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that they were prepared TO furnish to the
District Attorney evidence against police
officials who had failed to close certain
saloons This letter to the Mayor was
given out afterward:
Hon. Seth Low. Mayor Of the eiiv Of Neu York:
sin: In acknowledging your communi-
TO us both Just and courteous.
The principie y, upon pom, which s was based our
You You win hardly care to except. l. that adding
TO the law or subtractlns from II Is not part OF
q an w5ss ao estcn Of
tingent considerations must be allowed to
conceal or disguise.
Upon this matter you intimate that your
resources are not adequate to the enforce
ment Of the Excise law:undoubtedly; neither
are they adequate to the absolute enforce
has asked OF YOU; neither has any one asked
you Quoting from. your letter. ito concen-
and let all the Others 90 BY the board" Our
thls law go BY the board ana So9GCsntrstins
statutes from. what You do toward other
u' that Is what M You ~hn insS%Sted % Pefore your
election, you were expecting 70 DO here. and
that is what It L. evident you did in this city
the stateinents OF the newspapers and the
report of our detectives. o.
:, We have frankly recognized the exceed
ing difficulty OF your position and have con-
ceded the imperfect success achieved by
Mr. Roosevelt how much you might be able
in your own hands as Mir Roosevelt did not
have In his. It remains to be seen. Ea-Mayor
Hewitt has lust said that there can pe no
halfway policy In regard TO the enforce
ment OF IN" law. The police had no difficulty
~ enforcing tn" law at that time during hls
and ns5r SgsG sSa 70 wse ha
many organization ordered laworeaker
either TO put up or to shut up hc prctty
II unoiiicini immortality cnn accomplish az
much "a that. II would seem as thouRh oncihi
morality. as embodied in yourseli, coulu a.
least make hearty attempt to do as nhch
as that. M,
According to this mornings T,me't,a
iRRins thai saloonkespers said they we're
anxious about yesterday was not your ponce
men. but the detectives Of the Society TOT IN;
numbers something like 1000 men and the
department costs the CITY aoout tll'Wp,oyYo'
Our payroll and our bud get are veTy s'sRSdSh sSlch
shows that in the matter OF making men men
behave Themselves. the Quest ion Of me
mere item as compared with the amoun, Of
determination that there Is back oil 'ha'
strength s foe, may
prove to be necessary is modlhcatlon OF
The existing statute, hut we also ieeI tna.
nn, yca rs%sot be enforced @ the mos,
that the Legislature can be expected 70 DO
will he 10 allow US he privilege of referendum
hut H. as the District Attorney Chains
referendum would decide against openihg
saloons on Sunday, the matter wouiG "
thrown hack to its present status. and w
pressure upon you TO make earnest WIN ,ne
enforcement OF the law as II STANDS ohy
more urgent than II Is now ,nr
We want, however. 10 add 10 the 1oieso.hE,
that whatever course YOU may adopt W 'hls
natter, YOU can always count upon lhe
society for the Prevention OF crime az y
laval allv along any line OF law-entorcement
w6sn Won think we can be OF service 10 you
and your Administration. Our coh,etIIoh
is not With YOU personally nor Win the ooN- COY,
ornment at whose head you stand ont oung
with a single aspect OF your adhih'Sfa''
policy - H., utra,
In attesta alton Of the assurance Just given
We would like to submit 10 you hereNnn
the following facts In regard 20 tne VI, ,ni. Ss.
condition of the so-called Raines law ho,els
in the borough OF Manhattan ana por'lon
of the annexed district This we 90, 70,
in criticism Of your ad mintstraiion, pu, loI
your possible guidance and tha' oi Noui
police Commissioner, for the iacls Ctcu
existed AT the close OF the previous hoinn
i-ttraion and are not a matter. therefore,
OF course, for which you are IN any way
responsible , go.
our detectives have. during the past ven
weeks visited i.267 Of the above-hhIhru
hotels or these only 392 t3l per cent lhAve
All the AppurtenanCes REQUIRED pN Ihe
statutes. sss have some of those appuf'e-
nances aud 2O7 are entirely destitute oi mem
Furt her details we should he pleased 10 SUD-
nit II desired Yours respectfully,
e II PAREHUEsT. President
T ID kESNEsoS, Secretary
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