Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1905-11-15
REAL PROMOTERS OF SOCIALISM.
Sore spot on the Body Polite Plainly
Pointed Out.

chicago tribune.
II would be big mistake to give Mr..
Hearst and the handful of municipal own
critics who nominated him the credit for
creating the public sentiment which found
expression in the Hearst vote in New York
last Tuesday. 1t would be an equally big
mistake TO think that FL the people who
voted for Mr. Hearst are in entire SYM
pathy with his radical principles.
The true makers of the sentiment back
OF the vote for Mr.. Hearst were the polit-
ical bosses and the high finance grafters
whose methods have recently been exposed.
His most efficient leutenants were Murphy
the suddenly enriched boss of Tammany:
Odell, the boss Of the republicans and men
, such as Chauncey NJ. Depew. John A. Nc
Call and Richard A McCurdy, who, after
enjoying for years regulations for respecta-
bility, have lately been found to be whited
sepulchers. George w. Perkins testimony
| showing the connection between ]. p Nor
gan & Co. and the New York Life COM
pany had it's influence. So did the disclos.
ures of the life insurance companies cam
paign fund contributions. The Hearst vote
was in the main the protest of an exas-
perated people against graft and dishonesty
in high places.
The sentiment OF which the Hearst vote
was an expression is not confined to New
York City. 1t is to be found in every part
of the country. Il does not owe it's exist
ence to the misconduct OF men in any par
! ticular business, although the life insurance
disclosures have done most lately to create
! 1t. but to peculation, mismanagement and
tyranny in various businesses Inferior
service and corruption OF city councils by
municipal public utility corporations have
caused some OF it. The eXtortions practicod
| by the beef coal and other trusts have
/ caused part of II. Railway rebates and dis
| ordinations and the stubborn and corrupt
resistance made to every attempt 10 bring
/ the railroad business under reasonable pub
| lie control have contributed much 10 II.
The people are getting tired OF being tyran-
nlzed over and held up and are beginning
to give utterance TO their feelings at the
ballot box.
| Underwriters OF some syndicates, grating
officials of life insurance companies and
benefciaries Of predatory trusts and rail-
ways regard the public opinion evinced by
Mayor DUNES election in Chicago and the
Hearst vote in New York as 'socialistic
! or at least hope 20 make It odious by call
ing It so. But the public sentiment which
is protesting against the corruption ir
American public and American bushes:
is not going TO be put down by ridicule OF
| epithets.
The people have found that there ara
grave abuses. and while casting about fol
remedies they are putting on record theil
condemnation of the abuses. What policies
they will ultimately favor-whether they
will plunge the country from the frying par
OF corporate graft and tyranny into the fir'
OF socialism-will probably depend mainly
on the vigor and success with which thu
men who are responsible for present condi
tions oppose the adoption OF reasonable re
forms. The most potent promoters OF so
cialism in this country are not and will no
be the Hearsts and the Debses, but tn
MoTgans, the Rockefellers. the Depews, IN
Hydes, the McCurdys and the McCals
That there will be remedies for present con
ditions is certain. Whether they will b.
worse than the disease remains 70 be seen