New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1905-10-21

build. get tipped of and I buy as much property
sell at my own price later and drop some more
Wouldn't you? It's just like lookiu ahead IN
Wall Street or in the coffee or cotton market It's
honest graft and I'm looking for it every day in
the year. will tell frankly that I've got a
I've told you how I got rich by honest graft.
N9W Let Of m rob @ yG I that v most s & tSs same
They didn't steal dollar from the city treas
ury. They just seen their opportunities and took
comes in and spends hal half million dollars in tryin
to ind the public robberies they talked about IN tho
The books are always an right The mo money g il, il
heads Of depaTtmsnts looked after their friends.
they rs''ti could ai to o'T make honest graft
TO DEFEAT HONEST GRAFTERs"
It is to defeat the possibility of offering such ep-
fight ] hope to keep clearly before the public
throughout the campaign the great fundamental
cal administration in each and eve-y of our great
Tay foacbes thy e&sence % of the SOCIAL %
ism and every one of which in some way directly t
against lives, our health. our happiness the
children and the suffering wards OF the community
l propose the campaign progresses to take up
differen5e between Mayor McCTelIan's promise and
The Mayors engaging personality and tradition
of ancestral greatness cannot. through conspiracy
sefsatisfed persons. be permitted to earn for the
me4f '' Hnhesitatingy ieno9nGe the admtnistra-
tion as a sham a poor ugly. beggarly hlmbug.
betrayed. An effort has been made by the subtle
process or SUGGESTION 10 peIulio tle @ @BlloIc il t
Mayor Mcclellan has made good Mayor. Do not
culture and whose manners Of value 10
Tammany Han except as cover to iIs iniqaities:
wrong than any active wrong in othGe In pas
sively lending his great name as shibboIeth 20
the system. The Mayor says he is PREPARED to de-
fend and justify his admiHistTati9n We should
a campaign of education well as Of edihcation
NEED OF MUNICIPAL OWNERSHIP.
Now. an effort is being made TO distract attention
from what | conceive 10 he the main issue name
pertment Of the municipal g2vernmieent snd to
substitute for this The name OF munlclpal oWner
Is and at fbe present time the two issues
separabIe.
am convinced that the time has come when.
from the academic point Of view. municipal own
eTshP is no l9ngeT "a an open question: % pb nf brca
the misdeeds of the great public service CORPORA
We are ] a 'or Tss ON iiiT'ae thar look 70 tbs
tonai nal sjowness on lines that in any way suggest
individual TO his honestly earned wealth attn -,
ing to its conclusions with regard to municipal own
eommponiy Known as public utility franchises such
as those for gas. electric light and transportation
eiits @ o6 @ mu aq bsle rasts m together with tie
criminal history Of municipal service corpora
tions this country. the public believe. has fna
which have already been expressed In terms or
First We believe that these tremendously great
sources of wealth, which are themselves created
long to the community. We believe that corpora
ions m Wiog 5omld he riedy Compelled to i've M
10 the limit Of the letter and spirit Of their
en mmedate Ti s accountng We believe that no
public utility franchise should ever he granted in
unity believes that those which have already been
Sficabie and when the city has the means to that
end be reacquired for the city upon fair terms and
the constitution and the law, not only, but in
man shall be deprived of his propery for public
uses except after fun and honest payment therefor
PROBLEM \ SERIOUS ONE
desire to deceive no one. least Of all myself and
the belief that there is a possibility OF Inn
of the public utilities franchises. namely the city
subways I equally incapable of any desire 70
to the that the problem is OF the gFeatesE
tcabiity and of the attainment of the best results
that has ever yet Ceen presented TO our people My
whole attitude IS that of the man who looks for th
protection Of the community against the wrons-
utmost conservatism consistent with the ends Of
justice and for absolute avoidance Of anything
rashly undertaking the performance OF a fllnc1oa
for the performance of which the city is NOT yet
Any discussion of these matters in the bulk myss
in detail if We are not to be self-decelving ant
guilty of the deceit OF others. Taxing the seVtltt
phases of the question in detail therefore So
first, 1 am opposed to any further grants m lts
petuity practical perpetuity This decltFa'i1g5
may be regarded as supercrogatory IN ~
provisions of the present law Startins from ti'.s
plane. however. | should favor leeses ot t, ~
term and subject at all times TO teflnlillt-Yl
the city conditioned upon adequate com 2enSa'ieh
to be determined by Judicial commission r. ~
suit of such a policy would leave the cltN IN 80
way of being able at all times TO reaSSuIle lL.s
rights which it shall hereafter tvnpofarly sf315
to corporations on fair terms 10 both parties sl9
for limited terms which would leave no room IeT
corporate schemng the creation OF purely paper
values
TRANSPORTATION FACILITIES
As 70 the reassumption by the community OF tee
Trancbises for surface and underground transpert-
ZION that have already been parted WIN .ssatfa
ne 5isctisson purely aC3deUical. III view o fbe
or cfY and the state or otsr
5ht IIyoif and in view OF the impoSsbtity With0uc
conStitutional amendment for which We must ap-
oeaI 10 The people OF the whole State) OF placing
pur city treasury for many years 70 come IN
POSITION for reaCqurins these franchises Without
tbe commission of the crime of confiscation .
which / am unaltcrabiy opposed.
And And as constitutional legal and financial eondi-
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