Crime and Corruption in Public Office
The revelations in the investigations of the criminal trust of New York City show that those who have a corner there on vice and crime are reaping as big a harvest as those who corner the necessities of life. The tabulated figures show that this organization which is getting money for the protection of vice and crime has an income of $11,800,000 a year, or more than $30,000 a day. Think of what this means in just one of our leading cities. Men who have been elected to office by the people, have formed a league with the criminal, and have commercialized every vice and crime that appeals to the depraved human being, and are making their living by actually trading in the commodities of sin. And New York is no worse than San Francisco or Chicago or any of the other cities of the world. Criminality has debauched our public servants to an awful extent, and the public are at their mercy. Heroic efforts through the officials and others who refuse to stoop to such wickedness, are being made in many places to stop the thing; but it keeps breaking out worse and worse. We are forcibly reminded of the scripture in Timothy which tells us that "evil men and seducers shall wax worse and worse, deceiving, and being deceived." Mere man is powerless before the situation in crime that confronts the world. It will take the arm of the Infinite at the second coming of Christ to give the death stroke to the evil giant that has arisen.