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Review and Herald Publishing Association · Washington, D.C. · Feb 16, 1905

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 82, No. 7.

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Note and Comment

RECENTLY the Philadelphia Record published a scathing arraignment of that city’s municipal government, charging it with complicity in the crime of traffic in vice. From statements made, it appears that the enormity of this evil in Philadelphia exceeds, if possible, its dimensions in any other American city. An investigation was started, and on February 3 the grand jury made a presentment affirming the existence in the city of a system of organized vice, and that the responsibility for the same rested on the director of public safety and other high police officials. This is but one of many indictments that have been brought at various times against Philadelphia’s city government, the corrupt character of which has been a subject of comment even in European journals. Yet it was not long ago that the mayor of Philadelphia received a delegation of clergymen, who because the Sunday laws are rigidly enforced there, congratulated him on being mayor of “the most Christian city” in the land.