The Washington times., 1912-12-07
WALDO DEFENDED
BY GAyN0R,, CALLED
FREE FROM GRAFT
Does Not Think Betrayal
Strange When One Of Apos-
ties Sold His Christ.

NEW YORK. Dec. 1.-THE great Beck
cr-Rosenthai gambling graft case was
analysed today by Mayor william j.
Gaynor. He pointed out lessons that
may be drawn from II by the executives
and people Of other American cities
The white.haired. gray-bearded execu-
tive frankly admitted there had been
plenty Of graft here and that some still
remains. He insisted. however. that y
S.fsnSed s: Ssnf Ing rank ana ne q the
York police a. the best In the world.
Gaynor insisted that he knew certain
cld.tlmc police inspectors were graft-
ers. He would not have been surprised,
in the recent upheavai,. and hopes and
rather expects some viii yet be landed
The mayor insisted that three thing:
the LIQUOR regulation. anti-gambiinG and
anti-prostitution laws.
Chances For Graft.
"A police force has two things to do"
said the mayor. "First. and most I'm.
portant. 10 its duty to preserve outward
order and deccncy throughout the city
That II it, first duty. and to deal with
the ordinary run Of crime. The second
duty 10 to deal with these three thinEs
that have mentioned. That has to be
done largely through secret work. We.
5 %. fire. fSr shns w9sn
were put over this squad. and they
and the squad were put under the po-
lice commissioner himself. Nobody else
could give them an order.
not be corrupted. but Of. course. we all
knew that members Of tho squad un:
der him could be corrupted here and
there. Lieutenant Becker was one Of
these .nd Me sSs n NAMED
Jack Rose, and was corrupted by him,
and was for some months. I suppose,
taking graft before the murder OF
Rosen,hs He sSmpletsISy con 1es oeee c"ra.m ysS 3ns
the commissioner for II and throw him
10 the wolves. as the sensational press
loudly demanded that ! should do. or
the contrary. l stood by him because
he had done no wrong.
Betrayal Of Waldo.
"of the twelve who dipped the soI
with Jesus, one betrayed him. 1t wal
not at all astonishing that Becker be-
trayed Waldo.
.Our present social system" continued
the mayor, in discussing the social evil
''al forces many young women 70 9.
Q8trny III OIueT " BCS "e
working girls are paid pittances to-
little to support them II 10 not surpr,s
Ing II they yield to the temptation q
men. II they were paid adequate,!
they would not yield. I do not max.
any pretense that we can do away VIII
the evil altogether. Do not rnisunder
stand me at all. Ever since have beer
mayor, in addressing clergymen: o.
making public statements. have beci
entirely frank on this subject and SUD
jects like II. I will not pretend that ",
can do things which I know We canno
do, All we can do 10 the best We cal
TO keep the evil down.
"The police commissioner says h
thinks that these women do not exceed
5000 in number In this city. but stil
that 10 a mere estimate. II that 500
could all be locked up or run out OF tn
city, or got rid Of. an equal numbe
would very promptly take their places
That IL perfectly we'll known to ever!
one who knows anything about tn
matter. We have to work away agains
Vices OF all kinds. and keep them down
Some think the mayor should stop ever!
vice and crime at once. Why all tn
preachers in the world have not -ye
brought about an observance Of the Tel
Commandments