The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-05-23
NEW YORK CITY
 TO SECEDE ?
THE PEOPLE OF THE METROPOLIS
 GREATLY OPPRESSED.
The FInancIer, Prominent Business Periodical, Declares that the City and It's People Have Been
 Preyed Upon by Upstate.

The following editorial is from Ihe Financier, a leading banking publlca- tion, published in New York Clty;
 For more than two and half cen turies. or since the trading contention between the inhabitants of New Am sterdam (now Albany)) and those or New Netherlands (Manhattan), the for
 mer locality has sought to dominate this commercial centre. Though uhsuc- cessful in the earlier period or our ms tory, after Albany was made the capl-
 tai of the State, her political domina- tion grew more effective and oppres- siye, and for the greater part or the last century the powers at Albany have maintained the ascendency. Fos- sessing the advantage Of prepohuer- ance of influence the upstate counties represented at Albany have made our laws. chosen our rulers, imposed our | tax burdens and profited enormously from our financial and commercial de- velopment. Through dtckers with par = tisan chleftalns and largely because or | the supreme indifference or those 0. our citizens who might, had they united | in a determined effort, have overthrown the oppressors and held supremacy. | this metropolis has been misgoVerhed and Iatterly been forced hbmbly to ap- | neal to the State authorities for reller
 or to purchase temporary immunity | through indirect or open bribery
 An Equal Division
 With a population about equally dl-
 vided between Greater New lork anu anu inc rest of the State and with A per cent of the Senators and B per cent or the Assemblymen and an assessed val nation of 1-2 billions, we are muIcteo
 in 75 per cent of the taxes. when we
 seek to obtain relief through leglsla-
 tion we are defeated through inlqultouF
 combinations and our burdens made
 even more oppressive. If, goaded to
 desneration, our people rise in thell
 majesty seeking political reform wt
 find to our dismay that though appa-
 rently successful at the polls we nave been thwarted in our efforts througl inc representatives at the seat or GOV enment who have complneo wl'n ;'', ma atority and, at the behest or so-calle' organIzation bosses, have nullihed th'
 yerdict of the people. If throusi yvastefuI expenditures the state TeVe nues become deficient and general taxa tion can no longer be made aVallaDle . because 1t will bear too neaVlly upo' | State interests, special taxes ar trpnosed and Greater New York Is call
 aA unon to bear the chief burden. l Imneratively needed improvements ar r demanded we must apply to Albany . and if we are willing to pay the cos { of the work we may be permitted !
 undertake 1t if we will make sultaoi
 
 oImost everything We plead. whether
 be water, police or public utilities W W { have to submit to the dictation or or tn tn
 dominant power at Alabny' represente , bv the political ring who cohtrol ieE 2 islation and wear the collar of thei i, master, Is graft" openly charge , against the members of the Legislatur tbev Ieer. though the schedule of price l deraDded for votes is exposed as eV dence of corruption. If measure l introduced having for its object tSt a etd, d, = mand for more money Tor the ota,
 from the banking or commercial intel , ests, t 1t is rightly considered as bein , in the fature of strike for plund,, : and if passed, because of refusal to SUI mil to the extortion, the intended vii < tirns are forced to appeal to the cour e for relief
 '; The situation has now become so Il 7 tolerable that some of our citizens q . inclined to advocate the secession
 Greater New York from the State al