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Identifier: reviewofreviewsw05newy (find matches)
Title: Review of reviews and world's work
Year: 1890 (1890s)
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Publisher: New York Review of Reviews Corp
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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resspackages. Its sole object is plunder in any formwhich will not attract the immediate notice of thepolice. DR. PARKHURSTS PHILLIPPICS. It is true that Mr. McDougall and the zealous Lon-don Councillors who have been reforming the lowmusic halls and compelling the dive-keepers and thesemi-criminal proprietors of immoral resorts to •obey the law, have been much maligned and ridi-culed in London even by so-called respectable Torynewspapers like the Standard. But the significantfact is that Mr. McDougall has prevailed in hispolicy and has been triumphantly supported at thepolls by an overwhelming sentiment. Mr. McDougalland his official friends represent in London simplythe same demand for decency and the observance oflaw that the Rev. Dr. Parkhurst and his Society forthe Prevention of Crime represents in the non-official circles of New York. And against Mr.Steads indorsement of the good purposes and honestzeal of the London Council, it is painful to quote 300 THE REl/IEW OF REyiElVS.
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^^y REV. CHARLES H. PARKHURST, D.D., DENOUNCING TAMMANY S MISRULE.(Reproduced, by permission, from Frank Leslies Weekly.^ Dr. Parkhursts terrific indictment of the rulingauthorities of New York as proclaimed from hispulpit in Madison Square, published in all thenewspapers, repeated in substance by him in thewitness-box before the Grand Jury, and again re-iterated on Sunday, March 13, before a congregationwhich was so strangely composed as to remind oneof the Florentine gatherings that were drawn to-gether by the fascination of the denunciatorypreaching of Savonarola. The following passages,concerning the men who absolutely govern whathe calls this rum-besotted, Tammany-debauchedtown, are not pleasant reading, but they are fromthe sermon of a religious leader who is no cheapsensationalist, and who declares that he makes theseutterances only after careful and extended personalinvestigation: In its municipal life our city is thoroughly rotten.Here is an immense city reaching out arms ofe

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