Gunnison news-champion and tribune., 1905-06-09
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81 sise psn~s<usss ekorss Philadelphia
ans have tssso pOsssns tsrsh " SAFE
linear esas Ho. . sassenxy z.1l4so1 aol
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tiuge > nnaes1sne. SANS ii the sssss-
ssoa- Mr. Ssss61se has fs se>ersl
vcsss tsss making q sloroaeh study
IT nasascspsi ~r,HSs and knows
v hereof h. sFeaAs.
Nhs two naonsts ago fhslad..-
phians wanted good government -
badly that they weu, on their knees
and prayed for IT, l.ks ~ of Ras-
SLAMS. They prayed - be saved from
ons Particular ossEaeeoss evsl which
one branch 1t ihesr government. the
polsee. ~efe pcrTasttlag
Asd 10 whom 40 you suppose
they prayed, To the mavorg To
the bos~y Ne, they prayed 10 God
Why dieiu { they 60 10 the polls and
vaie2
They had an election about that
same time, aud the results show
that esther they didn't vote or that
the ring voted for them, or that. II
they did vote, they voted for the
ring Why,
i think ! can tell you why they
voted for that ring and thea praved
b. heaven @ save them from the
esd thereof
You hear good deal about She
sieepiness OF Philadelphia Il Is not
asleep. Philadelphia is wide awake
But Phiiadelphians are grating.
Not the ring alone, bot Philadelphia.
high and low Take an example:
The University If PENNSYLVANIA gets
land and appropriations from the
state ring. wherefore the head of the
: University Of Pennsylvania refused
once 20 join reform movement
against the local ring. Take another
example-the charities. There are
fine old charities in Philadelphia and
hne old people direct them These
charities get support or protection
or convenences from the ring.
wherefore the fine old people who
are running these fine old charities
viii moi fight the ring.
Il believe you could analyze the
citizenship of Philadelphia and show
that ma jority of the voters, either
themselves or their relatives or their
friends or their institutions or their
interests are in on the corruption OF
Philadelphia, or of the state OF Penn
sylvania, or of the United States.
For if they don't get anything else
they are proiiting by the protective
tsriG. There is always some form
Of graft that they do not want to see
oserthrown. They would willingly
put a stop to your graft or my graft
OF the rings graft, if they could do
it without interfering with their own
graft.
No, the trouble with Philadel-
phia is not sleepiness or apathy. 1t
is the corruption of its people.
"They want to stop the gas deal,
but they don't want TO throw out the
ring that makes the gas deal That
might weaken the republican party
which protects the tariff graft
Now, we need not care whether
the L. G. l. beats them or not. That
wont matter in the long run. What
really matters is this. Their gov
ernment is not their government and
the ring to which the government
belongs will continue to insult and
rob and disgrace these corrupt Phil
adelphians until they take not their
lives, but their gratis in their hands,
and vote aud vote again and vet
again, not for their rotten old party,
but for their city; not for the ring.
but for themselves; not for good
government, but for that which their
ancestors fought for-self govern
ment
And, till they do that, let the rest
of us pray that their prayers, wheth-
er to heaven or to the councilmen,
be not answered. For we are inter
ested They send to Washington to
represent the rest of us, men who
represent the Philadelphia ring and
the Philadelphia spirit