The Sentinel=record., 1912-08-15
MONSTER MASS MEETING HELD IN THE INTEREST OF LAW AND
 ORDER IN NEW YORK.
VIGILANCE COMMITTEE NAMED
Big Fund to Be SoIlcited-Rosenthal Murderers to Be Placed on Trial at Once-Whitman Iden-
 tlfies Rubin.

New York, Aug. 1.-The resolute determination of the citizens of New system of graft and blackmail was given forcible expression tonight at mass meeting at Cooper Union, when they appointed a vigilance com mittee of prominent men and women to see that public officers now en- gagged in exposing the reasonable alliance of the police with organized crime do their full duty.
 The mass meeting. which typified the public indignation aroused by revelations of police corru ption grow ing out of the murder of Herman Rosenthal was attended by a crowd that oyerflowed the hall There were 1000 persons in the auditorium, with hundreds standing up, while blocking the streets outside were thousands who clamored for admittance
 It was one of tire largest town meetings" held in the city in years. and there was no mistaking the earnestness which prevailed at the gathering as it voiced its approval of the denunciation of the police system which the prominent speak CTS on the platform employe1 when speaking of existing conditions. The atmosphere of levity often present at public mass meetings was wholly ab- sent and each speaker was heard with respectful attention only inter rupted by dignfed applause.
 The resolution appointing the viz ilance committee, which was giver the power to increase it's number tC thirty and to solicit funds and tt engage counsel, called "upon the po- lice department to put forth addition al efforts looking to the arrest of all those implicated in the Rosentha. murder; upon the district attorney tl bend every energy of his office, as he has been doing, to the apprehen- sion and conviction of those guilty of this crime; upon the aldermanic investigating committee to make a thorough, non-partisan and unspar- ing examination into existing condl- tions, and into causes which give rise to systems of blackmail and graft. and to propose remedies by hich these causes may be removed 1; and upon the citizens and officials having information on these eondi- tions to lay it before the district at torney or the aldermanic committee in the full confidence that they will be protected against terrorism and oppression of every sort. The mem bers of the committee are Eugene +. Cuterbridge Jacob H. 'Schiff, Eugene Appilbin Henry Moskowitz, Alled Robinson, F.. & Tomlin, Raymond V. Ingersoll. Mrs. Chas H. Israels and Geo. B. Agnew.
 On the platform from which Abra- ham Lincoln delivered an address at the opening of Cooper Union in 1S60 sat these men and women from all walks of life. Speakers included District Attorney Whitman, Dr. Ly- man Abbott. Rabbi Samuel Schull, Alderman Henry II. Curran, chair man of the aldermanic police investi- gating committee; Emery K. Ruck- ner counsel for the committee; Hen ry DeForest Baldwin and Mrs. Chas. H. Israels, who is prominent social worker.
 District Attorney Whitman was the hero of the hour" and received tremendous ovation when he arose to speak.
 When Mir Whitman finally began his speech he frequently was inter , rupted by spontaneous cries of ap- proval which had not been given to the other speakers until they had fin | ished their addresses.
 T want to say just this" said MT. Whitman. With regard to the mat. ter which l know is near your hearts as it is near mine, with regard to a crime that has shocked this city and shocked this nation. perhaps as few crimes have in the history of the city or in the history of the nation, the killing of Herman Rosenthal was murder, of course, an awful murder but it was more than that. In the | light of all the circumstances con nected with it, it was challenge to our very civilization itself.
 Tt is not a question of who ol what Rosenthal was, or who may he mayor or who may be police commis sioner or who may be district attor ney; it is not a question of Becker ol a few men who may or may not have been accomplices. It is a question o whether it is possible for murdererl to commit an atrocious crime in the heart of the city and get leisurell away Unfortunately these are th' conditions As l said before, that | the challenge to the civilized nation of the twentieth centuy-to the cit!