The Montgomery advertiser., 1901-10-29
WICKEDNESS
 IN NEW YORK Protest Over The London
 Times Story. NO CRITICISM RELISHED Foreign Comment on Condi-
 tiOn Not Wanted. Michael Davitt Writes The Times De- lending Government of American Metropolis-No Worse Than
 That of London.
NO CRITICISM RELISHED

London, Oct. 29.-Tne Times this morn ing prints the following New York dis patch:
 Yours of Thursday regarding the con- dition of New York. has been telegraphed
 back here and has raised storm of pro- test. Commissioner of Police Murphy calls 1t 'wickedIy and maliciously false.'
 Commissioner Murphy has so charac- terized every attack on the police since
 he became commissioners, but in this case
 he is supported by the newspapers, even by those most bitterly opposed to Tam- many. One paper calls the dispatch
 Fiction and the attitude of the other papers is similar.
 There never was better illustration of the American characteristic, which has been noted by many visitors to the United States that so long as the criticisms of anything American are printed in the United States, nothing is said. But out side criticism is denounced. The very papers which declared the dispatch to be lie have been printing articles repre- senting the condition of New York as be- ing deplorable. On Thursday one evening paper gave list of the burgiaries which had been committed in a few days, in q single section, with the heading What Burglars Are Doing While Tammany's Police sleep.' Another paper. the same day said reports of robberies are sup pressed by wholesale.
 Afraid to Make Arrests. "As a matter of fact the police are HrolA HA alrn oatG precincts within short distance of head quarters in which the robberies and hold ups as the rule rather than the exception. | It is fact that the police have orders | not to make arrests between now and | election unless absolutely compelled to do | so.
 ''Then follow details of a number of cases of crimes down town. In one case the victim shouted for the help of a policeman who was twenty-five yards away but the officer turned and walked in an opposite direction.
 "A morning paper yesterday printed column article headed, Assaults, Thefts and Even Murders Fall to Move the Police.' It is said that if the complaints of crimes committed on Park Row made
 to policemen were only reported at the stations, the thoroughfare would be shown to be as evil as 2 resort at the
 Five Points during it's most evil days.
 Then follows a detailed long list or re- cent robberfes on Park Row."
 Michael DavitL writes to The Times to- day protesting against 1t correspondents description of New York. which he char acteribes as 'lihel upon that city as gross and grotesque as ever was pEnted in a public journal"
 Mir. Davitt proceeds unhesitatingly to declare that the statements which he con- demns are invented. saying: Life and property are as safe in New York as in London. There is less crime of a serious kind than in any of the great cities of the
 world and there is no more panic than
 there would be elsewhere on the eve Of an election"
 At the conclusion of an elaborate de- fense of the reputation of New York. MT. | Davitt says: T hold no brief for Tam many Hall but I know New York as
 well as I know London and I write solely
 in the inteerst of fair play"