Perth Amboy evening news., 1922-08-11
RECORD TALKS
TOFARM FOLK
BIames FreIinghuysen for
Present Day Difficulties of
the Farmers.

Nhos 1So BE IL
Record addressed a crowd of more
than five thousand people at the
farmers picnic, Lake Grinnel. near
here. last evening, and he received
an unusually enthusiastic greeting.
Record flayed Senator Joseph FIRE.
linghuysen against whom he is a
candidate for the Republican nom
ination for United States senator,
saying that Frelinghuysen was
largely responsible for the present
day difficulties of the farmer, espe-
cially of the farmers of the eastern
states. He showed what he said was
the effect of "Frelinghuvsen's vote
for the railroads in every measure
presented before the senate" He
blamed Senator Frelinghuysen and
other members of the senate mil
lionaire's club" for the fact that the
farmers are kept in control by the
railroad monopolists," and went on
to present his remedy of govern
Z, ment ownership.
Record said in part:
Zone of the strongest obstacles
to the idea of public ownership and
operation CT the railroads is the i'm
preston that has been created by
"a ldAi PIOPdSdIiud thai
government operation Of the rail-
roads would be necessarily ineffi-
cient. The idea for years has been
very cleverly implanted in the pub
lie mind that all government opera
tons attain the efficiency or
economy that characterize privately
operated business.
ut is undoubtedly true that pri-
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conduct a manufacturing and COM
petitive business cheaper and more
efficiently than the government can
or would. That is one reason why l
have always been opposed to the So
cialistic ida of the government taxi
ing n part in industry. But when
it comes to the rendering of SER
vices which come home to the daily
life of the people, the government
performance of such service is both
efficient and economical. and the
propaganda of such service is both
efficient and economical, and the
contrary is false and misleading.
THE government run the public
schools as cheaply and as efficiently
Is any private concern could do.
Wherever municipalities own and
operate LlelT OWH WdlcI SuPPilCSs
the service Is both more satisfac-
tory and cheaper than the water
service in municipalities of similar
size served by private companies We
have an illustration of the fact in
New Jersey where we have
several private water companies.
whose charges are excessive and
whose service is poor. while our mu-
,;4inaI rxyofo, c,,nn1ioc ara penaral lV
both satisfactory and cheaper.
THE government runs the post
office in a way hat has always been
satisfactory. For many years the
financiers owning our express COM
panies were so powerful that they
prevented the government from ex-
tending the parcels post, and are
still keeping it from its fullest de-
velopment.
THE fact should be impressed up
on the public mind that every SER
vice that Is performed by the gov
eminent which comes home to the
daily life of the people Is necessa-
rily eliminated from political controi
because the people demand such Ell
ficient service that only experts
free from the power of politicians
can render the service. Inls Ten
dency grows with the increase OF in
%telligence. In so far as government
business does not touch the daily
life Of the people 1t tends to go into
obscure traffic channels and man
agement and Is often subject to
graft.
IF the government ran the rail-
roads we undoubtedly would pay
much higher wages than the rail-
roads pay and to that extent the
operation of the roads would be
more expensive, but this extra COST
would be more than offset by utiliZ-
ing in common all the facilities OF
the railroads, and particularly by
the destruction of the trusts ike
the beef trust which now controls
the market through railroad favors.