New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1904-11-14
DIR. POTTER ON TRUST EVIL
In Replying to Queries He Defends
.Sub1cdy TaUern.

Bishop Potter addressed the Peoples Institute
last night at Cooper Union on The Form and
the Fact" In his Introductory remarks. Charles
Sprague Smith said that if it had rot been for
a mass meeting called by the Institute some
years ago the subway would now IN all proba-
bility be the permanent property of the Metro
politan system. He introduced the Bishop as
one whom they in the institute were accustomed
to regard as the peoples Bishop Of New-York
City"
The central theme of the Bishops address was
that mere forms of government are not enough
to insure national wellbeing and that the one
great essential is the spirit in which these forms
are administered-in other words ''the fact"
He said:
The great mischief of those industrial combina-
modern lif. is that they tend to remove the man 5
VINO o works further and further away from the man
Iof whom he works The task of the becomes
more more purely meGhancaI and the manner of the
ductor of a trolley car josted against my hat and
3 f 10 me: beg your pardon, sir. asked him
ms photograph taken. Q.aughter) He no doubt
lived for forty T yeaas in 9G exRaned that had
recall an instance in which conductor had begged
things which are incomparably the greatest things
ana that brings to a phase of my subject
W N,at Is appropriats to the first Sunday after
itself recently had OCCASION TeP TO tax w to
go SouiIs t man IN charge Of signal station on a
civil me- but was especially INTERESTED IN ely
serving That he never took his eye off the signals,
ta Si w men travel, am accustomed times
hrusk. one one occasion recently NV daugh-
1eT aSfed me not TO make such row about
planning on account of you, but out of regard for
1 n%' u poor woman VINO IS coming around the
We cannot have The privileges of a republic with
toward the perfection organization and the sub
do,
moral revolution that ever entered the world was
to Organization The one thought wo 5GIiT Wsh
OF responsibility Goodnight.
The bishop was not through however for ba
was subjected to the usual fire of questions from
the audience. Three of these inquisttors sought
information relative to the Subway Tavern. One
asked whether the chief cause of domestic mis-
cry was not resorts of which the Subway Tavern
was type. To this the bishop replied:
s5{ |99h 6aaRy Of g 3t has
place called the Tiyol Garden, which appears to
nent without injurious features WRether ench
seen. l believe it is practicable
Another man wanted to know If the ballot
should not be used to stamp out the evils re-
sulting from drink. The Bishop was applauded
heartily when he declared: Il don't believe that
prohibition has ever produced anything but
hypocrisy" To the suggestion that the church
and the state would work together in solving
the matter ne said merely. I don't believe in a
union Of church and state"
Another questioner wished 10 know If the
churches might not make good in some degree
for their exemption from taxation by their use
rs polling places. instead Of the dingy little
shops now generally used. The audience was
highly amused by the dexterty with which tho
Bishop answered this query. He said
If the polls to be brought to NV church
should be strongly disposed to endeavor to see
to il that you should cast my kind of a ballot
G4aughteT) 1 don't think the scheme would
work.
An elderly, lean-faced man. who has for years
been Cooper Union regular" said in broken
English: Mr.. Potter. ii is generally accepted
that the voice of the people is the voice of God
Do you not think there some misrepre-
sentation of that voice in the election last week
and that il was the voice of subsidized news
papers which PREVAILED"
Il don't accept the truth of your aphorisnl-
and you don't accept it. either replied tho
Bishop.