New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1907-04-14

Roth are good, both are practicable but both are
SSn5istrstion that operates them We All believe
81 CERTAIN amount OF n'i3e control Me a., ;n
the supervision OF the general government we al
We al beieve I'M public ownership OF the parks and
the schools and the water supply, IN ~, pue ga0t 10
which pTfSlic control and public ownership may oe
cssis $3.50 '--'
Mp. HsaSEt then rehearsed his familiar charges
OF acknowledgement against the Postomce De
partnaent. ale charged once more that the den-
ct IN the ia partment was due as much TO cor
Tuption as te' inefficiency
Then he went on 10 charge George w PERKINS
with having lylven $4,000 OF "the money OF
widows and orphans 10 George B. Cortelyou
campaign coIlec tor Of the Republican party.
IN 1895" he, said, mr.. Cortelyou, as Post
master General paid back 20 Perkins the party
debt with public funds He awarded Perkins
contract for his II ,eamship line which pays MN
100000 a year m re than other steamship nhes
are paid for 81 lilar service. This contract
extends over ten ars, and viii net Mr. FerIlilS
s5OOOOOO above Legitimate profit. Mr. Per-
kins has returned uA der the force Of public eX-
1,osrre the $4,000 VA lich he appropriated from
the widows and orpha MS But he Is Sun aheau
81 $50 900 on the traa saction. Mr. CortelVou
has paid out 100000 OF the peoples money
10 get $4,000 for the IA publican campaign fnnd
and has as yet shown n disposition 10 return
dollar"
Then, after waiting "a r applause. for wnieh
she c,e .nna-e.7tlv had been lost, Mr.. Hearst
continued as follows:
This kind public owney hip dse5ed aIso D0 g6e5 5hs
system ana the government. ~, L,ct e. s,,,7oEs5 70
oxtorf campaign contribu "a from the Sefpo ,
cheerful ever believe stren gly IN honest public
contro and as you ,6 En9% ommerce cos
sion the power 10 TX ra3lrc 50 G@t -, ,roIrIete
believe srongy IN honest F9 ~ s c%nTGS tbe t eo
tTedSSeq 1Tc gaRsr snd open rte the in conne
lion with the postofice and ~ 70. 20 tS. y 49,
ship which Democratic leaders % save co g1Ie
me the 9n9r 70 aPPr e snocess = either these
plans she election Of abe and no 2el ,nef ~ ne
people whom they represent.
Then Mr.. Hearst recollected that IL was sup
rosedlv en- Independence League dinner and
harked back 10 the league by saying;
our To- adTocafs honest me asTes honest
methods and, honest men Let u ots 1tII tbsTs
& on Indeper 0ence League IN every safe and q
great nation9I % ~ Jefferson snd Id6on Let
rot be discouraged by temporary TeFtseS tSt -. ~
purposes.
Then he sat Town. after reading this mes
sage from Thomas Jefferson
1T is an encou aging observable TINT no good
measures we're ever proposed which, II duly
nuryued. failed to prevail in the end! Be sup
ported by the religious precept which says BE
not wesried in Well doing.
Clarence 7. Shearn urged his hearers TO press
forward in the fight under the stirling and mill
4ant leadership Of William f. Hearst
He said that the corporations controlled tbs
government through party machinery and that
the Independence League was organized TO smash
shat corrupt ana corrupting control
He attacked the Rapid Transit Commissioners
ana made this reference TO the affairs OF the
nation;
when we find corporations contributing vast
z,lns az money 10 elect President and Repre-
Fentatives in Congress, know they 90 SO Tor
The DurDOse Of control. When they succeed. as
they have years, in eectiug m OF their choice
-vrh0se nominations ana campaigns they have
.npnnad. the average practical American under
stands that they have won the control that they
have paid 10 get. ,, -
fare Tpon corporations, secretly sends for the very
neqf devil among the pirates of corporation high
finance and commissions him 10 RAISE SZooV01 to
carr pivotal state. and then consuit6 him about
what 70 put in message 20 Congress IL does not
reed surgical operation to get the IDEA into the
read OF fe everyday citizen that these conditions
tneiI bg7pocrisy and huTnbug and mean secret cor
5Dorafion control, matter how loud the noise OF
d sham battle.
The Public Utilities bin was attacked by At
sorney General Jackson. who said the measure
was a movement in favor OF one-nan power. he
characterized the support which has been given
the measure as the continually recurrent mani-