Perth Amboy evening news., 1911-10-12


tear at the very roots OF the whole
structure and destroy 1t.
What Is Justice, then, In politics
and In the field Of business? IT Is
the restoring OF confidence by laying
In all the things that you have to
deal with. Here are the remedies
we propose In order to reproduce
confidence. That Is the object OF
every bill that 1 ana interested I'm. +
s naas s s sss IS ii p9 ss ! 81 III 5as u Bs 5ss
temporary, but to tbs permanent In
terests OF business In this country,
ana i know that that has been pos
sible, because men did not base 1t
upon these conditions. You know
that what we did last winter In Tren-l
ton was merely meant to give us a
nance to go ON and do these things.
The new election law did net re-
establish confidence In business; the
Corrupt Practices Act did moi touch
the foundations Of husiress. the
Public Utilities Act, giving the Pub
lie Utilities Commission power to
regulate the business Of public SER
vice corporations, only paved the way
for re-establishing confidence In
these corporations; It did not itself
re~-establish that confidence. 1t
merely made us free to see that
these undertakings were In the
right and Just relations to the com
munities which they served. That
Is all that 1t did.
ExpIodes Republican Platform.
Il want to explode one piece of
pretense in the Republican platform.
The Republican party In It's plat
form claims the credit for having
passed the Corrupt Practices Act,
saying that 1t was introduced by a
Republican senator. A Corrupt Prac-5
tices Act was introduced by q Re-
publican senator, but alter confer
ence With th5 leaders OF his erganiza-
tion he left out the parts that would
have made the act effective; he saw
to It that, SO far as he was con
cerned, these clauses were to be left
out which made it necessary that all
the money was to be spent by one
set Of persons; he was going to have
q little committee, give 1t money or
give 1t none. and let 1t swear that it
had never touched a cent and then let
Tom. Dick or Harry spend All tire
money that he pleased then you
could neTer trace the source of the
money to the HHa 70 which it went;
d beautiful Corrupt Fraetiees Act
that If they want credit for a Cor
rupt Practices Act which this amefn-
her wanted to have passed they are
Melepn1e to all the credit they a
get out OF It. ! say DE upon such
pretensas.
There were good men in the Sem
ate who deserved credit mel who did
stand by the genuine and effective
features OF the Corrupt Practices
Act, and who did stand BIZ all OF the
progressive Legislation of the last
session; and I want never to let an
occasion gb by without ackDswiedg-'
Ing my admirat4oa OF and rpy debt
to them. But what the pIatforHa Of
the Republican party c~Iairns is sim
ply not true, for they happen NOW
~ la dealing with persons who take
pains to know what Is going IN IN
all they know
The inside OF politics is a great
deal more significant than the out-
side. EertsIn Democratic members .
saf The Legislature opposed i'm of
these progressive measures Until the
sast Frte. vfsen fhs en~strlatsd meas
ares came back frem the Senate. and
1lv11 sol ouE ii the ram and voted
for them; and O they claim to
have supported 3ham, They win net
impose upon anybedy. least OF ali
upon themselves But AZ ! said. gem
tleRaaf. these pleasures wefs msTefy
Intended to clear the ne]d 50 that
voters and leaders alike would be- frea
serve the common interests nuz
controlled by eorrupf politicians, un~
controlled by seIash business tns@s
asta, free men settling the interests
Of q free peofles and now we are !
np1n threshold 81 efa~Hsacting bust
ness. Look al the Dem0eraEie plat
*ormf fhsre II f@4eItsn plank
ii II: Ii III plata business ffaus starf
Ia finish Ton eoslldns8 get saaqHan*
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