Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1915-08-02
How About Il. Mr. Taxpayer7


How About II, Mr.. Taxpayer
TT rs n big business you own. Mr.. Tax
payer II has a larger income than many
nations 1t Ia about to invest not thou
sands, but millions Of doilars. You pay
your money in and you draw dividends not
dividends In cash, but in health, in comfort
in protection, in facilities For this business
which you control is the guardian Of your
son and daughter of your wife and home,
and OF yourself II undertakes to see that
you are not put to live in a house which Is
certain to cause your death. that your way
shall be lighted home at night, that there
shall he law and order about you, that you
shah have a fair chance.
You. Mr.. Laborlng Man, with your savings
invested in a factory, would not tolerate
your elected president sneaking in by night,
dismantlng the machinery and making off
with the assets of the plant, would you?
OF course not Your money is your money,
and you want to know how It is being used.
Yet, Mr.. Taxpayer and Laboring Man,
you are a partner in the great business
known as Philadelphia. The city Govern
ment is your property. The officers are your
stewards, the directors whom you select.
Your partnership is a full and equal one.
You have as much voice in the conduct Of
the great municipal corporation as any other
man, Do you care or do you not? If not,
give up your citizenship. You do not de-
serve to have it. What your forefathers
fought and bled to give you, you have no
right to hold without appreciation.
On the other hand, IL you do care, what
do you think of five or six leaders" mean
dering off to the seashore and undertaking
to dictate to you whom you must have as
the manager Of your business? Do you like
should be done? You do not have to submit
to it unless you want to. Indeed you may
wonder how it is that few men grow fat
on snecures, the wherewithal for which
comes out OF your pocket.
Think of the number of great big Phila-
delphinns who by the management of their
own business have proved their fitness TO
conduct so magnificent an enterprise as the
city Government Have the names of any
of them been mentioned by the Mayor
makers of Atlantic City? No, indeed!
They talk about harmony on this or that
politician whose life has been spent at the
public crib; this or that politician who has
proved that he will do what designing men
want him to do. They shudder when the
name of a business man is mentioned They
find innumerabe objections to him. The
fact is this: They do not want a good busl-
ness man. They want a bad business man,
for that is the only kind of man that would
be profitable to them
You, Mr.. Taxpayer, and the vast majority
Of men like you in Philadelphia, are Repub-
licans. You want TO vote the Republican
ticket. be the election national, State or
city These fellows who are plotting and
conspiring to take away from you your
right to name a Mayor and TO substitute n
creature of their own choice instead, offer
leaders" Are they? Not unless you say
So Fortunately, you are provided with the
means to make your voice effective without
in any way imperiIing your Republcanism.
Candidates are not nominated in locked
halls these days.
There is the primary. In 1t and not in an
Atlantic City hotel win the Republican cnn-
didate be selected.
Think it over, Mr.. Taxpayer. and consider
if it is not about time for you to be making
some plans of your own to assure the proper
management OF your business for the next
four years.
Wages will be worn very full this fall.