Lynn Thompson
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669 appearances
1 recordings
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first heard Jul 2026
last heard 20 Jul
Lynn Thompson’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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You cannot charge it upon any one party.
Within the past few years both parties and all kinds of parties have been in power.
But the work has never been done.
You have but to pass the city hall or look in upon the rooms of some of our city officials, to see what sort of men our cities have been abandoned.
Look at the swearing, bloated, sensual wretches who stand on the outside of the New York City Hall.
Picking their teeth, wanting for some crumbs of emolument to fall at their feet, and then tell me how far it is from New York to Sodom.
Who are those wretched women sent up in the city van to the police court, apprehended for drunkenness?
They will be locked up in jail, but what will be done with the groggeries that made them drunk?
Who were these men in the city prisons?
That man stole a pair of shoes, that boy one dollar from the counter.
That girl snatched a purse, all villainies of less than twenty or thirty dollars damage to the community.
But for that gambler who last night took a young man's thousand dollars, nothing.
For that man who broke in upon the purity of a Christian household
and by a perfidy and adroitness that beat the strategy of hell.
flung that girl into the chasm of earthly despair, from which her lost soul goes shrieking to the bottomless pit, nothing.
For those who fleeced a young man and induced him to filch from his employers vast sums of money
Until in his agony he came to an officer of the church and frantically asked what he should do.
Nothing.
Verily small crimes ought to be punished, but it were more just if our authorities would turn out from our jails and penitentiaries the small villains, the petty criminals, the infantile offenders, the ten dollar desperados, and fill their places with some of these monsters of abomination who drive their own span through our fine streets until honest men have to fly to escape being run over.
And if they would turn out from their incarnation the poor girls of the town and put in some of the magnificent ladies who cover up the sidewalk with their unpaid for fineries.
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