Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1911-11-02
BATTLE
SLOGAN AGAINST
BANKRUPTCY ILLS
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newspapers will perform a public serv-
ice thai is inestimable in it's value, and
that Newark will be rid of unethical
lawyers, and in the future small. or
large business men, temporarily en-
barrassed, will not need to fear ruin
brought about by bankruptcy.
ut seemed to me that the papers
would push the matter to a logical
finish, and put an end to the disgrace
full conditions, ] see now, however,
that the matter has been dropped and
that the things will peter out and die
the death of all incidents that begin by
undertaking. Whom do you fear? Why
do you not continue your good work?
Did it not seem a proof of malad-
ministration by bankruptcy experts
when Referee Adams reduced the fees
asked by the principals in the Vac
uum Cleaner Company? Look at the
figures and see what they mean"
Then follows a clipping from the
Evening STAR of Thursday, September
IA, in which the following startling
fact appears:
Referee in Bankruptcy Edwin G.
Adams today thoroughly justified the
vigorous protest made through the
columns of the STAR against the ex-
orbitant fees asked by Trustee n
Johnston Cornish, and his attorney,
Senator Harry V. Osborne, by unmer-
cifully slashing both sums. Instead Of
the $500 asked by each, almost half
the moun remaining to be disbursed
to the creditors, Referee Adams, in his
opinion, rendered today, allowed Sena-
tor Cornish but $2,411 and Senator Os-
borne 49, s3. 35.'
The writer then continues: "Yet,
despite the fact that Mr.. Adams re-
duced the fees of Osborne and Cornish,
Mr.. Osborne, the man who asks the
people to send him back to the State
Senate, in a statement to the news
papers, justifies his every move and act
in connection with his bankruptcy
practises.
"Mr. Osborne has the nerve to say
that he is and was always honorable
in his profession and attempts to
prove it.
! ~ AM FORCED TO THE CONCLU-
SION THAT OSBORNE HAS STOLEN
THE THUNDER OF r.. It. BARNUM
AND BELIEVES THAT THE AMERI-
CAN PEOPLE LIKE TO BE FOOLED
AMI AAN BE- FOOtIED. H MAI bD
TRUE THAT WE ARE FOOLED AND
LIKE 1T NOW AND THEN. BUT
WHEN POOLING US MEANS RUIN TO
BUSINESSMEN. AND WHEN POOLING
US GESTURES THE COMMERCIAL
AND INDUSTRIAL INTERESTS or
THE COMMUNITY. L CAN POSITIVE
LIZ SAY THAT THE PEOPLE
WILL NOT BE FOOLED, AND THAI
If THE NEWSPAPERS DO NOT KEEL
UP THEIR WORK, AND If THE NEW
ARK ASSOCIATION OF CREDIT MEN
THE VERY BODY THAT SHOULD BE
THE SAFEGUARD OF THE BUSINESS
COMMUNITY, DOES NOT PUT AN EMF
TO BUSINESS ANARCHY, THE BUsI-
NEssMEN THEMSELVES. INDEPEN-
DENT OF THE CREDIT MEN, OR THE
BOARD or TRADE, OR THE NEWS
PAPERS. WILL. TAKE UP THE
FIGHT, AND. If NECESSARY, CARRY
1T TO THE HIGHEST POWER IN THE
UNITED STATES.
"The idea of any member of thu
Credit Mems Association agreeing tC
the proposition set down by the execu-
tive committee to leave the matter Of
ousting Osborne until after the cleo
ton is over is, in the judgment, o.
any sane man, contemplate anC
alarming. Are our businessmen to be,
come the political allies of "A politician
who seeks reeIectionf Are they to hell
: this man in his politics by keeping
silent? If so. then these men are al
unethical as Osborne and unfit to b.
the business representatives of tn
great city of Newark.
: The STAR and other newspaper
deserve thanks for what they hay
done, but they also deserve to be cen
: sured for not keeping up the GOO
work. Eternal vigilance is the pric
| of liberty Eternal vigilance Is ais
; the price of honesty, stability AM
/ commercial security. Why pirate abou
; demagogues and reformers, and tn
evils they advocate. Let us clear GU
own skirts first. Charity begins a
home. Let us help Newark, help our
selves, let us be. rid of the men VIII
are responsible for the things tina
r Senator Osborne upholds. VIII tn
l newspapers help?"