The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1909-03-03
BINGHAM s LAXITY
CAUSES SPREAD
OF VICE.
"lF SOCIAL EVIL HAS SPREAD "
COULD ONLY HAVE BEEN WITH
COMMISSIONERS PERMISSION"
SAYS CANON CHASE.

NEW YORK. March S-"General
Bingham IS reported 20 have said hat
one OF our number has been the cause
" the spread OF more social evil than
anything else thal has happened il
two generations IL is sander
AK l"sl the pastor OF this church thar
has become So common FOR the protect
Ors Cf crime 10 utter, thar I teiie.c
my brethren viii not think an trans
crossing the prophecies of tails ocCa-
sion II emphatically and with indlg
nation deny the accusation
Canon William Sheafe Chase. speak
Ing In Dr. Parkhursts church, in Madl.
son Square. before the lnterdenOmina.
tional Committee for the Suppressi N
OF Sunday Vaudeville. launched this
oroadside al Police Commissioner
Bingham.
Tie evil resorts" the speaker con.
tnued. have not been driven out of
the Tencerloin or other par. uf TIC
city where they formerly were segre-
gated. II 'hey had bean. neither hey
Aor individual women could have gone
elsewhere without police permission
ana knowledge This slaLder against
n. Parkhprst is merely 10 throw dust
IA Alt eye VI the lIDtlt.
TIE lofce comm sslluer li>craCes
ITS Office by giving rs "A res So. for not
keeping lis oath OF ode. t,.at ;hc re-
s'at Il enforcing the .aW A-.uh NJ
evil. When he eIfJrCes the NV, We
will be able to see me evils and >,r.
ret Il n, He is akin, nor. ns0 tC
say enforcing the law has increased
the social evil II il has spread IL
could only have been with his per.
mission.
re l. reported 10 have said In reply
- arpeals 20 clear he s'rrc's ~
;iCiCus women An right, III clear fne
strcets but whore shah ! drive me
women. VIII YOU preachers open you
churches and your homes and take the
Wforlunates in? Oh. no, not they.
The PARSONS and good people draw
their skirts around them in horror and
say frigidly il is not their business
that Is for the police"
The commissioner accusation Is
that by stamping out the crime IN one
spot. 1t spreads the evil thing we
ought TO ask for conference with
him. and aid him in every way We can
The speaker also gave Governor
Hughes dig regarding primary laws
Or Parkhurst. who had an engage
mcnt 10 lecture in Boston. sent let
ter 10 the meeting taking Assembly
man George \. Voss 20 task FOR saving
the minister favored the Noss bill for
an Investigation OF the sunday laws.
The copy OF the letter. read by Bishop
Courtney who presided. follows
New York. March /, 1909.
Nh George A Voss
Dear Sir-I have no sympathy
with your bill, and | have great
deal less sympathy with the way
in which YOU have dragged me
into apparent support OF It. What
You had the assurance 10 read at
the hearing before the committee
on ways and means was no pro-
GUctiou OF mine but merely a re-
port OF an interview some time
since. but totally misrepresenting
my views upon the-matter in ques-
lion And for you 10 avail your
self Of such a report on so public
an occasion. without having first
secured from me q guarantee or It's
accuracy only shows the length
YOU are willing TO 60 in holster
inE up an indefensible cause.
believe in the maintenance OF Sab
bath statutes OF just as rigid
character as the police depart
ment. cnergetically administered,