This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1913 edition. Excerpt: ... ON THE ENFORCEMENT OF LAW IN CITIES Gentlemen: When recently you called upon me with a statement of your views of certain phases of the morals of the town, including suggestions as to how those morals might be improved by me, I told you that I would consider your words and communicate with you. I have ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1913 edition. Excerpt: ... ON THE ENFORCEMENT OF LAW IN CITIES Gentlemen: When recently you called upon me with a statement of your views of certain phases of the morals of the town, including suggestions as to how those morals might be improved by me, I told you that I would consider your words and communicate with you. I have considered them and I now reply. The subject that you introduce is large, and I wish it appeared as simple to me as it seems to appear to some. It is a subject as old as humanity, as old as the fact of human sin, and to understand it, to discuss it properly or fully, would require a profound 'knowledge of the psychology and of the environment, social, political, and economic, of all peoples in all times. I had thought and read and studied and even made bold to write and speak on these subjects before I became mayor, and since I became mayor I have pondered them still more deeply. I have tried to discover my duty. This, which perhaps seems an easy thing to those who have never had the responsibility, is nevertheless not quite easy, after all. I recognize, I assure you, the sincerity of your desire to improve conditions in this city, and in that respect we have a common aim, which is to make Toledo a better city to live in, to provide here a cleaner, wholesomer environment for all people, and to uplift and improve the common lot. The methods which, as it appears to me, are best calculated to bring this end to pass, I hope to make clear in this letter. I should count myself fortunate if I could have your assistance in the work I am trying to do, for I believe that therein lies the best, perhaps the only hope of success in what you are trying to do. What I am trying to do, in my personal and official capacity--and I do not believe that a man...
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