New-York tribune., 1911-03-25
TAXPAYERS VOICE ANGER DEFINITION Of SED|T|0N
Don't Touch Me Where I'm
Sore" Says Controller.
SPEAKS AT lEHlGH DINNER
Attorney General Says There Is
Need for More College Men
in Government Service.

T, was Controller William A PrenderssSi
Who started things At the annual dinner or
the I,ehigh Club of New York rendered 10
Attorney General George ". " NlclersnAm. ~
, he class Of -. a. the Hotel Astor last
night Va 10 arose 20 speak one OF DIS
audience who had dined. II not too vel. ~
least quito vel enough. put tho question:
to him Are vow irish II am. rcpIi'd
the Controller SO quickly that the would-o"
joker gasped
And II I should say all that my irish
prompted M" Mr.. Prendergast went on
Il should bc called seditious. once fondiy
thought hat all alien and sedition sa"S
ended with the federalists AT the Tim" ot
John Adams. ont now I find them adNo-
Gated bv disciple Of advanced democracy.
4 safe definition Of sedition." remarked
the spea Sor. would be. Don't touch me
where I'm sore.
IF YOU meet a footpad or 4 panhandef
on he way home Tonight, he continued
warming 10 his subject. salute him IN the
kindliest manner that YOU know and say
o. him. 20 sedtion here, my friend.
Proceed with your work City govern
n,ent is not an Individual enterprise. ana
this city can't ne run by any one !ndiyid-
ual mind even though 1t contain all an"
learning ~ Tpictctus ana tho knoUledge
o., city government acquired during fifteen
months
This citv should receive in every do
partmert an enlightened and common
sense mana cement. and wherever that kind
of MANAGEMENT IS called into play the
citv's busines. will be transacted 10 tre
entire approval OF the most critical c'u-
zene. Municipal government IS one Of the
great problems q tho axe. The tendency
during tho last twenty-Avo wears 10 huddle
ir tho great cijios las caused the problem
70 become al tic greater. one question
which the college men II this country
ought 10 consider very seriously -. first. to
understand Tho problem. and. second 70
ho'r with tho best that is IN them 20
solve f..
The Controller tlen turned to tho quos-
tior Of expense in this most expensive
CITY On the globe" toward which topic his
talk wa directed bv the toastmastsr. r.
=. uorovman. president Of The club The
rovernnert 81 this city" Mr. Honoyman
had said. comes pretty near being a mo-
uopoly in tho hands of-well. YOU know
whose hands it is in. Bu; at least We
have q Controller who IS q Republican.
There are $4,000 employees of The ci'y
Of New York" Mr. Prendergast Informed
Lis audience What do YOU think or
rhate But the difficulty is not in paving
those SJ.000-it is in preventing the iis'
from reaching a5.oeo. The fact that vc
have 20 great city justifies the spending
of largo sums Of MONEY In my humble
-udg,nen' 4 large number of the c'iNS
employees arc undcrpaid"
Attornov General Wickershau's talk vas
= ulea 20 eolega men 10 enter the govern
mont service 1T Is many years. no be-
gan since I loft tho building on tho South
Mountain. after two Years spent in follow
ing line Of study quite different from
those I pursued IN after iifo The men
knew IN those days followed more sVs-
tho paths they selected. ThcN
have left their monuments in iron and steel
and stone Many have toiled faithfully
earnestly. and have wrought good works.
yet their deeds. though manifold. no skald
in song has told
Il do not mean 20 undervaluc the use
fulress Of scientific kn0wlsdge.' continued
the Attorney General But modern iife
demands OF educated mon more than mere
technical accomplishment. Tho great need
IN a country whose government IS based on
universal manhood suffrase is knowledSe OF
man which implies broad human sympa-
taies
-saau tho ocst informed most highly
cultivated minds be devoted 20 th" con-
,,ruc,ion of railroads brii=as and canals,
and she government OF t'e state and na-
.!on. which affects the welfare of all citi-
zens. DO left to the uneducat@d. thc -cheDl-
ers. tho venai and tho corrupt
Dr Henry S;urgis Driuker. president of
-he university outlined TO workings and
adtartases of the conference department.
an institution which re considered peculiar
TO Ichigh. Among other speakers at tho
dinner were Judge Hen~y 90. Ward. OF the
-rited states court of Appeals, Justice
frederick r.. crane. Of tho supreme Court.
and George p. lde. president % the Yale
.'lur