| Show THE lexow COMMIT EVIS et WORK the moral rottenness of the finest police force in the world has haa been eap exp exposed 01 sod in its loathsome details during the past few weeks before the lexow investigating committee in saw new york and the work of unveiling to is still going on the brutal character of many of the men to whom is entrusted the duty of preserving and nd representing law and order in the great metropolis was shown in the fact that a whole army of those officers were arraigned arral goed for assault peaceful citizens they seem to have used their clubs merely for the pleasure it 11 gave them and were kept oo on the force notwithstanding the complaints made against them from time to time besides this a regular system of is shown to have been in vogue persons carrying on legitimate business had to share the profits with the police in order to avoid being harassed in various ways and owners of places of infamy of various kinds escaped prosecution by paying the police regular contributions the money thus obtained was divided between the men and some of their superiors every day during the remarkable hearing bearing now new discoveries of a shocking nature have been brought to light probably the most sensational yet la Is the announcement by the new york world on what that paper con elders good authority that bat those interested io in the continuation of the corruption have actual j gone to the length of offering mr john goff conn eel for the lexow committee large sums of money for withdraw withdrawing lg from the case the story goes that that able prosecutor was approached by a high tammany official and offered to give up the investigation later when it became evident that the searchlight was to be thrown upon the altage even behind the police department and b higher up he was according to the report offered both offers were indignantly refused at last be was given to understand that if 11 he would accept the nomination for mayor of now new york he would be endorsed by tammany hall again he refused and res resolved olred it is said to add his testimony to that of the others interviewed on the subject mr goff goal refused to talk for publication a fact in itself rather auspicious for it if he be bad not been approached at all with such offers the most natural course would have been to deny the rumor but an intimate friend of mr goff did not hesitate to say may that the be world would not be much mistaken in publishing the information it Is ie humiliating enough to contemplate a case of total depravity in any public servant in whom the people by virtue of their own majesty have placed confidence but it is worse still that such much indescribable corruption and deception as are referred to are part of a machinery by which a whole community is in being manipulated against its own moral interests if such things are possible in one of the largest cities of the world the metropolis ot of this country once the god given refuge of men and women who tied fled from the corruption of the old world it is time to pause and consider a remedy which shall be adequate to the purifying the body politic from head bead to foot the struggle of dr parkhurst against the iniquities of now new york concerns the whole republic and the final outcome of it will be watched with the greatest interest the real question is ia whether the institutions of this country can be used with impunity for the furtherance of selfish neep neap greed and vice or whether individuals divi duals who thus lay unholy hands on the sacred ark of liberty will not at last be smitten as was huzzah at the threshing floor of Na elien |
