Article October 12, 1899 Issue

Policemen and Weapons

Mayor Jones

Personally, I am ready to go on record that I would be perfectly willing to patrol any district of the city of Toledo at any hour of day or night without a club or revolver, depending solely on the love and patriotism of the people behind me for protection, and I would undertake to present a cleaner record for my beat at the end of the year than could be shown by a colleague who placed his trust in the power of a club and gun.

Mayor Jones of Toledo, O.

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