The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1898-02-12
JERRY'S TRADE
The sockless congressman's
Fearful Arrangement
Of New Jersey.
HEsslANs. ANCIENT AND MODERN
Our Corporation Laws Denounced
and Revolutionary Record
Ridiculed.
HEsslANs. ANCIENT AND MODERN
EFrom the congresgIonal Reeord.l
II. Simpson. of Kansas, said

lltliieu nun NEW OSiScy NNt. IilliSyJ
fit to designate me as a calamity howl
err and said some things about the State
of Kansas that | thought ought to have
been answered, but up to this time ! have
not had the opportunity. | want to read
you some of the statements made by the
gentleman on that occasion. The gentle
from New Jersey said
The State of New Jersey had been
!, under the continued ascendency OF
the Democratic party for thirty years
until about four years ago. 1t had
come to such a pass that there was
a legislative trust established in the
State House, which would sell legis-
lation to anybody who would pay the
price. And the last browning act OF
niquity on the part of that legislative
trust was a bill called the Coal Com
bins bin," supported by the political
associates of the gentleman from
Kansas, and which proposed to in
crease the price of coal to every cit
izen of New Jersey 81 per ton.
Now. Mr.. Chairman, what l was COM
of at the time the gentleman
made this statement was that New Jersey
was the home of trusts, that it bred
trusts as naturally as it did mosquitoes,
and that it is there these trusts have
been protected by the laws, and that,
emanating from that State, had extended
their operations under privileges granted
by the State of New Jersey by preylng
upon the people of my State as well as OF
those of the entire country. That, sir:
was what | was "howling'' at. and | will
inform the gentleman now that shali
continue to howl SO long as the state O.
New Jersey continues to pass laws en-
abling trusts to prey upon the people. It
is not exactly to the point in this connee.
ton. but 1 want to call the attention or
the gentleman from New Jersey that ne
has read the history of his State to little
effect if he really believes that it has been
under the continued a~scendancy OF the
Democratic party for thirty years until
about four years ago.
For my part, / nave no more love for a
Democratic trust than for one of Republic
can origin, but if the gentlemen will pass
a little of his leisure in reading up on the
history of his State for the past thirty
years he will find that his own party has
never made opposition to trusts IN New
Jersey any more than in other States and
in the country at large. And in all far
ness, l want to tell him that, in my judg,,
ment, the very foundation OF trusts y
combinations have been laid by Repubfl-
throughout the country. It is the very
spirit of that modern Republicanism, for
which the gentleman and his party stand;
and if he is candid he will admit it, as /
am assured many citizens of his State are
becoming rapidly convinced, that without
the support of trusts and combines there
would be no more use for the republican
party as a political institution thai for d
refrigerator at the North Pole.
He further says
1t would have formed a coal trust
that would have held the whole coun-
try IN its grasp. Time, Mr.. Chairman,
will not permit me, and l do not intend
TO give the details of that and other
equally bad legislation, except to say
that at the next State election-the
election of 1s9S-the people of New
Jersey, who lac been voting the Demo-
cratic ticket without interruption for
thirty years. arose in their wrath and
%l-A+ - - M nf III tnt q IIn1lCn 2
by $1,000 majority. applause IN the
Republican side. Laughter.)'
/ can imagine how the average Jersey
man smiled as he read the declaration,
political overturning in New Jersey in
that year. Everybody who reads the poll
teal news of the day understands the
matter. Everybody knows that a combine
something like that of Tweed and his Re-
publican allies, has been formed in New
Jersey and dominated the politics of that
State whether under the nominal control
of Republicans or Democrats, and that
honest Democrats arose in their wrath
and broke the combine. OF course. it was
necessary that one party should be de-
Democratic party because of the fear that
enough Republicans could not be trusted
to vote against their party nominees, even
when convicted Of the crimes charged
members. 1t has been ~abundantly dem
onstrated in this county that it is very
difficult to punish Republican crimes by
the votes of Republicans.
What I was contending for was that
they had simply changed masters; that
the Republican majority in that election
was secured by the fact that the Demo-
Gratis voted the Republican ticket. The
issue was not made against trusts in that
campaign in New Jersey, if I am correct
ly informed, neither was it in the last
campaign against the corrupt practices of
the Democrats in that State, for the gem
tleman himself has boosted that $4,000
loyal Democrats marched up to the polls
in 1896 and voted for Mr.. Mckinley; and
time between watching for the coming
of the promised prosperity and cursing
their employers for cutting down their
wages. The gentleman states what was
the issue in 1896 when he says
The political associates of the gen
tleman from Kansas appealed to the
; honest farmers of New Jersey and
asked them to vote for a proposition
that was claimed would enable them
to scale the debts they owed their
creditors down to fifty cents on the
dollar.
That was the charge made in that cam
paign by the Republicans of New Jersey,
and there was not then, nor has there
sey Republicans against the impositions
of the trusts which have had toheir origin
in the policy n favor of the Republican
party. OF course 1 must assume that
lfflS ltDISStilldllft PET IOl liz Gu
East understands the meaning of the
English language, and yet I would sug-
gest to him that any well-trained child
in a New Jersey grammar school could
explain to him how misleading was the
language used in the statement last
quoted.
His language implies that the Demo-
Gratis of New Jersey in that campaign
asked their friends to vote for a PROPOSE
ton that was claimed would enable them
to scale the debts they owed their credit
ors down to fifty cents on the dollar. :.
[ know he can escape by a cunning
analysis of his language, but tits design
ed as fit stands to state what is not tile
fact. The simple truth is, so far as the
financial propositions involved in the
campaign of 1896 are concerned, that the
Democrats were urged to vote for a policy
under which 1t would no longer be possible
to scale up debt to 200 cents on the dol
lar. as has been the constant endeavor of
the Republican party since the close OF
the war. And ] want to call the atten-
ton of this gentleman of his virtuous
associates in the Republican party, that
there has been no repeal of the laws
against trusts of which he complains
here. and that there has been no sensible
diminution in the activity of the syndi-
Gates to take advantage Of the New DER
sey statute in the continued organization
of trusts. Almost every day we read
of some new organization for an extended
monopoly under the laws Of New Jersey,
and those very yirtuous Republicans sit
idly by and make no effective protest.
A cracker trust, a tobacco trust, and q
new coal trust, all within a short month
any movement by a Republican off1cia
in State or Nation agaist these trusts.
Has there been any increased activity?
On the other hand, New Jersey sends
to the Cabinet of the United States ar
Attorney General, who. representing thai
State and its peculiar modern Republican.