New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1912-11-29
LAYS ILLS TO PARKHURST
SuIzberger Says Crusade Led
Jews into RoSenthaI Plot.
VICE SPREAD TO GHETTO
Gunner We're in Formative Pc
riod When Social Evils Were
Disseminated, Says Article.

Writing in the current issue Of THE
American Hebrew" Cyrus l.. SuIzberger
asserts that the participation Of Jews
10 the Roscnthal conspiracy was unprece-
dcntcd IN the history OF the Jewish
people. the crime being Of a type alien
10 their character. lie attributes its APP
p,srancs among the Jews 10 peculiar cir
cumstances In New York, comprising tho
congcstcd conditions in the Ghetto and
the driving OF vice into the tenement
houses. as a result OF the Parkhurst cru
SADIE against Capitalization OF gambling
and other social evils.
Referring 10 the results Of the activities
Of Dr. Parkhursrs Society FOR the Pre-
vcntion OF Crime. he said.
The keeping Of disorderIy houses mad
become too serious matter Instead,
apartments in tenement houses were re-
sorted 90. The sOCiety's report Issued
in 1896. tells Of complaints received by II
from tenants IN teuements, whose homes
were being invaded In this way. The
vicious coutagiCn was being brought TO
decent people. and fathers and mothers
were expressing fear az 10 its influence
upon their children.
The police, he said. as a result OF the
activities Of the society. co-operated with
IL. but 1.-THE most significant consequence
was expressed by one who knew the facts
well in the words, II made the price OF
police protection (for crime go up" He
also declares that the people We're taught
by the city's official representative, the
uniformed policeman, that American free
dom meant license to violate the laws
OF God and man"
II was Just when the men who have
been convicted OF the murder OF Herman
Rosenthal were in the formative period
of their lives, Mr.. sulzberger goes on
10 say. that the "evll OF disseminating
throughout the city vice, which had pre-
viously kept closely to It's restricted quar-
tiers. became operative upon theit char-
acters." lie writes:
Here we have the crucial difference pc
+u...u their bringing up and that OF othcr
chIldrer OF similar parentage. WIN VI
ci0ua occuDants in the very houses IN
which they lived. with the streets ar InE.r
cole playground ana evil characters Ply
their NOCdklbIS al avn '''N''''
m"rants hampered by their economic
Struggle. which left only minimum OF
time and opportunity Tor chlld leaIi NE,
with vice prOpagating with sucn r@pluiIl
pS only vice can propagate. IL IL possIple
ia conceive that children could De raised
ia decent and honorable mann00u anu
womanhood without Il Wotul raining ny
the way .t,o,,so,ds bavs
withstood the temptation; those WIZ u' !
la ~
i..b ,i1s,res'' and "WhltevS." Our great
,,urtcinaIitv has sown the wind u -
now reaplng the whirlwnd.
AZ remedy for these conditions IN the
coneested districts Mr.. 6uizberger be-
,to,es that the problem can be solved by
"a. improvement OF recreation taclilues.
lie proposes that In each block st,lp
ba condemned and given over Tor TINS
purnose He also declares, as TO the So
caI evil. whatever policy may be ADOPT
Oh whether regulation, segregation or
r.nression. certain it is that II may not
ba nermitted TO flourish under the same
roof with decent people.
Mr. Sulzberger has long been identlheu
with movements both 10 improve cohul-
t,ops among his own people and general
,,,li,icoI conditions. His cry has always
hsar get the Jews out Of the Ghetto.
In 1897 ne resigned as president OF the
Harlem Democratic Club because 1t went
over 20 Tammany Hail. and he supported
seth Low for Mayor In 1908 he was the
fusion candidate for Borough President
He WAS formerly president Of the JEWISH
Agricultural and Industrial Aid Society
and also u the United Hebrew Charities.