Perth Amboy evening news., 1910-10-22
WILSON READS
A NEW STORY
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forgetting that they were handling trust
f~unds-funds that were trust funds in
a most sacred sense of the term, for
they were funds reserved to save aged
against want and all the tragedy that
comes with death. The families of per
sons who had paid premiums for years
in order to secure this immunity and
this security for their families and 9Qved
ones. These men were treating these
funds, exactly as if they were their
own, and were making a private and
illegitlmate profit out Of them.
What | want to call yotr attention
to is that many of these mfh who were
doing these things were not dishon-
orable men; they were men who had
got into the drift of a system which
they had not sufficiently examined and
which their consciences had not kept
tally of, and by one slow stage after
another, the one stage naturally follow
ing the others, they had been lead to
a point of view where they had forgot
ten, they had actually forgotten, the
original fundamental intentions Of the
business in which they were engaged.
rHf ooiiObblhS Ntly 6luIlldI Ddu nap
pened in the field of politics, NOT in New
Jersey merely but throughout the Uni
ted States.
''What has happened is that certain
men connected with great political or
CARNATIONS have by slow and insidious
stages found themselves treating polit-
ical questions as if they were for pri.
rate benefit. They have lost the point
of view of the business they were en-
gaged in, exactly as the insurance men
lost the point of view of the business
they were engaged in. Some of these
men, many of these men, are without in
~tention of doing dishonorable things.
Many of them are without consciousness
of doing illegitimate things.
"They have by stages of politics
which can be traced just like the
growth of a tree, drawn into things
which have withdrawn them from their
consciousness of being public servants.
Zone of the striking illustrations of
this campaign used to illustrate the
power of special interests over the
board of guardians who controlled the
Legislature was that the power which
drove the law mill, was the water which
came through a narrow s%luice, but when
the bosses guarded the gate of the
sluiceway, they controlled the Legis-
l~ature, and with them the special inter
ests had all their dealings.
GAS insurance reformation came
through the selection of new men from
the outside, and thus only were the pol
icy holders given a feeling of security
SO that by a change from the outside
could the voters of the State have a
feeling of security" Declaring that
the motive force must come from the
outside instead of from the inside TO
reform legislation, he said.
"You have got to move this motive
force, this machine and you have got to
move it in the right direction and use
it for right purposes. Perhaps you
will let me illustrate for you the pres
ent plunge, that, I might say, we are
in; or I would more properly say, you
are in-that you are about to make on
the 9Th of November. There Is moth
ing to say against the character, asd ]
believe nothing to say against the pur-
poses of the Republican candidate for
Governor; but he is part and always
has been part in his public life of the
organization which has been led into
mistaken uses of its political power. He
is in the position of a former member
of the Board of Guardians, and you
have to ask yourself how probable is it
that he will try to use the old organiza-
ton which rs unpromising in itself, to
new purposes.
Il will try to illustrate to you by a
story which doubtless some of y1u have
heard. IL At gEItsNEx z
can old colored mar in a Southern
town went into a drug store and said:
8 Boss, will you get the colonel on the
telephone for met Everybody knew
who the colonel was in that town, and
when the colonel was got, the old dar-
key said: Colonel that ERE mule
down In the back road in front Of the
store, Sirf Yes, sir; L done put dirt
in his mouth, but he won't bulge.
What's that COLONEL Yes, sir; he has
strings around his ears, but he won It
bulge. Oh, yes, sir; yes, sir; put a fire
under him, but it don't do any good.
SirS What 3 that, eo1onelY oh, no, no,
sir; I didn t twist his tail; no, sir. He
says one gentleman did twist his tail
that looked like q Northern gentleman,
Sir, sir. Yes, sir; yes, sir; they done
take him to the hospital. What's that,
colonel No, sir; no, sir; l amt heard
yet
"Now, about the knowledge Of this
tail. Mr.. Lewis is no Northern gentle
man, and he is not going to twist that
mules tail, because he has seen that
mule behave before. 1t would take some
inexperienced outsider TO risk going to
the hospital. Now hat Is what I mean
by the improbabilities of this eompaign.
The improbability is that the Republi-
can candidate ought to; he must know
by experience, it must be not only use
less but dangerous. So I am not coun-
selling you to get anybody to twist the
mules tail. ] think that is hopeless.
I think that mule ought to be put out
of business.
"Public opinion was absolutely neces-
sary for proper government and all
voters must participate. The choice of
the selection of officeholders is that of
matching. His language in this respect
was:
"Tbe selection of candidates and
their election is a game Of matching.
What kind of a fellow are youi Well,
probably you want that kind of a man
to serve you. All right, match; find a
of that kind and if you have got
handsome intentions, declare them; if
you have not, lie low, and shut ug and
don't choose anybody. That is~ the~only
safe way TO conduct this difficult bust
But hat is the happy circumstan-
ee of our time; that that sort Of think
isg is going abroad, 1t is running clear
everywhere.
"I wonder if you have noticed a very
interesting circumstance. The things
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