The Independent of January 15 publishes an article by a patrolman on the police force of New York, entitled “From the Policeman’s Point of View.” He avers in closing that “New York policemen are just as honest as any other set of men.” He tells how as a clerk he obtained a place on the police force. First he paid a politician $300—all he had saved—to secure a position. The politician deposited it with a saloon-keeper who put it in his safe, and the young man got neither position nor return of money. Then $300 more was demanded. He applied to the civil service commission, and found that physically he could not meet the requirements. But the politician told him he could get around this by hiring a substitute to meet the physical tests for him, costing all told $1,000. He threw off on the politician, took athletics, passed the civil service examinations, and received his appointment. But the politician had to be bought off, and was for $200 more. He tells us that a “patrolman who insisted on enforcing all the laws would be an idiot. He would not last a month. There isn’t any reason why a patrolman should enforce the foul laws about gambling and excise. They’re against nature, and he knows it, and has no sympathy with them.” He further says:— Every man on the force knows that the people don’t want the laws enforced. The [reform] mayor concedes that, and promised a “liberal enforcement,” which means no enforcement. That’s the way that we patrolmen look at the matter, so we go with the tide, taking what comes, and not seeing any more than is good for us. He tells us that all the way from $1,000 to $10,000 is paid for a captaincy on the force; in some precincts a man can make from $20,000 to $50,000 a year. He describes how one of a pair of pickpockets is induced to betray his fellow, and two policemen pluck the9fellow $75 each. Of course the first one is “fixed,” in other words the police shares with him. And all this is in the “REFORM” administration of New York. And it is like all other reform which leaves Jesus Christ out of the equation of personal righteousness.