The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-03-24

him as hard AZ It could.
Gentlemen. these are facts; let me give
you some more. Another time a great news
paper goes to a certain lawyer. You repre-
sent the insurance g~ratters. 1t said. Turn uE
something on the District Attorney, show
that he has interests in Wall Street and
Wen say something nice In the paper
1t happened that that map was a gentleman
but a shadow was cast on the whole pro-
fession.
And in the office of that newspaper,
written in large letters on the wall, are the
words Accuracy Terseness; Accuracy
while city editors were specializing and
going short of Metropolitan Street Rail-
road stock.
only a few-days ago these papers cried
that Andrew Hamilton must be brought
back. He comes back and goes before
the Senate Committee. He said. i want
to show that the yellow dog a u dog si git 4
rightly. He stuck true to his own ira
ditions, but it was the yellow dog who
spoke it. But, gentlemen, this yellow
Journalism, yesterday crying for his blood
exploits him now against the men who
deny his allegations.
Take the letter from the lips OF the dying
MCCALL: He refused to accept the duty
unless 1t was in secret, and assented 70
that proposition
And yet his words although the meanest
criminal Is always PIE 'umed to be innocent
~ hb7 "oius VI uiblOkutN ohN ~
accept the words of such a one to stamp
him and Bliss and others as felons. Is
not the character Of any one to lot
anything in the community in which he
lives?
How far hysteria has gone is shown by
what Roger Pryor said in the newspapers
this morning; swept off his feet he would
feed fuel to a fame. He comes forth In
an interview saying that Section 544 OF the
Penal Code plainly shows a crime has been
committed, and yet he forgets to put in what
1t says about trustees.
"A certain former Chief Judge Of the
Court of Appeals-I believe he once ran for
President-goes into the South. Oh, how
l have smartsd under his words in the
Court Of Appeals. Every man he would h
say in his decisions, was entitled to his
rights; therefore this prisoner must be dis
charged. =
H goes down among our Southern
brethren and says the way to convict is to
conviot-note the judicial note. He says
there is not a Grand Jury that would not
jerome, bringing his fist down with a bang
on the table, cit is becauset the Grand Jury
would indict these men with or without
evidence that there is one public official
in New York who will not permit them to
indict without the evidence.
They would have put Jacob Schif in
the dock. Was ] mistaken when was
handed an opinion by this x-Chief Justice
that this man was not evil, but the reverse?
Did he get money for that, or did he honestly
So much for cheap clap-trap plays, even II
they come from the Sage Of Esopus.
II am going to see that those who come
within the criminal law are punished; but
the way to convict is with the evidence,
not as Judge Parker says, BY awaiting dnn tS OF
effect Of this? / was informed the other
night by a director of the Mutual Life that
nearly one hundred millions Of dollars in
policies had lapsed in the last year.
What policies were they? Those from
81 200 to $3,o00-the policies Of the poor
had lapeed. They had taken the cries of
these wild newspapers. No one could
doubt that these companies are solvent as
the United States Government, but they
had been scared by these hounds OF yellow
Journalism, and the poor motormen and
conductors and mail carriers have let their
policies lapse. The newspapers had driven
from their protection the wives and chill
dren of the poor.
Gentlemen, the real terror Is not what
has beer you. The real evil in this in
surance situation is that some eighteen or
twenty men can ontrolhundreds of MILL pms
Of quick moving assets; nsiti in their club
and can make the game of finance a brace
game if they want to; h great evil Is
In that. You can't pick out eighteen or
81, 500, ooo, 600 should be entrusted to them.
II feel bitterly, my friends, in one way
not personally, but | feel bitterly that my
people should be swept of their feet by
such circumstances as these; that educated
bred ours led away by Hearst and the other
unspeakable. / don mean Mr.. Pulitzer;
he is getting old, and cannot check up the
actions of his hirelings, | mean that I'M
speakable bunch he has to rely on for the
conduct of his paper.
~ ~ uuA Il nv To roADrt 4 n a q I'm m anf
Of the newspapers. for the newspapers and
by the newspapers? If so public officials
will soon lose their nerve. They forget
they are put in office to use their judgment
and not the judgments of editors. Con-
ceive how little the educated man thinks
when an editor writes an editorial addressed
to the District Attorney appealing to him
on his reputation. The District Attorney
that is moved by this commits a crime.
Gentlemen, it is up to you, cav with
YOU a sentiment in which ! hope you will
oil DIN in this crisis: Not halt, but steady"
There was very little applause through
Mr.. Jerome's speech. His attitude seemed
TO forbid it. Occasionally, however, it
broke out and at the end the diners got on
their feet and gave him the Delta Epsilon
yell again and again.
Mr.. Hughes stayed only a short time at
the dinner, because, as he explained to the
committee, he was to work on the in
surance bills. When he came there was
tT"elnenuOus dpplduSe. ne sdlu u lew
words after he had been acclaimed as "the
next Governor"
Il greatly appreciate this greeting" said
Mr.. Hughes, but | must leave political
aspirations at this time where they belong
Mr.. Hughes turned toward Mr.. Jerome
and Iieut.-Gov. Bruce as he said this. Mr..
Jerome only laughed. Mr.. Hughes apollo
gized for not being able to stay.
i've declared dividends when I've been
without before" he said, f~aoetiously, but
tonight I'm in favor of a deferred dividend
policy. A man who has been ~engrossed
for weeks in actuarial researches is hardly
able to speak intelligently on anything"
Mr.. Ridgway, as president Of the Delta
Epsilon Club of New York, made the first
speech. He talked on the magazine ex-
posures too, but in a different way from
what MIR. Jerome did later.
Il nave an idea" said Mr.. Ridgway,
that the general impression is abroad
that some periodicals are in somewhat bad
business. It's about the turn Of the maya
zines to get what's coming to us, but while
we're getting it | don't think we'll keep
as still as some people who have been
getting it from us.
Back of all thisp publicity for high crimes
and misdemeanors there is purpose beyond
advertising. IL the newspapers want to
connect us with anarchists and socialists,
very well, they can put us in that class,
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