New-York tribune., 1896-03-30

JUDGE WILLIAM J. GAYNoR
FORE able to speak to you only hurriedly and may
be not all the time relevantly. from my own imper.
feet sns sgaa Wd has e all
thoughts and aspirations and In the drudEery % nd o
not s"Sls grow droWsy discouraged or Indifferent
them We cannot understand the meaning OF citi-
d5de nPon Wick foi nd%a Ui houeh and
potism there Is no citizenship There the
governed have voice in IT, and their aggregate
intelligence has no guidance OF IT, Under govern
msa by the 'p
put IN power and authority are the mere servants
some Of their own number in authority. say 70
them pointing to those LAYS; Here Is yon, power
four corners. You may do only what We have
may not take or touch except by due process Of
law you may take our property for the necessities
amount and what Is more ore. only in the
which we have hero authorized Nothing more dis
and and government by the people themseves n shsH
the .a ne S ,s f e SrS @S
Of the Individual. we have the form Of government
TSe
subject and ruier through the steady progress of
Intervals BY tremendous upheavai and revointion
has brought us to this This process has been moth;
thought from the few to the many which has placed
In this country that is an accomplished fact. and
there is one institution. our common school system
Under government by the people government
OF citizenship. every one Is law unto himself. ex-
ali. permits him or his property to be touched BY
government. II may well be said, therefore. that
citizen is to keep government at arms length The
approach and growth Of arbitrary power can be
prevented in IN no s e.sep by the stand
saying TO Government: We created YOU and we
and thus far you may 60 and no farther. You want
my life, my liberty or my property? Show me the
precise law under which we have said you may take
under that law only IN the precise manner In which
Which Stands h Of
ship and arbitrary power. whether executive or
he the Is ndvdma Q, Of %e be-
vcted but II Is always Of transcendant importance
that he be not convicted except IN accordance Win
guarding against recurrence OF arbitrary power.
have prescribed.
ENCROACHMENTS BY THE POLICE.
Having been brought up In the country. It has
seemed to that the people In some of the large
cities in this country have allowed the police to
gradually encroach upon their individual rights 1t
is not too much to say that such encroachment has
several times reached points OF extreme danger
right here. For years. for instance, we have not
been able to get into polling place to vote without
crowding by policemen In the door. No such thing
y, i
government in which II is deemed tolerabe. or not
deemed dangerous In the extreme BY what right
are they The revelations unlawful police in
reference coercion and humiliation in this country
and also by the recent legislative Investigation in
NewYork City will be subject for the future his
the loss Of our liberties or else from the virtue of
the citizenship which destroyed OF IT be Is TO be
destroyed he will trace the growth of still higher
citizenship And how grave and portentous to such
historian win be the fact that the head Of tho police
OF vast wealth, acquired principally by the misuse
Of public franchises and had been enriched by them
our liberties (as it assuredy Wild. which side
think You will the historian find such chief OF
police with his force? On the side Of the people and
citizenship think you? Am doing anything more
now than calling attention to what history actually
tells us Of the past?
FRAUDS IN FRANCHISES.
Public franchises. the property of all the people,
are not infrequenty given way oy Government
one year and bought back out Of the peoples money
the next year. Being given TO individuals to enable
them do a public service. they are permitted to
overstock and overload them. thereby to create in
fated and unearned fortunes. which the people
must thereafter fares and exactions pay interes,
and dividends upon. a railroad that cost 5000 0O)
and would earn a large dividend upon that sum out
Of the II aa om me Time
II Is paying interest and ,argc dividends upon say.
/ is formed with paper capital of sSo.ooO6. to
absorb of the first company all its income over
stock: and when the dividends upon that s30.oooo
get too large, s3OOOO0JO more of paper be added
In the same way: and thus public franchise. for
the use and benefit of all the people IL used for the
enrichment Of a few ont of all the people. And the
result OF such imitation IL always the same the at
tempt by cutting down every just and normal ex-
pense, pay dividends thereon follows and thus IL
Is always the OF heartlessness and oppression
Its result is the degradation and oppression OF
labor industry and skill. from the highest 10 the
lowest by deprivng IL OF the just disribuive share
which belongs II in morals and In Gods wise
economy and which under normal conditions would
be cheerfully accorded TO IT, And, instead OF fares
being reduced dividends grow larger than the
public should pay. stock and bonds, with neither
dollar nor a days work back OF them. are Issued
; in order to prevent the public from having that
justice done them, and thus are created vast for
tunes out of the public the Ike OF which have never
the fundamental principle OF social compact. OF
enuaI opportunity to ali honest skill and effort and
no favor by law Government TO any one. Such
transactions have come TO be common 10 every
locality in our country. They the order OF the
day. In place OF being checked by the Government
thev are fostered by the Government. They cause
insi nneas:ness and discomfort and corrupt public
morals II this condition were 10 continue. what
the end would be no who has studied causes
and efects In history fail to perceive with clear
vision.
WHAT MAKES A GOOD CITIZEN.
1t would be a difficult task to try to advise how
b make the bsst citizens The good citizen Is vigil
liant and unselfsh His thoughts are healthy. he Is
loyal TO government. but will not compromise with