Perth Amboy evening news., 1910-10-01

gress and have manipulated tariff
schedules to absurd and Unnecessary
heights that they might still more In
crease prices to the American con-
sumner.
They have taxed the people not only
for extravaganza and graft In govern
ment, but have compelled them to
pay untold millions to favored private
interests
They have sold inferior public sup
piles at dishonest figures ard for the
purpose have corrupted any official
they could hire to betray his trust.
They have gambled in the neces-
saries Of life and have created monop-
olistic corners on the peoples food and
clothing.
Through trusts and combinations
they have ~artihcially created high
prices hat are now causing distress
throughout the land.
They have jobbed public buildings
and have eve sold unfit materials to
the army and navy, on which the coun
try depends for its defense.
They have appropriated the public
domain and have wantonly destroyed
and wasted the natural resources that
should have been preserved as a heri-
tage for the unborn.
They have oppressed labor and have
not hesitated to deny men employment
or v @ have shot them doggp for seek
Ing only to better their own and their
fellaw workmen's conditions.
They have employed women and
children at a titiful wage, have robbed
the little ones Of school time and play
and have dwarfed them body and soul.
They have created false issues and
catch phrases to fool the voters, have
appealed to them on selfish and mate
realistic lines and thus have attempted
to lower the moral tone of the nation.
They have sought to influence the
u~tferances Of the press, Of the college
and even of the pulpit In order that
they might pervert the minds OF man
kind for their own selfish gain.
They have misrepresented and tried
to discredit any public man they could
not use and to disgrace those they
could not corrupt.
They have piled up swollen fortunes
by methods SO devious that they were
a constant suggestion of dishonesty
and c~riminality to any weak enough
to be perverted by their example.
They. have denied political equality
and have built up an aristocraey OF
money more vulgar and objectionable
than the aristocracy of titles our ia
theirs sought to Danish.
They have speculated In the securi-
ties of common carriers, have wrecked
railway and tramway properties and
have overstoeked public utilities for
the sake of fictitious dividends.
They have debauched fire and life in
suranee companies and have put to
their own uses the money men invest
ed for the protection of their families.
They have refused to use safety APP
plianees to protect life and to reim-
burse workmen injured in their en-
| ploy until compelled to do SO by law.
They have evaded their taxes eve
while turning to their own uses the
government which those taxes were
meant to support.
They have besmirched the high and
sacred calling of the law and have
hired attorneys to tell them how to
evede the statutes ena how TO be Grim
inais tn fact without going to jail.
They have introduced misleading
clauses and Jokers INTO legislation by
which they have defeated the will Of
the legislators and of the voters who
elected them.
They have opposed every forward
movement, especially If &c threatened
their own pockets, have sought to keep
government out Of the hands Of the
people and have allied themselves with
the worst and most degrading elements
in our utilization.
In a word, they have been antago-
nistic to the genius OF liberty, democ-
racy and public good on which the
country was founded and have sought
In effect to make 1t an oltgarchy of
wealth and special privilege rather
than the free and progressive republic
Its founders intended.
These are but the beginnings OF the
abuses for which the special interests
are responsible. Their crimes against
the public good are a matter OF COM
mon knowledge and are understated
rather than overstated. Any man az
all ~eonversant with affairs "a add to
them from his own observation. They
have at last reached the point where
the people win bear them ne longer. It
is time for a new Declaration OF In
dependence. We should NOV proclaim
that these United States are and OF
right ought to be free from the dor1i-
nation of crooked politics and crooked
business.
Drive the special interests out Of pol
fftics. DO IL ROW.
lSAID MAN HELD HIM