New-York tribune., 1921-11-01

to prevent it. This is your last chance
to save yourselves from the preaica-
ment in which the Mayors hcom-
potency has landed you.
"Do Won consider it good business to
hire the man who got you INTO this
trouble to get you out? Even if you
liked ard trusted him, business is busi
ness, and this ia your business.
"To-day we are confronted with g
! traction system in receivership. with
.7g3 out Of the 1866 free transfers alb
| solutely cut off and 277 Of the bal
nnce on a two-ccnt basis, leaving re-
naming only 355 free transfers out
Of the original 1856. equivalent to
about ten per cent, with a disorgan-
lied and disintcrested service. aftc; the
city has spent about 1898 100000, and
/ with sliding scale fare staring US in
the face.
worse We could be off to-day than is she
tragic pass to which this man has
brought usy He could not have created
greater havoc with our interests than
il he had himself been ore of these
traction tools about which he talks
so much and does so little, which we
know he is not"
Interests" the Mayors Bogey
Mr.. Unternycr ;sere referred TO
Mayor Hylan's obsession on the So
called Interests" "To him." said the
lawyer, every man Of position below
Fulton Street is pirate unless he hap
pens to be Hylan adherent, and every
widow who owns a bond or a share of
STOCK is bloated monopolist.
"In line with this loose talk" con-
tinucd Mr.. Untermycr 1--WE hear the
Mayor railing about the gas, electric
| light and telephone companies. He
tells us they are denouncing him for
what he has done to them. And, pray,
what has he done?
During mis- admin; stration S0-cent
gas. which owed it's inception to Gov
ernor Hughes. has disappeared, and we
now have S1.20 gas.
IAN increase was not at all surpris-
! ing in view OF the increased cost of
coal and labor, but think the increase
has been too great. Instead of having
some one patiently investigate the
question of what should be the in
crease, he contentcd himself with
demagogic opposition to an increase,
which was precisely what the gas COM
pany wanted. 1t let him shout while
it calmly walked away, laughing up its
| sleeve, with a greater increase than 1t
would ever have secured as the result
of proper defense
"The same is true OF the electric
light and telephone companies, both
of which have secured enormous in
creases under the present administra-
ton. The rates of the telephone com
pany are particularly exorbitant. Il is
the best managed monopoly in the
country in its policy of dealing with
! public officials and maintaining exces-
sive rates, while it's service is the most
autocratic and inefficient of any OF them
1t requires from two to four months
to get telephone installed and then
only with the aid of pull
'There is no reason why these mo-
nopolies should want change os ad-
ministration, and / do not for mo-
ment bei.eve they do. They know too
we'll on which side their bread is but
tered. The Hylan type of aimless, in
efficient government is for them just
so much butter On one side and jam
on the other. antics in dealing
I with these monopoies remind one OF q
a masti'f, unconccrned and unconscious
Of the liolse."
Taking up Mr. Curran's stand for a
! permanent fve-cent fare, Mr.. Inter
I myer said:
Language could not be made palmer
than the unqualified speech of Major
/ Curran that if elected he viii oppose
and use every effort to defeat the
commission plan and that he will fight
to the finish any plan that does not ah
solutely, unqual edly and beyond
question assure to the city for all time
to come q fivc-cent fare, with free
city's present contract rights in that
respect.
Curran's Entire Record Good
"That pledge is in line with Major
Curran's entire publ. record on this
subject. He courageously opposed the
Governor and the leaders of his own
party in the Legislature when the COM
mission pan was there under consid-
GRAFTON. No man in his position could
have done more to defeat it than he
did Then and ever since then and
before he became q candidate for
Office he has throughout insisted that
the fivc-cent fare, with free transfers,
must be restored. Why should you
hesitate to trust this man: BE sub
m,ts to you a detailed constructive
plan. The Mayor offers nothing beyond
aimless abuse of the so-called 'in-
tcrests'
why does the Mayor refuse to tell
US what he will do to avoid this
sliding-scale fare, which is the under
lying vice of the commission plan. and
how he will 90 1t if the courts should
declare the act constitutional? Major
Curran has told us in detail. If the
Mayor will do the same thing as Major
Curran promises to do we have no trac-
tion issue in this CAMPAIGN. That is
happen. for with that out of the wav
do not believe the people will sup
port this bumptious vuIgariaa for an
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