New-York tribune., 1899-12-31
WHAT HAPPENED TO JONES.

The Bible tells us that the way OF the trans
| gressor is hard, but experience tells us that
| oftentlmes the way Of the righteous man ls
| hard Here. for instance, Is Samuel Nj. JONES'
| the Golden Rule" Mayor OF Toledo. Ohio, whose
all WOOL yard wide, non-shrinkable virtue mas
been loudly proclaimed to the world, lo tnese
many months. He has been held up to view as
the champion of the poor and the oppressed
second Hercules cleaning the Augean stables OF
politics. bold apostle Of civic righteousness
and. generally speaking, sort of advance agent
OF the millennium. 1t has been Jones here ana
Jones there and Jones everywhere. In fact'
there couldn't be too much Jones, In the opinion
OF his admirers. No matter what Crisis arose
or what difficult task was to be accomplished
the cry always went up from every corner OF
the land. There's Jones-hes the man for the
Job" Now, it Is not our intention to question
this view Of Jones On the contrary, the ar
tistic necessities OF this article compel us TO
emphasize the all around goodness OF the Mayor
OF Toledo We couldn't insert even the smallest
fy In the pellucid amber of his virtue and we
wouldn't If we could
But. alas that we should say so. that thank
less office has been performed by Ihe New
Voice" a journal that is In the same general
business of promoting goodness and virtue that
Mayor Jones is In. 1t devotes nearly two pages
of it's last issue 70 Mayor Jones as the friend
and patron of saloons, and 1t laughs to scorn
the claim Of his friends that his administration
in Toledo has been a good thing for virtue. IL
tells how the good men Of the city voted Tor
him because they confidently expected that ne
would enforce all the laws, especially those re-
lating to the sale Of liquor. Moreover, 1t says
that Mr. Jones himself authorized this view or
his campaign, for when he was elected he tele-
graphed to Washington GLADDEN., Il have been
elected Mayor Of Toledo in spite of six hun
"dred saloons and the devil" "The New Voice
does not tell us what the dev-that Is, what his
Satanic Majesty now thinks Of the '"Golden
Rule" Mayor, but 1t quotes the saloonkeepers as
delighted with him because he doesn't interfere
with them We've got a bully Mayor re-
marks one OF them; you can run your place
"open on Sundays and every other day II you
want to- 1t don't make ID bit OF di1er-
"ence" As the staff correspondent OF THE New
Voice" remarks with biting scorn. the Mayor OF
Toledo Is quick to punish the burglar or incen-
diary but he has in his golden rule heart a
great tenderness" for the salOOnkeepers. lie
feels the same tenderness, it seems, for dsor-
derly women on the streets; for when citizen
recently complained Of them he replied, when
you are ready TO take one Of those girls into
your home and care for her l will see that the
rest of them are kept away"
So this is what has happened to Jones. Ac-
cording to all the traditions, the wicked pub
ucans and sinners ought TO have been the per-
sons to pull him off his pedestal and tear the
aureole from his brow But instead Of that they
declare he is bully" and the act of decanonza-
ton is performed--with great reluctance, we are
sure-by fellow traveller in the difficult path
of virtue. Is 1t not possible that there Is some
mistake in the matter? We hate to give up
Jones. and certainly won't do so until we have
heard his answer to these charges. Maybe he
has been too busy TO look after the saloons Of
Toledo, for. as every one knows, he has been
sitting up nights for the last year or so making
plans for the destruction OF the trust evil, popu
larly known as the Octopus No man can do
everything all at once, and when the good
Mayor has killed the Octopus doubtless he will
attend to the saloons.