Perth Amboy evening news., 1910-11-05


play is over. They really believe, gen
tlemen, that the way to serve this eoun
try is to promote the interests of BIZ
business and then depend on big bust
ness to take care of as. | am not say
ing that in satire at all. That is wha
they believe; they believe that if the,
promote the great business interests o
this commonwealth, for example, rep
resented by certain groups of capital
lists they have sufficiently promoted tn
interests of New Jersey and that tbes
big interests will take care or us. Nov
L differ from them as widely as tn,
poles are separated from each other.
Way to Prosperity.
"Under my theory of government
believe that the way to make a prosper
GUS people is to promote the prosper
ity of the individual, and when the
people are prosperous they will take
care of big business. I turn the matter
exactly around. [ remember a wise
French writer who said that a poor
kingdom made a poor king, and L be
lieve that a poor people make a poor
body, and that the way to have prosper
ny 10 " nave IL RCuCldi INV NV
it particularly.
How Legislature Proceeds.
"This is what happens. They prom
Use you a particular piece or leglsla-
tion. AS soon as the legislature gets a
bill e~mbodying that legislation IS IN
troduced into the legislature, it is re-
ferred to a committee, and you never
hear Of it again. What happensf No
body knows what happens. 1 am not
intimating that corruption crept IN, L
do not know what crept in. The point
is that I, as a citizen of New Jersey,
not only do not know, but it is intima-
ted to me that it is none of my business.
Ny reply is that 1t is my business, and
that it is the business of every man
in New Jersey, and that we have a right
TO know all the particulars of the rea-
son. There is not any legitimate pri-
vaey about matters Of government.
Private Transactions.
"Government must, If it Is to be
pure and correct in its processes, be
absolutely public in everything that af-
fects it. L cannot imagine a public man
with a conscience having a secret that
he would keep from the people about
their own affairs. / know how some of
these gentlemen reason. They say that
the influences to which they are yield
ing are perfectly legitimate influences,
but if they were disclosed, they would
not be understood. Well, I am very
sorry, but nothing is legitimate that
cannot be understood. If you cannot
explain it properly, then there is ONE
thing about it that cannot be explain
ed at all.
"I know from the circumstances of
the case not what is happening but that
something private is happening, and
that every time one of these bills gets
committee, something private stops
it, end it never comes out again unless
forced out by the agitation of the press
ana the courage and revolt of brave
in the legislature. / have known
brave men of that sort. I could name
some splendid examples of men, who, as
representatives of the people demand
ed to be told by the chairman Of the
committee why the bill was not report
ed, and when they could not find out
from him they Investigated and found
out for themselves and brought the
bill out by threatening to tell the rea-
sons on the floor of the House.
"Those are private processes. Those
are processes which stand between the
people and the things that are prom
Used them, and L say that until you
drive all of those things into, the open
you are not connected with your gov
eminent; you are not represented; you
are not participants in your govern
ment. Such a scheme of government
by private understanding deprives you
Of representation, deprives you of a
representative institution. d .-, -..
Warns Ballot Crooks.
"There are things that are going on
in the city of Camden at this present
moment and at Atlantic City at this
present moment. Deliberate secret prep.
arations are being made to vote voters
who do not exist in this State. I want
to say that the people of New Jersey,
through their representatives, are not
going to stand for Philadelphia gang
methods in the city of Camden, and that
sooner or later the authorities of New
Jersey are going to insist upon seeing
the voters who are said to be legiti-
mately registered upon these lists. L
say that because [ know what is going
W hapPeH' lHesS SeHtleHeu III OaIn-
den apparently do not, but they have
stopped listening so long to the move
ment of public affairs, that I do not
wonder that they are deaf. Don't they
hear that murmur crossing the CONT.
nent all the way from California, that
murmur which will presently become
the roar of the voice of determined
men who are coming back millions