The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1910-07-12
SELF PRESERVATION
LAWS INTENDED TO PROIECl l
THE PEOPLE FROM EVIL.
GAYNOR'S BLUNDER
As Mayor of New York, as Christian
Gentleman, His Duty to Forbid the
Exhibition of Pictures That Will
Arouse Rancor Between the Races.
ITO the Caucasian)

* ITO the Caucasian)
The communication following is from
a lady, resident of Shreveport:
Time will prove that Mayor Gaynor
of New York City made the greatest
blunder which will mark his career
when he refused to interfer with the
exhibition Of the pictures of the late
unhun1an show at Reno
The Aimsy assertions of the mayor
seem. childlike in the extreme.
When the mayor remarks-ln writing
to the International Reform Bureau
." But will you be so good as to remem-
ber that ours is a government Of laws
and not of men, it seems but proper
to call his benighted attention to the
fact that laws are inanimate and amount
to nothing unless they are used by men,
Does the mayor know that laws were
made by men to be used by lawyers for
the benefit of the people, to protect the
people from imposition, fraud, or any
exhibitions which will arouse. the brutal
instincts of the class that is inclined to
sink below the level of humanity?
People who have no judgment as tc
what will injure them, must be pro
tected from harm. s- .~- -.....
1t is unnecessary to go into the ram
ifeations of the law to prove that it was
Mayor Gaynors duty as a Christian
and gentleman to forbid the exhibi-
tiop<of these pictures which will arouse
raneor between the races, make riots
and sG
CAUSE NE NTO KILL.
Supposedly officers of State and of mu-
nicipality are elected by the people as
persons of high principles and fitted by
education to make decisions with de-
gree of judgment which will exceed
that displayed by possum.
It is trouble enough the people have
with incompetent officials who seem tc
be swayed by principles not strictly
American.
Perhaps foreign influence is account
able for such ruthless encouragement OF
brutal games, the publication Of tainted
literature, sensational drama and
amusements, which all tend to hurry
people on and force them into unthink-
ing masses at the mercy of impulse in
stil1ler by sensational literature, sensa-
.tiona1 drama, sensational morals ana
the appalling exposition of the condi.
ton of the immigrants, the criminalities
Of the lower classes, and the perverted
nature of the higher classes, to whom
money
MONEY HAS BEEN A CURSE.
American principles are being ig
nored. The mighty cities of the Unitec
States are governed by feesimpl'
power.
II would seem but proper to inform
the mayor that there is no growing
|exercise of arbitrary power in thi:
country by those put in office" as they
(the oficers) are generally led by som,
ring; and often seem not to have tht
ability to distinguish between good ane
evil.
These large cities like New Yorl
and Chicago are.so overrun with pros
perity and people of lower propensitie'
that they need balancing power of TIL
substantial opinions of upright citizens
To allow what is termed "returl
engagement would endanger ever
community. The races should be pro
tected by intelligent statesmen and of
fcials who know the danger of repeat
| ing the horros that were
ENACTED AT RENO.
The degrading influence of that ex
hibition of brutality still rests upon tn
land Reports such as moving picture
boy bandits" mayor who prohibite
exhibition threatened" are vital les
sons that demand civil jurisdiction i
every city in the United States, so neve
again the slur will rest upon the coun
| try that the American people are dc
teriorating and that the Republic c
America will fall even as Rome fell
It is not necessary for history to re
peat itself" In this age the intelligenc
of man should be sufficiently advance
to render hin, capable of comprehendin
MISREPRESENTATION is the first law {