Perth Amboy evening news., 1922-07-20
SPEAKS
.MIDDLESEX
Iues Drive Against Ere.
|huysen at Tent in New
Brunswick

CIV BRUNSWICK, July 20
rye l.. Record whose whirlwind
hpaisn against Senator Freling-
sen at the primaries in Septem-
has created such a stir in Re-
blican ranks throughout the STATE
bike last night in his tent, in New
tunswick, con Albany avenue, OPP
bsite the Penna, %station). He
larged Senator Frelinghuysen with
|aving favored corporation pocket
ooks against the interest of nte
United States government by voting
to turn over $500, 900, 600 moneys
to the railroads while the railroads
actually owed several times this
amount to the government.
Mr.. Record dwelt at length upon
the trust control of the country and
said that one of the great difficult
ties in fighting the monopolies and
trusts is that in n way or another
they control the INFORMATION which
reaches the people. He cited as an
example the propaganda put out as
news which created in the mind of
the average newspaper reader the
idea that government control of the
railroads during the war was a
failure.
"One of the great difficulties in
fighting the monopolies and trusts is
that in one way or another they
control the of information
which reaches the people," he said.
THE people are unconsciously made
to acquire their opinions by the
absorption of so called facts ted
out to them through the papers. A
conspicuous illustration of the eff
feet of this propaganda is found in
The idea which the average news-
paper reader has that the govern
ment control of the railroads dur
Ing the war, was a failure. The facts
are exactly the opposite. The gov
eminent administration of the rail-
roads during the war, Judged by
every criticism of efficiency and
economy accepted by railroad men,
was a brilliant success. The govern
ment got more service out Of the
railroads for less money than the
railroad managers have ever been
lble to do.
William G. McAdoo, in a recent
statement before Senate Investigat-
ing Committee, proved these facts
beyond all. question. He showed
that after testing out the different
railroad presidents for a few months
he selected the five ablest executives
headed by the president of the New
York Central Railroad Company.
and put them in complete charge of
railroads OF the country. AS Mr..
McAdoo very forcibly expressed it,
If government control was a fall
ure 1t was because these men were
incompetent or because they DELHI
erately -mismanaged the roads, as
government agents, which would be
equivalent to treason. When govern,
ment control was relinquished these
five executives united in a letter to
Director General McAdoo compli-
menting him upon the remarkable
results obtained under government
control in the operation of the rail-
roads.
"McAdoo showed that notwith-
standing the government paid to the
railroads a rental very much higher
than their earnings had been, and
Notwithstanding the railroads were
run for war purposes primarily and
not for profit, nevertheless the gov
eminent by treating all of the rail-
roads as one, was able to effect so
many economies that they actually
showed a better financial result and
better results in actual service than
ndQ ever Deen secured Dy the rail-
road managers under private con-
troll.
THE general public do not know
these facts. If they understood the
facts it would be very much, easier
to convince the people that in order
to break up the trust control of in
dustry, the people must. in the end,
take over and operate the railroads.
Senator Frelinghuysen who says
he will run on his record has a very
unhealthy trip to make If he does
for his record is that instead Of
devoting himself to compelling rail-
roads to cease giving determinations
and favors to the trusts, voted for
the Esch-Cummins Railroad bill
which authorized the railroad to
greatly increase freight rates there
by striking at the prosperity of the
country and which directed the
Treasury Department to pay the
railroads five hundred millions of
dollars in cash, although the rail-
roads owed to the government on
the war account, several times that
amount"
Mr.. Rood then ~rrC Cteoed to re-
view Senator Frelinghuysen's record
as a member of the U. S. Senate.