Omaha daily bee., 1910-09-25
Whitlockism Exposed.

The Interior of Chicago, a militant
church organ, is one of the great
moral agencies that is not deceived by
that school of sentimental city admin
istrators represented by the late
Golden Rule Jones and the present
Mayor Brand Whitlock of Toledo. In
an editorial 1t clearly exposes the
whole sham OF this "holier-than-thou"
propaganda, which has been so emf
nently successful in concealing from
credulous people its real mission
self-aggrandlzement.
The Interior points out that between
1890 and 1900 Toledo gained in popu-
lation 81 per cent while between
1900 and 1910 it gained only % per
cent, being surpassed by Columbus as
the third city in the state. 1t was this
last decade during which Jones and
Whitlock have served as mayors. As
the Interior puts it, THE latter period
is the period of the ascendency of SEN
timental mayors too weak to deal
squarely with vice and law-breaking."
| Do results count?
quite a few of the good citizens of
Toledo have been accustomed to boast
that their town has attained ideal
municipal government under the sway
OF its famous mayors" says the In
terror. The Whitlock and Jones no.
ton is to be sweet toward everybody
and not be harsh about anything
rule which neither mayor ever violated
except to denounce two classes
preachers and rich men. or course,
this artificial complexion Of felicity
has appealed vastly to sentimentalists
for sentimental reasons, and to the
people who make their living by crime
and vice for reasons not sentimental"
Then the Interior adds that some of
the clean people are now about to
awake from the dream into which
Jones and Whitlock lulled them and
wonder If, after all, Toledo, with it's
wide-open vicious policy of Whitlock-
ism and its heavy falling OF in gain of
population are really the evidences
and the attributes of the best gov
erned city in the world"
This certainly is an effective exposi-
ton of the sham these political takers
have been practicing on the people,
and for what? Do not the people see
that 1t is for nothing except the selfish
interests of the self-styled reform
ers?" This thing has become cpl
demic in this country, and often men
} or newspapers that refuse to be
swayed by every such gust of senti-
mentalism are denounced by some up
start, with not enough business of his
own to keep him from meddling with
that of other people. But what is to
be said of the leading organ of one OF
the leading church denominations of
: the country when 1t comes out with
; such q complete denunciation of Jones
J ism and Whitlockism, which In other
cities and other states might go by a
dozen different names?
II Iu6 pCOPlO ulu hOL want 10 DC QG-
ceived by these charlatans they would
} not be. After the Reno prize fight
Whitlock came out in one of his syn
dictate articles with a denunciation OF
: the anti-hght sentiment as "recrudes.
! cence of Anglo-Saxon morality" say
ing that meanwhile in the tenements
!, and slums half the children die before
the age of years. Furthermore, last
J year, by the Industrial machines oil
t the country, half a million men were
/ killed or MANNED"
| And his followers shouted HIS
| praises. Great man, that" But did
| they stop to inquire what he, as the
mayor of a great city, was doing to
check OF overcome these evil condi
tions? There is the trouble. People
> are too easily swept of their feet BY
some vagrant wave OF sentimental elo
5 quence that happens to strike theil
idle fancy without touching theil
minds. Perhaps no mayor in tbs
a United States has done less to correc
, these evil conditions, or this highly
t esteemed church paper would not dar,
to declare that Whitlock is too veal
: to deal squarely with vice and law
: breaking" When will the peopl,
: learn?
9 One of the chief obstacles to rea
reform and genuine civic virtue is tn,
b fake reformer and his sham policies.