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the force and fined 81 900 upon conviction

the force and fined 81 900 upon conviction
| OF neglect Of duty.
Il do not think that the Mayor would
deny that the decision ordering the mere
| repTimand was written in his ohce, sara
a man yesterday. Il do not think that
| Col Partridge, who was then Police CON.
| missioner, would deny II. IL " likely tnat
! he would refuse to discus II. AZ mat'er
| Of fact Col. Partridge did not have Tree
foot in the Foody trial at any stage OF the
game
WE PAY NO observation-disclosures
President Fritz Lindinger OF the Liquor
| Dealers Association said yesterday that
| the association would probably take fotne
action on Mayor Lows attack this AFTER
| noon.
Personally, he said, Il was never more
astonished in my life than when j learned
| Of Mayor Lows attitude. Now ! ike Mr..
| Low and know he is an educated man, out
the best ] can say of his present position Is
that he is very badly misguided by some
one. am ready TO say that tins organize
ton is not paying money for police protec-
| ton. The Mayor intmates that the asso-
citation Is trying TO pay 1t 70 the ponce now.
Why, did anybody ever hear OF anything
| so absurd? II stands TO reason that u We
were inclined to pay blackmail at all we
wouldn't do it unless some one came 70 us
| and said wee have to pay II or quit business
and the police aren't doing that by long
shot. ,..
| W nat 10 iidht 'hN'' -
| Mayor can bring one reputable man forward
| who will say that ] ever paid a cent OF black
mail either Of my own accord or IN company
| with anybody else, / will give 5000 TO any
| charity in this city. All ask Is one witness.
| He needn't have anybody to corroborate
| his story.
OTHER FELLOWS PAY BLACKMAIL.
we aren't trying TO demoralize the
police. We don't want to- pay blackmall
and we aren't paying any. There is some
paid, but il Judge jerome were Mayor he q
know right away where to get the people
who pay il and To put an end to the business.
1t is being paid by people outside OF our
organization.
Mayor Low would do better IL he'd
spend his time trying to make the police
better instead Of trying TO induce US TO oner
proof that we are not blackmailers.
Now, voted for the fusion ticket last
election and hustled like thunder to get
my friends to vote that ticket, got
lot OF them to do it, too. And when we go
to the Mayor to oppose a bill that means
a big license tax for us he tells US TO prove
that We aren't felons. We called on him
as gentlemen and as men representing
an organization Of 10000 dealers OF this
State and 1000 dealers right here In Man
haitian and The Bronx. He shuts his door
and says he can't talk to us because he's
heard that we pay blackmail.
well, let him go on record. That's
what we want now. just let him say all
he can. We shan't ask him for help again
because even IL he changed his mind and
ton to what he said. Let him get on record.
There'll be a reckoning by and by
cor COURSE BLACKMAIL IS PAID'-rEKULsKY
Morris Tekulsky, who was formerly
president of the association, said that the
Mayor didn't understand the conditions
and that his administration was not ION
.Of course, blackmail is paid he said,
sbut IL the Mayor knew his business he
could stop the graft right away. He cant
stop it, however, by putting in green police
officers who are greedier after the graft
than the old ones. As for the association
being a secret organization, that's all right.
OF course it's secret. We don't want our
business discussed over every bar In town.
MAYOR INCLINED TO FAVOR HIoHER LICENSE
Mayor Low wrote a second letter yester-
day explaining that he IL inclined TO favor
Fuehrer, president Of the German Ameri- |
can Citizens League, who had written to
him TO learn where he stood. 1t Il a.
follows:
hand You ask me to define my attitude |
toward state bill such a. The Court OF fp-
f 10: No sSe o MsyST r.|aion to have no
been consulted. either a. TO the policy Of
detail: but avsjI Of this Opportunity to giye
e ho E4ess on tss
nantes d by ye yen and others o ~ ~
! think the bill must be looked upon, pr
martly, as revenue measure: II !. evidently
revenues OF the STATE, let ps examine it
pr TS sr. thf n1as 81 Two
thirds 81 the state tax. and II also pays sub.
etantislly two.thirds q the excise tax that
missioner estimates that the excise tar
nov Yields about si1, ooo. 900. all told. and
t tStf 'h rp osT ,h R bs fhs seep
q. S 60 200 ono out Of the 81; 90 600; and under
ss' p,GRssss co. I qse ts %eiS pay %o
thirds q The 200 CO." o Or s;:s' Goo oos and
The irst thing to nariSs is that. II the STATE
were 20 raise by direct taxation 900 900
or % 100000 the dty would pay exactly the
as p BY this ta,st i By The new plan. more.
over. the city would keep out Of the sum paid
In endse taxes $1,000 Instead sni 81 Sneooo.
fore. as q city, would not suffer. either directly
or indirectly. by the proposed I'll; beosus.
~ s'h ,Ss oo lie Instead Of ont,Sird.
proposes 20 take the sam. proportion 81 the
Total sum collected from oil pS :, IL ~. STATE
iiouor uafrc all over the state viii b. much
more heavily taxed. This raises, IN eject.
'"I ~ ons Who is fsmiiiar With my u,,ersncs
for the last twrnty years knows that ] am
= believer In hieh lioensa I believe IN hlgh
iio~bsa because " IL the only automatic Way
4 know 81 20 nm.i the number % saloons, q |
result Witch every one, Including those ~
sssed To- the trsric recognizes 20 be- nsoss-
AIRY o. greater az less dsFr.s. Every atteup'
has pfodr oed TINS psskHble evils. liish liosuss
! a. tsnt 10 place the spnduet - the businses,
Ia responsible hends aud. Ia Ny, iu,dsment
~ far FROM making foT m"nopoly, " isnds
precisely tho other say fof Shen tic nosIss
H.. g. los the bfexsts and dlstillefs Ouh meet
Of tho Saloons.
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