The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1914-03-30
PINCHOT AND BECK
CLASH AT MEETING
Former Declares Workers Must
Combine Against Capitalists
to Get Justice.
HE ADDRESSES A CLUB
New York Lawyer RetOrts That
Captains Of Industry Are
Unjustly Treated.
HE ADDRESSES A CLUB

PHILApELPiifA, March 29.-Turmoil
broke loose at = meeting Of tho Five
O'Clock Club In the Bellevue Stratford
last evening when clifford Pinchot Pro.
gressive candidate for United States Sena-
tor. declared that the only way that
workers In this country could obtain Jus.
tice was to combine against big business
Members shouted angrily: mo. no you
arc wrong" when Mr. Pinchot asserted
''the only possible way the little men can
meet on equal terms with nen like you
Is TO line them up on one sido and YOU
on the otheD''
Among those who made objections &c
Mr. Pinchots remarks were Col. John y
Wood. president Of tho National Woo
Manufacturers Articulation: Frederick T
Chandler. ex-president OF tho Philadelphia
Stock Exchange, and James NJ. Beck. the
New York attorney.
Tho audience that heard Mr. Pinchot
included Judges. members OF Congress and
leaders In the city's political, financial
and business circles. Mr. Beck was
selected by President J. S. W. Holton to
reply to Mr. Pinchot.
Mr.. PfnchOt In his address said:
Coming here from the Lighthouse Ia
workingmans centred cannot help motto
Ing the contrast between you men gathered
here In luxury and comfort AMI the men
] have Just left This contrast has i'm
pressed upon me the small chance the men
In the Lighthouse have compared with
such as you.
las in fash Of lightning I see the
tremendous inequality. 1t makes me think
Of tho hight that the small man is putting
up for decent food, decent clothing and all
those things that the big man can have
io matter whether he wins or not.
And as | faced the other audience, To.
night ! could not help thinking that wha,
would have been bad luck for you would
be great luxury for them. There is a good
deal the matter with this country and
can lind the basis of IL In Jus, such
gatherings as this tonight
The only possible way thee other
men can meet with men Ike you on equal
terms Is To line them UP on one side and
you ON another"
In reply Mr., Beck said In part:
There Is no privileged class In this
country except the working class, which
he says is being overrtdden by the capital.
lists. II IN the only class that IL eNemp,
from the exactions OF the Sherman anti.
trust law.
Class passions have been appealed 10
and class antagonisms have been engen-
oered In the organized attack now being
made ON the doctrine OF our Government.
which puts L Limitation on the power OF
the majority
where thirty years ago all was peace
In this country. and we were il tn, trues,
sense OF the word a commonwealth, to-day
We see men divided and fighting each
other. Captains Of industry--men who
by their brains and their ingenuity have
built up the greatest American enter
pris.s-are being held UP to public view
as bandits
I'VE see rot only class antagonisms bu,
cess Of meddlesome Interference with
tho mechanism OF our Government which
II continued can have only the mos,
serious results. From 1857 to the present
day there has been an increasing response
10 the class ,lamor IN this country
IN less than thirty years the great
RAJ. Dads OF this country have been
bre' ght to the verge OF bankruptcy. only
re"t.uly the Pennsylvania Railroad was
Obliged to lay of thousands OF hands
bciause Of Government Interference.
.-rhe railroads OF this country to-da,
are control ed as by one directorate BY
~. commissioners who sit In Washington
VA. the unlimited powers OF all wise
. managers. They can determine not only
what rates railroad may charge for its
services but what trains IL shall run
when II shall run them. what places they
shan stop at and with what other roads
they may connect and compete
In this policy I cannot see anything
ahead but diminished revenues, receiver
ships and dissolution and national bank
ruptcy. I believe that the solution OF
this problem viii come with the belief
among an increasing number OF men that
the government il best which governs the
least"
Col. Wood declared that Mr.. Pincho,
was not acquainted with actual conditions