The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1902-10-21

wise change Vast enterprises have
grown up for controlling things. There
is danger in them to the plain people,
and the average citizen. Corporations
are the creations of the law, and not
above the law.
Vhe sDemocratic party does not make
war on capital and vested rights. We
protect. all. The Democratic party has
been largely made up of working men,
and has ever favored the rights of the
people. We have always been against
monopolies because these great aggrega-
tons of capital freeze out the average
citizen and stiffle competition. We
should curb them and control them.
TARIFF REVISION THE REMEDY.
The taxing power of this country has
been turned over to the corporations,
and within few days we have had the
spectacle of the great coal strike settled
BY one man, Mr.. Morgan, of New York.
No matter how good that man may be. it
is wrong that such limitless power should
be in one mans hands.
In New York our Democratic plat
form demands that the trusts be curbed.
The simple way to do it is to take the
tariff off from such things as coal The
Republicans suggest as remedies vague
things like constitutional amendments,
but these suggestions are to hull you, to
sleep. Now is the time for you to send
men to Congress who will vote for re-
duction of the tariff.
Il am opposed to parental govern
ment. The New York papers are saying
that | am the leader of Socialism, but it
is not so. The remedy we have pro-
posed for the coal situation is perma-
nent one, and although / am criticised
for it | am undisturbed by the criti-
cism.
NOT SOCIALISM.
ITO say that the Democratic declara-
ton for Government ownership of the
coal mines is paternalism is absurd and
untrue. The whole question of our day
is the question of popular rights ON one
side and corporate interests on the
other.
stick to the old flag. Don't be led
astray by fusionists and reformers. but
stick to the old party and vote the old
ticket. We can win the fight this year
all along the line You carry New Jer-
sey, and we will, / believe, carry New
York for Bird S. Coler Our party will
be restored to power, and with it will
come equal rights for all once more
Mr. Hill spoke in Elizabeth and came
to Bayonne on special train.
CHEERS FOR BENNY.
Councilman Matthew I. Cronin presid-
ed at the meeting and among the promi->
nent Democrats on the platform were:--
DIR. Lucius F. Donohoe, Editor Harry C.
Page of the Bayonne Herald" Presi-
dent Emmett Smith of the Bayonne
Trust Company, Alfred w. Boom, Coun-
Gilman George f. Moritz, Henry Meigs.
Just before the meeting City attorney
Allan Benny entered the hall and re-
eeived a rousing welcome
Assemblyman James A. Hamill of
Jersey City made the opening address,
lasting half an hour, and was cordially
ing the past six years had vindicated
Democratic policies and exposed Republi-
can fallacies. He showed the Dingley
tariff wall freed manufacturers in the
United States of all foreign competition
Mr.. Hamill showed the people are at the
mercy of combinations of wealth whose
mainstay is the Interstate Commerce
Act, or its evasion, with the the secret
system of rebates to railroads where the
one class is favored.
Protective tariff, the speaker, said,
simply protects those who have commo-
dities to sell, but laboring men have
none. Mr.. Hamill paid unstinted tribute
to the noble efforts of President Roose-
welt to terminate the coal strike troubles
as private citizen, and eulogized John
Mitchell. His remarks received much
hearty applause.
HOT SHOT FROM BENNY.
Allan Benny followed and must have
been gratified with the reception he re-
ceived. He invited attention to his rec
ord of three years in New Jorsey's gem
eral assembly and also in Bayonne's COM
mon council as guarantee of what the
people should expect in the probable
event of his election to Congress.
Gerrymandering of New Jersey Con-
gresSiOnal districts was exposed to the
delight of the spectators. Necessity of
bridge for pedestrians and teams between
Bayonne and Elizabeth was championed
by Mr.. Benny, whose earnestness carried
conviction and touched popular pro-
ject.
Speaking of the condition of humanity,
Mr.. Benny said the mass of men are now
saddled and bridled, with two men, Nor
gan of New York, and Rockefeller Of the
world, riding them, their successors and
assigns forever.
SCORES THE "JOURNAL."
: Mr.. Benny referred to n recent editor
ial in the Journal which accused him
of intending to shed unwilling tears on
the coal strike. He replied ANY man
with a heart in him would shed tears if
he could see the conditions in the coal
fields" He gave a graphic description
Of prevailing conditions among working
men in the coal mines, particularly that
of child labor. In support of his state
ment, Mr.. Benny argued effectively and
said that if one half of what the Chris
tan Herald says covering the subject
was true, and he believed the paper to be
truthful, every human heart should bleed
for miners and their children He cut
short his speech upon the arrival of Mr.
Hill.
DEATH OF FRED BROWN.
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