Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-03-20
RULE IN NEW YORK
Gaynor Declares City Out
wardIy Orderly and Moral.
PRAISES POLICE FORCE
Declares Blackmail and Extortion
Worst Evils.
CONTROL BY LEGISLATURE
Objects to Proposed Charter-op-
poses National Issues in City.
Politics. -.

SYRACUSE N Y, March 19.-After
discussing the question of high prices and
monopolies before the Chamber of Com
merce tonight Mayor Gaynor of New
York said:
Now, / suppose you expect me to say
something of the government of the city
of New York. but / scarcely know how
to come at that. It is contrary to my life
time habit to say what I intend to do, and
l cannot speak of what has been done.
But 1 will say a word about that which
is for the day uppermost in my mind.
am sure that every one of you who has
travelled will agree with me when I say
that the city of New York is outwardly
the most orderly, moral and decent large
city in the world. The notion which has
been disseminated far and wide to the
contrary by handful of very historical
and noisy people is much to be regretted.
They spend their time declaiming about
the vice of New York, that word having
to them only one meaning and their heads
being apparently filed with just that one
vice, how, do not know. whereas there are
many vices, including the detestable vice
of bearing false witness and thinking Ill
of every one. They seem to know nothing
of the great charitable heart Of Jesus.
You business men are opposed to what
you call knocker.' and so are all of us.
Observance of Law.
1.-The truth is that we have to be better
in New York city than anywhere else In
order to escape condemnation. Take the
matter of liquor saloons on Sunday. My
summer home is in Suffolk county on
Long Island. 1t is true that the shades
of the barroom windows are kept up all
day Sunday there, as required by law, SO
as to expose the room to every paSserby
and show that no one Is there. But the
side or family door swings back and forth
all day and all Corners get quiet comfort
In some inner room, and no one, crusader,
canon or sensationalist. says a word, or
hardly word. And that is true all over
the state outside Of New York city. But
there the matter is one of ever-recurring
crusade, spying and summary and arbi-
trary arresting. with the inevitable conse-
quence of extortion and blackmail right
and left; great and dangerous evil be-
ing thus substituted for a much smaller
one l have now in consideration the
way OF a systematic, safe and orderly adj
ministration of the liquor law so thatstt
will be observed in the city of New York
even better than in the rest of the state
and at the same time this eating canker
of extortion and blackmail shall be de-
stroyed. All good and sensible people
would rather see every saloon wide open
on Sunday than have it continue But
with the aid of the good and Intelligent
people of the city the law can be en-
forced as well as and better than any,
where else in the state and blackmail
and extortion put an end to at the same
time. Whether / could favor an amend
ment to the law to allow saloons to be
open certain hours on Sunday, as In Great
Britain and Ireland and as some OF our
clergymen and others advocate, l cannot
saw