New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-01-08


10 me. even men OF Intelligence: We'll
Low. that j. all veTE well. but II takes a
crook 10 catch a crook" II YOU want an
. other ByineS or another Devery. beCa use
n takes a crook 20 catch a crook-it dis
gusts me TO hear such people talk. | turn
z aside from them
No Crooks 10 Catch Crooks.
only the other night rebuked man
and told him he ought to be ashamed
IF himself 10 approach me with such
suggestion. that il il needed crook 10
cstch a crook then there would be no
crooks caught while | am Mayor; be
cause ! shall not appoint crook as
Police Commissioner to catch Crooks.
Just think of the DAY OF ByTneS and Dew
cry and ali those people, Just think OF
il. When every saloon, every samolng
house. every womans house every
Who is paying now? | think never wa,
IL ut such q minimum. Nothing in the
liquor trade. though ain not able TO say
hat positively. and wort Ana trust
Very little in the women's trade.
lie spoke OF the aldermanic inquiry as
a little investicat ton. looking up things
four. FIVE and ten wears old" He said
the number OF prostitutes in this city
was not large. compared with other
cities. and that his administration had
done its best 10 keep them off the streets
and preserve "decency and outward or
der" Since the evil could not be eradi-
lated so long as men refused to curb
their greed or their passions. his remedy
was voluntary segregation. On this
PORT ne said:
II the tendency Of them is 10 gather
ia one locality OF two or three localities,
that tendency ought never TO be inter
fered with. If they would all come in
one place IL would be better.
But some write to me that We must
have law. and think there is one
ready To be introduced into the Legisla-
tlre. compelling oil women to i've IN
certain districts. 10 he boundaried. why,
gracious YOU have got 10 catch them and
nut them there first. and when YOU
have Put them there you have got 20 put
\ Gordon Of soldiers around the place
70 keep them there. haven't YOU? Ana
when YOU get them there and publicly
boundaried. what man who still has
some little shame will be seen going
through that boundary? That has all
been tried. But some people never learn
anything from the past.
Attacked Clergymen Again.
This speech OF ,he Mayor was dstin-
guished for it's Jack Of any reference -
"rac-tag newspapers" and corrupt or
degenerate newspaper proprietors.' He
INK his bosom q the time on a half dozen
clercymen. three IN Manhattan and three
In Brooklyn naming Rabbi Wise and Dr.
Parkhurst specifically and referring in
thlnly yelled form to Canon Chase, the
advocate OF an ordinance providing for
. the censorship OF moving pictures. which
p The Mayor vetoed.
lie paid his respects to Rabbi Wise
while still on the subject OF the social
evil.
t. Il do not know. anyway" said he,
why his head is so fun of this vice.
That is another thing | do not under
stand. Normal people have not got their
heads so full OF such things. Neither
are they sneakihg around and watching
their neighbors. 10 see where they 90 and
what they do"
The Mayor referred To Canon Chase
again while discussing excise violation.
which he did at some length Temper
ance he contended. was "a matter OF
moral growth" not one TO be enforced by
the policeman's club. II lay with the
ministers TO persuade the members OF
their CONGREGATION not TO drink on Sum
day. he said. adding;
Il doubt 81 Rabbi Wise has succeeded
IN that in his own church. let alone say
ing that | ought to succeed in the city"
lie went on.
And that clergyman over in Brooklyn
the other Gay who said that Brooklyn
was the yestibule OF he'll. I think. because
b. he thought there was some drinking over
there. Why. BROOKLYN Is noted all over
the world as having less crime than other
city Of equal population in the world
Above the magistrates and small Judges
over there. there is only one criminal
Judge that does the work OF a million
AMI half OF people. Did you ever hear
the like? There IL no precedent for II
anywhere in the world. Brooklyn IL more
free from crime and disorder and loose
ness OF women than any population OF its
size anywhere. And Yet II seems II IL
the vestibule OF hell In the eyes OF this
mar and hs berates me for not cleaning
ont the ves;ibule.
I have only kindly feelings toward him
Sut maybe no is making the horizon OF
his own house the horizon OF Brook
lyn. I hnd very often when you get into
the horizon OF such people as that they
sire living little hell OF their own and
they think that the whole community is
= hell because that Is their experience
And vet J would not say that TO him be-
cause ! have only love and affection for
him.
The Mayor did not forget the subject OF
ainovng picture censorship He found
those advocating IL had nothing 10 say
atou' the pictures or plays patronized by
the rich.
NO" said he these people never men
Toned that. but they do think YOU and
and the great body OF people need them
pat over MS TO censor and watch US But
. think We have q dintren; view. PROC
ABLY. II IL good thing 10 prevent bad
PICTURES from being shown. but the law IL
SIMPLE FOR that without submitting them
10 advance TO Dr. ParkhUrst or RaoCi
Wise or this Brooklyn clergyman for
them 20 say whether we shall look at
them o. not"
Or Psikhurst came in for MS share ~
Mr.. Gaynor's attention when the latter