The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1910-10-12
WOULD WATCH Law MAKERS
WILSON NTIMATES M BOIID
no THtT rs COT FRNOR.

'Seifi>h Control 90 Legislation O. the
Essence % Gran' How to Deal
WITH tho Corporations THINKS states
TaNlnx scheme Needs some neN IsiOa.
patterson. y J DC. n I will tell
YOU thus. that | do not know 81 any steal
or any crooked thing tina, Is heing planned
in the state said Woodrow Wilson
tonight to 1000 Patersonians IN the
Opera House but n there - any going
on | will find II out and tell you about Il
for that - one thing | have he~n trained
10 do all my life. And II I find one will
tell you abou, II IN language 80 PLAIN
that you will understand It language
courteous. hope. hut az any rate unmis-
taxable, for want TO see public opinion
shape government IN this state.
They stopped ia their exit did the !? 90.
long enough TO emit a hig yell Mr. Wilson
had been preceded by Congressman
Billy Hughes. Paierson's much beloved
i'npe' uous son. and the Princeton man
seemed az first too sedate He had got
the biggest and most prolonged cheer
at his campaign when he TCse 10 speak
and hrs words grew IN earnsStneSs and
his voice in power. The crowd listened
TO him eagerly. but not till he dropped
into his homely. easy going. sincere
but humorous manner was the circuit
Of sympathy closed Mr. Wilson. taking
his cue from Billy Hughes, who had said
that u was not case OF Wilson, that =
all. hogan by saying that II " were he
would go home But Mr.. Wilson SAID
thar his cause was the puritICatIon ~
politics
I don Z. mean the elimiration 81 bribery
ard the grus~er corruptions. said the
Princeton man. for the day u very near
A. hSnd whom men will not dare to receive
money 10 dehauch legislation. I mean
the closed debate Mr. Wilson said that
the Paine AldrIch iarif had been built
not on the testimony ot manufacturers
and others Du' ON "A seTieS Of private
understandings The prosperity of the
country does not depend on The conf.
dental arrangements II any group Of
men. = he added
The government that spends more
money than IL necessary puts the public
money IN IN" way Of more persons than
l. necessary said MIR Wilson. and he
followed the rounded period with the
Conciser words The first way 10 stop
graft savoid government eStrsvaRance
Tn" second way 10 stop honest graft Mr.
Wilson said, was To- stop establishing end
lees commlSs ions
IL selfish control Il legislation IL the
essence NJ graft continued Mr. Wilson.
his foreting"r looking the air the best
way To Nil that - 10 appoint som. one to
d
can about u
To secure any fundamental economy
m III" States government Mr. Wills IN
r"SImed n would he ness--arv imm.-
diatelv - undertake" revision Il the
Who'll" tax system If the State Then
n" spuk" II the ueC"s-itv II controlling
IN" rprporat. creatures New !, rsny has
mad" Il am not sorry that the en-
Ilpyc"S ot the sugar trust wer. punished
he went On No man can be- excused J
a
mans bidding And then he got the /
hall "ChuIng Nv thee words Y shall |
feel that Justice has mlrcarri"d when n |
stops short e m" top Tn" most guilty /
man Is m. one who se.-- how m" law can I
no broken and orders ~ don" The law .
must find him or fail
NJ Wilson took another tack They I
haV" accused mo e IN iulgIng ~ ghtteTlug b
We'll. there - one corpora
fion "speCIally which v" should under
take 4" regulate. ! mean the Public Ser
&c" Corporation
A. thus some Of the audience sat very
erect On" ~ the counsel ~ the Public
Service corporation AT on the platform
just back 81 Mr. Wilson The candidate
went on 10 say that the State should
undertake an approximate valuation Of
the corporation = properly. not merely a
physical valuation he interpolated. for
hat WASN'T all stocks bonds and other
assets and liabilities not tangibl. must
be- r'ckoned And after the State had
evaIuat~d the CorporatIonS properties ~
should set "A hasIs for determining rates
and then he ahl" 10 fix tho rate
Is that a Riltterlng generality" gently
asked the scholar when he had finished
Tn" h"st way n get good government.
10" candidate SAID. l. To lot the party IN
now"r understand that II walks on a
nine Not mine that will explode
1aphazardly hut one that will make them
quake II they do not walk straight
He wound up nv telling what he would
20 n he baCs me Governor Wilson He
would first. observe everything legisla-
i've going on, secondly. he would ask
questions thirdly. he would
poke around. especially where he was
rot wanted and fourthly he would come
M and have the time 81 his life telling
NJ Ja~-ay all about n