The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1910-03-27
N TOLEDO IT'S DIFFERENT
TITI WHFRE OFFICIALS
HAIE TNISIAL IDEAS.
nrana WhltIOch. NhO 10 opposed to Jails.
the successor 90 Golden Rule Jsues.
Nha mao TolssOi QaOsaSIon Painted
On the City HAT Police Also nasdal.

On the titS ham-POhee Also l nnsahai.
The Toledo City Hall 10 the only one
IN the country that has e quotation from
.olstoi painted on the wall just inside
the front door Of the Mayors once. II
- that paragraph in which Tolstoi
ave YOU can MIKE bricks or cut stare
or nuild houses without love. but you
cannot govern men without love.
II one crosses the big outer once and
looks into the Mayors little private once
va will eEther the idee that the chief
oficial Of Toledo must Re a literary man.
Inc wallSSre covered with signed photo
gre phs of many living poets and novelists
and with pictures of Emerson. lbscn and
people like thst over the desk instead
81 motto ~ the enect that IL il the
Mayors busy day there hangs a little
frame end illuminated quotation which
r-ads
Bs Of good beer SleAdfasily serve that
~ whisper thou hast heard For know
tod has q silent frR.ily Of IONS nov scat
,svsd vide through earth and earh
alone Who are thy spiritual kindred. and
essh one by Constant seTvtce to that inward
ls~ 10 weaving the sublime proportions
~ A true monar'h's soul
These are unusual quotations TO hang
IN . Mayors once. Golden Rule Jonee
had the one from Tolstoy put up many
years ago.
drunken painter had been sent to
lAll When he got out he went up to tho
Mayors once and Get forth he hadn't
any money or any JOB Jonee got VOL
ume Of Tolstoy from his de~k. found the
passage and told the painter to paint
that up on the wall and he would pay him
ToleSio insists on having for its Mayor
tsrm after term not only q novelist but
. man VIM clisn@lieves in the whole prison
system OF the world. who would IL he could
o1en all the prison doors and let all the
prisoners 90 free. II Mayor Brand Whit
lock- were q private individual this notion
mi ght pass unnoticed. hat when Toledo
elects him Mayor three times in success
son. with every party. Democratic. Re
publican and Socialist. against him and
every newspaper in Toledo opposed To
him. his career becomes q curiosity IN
American politics
The hrst great secret OF WhitloCk :
position 10 that Jones came before hun.
For many years the peopleof Toledo were
educated by Jones.
Jones was n Welsh immigrant. a day
Wild OcCniBE a NNaltiN
manufacturer, employing large num-
b~rs Of men. He was a strict member Of
the Presbyterian Church. an officer IN
church and Sunday school. When the
\ p. A. came zap IN the early 'vOr. It created
turmoil IN the Republican party IN Tol~io
a. elsewhere. Jones. who had never
taken any part in politics. was nominated
az q compromise candidate. outside all
factions and agreeable to everybody
Yet GOIdsn Rule Jones was thorn
IN the SIDE OF Toledo for many years,
and he certainly must have been very
akEravatink at times. For one thing he
used 10 20 60 the police court every morn
ing. aud AZ he sat watching the course
81 justice he would make an occasional
remark. One day a man was sentenced
for vAgrancy. although he protested
mat he vas not a Vagrant az all. Jones
'eaned over 90 him and ss'd:
Lets see your hands
The man turned up his palms. calIoused
lie the bark Of a tree. Jones laughed
and said
oh. well. its easy 20 s~e you're a
rockingham. I guess nothing can save
you from the workhouse
Judge Wachenheimer. 4 man noted
for fearing nobodv. vac sitting on the
bench. He turned 20 the Mayor 81 the
city and said coldly
Il fine YOU IS for contempt Of this court
Slowly. aRRravaungly. Jones pulled
out he checkbook and wrote a check
for the amount. Slowly. agRravatingly
he smiled az the Court and said:
Judge. You can't send any man to the
workhouse that carries a chsckbook-
There u not an English speaking adult
m Toledo who does not know that story
and tell il on the slightest provocation
u will never bs forgotten IN Toledo
anv more than some OF the Lincoln stories
will In Springfield.
II was one Of the prime beliefs % Jones'S
Re that men are imprisoned for debt
every day IN sh~ United States. although
y 10 against the Constitution: that they
are sent TO Jail not for things they hAv'
done hut because they hack a five or I
ten dollar bill To pay fine which another
man rays and goes free when he has dom
eIaciIy the same hing. lie wrote ana
lsctured on that subject. and Ivy hts hf'
~ cfase lsnpreased Toledo people viii
he way ~ thinking until when he dieC
hey picked a man Ia fill his place Wit
condemns The whole prison system.
I'would be a long story to tell how the!
work and conirive to keep peopl" out o
JAIL in Toledo. Here ~ ore instance:
one cold winter sunday during the har'
mes following the rarac Of 1901 Mayo
Nhtlock drove out TO Fast Toledo 20 IN
y's'lRafs a matter concerning which h
tad received some complaints 4 lot o
rAn who had been working on the rail
roafs during the summer and autumn
ha4 been brought in by the road when tn
season ended and left in Toledo. tn
rsaresi city There were 7OO Of them. o
several different natiCnahiies. Greeks
.r<s BuIgarians and 90 on. and not on
,~I.d speak Engiisl.
hey nab taken possession 81 two oh
dsserted houses and were camping Their
r. a'h and misery. Their money "a
Fon" and they had been living on q loo
q: rr~aj apiece a day from the count!
cnA-'y headquarters The county sAi'
'na' itA charitable fund was not equal q
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