New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1912-09-25
MAYOR L|KENS SELF
TO HUNTED CRIMINAL
Speaks in a Church. Which. He
Says. Is as a Refuge from
Mob at His Heels.
DEFENDS LIBERAL SUNDAY
UNFOLDING of His Administra
tive Methods Follows Gus
tomary Attack on the
Newspapers.

Newspapers.
Tie Mayor made a typica. Gsynor
speech last evening 10 the members Of
| the Mems Club OF the Fort WASHINGTON
! Reformed Church, Fort Washington
avenue and lS1st street. which he punctu-
ated, as usual. with frequent references 70
! degenerate newspaper proprietOrs. lie
! Iikcncd himself 10 begin with 10 a
hunted criminal in the Middle AGES. and
1 the Reformed Church 10 church OF
refuge into which he had escaped for
safety from the mob at his heels. But he
found his case even worse than that OF
the hunted criminal OF q bygone era, be-
cause, az nc suggested, they "d.d not
have any degenerate newspaper proprie-
/ tors TO lead the mob in those days.'
When he had put his audience Of clean
cut nien--rnost of them on the better side
of middle age. irrespective Of their rela-
ton to the Middle Ages-in good humor
with his quaint irouies he launched forth
into an extended exposition OF his We've
on City Government and the Indi-
v.dua.." which. OF course, constituted a
T
He dealt first with the broad problems
OF Sunday regulation, then with that OF
excise violation. ending with a discussion
Of the problem OF prostitution. topped off
b. q word or two about dcspotism end
the police.
E<-Congrcssnan William :. Bennet had
invited the Mayor over Mr.. Bennett was
scheduled TO preside. but had to 80 70
Saratoga instead. Said the Mayor:
Wen Congressman Bennett came and
asked me 10 come here about three
weeks ago didn't quite know what to
say 20 MIN at first. | thought a few
things that ! did not express to him.
however. and finally wound I'D BY say
ing that I would come. one thought
was surprise thar there was any
church that WOULD ask me 10 come 10 II
At all Laughter II the degenerate
newspapers OF the city We're 10 he be
licYed. I do not think | would ever see
the inside Of a church for sc, eral years
20 come
So ] said I would come. felt re-
lieved that ] could come. 10 tell IN"
truth. In former ages. and not 80 yerE
long ago they had churches Of refuge
think they called them. That is 10
say. there were certain churches where
criminals could run 10 when the mon
as chasing them, and n they could get
into the church before the mob got them
they were safe. G,aughterD Tho mob could
not cross the threshold. Snd they diu
not have any degenerate new spaper pro-
prietOrS 70 lead The mob IN those days
either. Ard when he fleeing criminal
got into the church, after ~ enty-four
hours was over everybody saw nine'N
vines out o. one hundred that there was
no reason 20 chase him into the church
az all that the whole thing vas mere
hue and cry SO when Mr.. Bennett
asked me 20 come up here. that went
through NY mind. too-daushter)-ct.nat
church OF refuge. II 7 could get here be-
tore the Pulitzers got hold Of ne | might
be safe. daughter suppose ] ougnr
not 10 say 20 much. and yet II - best
20 Dc frank and TO speak out
Ills argument in the matter CT prcsery-
iac an old-fashioned SUNDAY dealt IN
general with the impossibility Of Forcing
upon the city's heterogeneous population
the standards OF single small group OF
citizens. lie said:
u re were all OF the original stock IN
this country, and kept the still Sabbath e5
they kept II when | was boy up III TIC
country whore I was born and brought
m there would be no trouble about II al
ell. because all would be u the same
op!nicn But thls is q great foreign city.
You cannot consider any OF these thirSs
Vithout considering that. 10 you
either foreign By actual immigration, or
In the second degree, the first genera
ton Of birth in this country: Why. II
Is the bulk 0, the population here. Thty
every nation on the Continent Of EU-
What will they submit TO? What have
they been brought zip TO? The still SAB,
they stepped on our shore Not in the
Ioins of their rcmotest ancestors do they
inherit the notion OF keeping still on sun
day. The Scripture says, or the com
ner Of work on Sunday.' And they inter
pret II Just 70 mean that. Some OF them
are very quick TO say there Is no prohiol-
ton against play or exercises oD s9 INC ,s
% say that they are altogether wrong:
That i. the way they have been brought
up from earliest Christianity up 10 TINS
hour on the Continent OF Europe.
And there are a certain few people VINO
have come down on my head ~ith venom
and vicousness, If may say SO chailta
bly,, because DO not IN some way t axe
them think that It is sin 10 play ball
on Sunday, or 70 go 70 Coney Island. or
40 ANYTHING except sir around. Dd you
ever imagine the whole East Side sitting
on tho curbstone on Sunday? G1aughterJ
Then the Mayor asked - II const-
tu,ed a sin 10 drink on Sunday and nor
"a drink on Monday. And he. answered
taken BY New York's immigrants:
Their notion is that e. Is Just as bad
~ drink on Monday ae II IL 70 drink on
sundav II Il is bad at al II ought
"a be done away with entirely. Ihat II
the consistent proposition. 49,. .a,.
Ivhy. we have a law regulating the saIe
-, e. IN sunday. I found even that d
great man Of our minist .5s w Hot0r that
~ saie ~ rouor Is forbidden IN TINS
city on sunda Sever ,n1 was Isr teeF1 Th s1'h law
Jaw " ~ barroorn is 20 be closed on
i tsaS and and the Curtains run up 80 that
any one going By can look ,Ssrs s'g I, sbW one
wi1 nov. or or whether business s going on
or not pd you s aver ,S hn9T th an eA And yet
TO e, enip'bbs scame Mayor il was never en- en-,
yarced as simple as that 49, ,b s" iaS
ia To- The law enforced the way 'ne "a
itself prescribes.
Lorraine TO ACT. NOT FLY