The New York herald., 1921-10-22
JEROME THROWS LIGHT
ON HYLAN,S BUSINESS

/ great deal about that. ! had thought
to say something about that. but. after
all. ! don't think that is so much a
| question for we men to deal with. Wom-
en- voters of New York. that is your prob
lem. Years ago Tennyson said. and said
wisely: The bearing and the rearing OF
Child is women's wisdom and we men
arc what You make us. We go from your
hands as youths, with the material there.
Be loyal, brave. truthteling. outstanding
men or the reverse. And education is
| primarily for you women voters to deal
with. 1t is primarily for your orators
TO tell US whe what you think abou it.
1t is your job to deal with.
| II would leave II entirely to you, but
| there are certain things that 1 cannot
keep my hands off. / have got to say a
| word about 1t and then leave 1t to you.
Affairs themselves speak more eloquently
than any man coIld. In 1918 $4,000
children on part time 1919. upward of
| $4,000; 1920. upward of $1,000; 1921.
| upward of 126. 900 on part time. No one
that doesn't know the schools knows
what part time means. In all this time.
with all this hurrah with this admins
tration about schools, ] understand that
they are recently opening, at election
time. about twelve new schools as the
product of their administration.
'The annual growth of this city in
school children is about 20,0 a year.
1t needs about 10 schools to take care
OF that. so that for four years they
have been able to take care of. the In
creased growth of. a little over a year..
You cannot say that the taxpayers
will not stand for more. The one
thing that the taxpayers of New
York. burdened as they are, will stand
fnr a1
stand for without murmur, has been
education. That learned and pious pre-
late Hughes said: Give me the child
until he is fourteen and after that he
or she may have him who will And
until they are IA the men of tomorrow.
who are the children OF to-day, are.
women of New York, fh your hands.
The most powerful and the best in
fluences are exerted by you and the
women teachers in the public schools.
And any man that knows that and
has had occasion to look into it must
bow down in spirit OF reverence with
conservation and self-devotion of those
teachers. And what do they get at the
hands of the Hylan administration?
will show you what they get as touch
l want to leave that to you women to
fight for. think that they get about
this. Curran touched on it last night
1T is something. as / said. which is
up to you women. 1t is not for us men,
or at least ii is where you women can
lead. You are supposed to get the suf-
frage you won by your fight. Yon won
, it by showing that 1t was your right.
Many of us who were opposed to 1t were
glad that 1t came, because we have be-
lieved that you would bring an ele-
ment into politics that we needed; that
you would see the moral side of these
tt,tt
do not we have made a great mistake
that you have gotten the suffrage Now
the real issue IL we strip it of all of
these adventitious circumstances is just
this, the choice of a chief executive for
the greatest business corporation in the
world.
Hy1an's Business Career.
1T is not that man Is a friend OF
the people 1t is not that he was a poor
boy or any of that sort of cheap stuff
which should appeal to your intelligence
| or determine your vote. But it is
whether the mans ability and business
capacity fit him for the job that he
seeks. and that is the ground of choice
that you should determine as between
Henry Curran and John Hylan. SO it
is therefore entirely germane to the in
quiry to ask what the business records
what the character, ability and business
capacity OF these two candidates ave.
| well, we have got some record Of Mr.
| Hylan's business career. / would like
to refer to 1t. 1t is not such ancient
history that it cannot be recalled readily,
and If 1t was in his earliest boyhood 1t
would be germane, because as the twig
| is bent the tree inclineth, and venture
| to say from my study of the recent four
years the twig got good, severe bend.
1t Is the first real record of O business
career I can find Of Mr.. Hylan after he
save up manual labor, where his career
was thoroughly honorable to him as far
as / can ascertain. But when he got
into the higher branches of business his
first venture into business was Il part
ownership in a patent on a bicycle
whistle.
The GOslin Episode.
There is nothing dishonorable about
trying to make money out of bicycle
whistle. And this is the commencement,
the business commencement, of the chief
executive of n great business corpora
tion. But be that as it mayl The next
step was not as clean as the bicycle
| whistle. The next one was the Black
Diamond Automobile Company. Well.
the Black Diamond Automobile Com
pany brought in another plain man of
the people it brought in one Alfred r.
| Goslin. who was a poor boy, too. before
he got convicted of perjury in France.
and having served career in the prisons
| of France unfortunately got tangled up
| with the law here and got ffty-three
| indictments against him. and he served
| two terms in this country. And then he
found this plain man or the people
Honest John. seeking for company in the
Black Diamond Automobile concern. and
Honest John not having made very good