| Show MAYOR GAYNOR OF YORK TALKS TO THE PREACHERS ON In his address before the clerical conference Mayor Gaynor paid his respects to extremists who have handicapped every effort at reform in New York by their denunciations of infractions of the They shut their to important They refuse to see They cloak with their Puritanism theft and grafting and civic and in the exasperation which they cause the majority of good people a corrupt but tolerant administration too finds the source its as Gaynor people think it is easy to prevent a man getting a drink I- I on when they have a pretty hard job to make him observe some of the articles of the Ten The only people in New York whose commandments forbid them to drink malt or spirituous on Sunday any ather day are the who are not yet Yet this artificial this human right made wrong by is at the bottom of most of New York's bad It has debauched the honor of many high police It has compelled the saloon to go into It has armed corrupt leaders with tremendous corruption funds for gaming and maintaining It has driven thousands of good men who hate hypocrisy to vote for bad government that respected their freedom ancl their against good government prompted by extremists to activities against an artificial The Sunday law is on the statute shall we do with Enforce but so long as murder is not shall we wonder if a side door is sometimes left So long as theft and corruption con shall we rail at an occasional Sunday drink as a greater evil 1 the of but not by arbitrary arrests which the law itself forbids and which are often only a bid for Some day the city may have a common sense excise and the chief source of corruption and bad government will disappear with its But even in the meantime cannot we all realize that good that that economy and honesty in the that provision for the city's orderly growth in the future are more important than Smith's glass of taken at a time and in a place alike objectionable to N. |
