f the crime in New York is under police
protection. I can prove it, and I could begin with the
inspectors and captains. Oh, I'd strike high. I don't go
into the courts and prove it, because every judge in this
city, and I don't make a single exception, is subsidized."

[4] The _Morning Advertiser_ of Sept. 10, 1891, thus records
Mr. Britton's embarrassing position:--

Joseph A. Britton is agent of the New York Society for the
Enforcement of the Criminal Law. Agent Britton has become so
absorbed in the enforcement of the criminal law that he has,
it is said, forgotten that there is a civil law, and
defaulted on the payment of _betting debts_. His creditor,
in the sum of $1,085, is Robert G. Irving, a bookmaker, who
has tried to collect the debt since last fall, and failing
has resorted to the courts.

According to Irving, Agent Britton, upholder and advocate of
the majesty of the law, placed some bets with him, won, and
drew his winnings. Then Britton continued to bet, on credit,
and lost; but, _instead of settling in hard cash, gave a
check, which the bank stamped N. G. when presented. Finally,
Britton exchanged three notes for the worthless check_, but
the first two notes have fallen due, and have proved as
worthless as the check. So the case is on the court docket.

Agent Britton admits the debt, and its nature.

And this is a specimen of the men which a Christian people are
supporting and encouraging, owing to their loud and pharisaical
protestations of superior virtue. The words spoken by the great
Nazarene teacher, and which ring down the corridor of the ages, apply
to-day as aptly as when in old Judea he said, "Woe unto you, scribes
and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye are like unto whited sepulchres,
which indeed appear beautiful outward, but are within full of dead
men's bones and of all uncleanness. Even so ye outwardly appear
righteous, but within ye are full of hypocrisy and iniquity."

Another instance of the evil of clothing Pharisaism with power was
forcibly illustrated in the recent prosecution of the Rev. J. B.
Caldwell, editor of _Christian Life_. This noteworthy case illustrates
most painfully the fact that an innocent and noble-minded man, who has
committed no crime, is liable