The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-12-03
MT. HilI's Fiippant Proposals

MT. HilI's FIippant Proposals
 Police Commissioner George s. Hill, in a statement half composed of devotion to Bridgeports benevolent overord asks this newspaper to that the police ham headship of the police department to fund to be devoted to the prosecution of polit clans who may be in collusion with the tenderoin We must respectfully decline both commissions. If Mir Hill and his political sponsors will make affidavit ghan1-not his removal, which is different thing they discussed that subject who might nation upon this point But it decline attempt proof before tribunal that has neither power compel oath. = davits under oath this newspapers with denias has been unfortunate, since Mayor Wilson began his campaign for the mayors chair.
 There, for instance, the story in The Farmer of Oct 25 1e11 that MT Warner had contributed $3ooo to
 the and the denial and the subsequent fling of ner,s ner % ACTUAL coNTRIBUT1oN was ss17i alnshouse when The Farmer said that it portended an effort to sell the town farm The denial of town farm sites by the board of charities And might be multiplied
 Itis little peculiar that the advent of Mayor Will sons regime carried with it, political circles of things that have happened from the humiliation of supt and his retirement the police ordi- nances which certainly represent for upt Birmingham with provision making his involuntary
 The instruments are certainly prepared. If they are not to be used much the better They to be used apparently against Capt Arnold, to abolish the detec bureau abolish the special force by $5OO0O year the expense of the department create
 offices of eutenant and to 34 patrol men.
 When this newspaper informs the community and it's readers of the facts of government and suggests edes within it's knowledge it has performed the full duty of newspaper. '
 It will not undertake the prosecution of the delin- uent-at least not yet.
 is little peculiar that upon Nov. The Farmer charges cousion between the underworld and politicians that upon Dec. days later Mayor Wilson comes % the ront wh @ e % f G n the fa form bsT E ha springing up like mushrooms.
 The remedy against dives where immortality prac- tced simple that police commissioner fresh the corset business ought know especially who reads The Farmer Mr. Hill seems to do. The charter imposes upon Mayor Wilson and upon MT Hill the duty of enforcing the law
 Part of the law against dives where immortality provides notice of the of the building owner of it. If the premises aren't vacated following such notice, the may be criminally punished All that Commissioner Hill has to do and all that
 Mayor Wilson has to get rid of the immoral places is to follow this statute which is Section 31S of the Gen eral Laws, Revision of 1902.
 There are the places. There is the law Not to use the law is, in effect, to license the places.
 In failing to the law to close the immoral places both Mayor Wilson and Police Commissioner Hif they know of the immoral placesare playing into the hands of those places and that is form of collision.
 If these immoral places exist, and Mr. Hill and Mayor
 Wilson know of their existence and they do not the law against the they guilty of connivance for they then intentionally overlook and thus sanction, what they are bound to prevent
 Let us be rid we say again. of sickening hypocrisy
 This newspaper doesnot want MT. Hills fund for the prosecution of connving politicians Let him take his money and with it employ to furnish him with the of the of the premises in which immoral pursuits carried
 It is not the police of Bridgeport that need ing It is their superors And whenever the police of Bridgeport do need reorganzing it will better work upon other authority than than of from the rottenest police department the world the lice department of New York City, which Captain se the expert trained and from which he imbibed his ideas of superior officer patronen
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