Omaha daily bee., 1903-05-03

ohcer. as a member OF the City Council.
as a member Of the legislature. he was sub
s%ervient to the corporations. and is their
preferred candidate, because they know, no
matter what has been published. no matter
what promises have been made. they have
a string on him. and can pull him back any
time that they want to after he is elected.
(Applause) Why is IL they trouble them
selves in opposing Mr.. Moores? why are
they also opposing William Hunter, the
republican candidate for comptroller?
Simply because for many years these cor
porations and the wholesale dealers have
been paying comparatively a small amount
OF taxes-men who have In their establish
ments hundreds Of thousands OF dollars
worth Of merchandise, insured for hundreds
OF thousands Of dollars-were assessed at
from $1,000 to SOS, 900; and that continued
to be the case for years until the burden
was shifted. They should have carried II
cheerfully, but II was put upon the shoulders
or the poor home owner, and incidentally
upon the working men, for even IL the
Workingman was not the home owner he was
a renter and he had to pay rent, and II
the taxes upon a piece of property were
high, the owner Of that little house that
ne rented had to charge Just that much
more rent, and that burden was placed
upon those who least could bear it and
shifted from those who best could bear II.
Take for example a large mercantile
establishment in the wholesale district
which is insured for more than $500, 900.
The principal owner Of that concern is out
today fighting tooth and toe-nail against
Frank e. Moores and Mr.. Hunter, and WHY?
Because Mr.. Moores appointed two men
on the Board Of Review that raised this
assessment from less than 500, 900 to $780,
0OO or 100000. 1t is still too low, IL insur-
ance policies are any criterion OF the value
OF his merchandise. You know a man would
not insure his house for more money than
II was worth. unless he wanted to burn It.
ana very Few insurance companies would
want to take the risk. WHY is Il tbess
men are nghtlng Mr.. Moores? It is not be-
cause he has offended their tempers not
because Moores has done anything to in
crease the burdens OF anybody among the
wage earners. 1t is because their shoe
plnches them, because they want a MAYOR
and City Council that will turn the o,oo,.
PACK and throw us back again to where
the property of favored merchants ana nh
Tic utility corporations were assessed for
ABOUT one-tenth or one-twelfth OF the tr,,e
value or their property, while your propertv
ana mine was assessed at its fun value
'ApPlause.) And the railroad corpora tions
are IN the same boat. All the railroads that
nave terminals in the citv .,
omaha are assessed altogether nm
uer the State Board OF Equalization
at S2O5,OO0! Ali the roads. terminate
uepots' depot grounds and tracks. which
"le worth twenty-five millions OF dollars
pay only about $4,000 in city taxes n =.
Inls m abuse that we are fighting
rms is the principle that we are battIins
TOT and that principle appeals to Won in tbIs
campaign. Let me ask you as WORKING
men whether you propose to stand up and
uelehu the men who have done their duty
against the malignant ISLANDERS and
oomaruiy abuses heaped upon them ~
corporation politicians.
Circumstances Alter Case.
The other day a gentleman who repre-
sen'eu NEBRASKA In the United States SEN
ate and a few other snobocrats affected
TO think that the mayor Of Omaha was
not the Kind OF a man to sit in a carriage
with the president Of the United States
when he was visiting Omaha. They ex-
pressed great fear lest Mayor Moores
would not demean himself properly and
might tell some smutty stories, Doesn't
1t strike you as very odd when tell Won
that the assistant attorney OF the BurliuR-
ton who generally speaks for the former
senator and present general attorney Of
that road once upon a time proposed to
put FRANK e. Moores into the place then
occupied by David H. Mercer, in other
words, make him congressman II Moores
would only agree to veto the ordinance
granting to the Northwestern access to the
jobbing district. Just think of It, the Bur-
lington was willing to throw Mercer oyor
the transom and give Moores a chance to
hobnob with the president every day in
the year, but falling in their designs thew
did not want Moores to sit in the presi-
dents carriage in the city OF Omaha for
a single hour.
have been actively engaged in many
campaigns, but never in my thirty years
experience has there been such brutal
vituperatson as your mayor has been sub
Jected to. He has been blackmailed as a
monster Of iniquity by men who would have
TO take to the woods II the searchlight OF
publicity was turned on them. They have
tried to arouse popular passion and preju-
dice by emotional appeals to the women
Of Omaha. They have fabricated out
rageous fakes that have not a shadow OF
truth in them. Only yesterday the red
letter Benson fakery published a most
h%aI tale about the abduction of
young girls into kaunts OF shame, gotten
UP ONN VI nhOl NlONh w ldDIlCdltu ~
order. But II the story had been actually
true where would the blame be? Surely
not with Mayor Moores, but with the
Broatch police commission that has con-
trolled our police department since Au-
gust, 1902. The sham purifiers are clamor-
ing for decency. but they have carried on
a campaign Of indecency that would dis
grace the most depraved community in all
America.
1t is late and 1 don't want TO detain
you longer. Before closing, 1 want to ap-
peal to you to do your duty fearlessly
as American citizens. The corporation
politicians are hard at work. They have
plenty OF money to expend to defeat
Moores. These corporations hlch the money
from our city and their patrons and then
use the money they have eXtorted from
you to destroy free government. The cor
~poration emissaries are spending money
freely in barrooms and dives and I ask
you II It is not time for you and all lib
erty-loving citizens to Join hands and put
an end to corporation misrule. Gap
plause.)
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