New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1906-02-12
WINS ATTACKS JEROME.
ALSO JIBES At MAYOR.
Asks What La7cs 4re fOr-Mr
GrOsscuD on Corporations.

(TTOSSCUD on tOT pOutOHS.
Nearly fifteen hundred persons. including many
well known lawyers Of Westminster County at
tended the Peoples Forum at the New-Rochelle
Theatre Yesterday afternoon TO hear discussion
on The Individual MAN. by Judge Peter s Gross
cup of the United States Circuit Court of Appeals
He was introduced 10 the audience by william NJ
Twins the late Republican candidate for Mayor OF
New York The discussion was not confined strict
~ to the subject announced both speakers dealt
largely with trusts and other leading topics of the
day.
Mr. WINS attacked District Attorney Jerome ana
the State officers because they have not prosecuted
the heads of the big insurance companies and Anoy
Hamilton incidentally he paid his compliments 10
Mayor Mcclellan for his leniency with the Gas
Trust"
Mr.. WINS in speaking of the opportunities ar
forded to the individual man said that. In some
instances these opportunities astray and operate
for evil instead of good. He said that one or the
dangers confronting the country was That lnol-
vidua men might become so great that they would
be able control the state for their own ends
Men possessing the most magnificent. powers, he
said had for years been lurking in the halls of the
legislatures and been making common cause with
the bosses and politicians until the powers of in
dividual had strangled the power of the state
for legislation. The great question to-day. he said,
whether or not the state is capable of punish
ing the wrongdoers after they have been appre-
hended and exposed.
WHAT USE ARE LAWS?"
The life insurance companies had furnished
example of immunity said Mr. Wins. He went on:
Have any institutions that have been greater
factors for the welfare and happiness of mankind
that the IRE Insurance. companies. p 10 TWO years
ago II was beheYed mat the men VINO were IN com
mand Of these companies and who controlled and
OF good citizenship. and when some
looking about for representative citizens to act in
some good cause for the community. he went to the
boards of these companies. and of their allied trust
". Hughes Suffced
that the whole system was rotten. What is the
did these things quit The country and go TO
Paris? Andy Hamilton to Paris: McCurdy
young Mr.. Hyde We wonder in the Of
Attorney or an Attorney General What is the use
Of our laws If the wrongdoer escapes?
gas companies whose franchises have lapsed The
lapses in some cases are from twenty-five to thirty
years old, and yet these franchises still being
operated. They could be ended by some proper
officer Of the law. and that proper officer Of the
ia ken to terminate those franchises. which by the
terms of the law are now ended and should revert
Talking before audiences like this is a very fine
thing. but If you wait to get your rights until some
one who makes speeches gets them for you, then
you Will never have them. You must fight for
terine your district Attorney nto a huappy state
Of hlissful and eternal sleep
JUDGE GRossCUP's SPEECH.
In speaking Of the trust question and the remedy
for existing evils connected with it, Judge Gross
CUP said:
The difficulty in industrial life of America is
not the existence of the thing call the
poration. The corporation has no sin. Indepen-
IDENTITY Of sins thrust upon IT, it is but the elabora
ton, the growth Of that first corporation which
was formed when two men put their wealth
he made the agency of conserving the strength of
men 10 a common purpose. but az the same time
terest. his pride in the development of his coun-
try's industries and power:
what Is the matter with il? Why has il not done
that: Why is it that this cutlery against the
porations is heard from all sides? Why have We
fourteen years without having destroyed a trust?
The npntio iTt W. man mo 9al Tor violating
not because the combine itself is wrong any more
man me factory any more wrong than the railroad
IS over the stage coach. any than the other
developments of every day life wrong over their
primitive predecessors?
The wrong of the CORPORATION Is not In the cor
P0aon fse but In the public policy Of the State
become the exclusive right of few people IT,
Try INTO corporations was taking place. the pro-
ducers were given the charce of proprietorship and
maker had become a part proprietor in the shoe
factories and the engineer Of the railroad in whose
and none Of the causes for cutlery would exist But
such was not the case for some reason other
SHOULD BE PUBLIC PROPERTY.
We took that our public lands should be-
acres of lands belonging TO the government great
new domain. property that this people inherited
not by conquest but from the hand OF the Creator
Himself. were distributed in this way In fs40 We
began to legislate that every citizen should
possess himself of farm IN such a way that no
great estate In lands exists at the present time
We have beautiful country-rndana Illinois Wis
consin ana the Dakotas. clear down to the Mexican
line; we have a mighty agricultural people the
backbone Of our whole Western country. unon
whom We can rely against any Confiagration which
may arise The inhabitants are themselves the
proprietors Of little farms. the buttress and ou-
wark Of our republican institutions.
corporate domain could have been distributed thus
in the matter of proprietorshp among the people
OF America the farming domain was the prob
lem that presses with such anxiety would have
existence. If the railroad engineer had a share
in the property for which he rislOng his life.
II the the loom, in addition to the daily
wage he gets, had a property interest in the whole
Institution; if in short, this great domain of prop
cry had been distributed as II in the case of
the lands of the West all would have been well
ANY laws that would have encouraged a wide
spread popular ownership have escaped The
corporate domain was left n lawiess region as law
less a. Arizona was before any government was
put there. lawless any place on the
plains before United States marshal was put In
charge OF the peace Of the vicinity.
ANY man could do he pleased in the WAY of
creating the corporations. / have said elsewhere
and repeat here again because it is said that
under the laws Of any State in the Union except
that I except New York lye men
sit around a table. put dollar in the centre
and organize corporation calling for 81 100000
worth Of capital. and repocket the dollar and go
home after sending certificate of incorporation
the Secretary OF State. rterDrisa