NEW YORK’S TRINITY OF VICES

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Oct 22, 1902

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 28, No. 43.

NEW YORK’S TRINITY OF VICES.

“GAMBLING, licentiousness, and unrestricted rum-selling every day in the week hold now high carnival here,” says the New York Christian Advocate. “District Attorney Jerome declares that ‘more gambling is going on under a police commissioner appointed by a reform mayor than when Devery was running the department under Van Wyck, a year ago.’ The Post, which has constantly commended Mayor Low, prints this statement by the chief officer of the county, and observes that it would startle the public ‘if the people had not been prepared to accept it by the notorious recklessness of lawbreakers of this class during the last few months.’” And this is the character of a great deal, nay, about all, of the political reform of the present day.