Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1910-09-16

on of public service cor
roughout the State. We
Il experience elsewhere to
his matter. from the I'd
lission so long in success
in Wisconsin to the latest
sister States. We need
,ubt of our right course of
ne States, not the Federal au-
3. that create corporations. The
ltion of corporations is the duty
the State much more directly than
is the duty of the government of
the United States. 1t is my strong hope
that New Jersey may lead the way In
reform by scrutinizing very carefully
the enterprises she consents to incor-
porate; their makeup, their objects,
the basis and method of their capital
cation. their organization with respect
to liability to control by the State, their
conformity to State and Federal
statute. This can be done, and done
effectually. l eovet for New Jersey
the honor of doing 1t.
II do not speak with confidence as
to any particular method. but we
should have a public service commits
sion adequate to control the situation,
it need not be by a process of experiment
tation. One of Il troubles has been
that States do not learn fast enough
from one another. The simple device
of learning from States where corpora
tions are we'll controlled can get us d
suitable law.
You may say tate's rights. The
only right the State has is the right
it exercises. not the right it does not
exercise. New Jersey has created
many corporations, but New Jersey
does not control them. | covet the
honor for New Jersey in showing the
rest of the States how New Jersey
corporations shall be controlled. The
big corporations of our State reach
everywhere. New Jersey should scru-
tinize the corporations she creates;
what is their business; how are they
capitalized; is the public being de-
ceived by them; are they amenable
to the law?
Did you ever live in a time of uni
versal hope? Did you ever experience
that you were doing right and THAI
good will come of it? If so, you
thoughts are that you are not doing
anything for yourself. This is a day
of a particularly unselfish purpose thai
has come to New Jersey. We have seen
the country misled, we have seen the
people disappointed. Some of it's men
have sought not public, but private in
terests. We should strive to make this
era of nope one of realization"
Appeal to Voters.
And so, also. gentlemen, with every
other question we face. Let us face 1t
in the spirit of service and with the
careful, practical sense of men of al
fairs. We shall not ask the voters of
the State TO lend us their suffrage
merely because we call ourselves
Democrats. but because we mean to
serve them like honest and public
spirited men. true democrats because
true lovers OF the common interest,
servants of no special group of men
or of interests. students of the inter-
est of the people and of the country.
THE future is not for parties play,
ing politics. but for measures con-
ceived in the largest spirit. pushed by
parties whose leaders are statesmen,
not demagogues, who love. not their
Offices, but the duty and their oppor-
tunity for service. We are witnessing
Il renaissance OF puDllc Spirit, io
awakening of sober public opinion, a
revival Of the power of the people. the
beginning CO az & of thoughtful re-
construction that makes our thought
bark back to the great age in which
democracy was set up In America.
With the new age we shall show a
new spirit. We shall serve Justice and
candor and all things that make for
the right. Is not our own ancient party
the party disciplined and made ready
for this great task? Shall we not for