4/82 In both positions I felt that with Jacob Riis's guidance I would be able to put a goodly number of his principles into actual effect. Our ideals and principles and purposes, and our beliefs as to the methods necessary to realize them, were alike. After the election in 1894 I had written him a letter which ran in part as follows: It is very important to the city to have a business man's Mayor, but it is more important to have a workingman's Mayor; and I want Mr.Strong to be that also. |