New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1912-11-20
LET POOR WALDO ALONE
Mayor Willing to Bear All the
dumping On"
SPEAKS TO COLONY CLUB
Defends His Work in Handling
Social Evil and Enforcing
Liquor Laws.

Everybody here jumps on the Mayor
But I am so used to being jumped on
hope they will do all their Jumping on me
and let poor Waldo and the others &c
| scot free"
This was one OF the statements made
Yesterday by Mayor Gaynor in an address
TO the members Of the Colony Ciuo' VINO
had asked him to speak TO them on the
police situation. The Mayor confined him
self TO three phases of New York HE
which, he said, aroused the most discus
sion and criticism, and In backing up his
views quoted from Lecky and his Ole
friend Don Quixote and called John Cal
vim to his aid.
The first point referred to by the Mayor
was rs follows:
You say that you see women plying
their trade I'm the streets OF New YORK
say TO you fewer In number than In any
large city in the wOrid that you ever saw
o. ever will see. That Is owing In large
degree to the manner of our people ahu
20 large extent 10 the government OF
the city and the general sense of decency
I'm our police force and in our peOpie'
But have been bcSct Of late on this sun
i"ct as though ] ought 10 get rid OF All
these women some way or another. lhey
speak Of it i'm the harshest manner; they
speak Of me In the harshest manner. !
am content with that, but they SPEAK OF
these women I'm the most cruel manner
| am not content with THAT
Evil Always in the World.
That evil has been in the world since
the beginning. J had almost SAID since
the twilight of fable, since that borGer-
line where fable scarcely ceases and MS
tory hardly begins, these women Wet a.
here I'm this world. Why Because ~ "
i'm the nature OF things. Who made these
women what they are? WHY men III
every case They did not select IT,. 80
long 81 the passions OF men WIZ CoHutu,
10 be what they were and what they ar, ar
viii unfortunate women be here In TINS
world why they talk as though l couiu
Danish them al from the city
The Mayor then took up the liquor
traffic and sunday enforcement. lie re-
marked that the husbands and brothers
of those i'm his audience belonged 10 CIuba
where they could get all the drinks they
wished ON Sunday, and asked why thu
"ptucr fellows" shouldn't have the same
privilege The Mayor continued:
orr state law With regard to the excise
does not prohibit the sale or liquor OF,
sunday II expressly says that an
licensed hotels may sell liquor "nle ~
are eating, or with meals, on SUNDAY y
and that ig why they have thls Uttic
sandwich that they put before the men IN
the hotels The sandwich Is meal, you
know. and ] do not know whether tnrIe
Is aur one in this room who can denhI
what n meal g. 4 meal 10 a glutton ana
10 an abstomiOus man IS entirely or
farcut so that when II gets INTO the
courts they seem TO be quite WILING 70
decide that this sandwich Is meal OF
plate Of soup, whatever you choose 10
and I'm that way they eyade the law,
but they cyade Il through the courts
thrmsplvos. II Il be an evasion. So that
I'm die hotels which have licenses from
the state the policemen cannot STOP the
sale OF liquor They have no right 10.
But what can they Go2 they can cIo9o
tho barrg0m on Sunday, and that they
do That 7 caused % be done as soon 10
became Mayor.
Many Want Puritan Sabbath.
Tn. third question the Mayor dwelt
upon was Sabbath Observance. Some peo-
pIr no said want everybody 10 sit down
and keen SIN on sunday. They want TO
revive tic old Jewish Sabbath which our
Lord Jesus was not satisfied with, ne
said. lie continued.
That IL a subject for grave considera-
tluu too / receive letters from clrlEy-
mon that want me TO drive all the hoyS
and girls out OF IN" parks on SUNDAY p.
They say ann disgTdciUg the Sabpdlh by
allowing the Young people to play tennis
and bali I'm the parks; and vacant places
OF the city. Well now they were playing
there before / became Mayor. ! do not
know what they made dead set on me
Tor I Gid omen one great ground over I'm
Hr00tlyn the Parade Ground. / went
over this whole ci,y one sunday 10 see
what the boys and girls were doing and
how th,y were playing, and where /
gaW games from one side OF the city TO
the other. Probably by boys and girls
that went 10 church the same day The
next morning I said that this Parade
Ground OF forty acres looked To me Ike
tho most lonesome place / had ever seen,
and the Park Commissioner took the hint
and opened Il the next Sunday and II
was covered by small boys playing ball.
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