Perth Amboy evening news., 1911-04-06

whom he swore out the warrant today.
A great ovation was reserved for
Governor Wilson when Chairman Birch
presented him, the large audience rising
and cheering and cheering again. The
Governor seemed touched by this trib-
ute, for he could not fail to remember
that in that same hall last October
there was nothing like that. His cam
paign had just begun then and the peo-
pie had not awakened. In the curse
of his address, which did not begin
till 10 o'clock, he said:
Nations Eyes on New Jersey.
In responding to the toast, 1.-The
State of New Jersey" Governor WIZ
son said:
1t has been a common remark in our
newspapers of late that the eyes of the
whole country are now upon New Jer-
sey. If this is true, why is it7 1t is
because New Jersey has walked up.
Walked up to whats To the reconstruc-
tion necessary in order to revive and
reconstitute our Democracy and put our
institutions once more on the footing
of their original conception and inspir-
alton.
Apparently it has been 3 matter of
surprise to the rest of the country that
New Jersey should thus have waken
to the circumstances and opportunities
of the day. What was it that the coun-
try supposed New Jersey to be devoted
tot | am afraid there can be no doubt
as to that answer. She was supposed to
be devoted to the services of the in
terests Of big business, irrespective of
the interests of humanity and of justice
and of the equitable arrangements of
our economic society.
1t was supposed that New Jersey did
not intend to take any part in the mod
ern reformation. 1t was taken for
granted that she was too completely
controlled by great combinations of
capital to be free to follow the impulses
of her people, even if they should feel
the impulse of change which is now
everywhere else abroad.
1t is worth while to ask ourselves ex-
s sat what us BSo sWee 4hsr BY We the hs.u ui 1ss-,
powers Of mopA9gt ose-orasni1a+iar for
the control of industry, those vested
privileges and legd advantages whose
possessors and promoters have placed
material wealth and economic prosper
ity, as they conceive it, and as they
control it, above all needs of political
liberty and common human welfare.
Wrong In Point of View.
Undoubtedly Our system Of wealth
has brought men of sueh views into
great power, and they have exercised
that power to the utmost for the pro-
motion of their own ends. And yet 1t
is not the men we attack 80 much as the
point of view. The men who have
controlled our recent industrial devel-
opment have for the most part been
thoroughly honest. They have tried
to look at the interests of the coun-
try as they conceive them in a large
way. They have managed them in a
mastery fashion, have shown powers
much larger than the mere powers of
business management, as large as the
powers of great craftsmanship. There
have been evil men among them; men
INSCRIPTIONS and selfish and deliber-
ately neglectful of the public interests,
but they have been a minority among
the men who have stood at the centre
of our great material achievements.
What we attack when we attack the
so-called interests is q system not a
body of honorable citizens. We wish
10 SHOW SuCu MEL ILdD IutF were his
taken, not to treat them as public enc,
mics. What has most alarmed us has
been that our industrial leaders, the
honest along with the dishonest, in or
der to be let alone in the pursuit of
them, have undertaken to manage pol.
itics in their own interest by alliance
with the political machines of both
parties; their power consisting in the
fact that they supplied the money which
the politicians used to maintain theiI
own control, the politicians, in turn
shaping to their wishes the policies
to be pursued and the legislation to be
stopped or promoted.
Talks on Legislative Aims.
A progressive is a man who sees
the new ways Of progress and of de
velopment, who rejects trusteeship and
all conceptions Of privilege and be
lieves in common rights, Hence the
measures to which we are in the pres
emit session of the legislature devotinG
our chief energies. First, to cut of
the secret and hidden uses of money
in politics by effective Legislation
against corrupt practices. Second, t.
give the people direct access to theil
Government at every point by a thor
ough-going reform Of our primary ani
election laws.
Third, to give to the Government
which shall thus1 directly represent thu
people the control of public service cor
pOratiOns, those particular corporation.
concerning which the argument fo1
control Is clearest.
These are the preliminary measure
Of justice and reform. When we hav,
given the people control of the Gov
eminent and have remedied some O
the fundamental iniquities Of our pres
ent industrial system we shall be FIRE,
to pursue a rational program Of mod
ern reform.
These measures are merely items rep
resentative of the general principi,
that industry, like politics, is not TO
common ties, but of them; that the onl,
term to be- sought in public action i
the common term-the interest, vital
ty, development of the people as
whole; their frank inclusion in ever
process, whether of legislation or o
adjudication; that the general read
justment must be based upon a re
Nuisance of rights anG humauities a
against all privilege and private power