Show THE NEW YORK POLICE of a bill before belov etho the state at A ta legislature t of new N ew york conferring upon c ertain certain railroad conductors the powers of f peli policemen cemeal is in occasion of some very caustic comments by the railway flews A bill introduced into the senate gives conductors on the brooklyn bridge railroad the power to make arrests and club people lunt just like ordinary policemen the new york elevated railroads have run for years without carrying any police and nd we fall fail utterly to sue why they should be wanted on the brooklyn bridge there is by far too much clubbing business and police coercion in new york of ieli cities of english speaking nations this is the one where the police have the most brutal sway away they are practically uncontrolled those at their head are mostly ignorant men who have with rum washed from their brains both knowledge of right and wrong and respect for the dignity of the citizen those new york policemen who are not vicious blackguards black guards of the criminal classes es are weak minded imbeciles imbe imbo ciles who should le be placed in some sato safe refuge ref age for tho the simple siegle intelligence it if it ever existed in the anew new york police has departed any bill that increases the number of these armed and dangerous maniacs man lacs and puts them on railway trains should be promptly squelched 11 I 1 in no large city of the country to Is the police force composed of men averaging so low in the qualities of intellect and morals as the policemen ot of gotham an evil system of word ward L politics politics controls that city and its yo po firemen are chosen from the wrong classes of society to make good humane and intelligent enforcers 0 of law |