The star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1908-1909, 1908-10-31
THE Y SIDE
By Edward Kenny

~ Il. GROVE thinks the appointive system is as good a s the elective
81 system because some elective officials have gone wrong. The
A~ answer to that is that the people have a chance at the next cleo
ton to get back at a n elective official who goes wrong, but how can
the people get back at the get Of the caucus, uh as Depew and PLATTE
DR.. Grove thinks the income tax would be bad because in tai mat
tes We have now 'about all the lying that a nations morality can
endure" 1 admit WI have a LOT OF ying IN tax matters now ot the
lying does not cor from the little house-ownersy but from the owners
of the public service corporations and other wealthy tax-shnkers. I
know those people lie. IN hay nov them 10 lie hae oaa" .os
ally. Dr. Grove ought o abolish all taxes to prevent lying. Logically.
Dr. Grove ought to abolish the courts to keep witnesses from lying. DR..
Grove is absurd. Dr. Grove says tn income tax is a Idle fancy:
1t isn't IAN idle fancy in Great Britain, where every man is taxed &c
cording o his ability to pay and according to the protection the gov
eminent affords him in the protection of his property. II it works all
right in Great Britain, why a idle fancy" here? /
DR.. Grove gives the Republican party the sole credit for freeing the
negroes, for giving wage-earners work, fr passing n homestead a|
for giving is the balance of trade, for honesty, for education. for freeing
Cuba and Porto Rico and the Philippines. for civilization. br the Panama
Canal. for the Monroe Doctrine, fol honest % money etc, etc. N.Y. my
think of that! DR.. Grove would have u Is believe that the Republican
party is "alone in the United states'-ike Colonel Roosevelt "alone in
Cuba It's JUST o. funny for anything. Dr. row rs a humoris' II
a wonder DR.. Grove doesn't claim that the Republicans enacted the ten
commandments, and that son Republican politician wrote the sermon
on the Mount Zach Chandler, in 1876, told the Republicans to claim
everything" Dr. Grove is a pretty good disciple of old Zach.
DR.. Grove say Judge Taft gave the labor unions the right to
fight out strike For goodness sake, will Dr. Grove give us that de-
csion in full, and then tell us why Judge Taft enjdned Chief Arthur
to Jail for six months because F. ". Phelan was organizing the en-
poyees of the Cincinnati and Southern Railroad for the protection of labor?
1t wasn't statute Law or the common law that enjoined Chief Arthur
~ tna a - 3D." law =. I I = ~ ~ vs Judge Ind. MocaTters Iuare.maa.' Ia that
put six Newark drygoods clerks in the Essex county JAIL Why doesn't
Dr. Grove give ust the facts, not idle dreams?
And then DR.. Grove calmly proceeds to absdve and to acquit the
railroad company which provoked the strike, and to acct the workmen
whom the railroads forced to strike. of leaving the groceries and the
market without food" of stopping the milk trains thereby
killing more babies than Herod killed. DR.. Grove says the workmen
did all that, and therefore the worknen were wrong and the Democratic
party is wrong, and that the railroads which caused the strike were
right and the Republican party. therefore. is right.
Where in the world did DR.. Grove cultivate his reasoning powers?
Where in the world did DR.. Grove ear his logic? DR.. Groves logic is
too ethereal for melt is 81 ethereal that It's like Ia n o earthly existence.
Dr. Grove Gems to think that the mothers Oft this nation depend on
milk-cans fr their babies. DR.. Grove certainly has a very poor opinion
of American motherhood. If Dr. Grove will come over my way some
day I'll show him babies N every block, and babies in almost every
house, good healthy American babies, who get their sustenance from
their mothers, as babies should, and If Dr.. Grove should mention milk
cans for the babies to those mothers. he would have the quickest sprint
downstairs he ever had in his life. Dr. Groves Republican corporation
plea OF killing the babies is quite as good a S the old worn-o ut widows
and orphans"
In yesterdays article DIR. Grove says Mr. Bryan is a sectionayist
and that Mr.. Taft is a statesman; that Mr.. Bryan is an oppotunit and
Mr.. Taft is a builder of civilization; that Mr. Bryan is al obector and
that Mr.. Taft il a political scientist; that Mr.. Taft believes in the Con-
workingman's enemy and that Mr.. Taft is the workngman's friend, etc.
Dr. Grove says all this but he gives not a single eason to support
any of his statements. There is a class of mn who never expect to
give reasons; they expect everybody to take everything on faith Well
faith is all right in religion, but faith doesn't go in business OF in politics.
When a man is asked to vote for a certain candidate he wants ito know
why, and DR.. Grove doesn't tell why. He just dogmatcaHy gives us
plattudes and expects us to take them IN faith. 1t won't dc.
For instance, DR.. Grove says that M of Mr.. Bryah's aims il the
qualification of the patent office" Will Dr. Grove show US where Mr..
Bryan ever proposed the Modification of the eytent once?" Mr.. Bryan
never proposed anything of the sort, directly hr indirectly, and that
statement is o m a par with all Of DR.. Groves othet Charges" against Mr..
Bryan. ~