The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1920-04-26
PREMATURE PRAISE

RE NOT OUR friends of the pulpit little hurried
 A their praise of Mayor Wilson, for hs connection not yet very clear with the raids of days since? We who nhab newspapers offices, and who bit experience ed in the of politicians reservng opinion until the facts all and of the results made manifest
 The pulpit by its training and disposition has the laud able tendency to everything good until something is shown to be bad dealing more directly With the wickednes do leans the other and ncnes to picon that things worse than they look
 Either position its weakness The pulpit not susp cious enough. The press is too suspicious.
 In the matter of Bridgeport and its red light district ever the rather apt be informed hence not grateful to the mayor ton in the city, which had required orecn by foreign enforcement agencies brought about by neglect or the positive acquieseence of the mayor as by any other
 Those who not very familiar with political methods, will often suppose that gambling dens dens speak easles that is to places where moonshnG sod spring into being under conditions which make the chief executive innocent quite unconscious of the naughness that going
 Far contrary the things thrive ex- cept in the futile fugitive fashion, tac or expressed or the city government from the mayor down. Had Mayor Wilson desired that Bridgeport should be clean city it would have a city breaking would have been existence hidden shverng hungry But there would have been organized gambling he in the heart of the city; foreign trusts clubs running night and day for private profit
 Between the institutions for they such, the Burns raided there long timae association with the politicians, who city ha and the business of the people.
 The light gentlemen received protection that is were seldom moesed and the political support primaries election day. and whenever support
 
 In fact the city administration organization of the red light district far beyond the point which brought in any previous time, in this city.
 It made the drinking club another a speak easy drug stores. It brought back the halls which Mayor Taylor had driven out twenty years before Members of the administration, actually holding office took interests in slot machines, and it uncom- for city father to be taken y affiliated with the general alessness the govern ment had fostered.
 Whatever the condition that just prior to the raid Mayor Wilson could not have ignorant of it. It was condition that had under his authority mayor The police force which he discovered to be his force He had named nearly every had been virtually partner with breaking divers laws which have time been duly caalogued ir The Times.
 Up to this moment the sensationalism Saturday night 6 week produced solid evidence improvement is intended It is too early to assert that nothing come of it. Until something of value does come early to indulge in instituted praise of Mayor Wilson, should be rather regarded in state of probation bench, Mayor Wilson has the duty explaining how things got condition has been in auhorv and the duty of proving that he has undergone repentance that will be sincere and permanent
 It has been pretty easy, in the past political ma chine to court the pup of Bridgeport or three dav in the and the lawess element all the time
 The pulpit should suspend judgment and wait nor evidence. &