Newark evening star and Newark advertiser., 1910-10-14
WILSON ARRA|GNS
CORRUPTION IN
RINGING SPEECH
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of this campaign. and there are the
strongest indications that the hand
some passions of the electorate of this
State have been aroused.
His closing exhortation was a tre-
mendous and heartening appeal for all
men to assert theif independence in the
present struggle in this State,
The great throng shouted its approval
of the invigorating doctrine, clearly in
dicating the interest that his address
had aroused.
In Ocean County To-day
Mr. Wilson leaves here this morning
by automobile for tour through
Ocean county. He will enter that
county at Gretna Green and travel
Cedar Bridge. Barnegat Waretown,
reaching Toms River in time for sup
per. He will speak at s o'clock In the
historic Court House, and then make a
dash of ten miles to Lakewood, where
he will speak in the Arcade Rink.
In his speech DR.. Wilson said:
What are the things that we are
interested in? There are a great many
of them, and | am not going TO
be tedious by enumerating all of
them. l want to take merely a few
specimens, and / want to choose these
specimens with regard to what / sup
pose you have been thinking For ex-
ample, you have been thinking about
the comforting upon the proper COM
mission, commission which already
exists, in name, at any rate, which we
call in this State the Public Utilities
Commission, proper set of powers,
in order that they can have the power
to regulate instead of the power to ad-
wise You know how great a question
this is. You know what great inter
ests are involved. You know that what
we all want is a commission which
has a rate-making power.
Rate-Making Power Urged.
'The rate-making power does not ap-
ply merely to railways, either the great
steam railways of this State or the
great trolley lines of this State. 1t
applies also to the rates charged for
water and gas and all these public
utilities which so nearly concern our
convenience and comfort We know
what happens. You know what hap
pens. There are, for example, two
competing companies supplying a town
with gas. Each is charging so cents
for gas. That may or may not be
legitimate 1t may, for all know, not
have paid either of the original COM
panies to supply gas at 80 cents, but
when they have combined and are
without competition and have the con-
troll of the whole business, we would,
at any rate, like to know why 1t is
necessary that they should charge 81.
1--WE should like to have a commits
sion which can find out, and upon
some perfectly fair basis, for I am not
in favor of conf1scating legitimate
profits, find out upon what basis these
charges rest This applies to,the rail-
way companies, to the transportation
companies, as we'll as to the other pub
lie utilities. We would like to know
why we cannot go still for cents to
the neighboring towns.
Uses of Commission.
''Now there is a distinct allegation
that the Pennsylvania Railroad Com
pany bought the trolley line. IL we
had what we want, a commission with
powers to determine; powers to regu-
late, that assertion could be carried
before them They would be obliged to
investigate it and tell us exactly what
the cause was, and il non-competitive
conditions exist, they would have the
right to give us the benefit of the nom
competitive conditions.
THAT illustrates perfectly what we
want and what we mean to have. Very
well, then. let us view the situation
that we may determine by our votes
on the Sth of November Mr.. Lewis
also desired that the Public Utility
Commission should have the power to
regulate rates, and ! suppose that he
wishes, as 1 wish, that it should have
the power of determining the basis of
those charges so that the regulation
will not be arbitrary or unreasonable.
is it likely that Mr. Lewis can bring
that about through the instrumentali-
ties now in charge of the Republican
party?
what has been your experience
This same unaltered organization that
you have now has been in charge of
the Republican party, | don't mean the
rank and file cf the Republican party,
because they have wished to God they
were not in control of the Republican
party, this same group of men have
been in charge of that organization
during the last three years. and this
same promise was made by the party
and it's candidate in the year 1907.
Promises UnfuIHlied.
"Why has that promise not been full
filled, and is it any more likely that 1t
will be fulfilled under the present can
didate than it was s>then under the can
ddate of three years ago? There is a
very practical question for you to
answer, and you had better ask that
question of some gentleman very neal
at home, who was the leader of the
Assembly during these three years, II
may be that that leader was himself
| in favor Q don't know of redeemine
that pledge, but the leader of the AS
sembly is generally the representative
of the party organization. He does not
act as an individual He acts as the
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