE THAN CHICAGO
SOUTHERN MINISTER PLACES
NEW YORK SECOND
Declares Sodom and Gomorrah Were
Law Abiding Communities Conn
pared With Great Cities of
Present Day

Special to The Herald.
NEW YORK, Aug. 10-"Chicago is be-
yond all earthly comparison in the matter
of wickedness,' says Rev. DR.. Len G.
Broughton of Atlanta. Chicago and hell
are in class by themselves"
at have been coming to New York for
seven or eight years, preaching here. and
every two years going on to London
said DR.. Broughton today. Il have visited
Paris, Berlin and Vienna, and studied
conditions there. Next to Chicago Paris
is the wickedest city in the world and
New York is the next.
"Of course you can say New York is
not as wicked as Chicago, but that is as
If you said 1t was better than hell. Chi
cago is not to be compared with any
civilized community"
In an interview DIR. Broughton dashed
New York for its Haunting hilarity at
night, its closed churches on Sunday, its
boorish and insufficient police force, and
the immodesty and intemperance of the
women who drink in the restaurants and
cafes He criticised Bishop Potter and
defended John d. Rockefeller.
Sa,s Society Is Rotten
| New York society is a fostering Sore"
added the Georgian. Its doings are ex-
plotted as though they were the real
things socially. The ease with which
woman WIFI wealth. nerSelL
after some wrongdoing weakens the re-
sistance of other women. who say to
themselves: I've got money; I'll plunge.
too.
These so-called society folk are ex-
crescences, warts, on the real social life
of the city and country. They are rotten,
low, depraved and live only to swim in
voluptuousness and to tank up.
There has been growing Sabbath lax
To- U1xIr f- u
bounds. There are more theaters open
Sunday than churches. I believe.
1.-THE workingman who thinks that Sum-
day is his day for theater- going will
never be anything more than working
man, drawer of water and newer of
wood.
Getting Worse and Worse
'"There should be no wonder at the crime
wave after seeing the theaters wide open
on Sunday. There has been a backward
tendency in morals more and more pro-
nounced during the past seven or eight
years. This year there is brazenness
among the men and women. hilarious
life, a Haunting shameless hilarity that
only Paris equals. a lack of interest in
the church. and an increase in anarchists
and socialistic tendencies that are ap-
palling."
What is the remedy?" asked the re-
porter
81 declare I'm sure don't know what's
to be done to cure this tendency. 1 would
suggest that the pulpits of New York
preach the gospel in its purity, the literal
word the hell fire gospel, the gospel
punishment of sins.
Another suggestion I would make
would be to reform the police force. Lon
don is the best policed city in the world.
Only Englishmen compose the force.
"Put Americans on Guard"
There's our lesson. Drive all the for
eigners off the police force. Put Ameri-
cans in command. Put only Americans
on guard, Sure enough Americans. Then
the laws would be enforced. New York
needs to study how to police itself. Wis
itors are shocked at the police laxity, i'm
politeness and inefficienucy. To talk to
New York policeman is like talking with
a yearling bull on the prairies."
Here DIR. Broughton switched to the
woman question.
ITO any man who values and believes
in feminine modesty the sights in the
streets and the cafes and restaurants of
New York at night are terrific. There is
a complete breaking down of the barriers
between the sexes.
There is no modesty. There is an open
Haunting depravity. The conversation one
hears in theaters and restaurants indi-
Gates the most brazen shamelessness. The
drinking habits of women astound visitors
to this city"