suspect in the Jack the Ripper murders. Return to radical politics In 1897, Pentecost returned to lecturing on political and religious topics, and reopened his "Unity Congregation." Pentecost repeatedly spoke out against the turn-of-the-century prohibitionist campaigns to shut down saloons, gambling, and brothels. He argued that the "vice crusades" little more than hypocritical cover for the Republican Party's ambitions to unseat Tammany Hall in the New York City government. Pentecost argued that vice laws only relocated vice behind closed doors, and created opportunities for police corruption. Instead of crackdowns by city government, he argued, all vice laws should be repealed, as "The true remedy for all evil is in freedom. Truth makes you free." In 1906, Pentecost joined the Socialist Party of America, and spoke at a Socialist Party protest against William Randolph Hearst's gubernatorial campaign. Illness and death Pentecost fell ill with stomach trouble late in 1906, and failed to recover after a surgical operation. After seven weeks of illness, he died in his home, on February 2, 1907. He was survived by his wife, Ida, and two grown daughters. Works Online "Anarchism," Twentieth Century, July 4, 1889. Hosted at DeadAnarchists.org. "The Crime of Owning Vacant Land," Twentieth Century, November 28, 1889. Hosted at DeadAnarchists.org. First Anniversary Address for Unity Congregation, Twentieth Century on January 10, 1889. Hosted at DeadAnarchists.org. "A Gigantic Poorhouse," Twentieth Century, October 10, 1889. Hosted at DeadAnarchists.org. "Murder by Law," Twentieth Century, August 15, 1889. "The Sins of Government," Twentieth Century on March 13, 1890. Hosted at DeadAnarchists.org. "Thomas Paine," Twentieth Century, February 6, 1890. Hosted at DeadAnarchists.org. References External links "Hugh Owen Pentecost (1848–1907): A Biographical Sketch", by Robert Helms. "Bible Class Teachers: An Exposition of the Spirit and Statements of the Gospels," New York Times, January 1, 1882. Benjamin Tucker, "On Picket Duty," Liberty, August 18, 1888. Benjamin Tucker, "Mr. Pentecost's Belief in the Ballot," Liberty January 19, 1889. Benjamin Tucker, "Mr. Pentecost as an Abettor of Government," Liberty, November 14, 1891. "Brooklyn's Heaped-Up Woes: in Spite of All There Are Taxpayers who Still Hope," New York Times, June 4, 1893. "Lawyers Charged with Larceny: Hugh O. Pentecost and R. H. Gatling Indicted on Complaint of a Client to Whose Case They Had Been Assigned," New York Times, June 30, 1895. "The Fault-Finding Habit: Hugh O. Pentecost on the Mistake of Seeing Nothing but Evil," New York Times, December 13, 1897. Edwin C.