Perth Amboy evening news., 1910-10-27
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come to the conclusion that the hui
man mind had infinite resistance In
resisting the influences Of knoWl-
edge;-in that respect the republican
organization leaders share the char
acteristics of the human mind. They
have not received very much return
in respect to the movements of poll
ties.
although I began in a light vein
to address Nan audience like this ON
such an occasion, l have been i'm
pressed by nothing SO much as |
have gone from county to county in
this state as the gathering impulse
of action. Men are tired in our day
of hearing things discussed which
don't amount to anything. They are
tired of promises, they want pro-
grams, they want plans. and they
want men behind the plans who Will
execute them.
I'm other words, they are not so
much interested in the fortunes of
parties as they are interested in the
fortunes of policies.
81 don't know how many of the
audience may have interested them
selves In platforms. A platform
which points with scorn to another
record which everybody has forgot
ten does not thrill the blood. l say
that We are not interested in plat
forms as mere promises cast in
vague language. We r interested
in them only when they seem to be
progressive, and what interests US
about the present time, l must ad-
nit, is that everywhere men are IN
terested in great programs.
"You have heard of the liberty OF
speech. What is the liberty OF
speech? Does it mean you can say
anything you please about ANYBODY!
No. it does not mean that at all; 1t
means that you can say anything
about anybody that twelve OF your
fellow citizens sitting in the jury poX
will let you say "That is all the free
dom of speech amounts to.
'fBut we also possess the right 10
despise those who hold fool opinions,
And so there is this nice balance be-
tween this individual and the society
in which he lives. These twelve men
say, you had no right to say that aoouG
that man and for saying it you VIII
have to pay for it, But these tWelVe
men represent the community.
"Some iuries, L admit, don't look as
If thew represented the community, but
that is not the fault of the theory, for
the theory is that they do. At any
rate. YOU will have +n abide by their
decision. They were picked out by the
parties Of your own choosing. You
are free to go where you please
GIVE d~ifferentiate trusts from corpor-
" -I1-s. -. DIT n fTl1Jt 10 veal =
ly a colossal corporation, and both are
alike in that they have neither bodies
to be kicked nor souls to be damned.
Also they are equally hard to get at
and equally hard to manage.
"You can never see a corporation
or tell it what you think about it. That
is the difficulty about a government.
You never saw the government of New
Jersey or the government of the Unit
ed States; you have never corralled 1T
anywhere and you have never looked
at it all at once. If You could get
the present government of New Jersey
into this room, I, for one, would like to
tell it what [ think Of it, but | haven't
that privilege.
'FNow, we can deal with one man at
a time; we can get a man into court
and make him tell us all about himself,
and we can impose restrictions and pen
alties upon him; he does not slip from
our grasp.
when we arrest a man we have got
him and can produce him at any mo-
ment, but when you arrest a disease
you haven't got anything, and so it is
with the corporation; you can't arrest
a corporation, put it into jail or punish
it, and, therefore, we are distressed by
these circumstances, BY these relations;
their methods are being determined by
certain things. We haven't learned
how to grasp them in the tentacles of
the law.
81 can give you a very ready Illus
tration; the growth of our modern cit
les is largely dependent upon railway
corporations. If a railway will run a
line in a certain part of the country,
that part of the country will be devel-
oped, and if a trolly car will run its
lines in that part of the country it will
be developed. After it is developed the
movement of individuals and OF freight
and everything you want to move-in
ether words, all your Connections with
the rest Of the worlds in the hands
of that corporation. That is the reason
why we are SO interested in having a
Public Utility Commission.
'"We see that something is out of
Joint, namely, a trolley or railway COM
pany we have got to use, it is part and
parcel of our lives. We cannot move or
handle our goods otherwise, but some
how it is not adjusted to us. We have
all sorts of suspicious as TO what it
is adjusted to, but it is not adjusted to
us. Our lives are unjustly inconven-
fenced by the way it is handled. We
haven't got these instrumentalities ad-
justed for the use we want to make of
them, and they are so big that we are
bothered how to get rid of them Inn
bothered how to handle them. That is
the reason that so many people talk in
the terms Of big corporations. They
are all so dependant upon each other
that we have to pool our interests and
cooperate in every respect. That is the
Socialistic program.
"My own objection to Socialistie pro-
gram is tina they will not work. I have
my suspicious that they will not work.
We are constantly struggling for pro-
grammes big and little; the biggest is
tho booldiASlAct anu TINS sHaileSt OF ali
programmes is that of the stand.patter.
In his programme it is largely negative.
1t says we have done a lot of things,
accomplished a lot of things, most of
them have been Disappointing, there
fore, let us not do anything. That is
a programme that I have every day
when / am tired and want to loaf.
That is the program | am going to carry
out at any rate for a few weeks after
the campaign is over. I don't mean to
stand pat then long enough to stagnate
moreover. expeet O have some