The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-07-16
GORKY'S ATTACKS
AMAZE Il NEW YORK
Russians Story Of tfMammon Z
Without Foundation, Declares
the Acting Mayor.
Journal Special Service.

Journal Special Service.
New York, July 16.-Maxim Gorky's
arrangement Of America and Americans
and especially of New York and New
Workers, was something of an astonish-
! ment to the people Of this city, who
had come to believe after fashion
a vile place and that there was some
where in it the liberty that we have
always boosted Of. Strange enough
the people in the East Side cafes and
clubs and in the parks took the most
violent offense at his insinuations that
poverty bore hard on them, and that
the horror Of it was the saddest thing
that the great Russian author and rev.
nd Aeas Maya eW years aso rather
said, cit was the custom of visiting
Europeans. to 20 home and write books
about US from what they saw in a SUI
perficial view as they hurried around
the country. am afraid that Mr..
Gorkey has yielded to this temptation
without going home. But the city Of
New Yorw. Is too. big and too magnan-
imous to be seriously disturbed over
the views of. a writer who no doubt can
about what he has seen here. Whether
he knows us or not, I will not say, but
some people who have lived here all
their lives have still to learn of the in
nate, goodness Of New York, and it,
people. 81 : :"
1--WE Have Liberty"
1.-THE people aren OF self-satisfed,
On the contrary the very activity Of
winch W he writes shows that we are con-
sta5ntly trying to improve themselves
3o 4~p
on the East Side as there is in every
great city. But when I talk about the
East Side I know what I am talking
about: In my experience as school
commissioner there 7 came to know tho
people very well. They are honest. In
dustrious,. ambitious and the Industrial
and political freedom that they work
for is within the grasp Of all Ameri-
cans. and they will get it.
eve have liberty in America. We
have something better-freedom. No
one can stop the American people from
doing anything they want to. We
work because we want to. It is the
way to live. No one In the state of
new York need work harder than is
good for him. And hard work brings
Its reward in comfort, peace and plenty.
Love Virtue, Too.
Our culture may differ SLIGHTLY
from that Of Europe. Ours is culture
Of the heart and the soul. When the
American people were indignant over
what they believed was not regular in
Gorky''s coming here with a compan-
lon whom he introduced as his wife,
that innate culture refused him recog.
milton: 1t would have done the same
by a king. But the fairness of Ameri-
can hearts has never refused to recog-
nize the mans efforts to better his OBJ
pressed country. The fairness of
American brains has never refused to
recognize his greatness as a writer.'
T he Rev. Walter f. Clifton Smith
pastor Of the fashionable Church of the
Ascension, said: Gas to his remark
about the statue Of liberty holdino the
torch OF the dollar instead of the
torch Of freedom 7 feel that it may
appear so to FOREIGNER coming here
and Judging specifically. To develop
our great country we must work, make
money and spend it. But because q
people like to work does it follow that
thew are s1aves7 With us labor is ben.
efcial, and we do it to get money, and
get money to get time for culture. Our
very liberty makes the ambition tc
work to better. our condition greater. y