The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1901-11-03

hbyrinth Of It's highways Familiar as 7 am
~ nn stteets lose time every day in making
what sort Of a looking house or store or build
ing marks the place near where / must get
GSt m o. th @s surface car OF the elevated Train
= q temendous handicap 70 the small store
sstores ss 1' .he e,ty Ihe great department.
son wishes 20 purchase at a small establish
iiheht the trouble of finding il Is so great that
'he purchase Il abandoned.
In our generation the two greatest and
ddDDies{ democrats which our city has pro-
aq'ea ala belong 70, Iammany Hall. one
many and organized the reform movement
Mhiuh drove that organization from power.
IL ont 1im nt nad from the country and put
~ heNltt' IS uSefuliy employing Il serene
nnu hohored retirement by playing the school
MASTER 70 the naughty boy across his knee
WIN = broad and vigorously applied ferul.
on ar shepard Tor taking the Tammnay
whatever may be said about the press
10 Witches or IT. y~oliownes-, its tendency
70 sehS9tionalism or it, espionage into pr!-
Nhtr aIHirs OF individuals. the American
prrss, taken as a Whole. rniriv rrnr,srrts
pHbllc opinion. morality and the standards
e. ~ puonc ald private ne. No such eAAihi-
,lon va. ever seen or known before in "A con-
iHstl or the s0veTnint ut of IA great community
~ NV OH community which IL larger
10 Affiliations of any kind, every newspaper
put one OF the dallles and every newspaper
put one OF the weeklies Is for the fusion ticket
Ill -. aa'C.' b'NFA VI ldIliIldnN
Hsil. WITH it, botndless resources In money,
II tlle press were NcuHl or purChasable there
activities In a contest like this. But no coun-
try where free pres, exists has ever wit
messed a more magnificent Illustration Of
its Independence than IL seen ia the una
ninlty with which our ne vs. papers are net
Ing ~ this election. IL Ia not only remark
able In Itself, not only an evidence. and the
highest evidence. OF journalistic independ-
ence, but u is the. most crushing indictment
that could Possibly be framed against the
and In favor OF this fusion movement by
which the good men OF all parties have united
Tor the of the city of New York
and the good government OF this great and
When New York hy consolidation became
the second CITY of, the world the attention
OF the able men Of all countries who are study
ing the municipal problem. which Ia the most
acute one we have, was called to the new
more attention to Sow York city and the
do to ali the rest y ttSUee tinted states ynIa put
together. When they find that IL costs nearly
f toSGo "a, W iSon 70 f 0ySrn New New ,rids as s, i m dSss
inhabitants. they are astounded; when they
are told. as they are by the newspapers. that
gets ret more in al X bus Igm ness OF Municipal
government from the streets. from santa
from from i ,En d teG pS snS p NHd IRE Gut GGRY1STT.mtEHs9 az
more increased
"H'u Nu'N' inultNIlPntt, tllNItllifh w .'Ni-
denc" and by the yerdictS Of the courts. about
completely with vice are published in fun and
copied from our daily press ard illuminated
by the correspondents Of the European
journals In our midst. then every high-minded.
right-minded and Intelligent man who ho-
lieves in government "Uf the people, by the
people and for the people" l. simply amazed
at the result. The iondonor Is enormously
proud that he is a citizen Of the foremost city
In population. in wealth and iu concentration
Of all that makes for art and literature, in
all that makcs i2r opinion and brains and
whenever he IL abroad always gives his ad-
dress as Paris because he Is proud Of the
city.
The same Is true Of the German in regard
r. his Berlin, bis Frankfort and his Hamburg.
The same 4. also true OF tue Austrian in re-
gard 90 hs Vienna, of the Italian IN regard 20
his Rome. tho Russian in regard 10 hi, It.
Petersburg and his Moscow, Of the Scotch
and his glasgow and the freshman in regard
G. his Dublin. his cork and his Belfast. There
tho citizen Of any Of these cities when he
ira vols among str anger, viii" III" New
Yorker wherever he goes Is pcrpetuaIy
put upon an explanation. Moall OF us t1ke
pride in this great town. There il nothing
like II and never has been. The lord plaCCd
il NJ the gateway % the continent its. op-
through the Mohawk valley 10 the Lakes it
draws the wealth and products and. trade Of
its gateway II IL concentrating here the
finance Of the world and New York IL 70 doni-
nate these movement, nd.Strlnl hnn imam.
cial. which make or mar the happiness OF
millions upon millions Of people.
II il attracting the men aud the women OF
brains. of energy. Of ability with their pen
and with their tor rues. the mon and the
women who arc and who are 10 be tho teach
ers ~ the present and future generations for
higher aud better standards, for n higher
and better life.
Under such n government NJ This great
CITY IL entitled to II would. when II reaches.
which il will. the front rank among cities in
populstion. be the beacon light for humanity
~everywhere for an that stands for good gov
errment and all tho blessings that Tow from
q proper appreciation Of liberty and its op-
poTtuulties
Edward VI Grout spoke briefly.