The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1905-01-05
STIR EN- UP, SAYS JEROME.
RAINES Law CAV ne ENFORCED
but No ONE VIII DO 1T.
Hopes 10 Arouse the t1erEymen and FER
hops TO Get Better Lav-Sails INTO
Seth Low and Gen. Grrene-bStnan
Abbott Outlines Local option Plan'

New York uu William Travers jerome
came out o,. 60, -tep= u his tenement home
YESTERDAY no -ing, snuled his lungs fuIl
of the icy air- az Rutgers street and de
clared that be felt that the public mind
was in mood 10 be insurrected
There is fermentation OF the mnniclpal
intellect. feel II in the air he said err
rnentation breeds Qualification. Let us be
busy"
Some time later he walked into the part
OF his Office which * known as the ABIDING
place Of the Trouble Club ana mace tn'S
tItterance on the excise question
Il find mvsef quoted saying that the
Raines law IL not euforcibIe. II If entorGi-
tIe nm the men Who onforc,. IL will die
POLITICALLY So nobody will enforce 1t. Wa
do not live in a world u saints. Now let Va
consider the ease OF the Great and Good
Seth Low While he vas Mayor OF what
be liked to call this. our Imperial CITY
police sptain was put on trial for not en-
forcine the Raiuea law. The case was
heard bv his ,,reat and Good Commissioner
of Police II Wa a clear case and the Great
and Good Commissioner found the pollce
captain guilty A. charged. Then az inc
direction and order of the Great and GOOD
Seth Low the Great aud Good Comm Ssloner
Of POLICE ordered that the guilty captain
should b. rcprimanded and that the rel pm
mand should tvs read in every police sta
tion in the city Among others VINO read
this reprirhand to his men wns the captain
20 whom he reprmaud vas addressed
We road IL in b, bower OF flowers sent 70 him
fby his friends ard apprtciator- with their
congratulations tor his 'sindication And
every policeman 10 whom he read 1t listened
and wore = hroad grin.
~Now what lis a police captains job
except graft9 And why should II be taken
away from him
With this cryptic utterance ne disap-
pea-ed into has Office aud vent INTO CON
ference with q police captain. about whose
GRAND he md nothing TO say, But Later
there Gun, further utterances from the
District Attorney on the excise question
Tb,v car,c with a report that certain
'efiadi,t clergymen had said that the
Netholi-t tho on Tuesday voted for the
appointment 81 a committee 20 Goad the
Police Commissioner and the Mayor and
eha Cover ~ into a strict enforcement
OF tho e1eise las did 70 withou. tho au-
shorty Of their central body.
Mr.. Jerome said that he did not know
ANYTHING about the authority Of the min
ssters and others whom he met and who had
promised to send n committee with him
20 the Commissioned and the Mayor. He
knew simply that he had read IN the news
spauers of a conference OF representatives
NJ temperance societies and CHURCHES which
had been meeting under the auspices OF
the National Temperance Society and that
he had asked for permission 70 lay his views
before them. As a result Of the presen-
tatton OF his views the members OF the
conference agreed to appoint committee
of twentv-one 10 90 with him 10 tho law
enforcing authorities.
A. individuals, Mr.. Jerome said they
I we're representative clergymen@%H the
bodies from which they came did not wan
the Rainea law enforced and were not
willing to make fight To have II enforced,
he did not care how soon they came out
into the open.
Mr. Jerome gave out statemeu'' IN
The evils that come from the present
condition Of the Excise law in this city
result from the acknowledgements ~ that
law II that law in regard 70 sunday
opening and the 20 called Ri1nes Law hotels
be- enforced the evils Of blackmail. perjury.
general degradation and debauching Of
the police force would 10 large extent
be obyiated II. on the other hand, the
law in regsrd TO Sunday opening ~ amended
these evils would also be reduced to q
minimum What | am Interested IN IL
that the evils from which We suffer AZ tho
result Of the non-enforcement OF the law
should be reduced to a minimum. or, II
possible. entirely destroyed. Ana per
TaonaUv I care nothing whether these evils
be minimi1ed or destroyed nv an amend
rnent nf the law or by enforcement 81 the
iay Bnt Il L. only by eithe" amendment
~ enforcement that they can be- eliminated
OF mirmln'd.
L do believe in the amendment OF this
aw. 20 that we might get a iaT WHOM
hubble officers Couldenforce without de-
stroyinG their political future THINK
hat II ,,e must have enforcement. in order
To get rid Of the evils of the -aW, 40 VIII
be compelled 10 have II by some authority
other than that ~ officials i1aily elected
orappomted No human being acquainted
With the mountains Of Tennessee and West
Virginia would believe for one moment
that tho United States interna revenue
laws in regard Ia disttaton on spirits
-sould he enforced in tho~e regions by
authorities locally eected or appointed
aMv de-ire 20 influence the ciergy'nen
especially 10 this question h. that they arc
NOT tangled mp at an in questions Of politics
and fhey look uuon this proposition simply
ia one affecting the morality of the COM
ynunity and believe they agree with me
10 "a man that when law y on the statute
hook n should be enforced While many
lArgrsIna th me that this law should be re-
No, - very many believe that the law
orohIbiring sales Of liquor on Sunday ~
-tl,a .,itv II Vow \ York D. a wise or.t and
hue ft1ff I tdfllfF ~ F'f'N 'ii' 'l''l
az. N body Co 3gree with me on the ds~ir-
-lglp,s of au.ruding the law 50 AZ 10 permit
,,al,,. On sunday think - a man iney do
,lnfae with me on the propositlon That the
.,vis incident 20 this las not beng eHtWcAd
liave become simply ntolerable and that
therefore. IL should be enforced
Tho Anti-Saloon League. which on I ues-
dav held . meeting 40 condemn rhe Ralnes
Lao, and - ,,ok some way uf obtaining
t.ijlsstihIte Tor n yesterday gathered it,
Headquarters committees together 10 ap-
l5oiat a committee of nifty which should
gbqDe .rtion against the k,tine- law II
was announced that fifteen members Of
the committee rad been appointed. but
that their names Nouid not De gwen. Out
until il was known whether they would
eerve a. cunmitte
From tho general committee suh-com-
mittee of five vii he appointed which will
call itself the headquarters committee and
viii undertakes 70 influence Republican
members Of the Legislature against the
Raines las. The Rev. Dr. Howard II.
Russell. who j. az the head OF the Anti
Saloon Leagues conference. said that he
had received e letter IRON the Rev. Dr..
Lyman Abbott in vnich Dr.. Al bott raid.
am IN favor Of any legal rcg'Ila ton which
gives reHepuHhl' hone oi reducing the mum.
her NJ eafoOf- al ~ coli requiring II sm to COM