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Show WGRSETHAN Is the Autocratic Power Wielded by Some Mayors New York, July 0. Mayor Gaynor flatly stated that he would not use arUtrary power to suppress the ex- hlbltlon of tho Jeffries-Johnson pictures pic-tures In a letter today to Rev. R. O. I Ml.ler of the International Reform Bureau. Mayor Gaynor wrote: "If It lay In my power to say whether wheth-er the pictures should be exhibited, It would not tal e me long to dlde. It don't see how it can do any one any good to lovk at them. But will you be so good as to remember that ours Is a government of law6 and not of men? Will you please get that well Into your head? I am not able to do as I like a mayor. I must take the j law just as It Is. and you may be absolutely ab-solutely certain that 1 shall not take the law Into my own hands. "You are glad to Fee that the mayors may-ors of many cities have 'ordered' that these pictures shall not be exhibited. Ind&td! Who set them up aa autocrats? auto-crats? If there be some valid law giving any mayor such power then be can exercise It, otherwise not. "The growing exercise of arbitrary power In this country by thoso put In office would be iar more dangerouH and Is far more to be dreadod than certain other vices which wo all wish to minimize or be rid of." I " 1 " |