The evening world. Newspaper, November 7, 1905, Page 5

—— << ‘ 4 TNE WORLD: TUESDAY EVENING, NOVEMBER 7, 1905, Q eting plenty, AM that was necessary to restore {and more than doublo the opportunities for eor- THE RISE OF MUNICIPAL SOCIALISM. Son Lae iocaxatet si fees eu ititians ARPES GUAT eeu wetita shal Vea saree " Tree and unimited e fellver at me the elevated roads and the subw ye Operated An Analysis of Very Popular Fallacies—Ownership a Sound Prinelple—— = heoven-torn rat radardloss!ynder auch a aysteny before there ¥ tw! Operation Under Boss Rule Worse Than the Original Evil. OF By DUNE neu Re: Oh mits Brvaiitolt? How, 160 ere doubled, th Wh won vate mld i ee |dustries driven from th fy and the stroet A Bovialistic Scheme Which, Ac sording to tha Brooklyn Eagle, Would Add $1,000,090,000 civics oundiant poll to-day? an ‘ on . ~ “ ver candid M1 to-day jwith unemployed to the City’s Indobtedness—It Would Mean Double Taxation, Treble Power for the Triple State Socialism: Stopped by the Constitution: Bosses and Q tadruple Municipal Misrule—The eme Is Utterly Impossible Without Imost 0 ido later we have a new remady! ‘To carry out the minted) nerehin yr the Consent of a Republican Assembly, Senate and Governor—Honest People Doiuded orroption and graft, against 7 gramme would require un amendment to the Cor by Impossible Promises (From This Mor ( We delleve it to be the duty of World or pny honest new r to express its convict fn regard to nportant question, espectally tn Mperiods of great puble passion, no matter how verwhelming the popular clamor. The World would People of Now York obtain three-cent fares and B0-cent gad. It excessive and ihat dollar gas ox It has battled conststent! oars against the exvetions of the public-service sincerely happy to help the helioves that filve-cent fares are for more then twenty t taxation which they It he corporations and the v fought Tammany It has fought fevy upon tl Hall for more peopl than twenty years Bratt, corruption and boseism, It was denoune- ine Murphy when Mr, Hearst was eccepting Mm {nations and favors from } It supported Low in 1908, wh t. Hearst waa supporting the whole Tammany ticket. Ii led the campaign against {ncurance corruption and raseality which resulted {n the present legis! é ectigation, It was Opporing plutoer i the abu Jong before Mr, Hearst came began to make persoua! political capital out of It But The World » li governed by principles, not passion It is not strange that public-service corporations | have created ® teeling of blind anger und hatred which counsel the use of any Weapon to punist them for their crimes. But we are able to flad fn the municipal operaiion of public uliliities in corrupt New York any remedy for any evil, It would be jumping {rom the trying-pan into th fire. The Theory and the Practice: With we we The World has ¢ tueory Of municipal ownership no quarrel. With the practice of miunteipal operafion unde boss-ridden govern- Qyent The World has a very eerious querre!, And ft is municipal operation that most of the advoe cates of municipal ownership have in mind. As @n abstract principle the theory is admirable, Ut New | ernment; able, Spal operation would be practicable here. York City had honest and intelligent gov- if capable, its d irs were administered by nlerested men, then munice i and agalnet the bosges, the rleh and all es Wall street—-pnblte ownership and operation of Ine’ " tliftien. cfty vownership: and oneraiion, nine's World.) te eratiip, and erties, A real public spirlt still exists. Graft in DP Ant! ¢ W pablt hot the tulo and honesty fe er onere ton triple Atate Boolallam, If you please ‘ HOHE se 8 not uso AN onesty Just as tho single-tax remedy ond the free-silver ot the exception, ‘There {6 no boss there who aded the works for his own pocket all the time, SenGASE mSremens, FO The World admits that the idea of mun! ownership ts extraordinarily popular and that the , the municipal-ownership remedy haa followed ipal the collapse of the free-silver propaganda, Mr, Bryan, who 19 the chief apostle of this gos masses are beginning to regard both muntetpal r pal pel of municipal ownership, was the leader of the ownersh!p and operaiion as & sort of economi free-allver forces, Mr, Messiah. We admit that all candidates have made Hearst, who voeiferously n 1898 and 1900, Is the Municipal Ownership League's candi- date for Mayor of New York, Tom L, Johnson, who supported Mr. Bryan for President more or less of an appeal to the municipal-owner- ship vote, All of them are supporting the Issue more or less openly. Even so able, intellectua and scholarly a lawyer as Edward M, Shepard has joined in the chorus. In a recent speech he pre- dicted that within a year the Democratie party {fs a sing axer, who managed Henry | George’s last campatgn in New York, and who | Supported Mr, Bryan in 1896 and 1900, is the municipal-ownership Mayor of Cleveland, Judge would be united in favor of municipal ownership and operation, . (is Chicago's municipal-ownership Mayor For all that, The World cannot change Its c¢ yn that the practice of munteipal ownership and operation under the pecullar corrupt cond{- tiong of New York, witha century of boss-rule back of It, fs unsound Municipal ownerghip and operation !s not the first beautiful economic theory the practice of Municipal operation of all the public utilities fn which would have wrought @ very great political New evil. Single - Tax, Greenbackism Free-Silver Remedies: In 1886 Henry George, a man of unblemished W hat the Application Would Mean: Now, what would be the practical application of vi their theory In New York, where the government ‘is of the boss, by the boss and for the boss? York would at once give the hoss 58,000 new retainers, and machine, every six voters, It would double the power of the If the city were to acquire and operate the gas character and lofty public ideals, was a candidate j and electric-light plants, as Mr. Hearst fs urg for Mayor of New York on the single-tax plat- | that alone would create 8,700 new office-holders. form, All the poverty of the community, all the These mea would be appointed not on their merits, but by the boss for district leaders, Their chief be not to manu- facture and distribute gas for 50 or 55 cents a thousand, but to keep the fences of the district leader in repair and sustain the the How long would it be before the gas idleness, all the debt, all the misery, all the mortgages, were to be obliterated by imposing a duty would tax on land values alone, All the personal prop: erty, all the billfong and billions of stocks and ‘onds and mortgages in the hands of capitalists, should go absolutely untaxed. boss at | primary. On that issue Henry George polled 68,000 votes plants were au integral part of the machine, with in the old city of New York without the support a deficit to be made good out of the general tax of a single newspaper, But what has become ot levy? the single-tax | 16? Ten years previous to the George campaign an- operate its varjous transportation facilities, that It would give us an office-holder for Similarly, if the city could take possession ana| stitution, The present Constitution expressly f bids any elty cr county to accumulate an indebt edness which “shall exceed 10 per of th argessed valuation of the real estate of eich count New York is alveudy or elty subject to taxation” within $42,009,000 of ils constitutional debt tovit Fven ff the Constitution were amended, the ec sent of a Republican Governor and Legislature would stil! be nece Instead of working to elect Assemblymen jn sympathy with the principle of municipal ownership, Mr. Hearst's party has In- ldoreed twenty of the thirty-five Republican cand|- dates for Assemblymen in Manhattan, nine in Kings and two in Queens, Mr, Hearst's party lis supporting Republican candidates, who under Odell and the machine will naturally oppose the Hearst programmes With the Constitution squarely against Vfearst's promises, with the debt-lm!t provision Dunne, who supported Mr. Bryan in 1896 and 1900, against them, with the State admintstration! | eguinst them, with the Republican Legislature ‘ageinst them and with the Mayor utterly power Jess, Mr. Hoarst and his friends are making prom- jises as glibly as if he were the Constitution, the city charter and the whole State and municipal government, Some Examples of Municipal Op- eration: The city already owns and operates its Water Department. Who is at the head of jt? Oakley, It {8 he who is Commissioner of Water, Johnnie Gas and Mlectricity, It is he who operates his ; department as port of the political machine, He {s the man whom the boss allowed to select the) Tammany candidate for President of the Roard |of Aldermen, while the dummy delegates to the | aity Convention were asking one another, “Who is McGowan?" If New York were operating tts jenn plants to-day the hoad of the department, w Md be Johnny Oakley. What sane man who hos watched Oakley's management of the Water Department would intrust him with the manage- ment of gas and electric-light plants? The city owns its docks, the Dock Department? Who is at the head ot Featherson erson who Is clumsily trying to operate the Staten other honored and respected citizen of New York would add 37,000 other office-holders to the pay- had headed another movement for providing the) roll, all be the boss, all Peter Cooper perceived that serve the boss and all to work for the machine to selected by to universal panacea, some people had not made enough of their op- rather than the city, There are already approxi- 1. is} portunities, while other people had made too mately 63,000 city office-holders and employees. anq x4 | I , leland Ferry, If the city owned its street railways other Feathersons would be managing them The elty owns {ts Pollce Department. Who is at the head of that? McAdoo, a lawyer-politieian, | eAvoy, 1 Tammany district leader, Rvery- practicable in foroign cities which do not have, much of theirs; so he proposed to equalize things If New York were to take over all its publie utill- body knows that the pollee force {9 under boss our system of organized graft and corruption, Inj by haying the National Government issue irre- tles it would more than double the gross city debt! aaministration England it fe working satisfactorily enough, But deemable paper currency in unlimited quantities, of $589,609,573. The Brooklyn Bagle estimates and the Jerry building that his department h in London, Glasgow or Birmingham neither a} Ten years after the George campaign William that {t would increase the debt by $1,000,000,000. | tolerated { 5 Wweed nor ¢ eible. The best citizenship maneges public prop- eturn! ITALIAN AiABASSADOR SAILS! Adio ah jfor the Ih jbomit © | Baron de Plu Guew to Rome en tmpartang Mine fton for Government. Thilian neotaales were prom} ‘ho ovement on the dieteitmtlon of (tal BUNDAY WORLD WANTS Pihard cottages at Newport, and a Plier today when tha Kaine tm | ah inne rete ‘he Ree i ei evn _ | seneration ago proprietor of a tamour Thinalinds be, cagaahun Wad, | eve: | ree reagan, for goclety dinners and luagh: ne of Mgfon Mayor den Plan 1a vig eongemed toronR># 9! | WORK MONDAY WONDERS, ons ay’ No. ¥ Kant Iiftenth sees , " y eae an 0 “ a TWO CANDIDATES FOR MAYOR AND MR, JEROM 5 to hls native land on a sov- | he tardy creival of a baby car ornament minah H ‘The Ambaseador was met a the Rows!, ve lan Gaveremoat, und by’ tha} taken aboar t, with a new remedy for eradicating want and cre- ‘es/a/e, more than double the number of employees, Everybody knows about Hopper) rather better than the average type of office-hold- E CASTING THEIR (Photographed Especially for The Evening World by Staff Photographers To-Day,) JOHN R. PINARD DEAD. whish wae brought up on to en, the @ilp was proparls at off, Tt OF walved Uncil the peramdpulator coud be (NOted Reentaurateur of a Gonerne Drums! on Ag! tlon Ago Vietim of Heart Disease, John A. Pinard, owner of wile Biuhap of A\oany eee ve ies wilh commule With bls ¢ famous | at Ms hom, No OD street Mr. Pinard leaves a wilow vad ¢ gon, Cazeau Pinan, Uo wae fifyetve years olf and had been aed health down to the moment wires + faial attack cane, He potuentd wn Newport only two days ago. He letvoe AN extate of $750,000, whicd, ft is uncer: WRUOUE t W in his ere condition of fantenity del Ig no Mb descend tw tole cue) othe manager of t "Newport | 9° than he sept unless Mr.! Tt ts Foath-! OWN BALLOTS, « Sixt Henderson No Worse. 1A ed uber - — ee ae ee i TT ee wer the boss, They are far hotter than thetr | would tread upon another's heels,’ so fiat they predecessors under Tweed and Croker and Van | followed Pai Wyck, ‘Thoy are the kind of men whom the boss's ik OEE En 1 pul a Mov hap, A National Issue: j . a ; he Hs It js not diMoult to understand why Mr. He: en to he ce p t emis € a8 provides vats et ei LHe a “| should advocate muntefpal Socialism. Presumably ) wih subordinates who bring their best tn- he believes in It, But— tentlons to naught Deluding ana Utterly Impossible Promises: : ough to promisa the people threes cont fares and S0-cent gas and incorruptible oficiais, but It ls astonishing (hat intelligent and honest workinemen and the employees of public- service carporttions should be decelved by these reckle Tt is still more extraordinary that for the privilege of owing thelr jobs to the { ia AKY € plodges. bosses employees of the existing public- vations should be willing to surrender the rights that they have under private ownership, What chance, for example, would there be of a weessful general strike for a redress of griev- ances if muntelpal government operated all these propertle However badly the properties were managed, the public would tolerate no interruption of the ser- All the power of the Police Department, all the power of the State militia, all the power vice of the regular army, if necessary, {nto action to restore the service and prevent its interruption, Of all the classes that suffer from too much government and from too much cen- tralized power, the working cinssea invariably suffer the most, It will be a sorry day for the American employee of public-service corporations like his Russian contemporary, je at y of government troops, when hi the m Where Boss Follows Boss: Under existing conditions there can be only one result of than already exists; more arrogant bossism than has yet come to a city which has been boss-ruled municipa for a hundred years, The men who talk Nghtly of overthrowing the boss by public operation know litt!e of what they are talking, The boss is a per> manent institution in New York City government, The system under which he works has been build- ing up for a century, Tammany Hall !s 116 years old—the same age as the Republic, It is as stable as the Government ttself. When one boss is over- thrown there Is only a brief Interruption and an- other boss comes into power. Kelly foll,ws Tweed, Croker follows Kelly, Murphy follows Croker, and with evch extension of the functions of the govern- ment the power of the boss has grown with it and his dictation has become more arrogant. Were Tweed alive in the flesh—as he ts in the spirit-he would be advocating municipal opera- tion, He represented it in his day. He owned the government, and would have been glad to have the government which he owned operate ail the public utilities. Had Croker not gone abroad to live off his share of the plunder he would be favoring it, it Murphy seoretly is in favor of except in the matter of contracts, and with Sullivan has openly Known pital, but before they had patho had ted Mr. West ind was a clergyman years, During the coune istry he was assistant r Luke's Chapel, THudgon streets, holding this post 1 the Baptist, i in Annandale College, Red He way curate in the Hou Newark, wetor of St ritth atreet, Brooklyn ried, talks about Labor ‘The NOV. 7 lay ws the Uinesa of Dovid Bo at Limes, mt 496 ford. Death ‘s not ery morrhage duvelops,’ Yr, Joh liow for- ferson Deal, St. James Bid York, FORMER CHPLAN LOND WEST DEAD Episcopalian | Minister Who Had Long Been Ill, Expites. After an illness of three years the Rev, Floyd B, Weat, a known ($25.00), reduced to Rpiscopalean minister and fo chap Finest Yer Made. lain ef the Sisters of St. John the Bap Ps ist, lod last migut at hls he No, er ee hy Vi) West Ninety-ninth street, | HS Eh nve, ald could be summoned, Lung dis Cor, Bist wt, | Co eas ated with lobar pneumo ta wes the cause of death Mr. Weat has heen suffering from preumonis for the bist two weeks, His ness previous to that compelled him relinguiah va} Important poate tat he tat he Last night, when he vas soled with @ tainting spell, Mr. West's mother, who, with hia father, lived with the minister, hurried to bring a phystelin from Mt. Sknal Hoas was forty-three years old imide Chaplain of the Sisters of St, H's birthplace was m, N. ¥., and he wae educated and previous to that had beer Michael's Church, North He was unmar- Cc. W. POST and other trusts In Square Deal.”’ $1.00 a year. The Square News Stands, 1Qc- There is one great fact at which the people of |New York cannot afford to blink, The mumielpals lownership and operation issue ta not local but \ national. Every city that indorses the principle }strengthons the movement of which William BA fe the head, Every vote for muntetpal owns Bryan ership is a vote for Mr. triple state Soclalism. He openly and publicly ade voeates that the city ought to own and operate ite, gas plants, its electric-light plants, ite telephone service System and its street-railway system; that the {State ought to own and operate the telephotte, ‘electric-railway and steam-railway linea within ‘its borders; that the National Government ought ‘to ova aud operate telograph and express knew Jang interstate railway lines, Mr, Bryan's pro» gramme would eventually mean the nationaliaue tion of all these utilities, Including coal mines and ofl fields as well, The city's publle utilliieg overlap those of the State and the Stato's overlap | those of the nation, The logical gout 1s national woutd Be called /OWNErshIp of them all, if the principles of Mr, , Hearst and Mr, Bryan are to be admitted. | No newspaper thinks less of boas rule thi The World; none has fought it more perslst- ently; but the boss cannot be overthrow by augmenting his power. It ought not to bo po® ‘of New York. It ought not to be possible for him to control the office of District-Attorney, It sought not to be possible for him to lay hix foub hands on the judiciary and name the Judges who ‘eible for him to nominate the members of the Senate and Assembly who represent the olty in ithe Legisiature, It ought not to be possible for shim to send a nondescript aggregation of Do | podies to Washington to represent the metropolis in Congress. This disgraceful condition demands reform; but how can it be reformed by increas ing the boss’s power? By giving him dominion over all the public utilities of the city in addition to the dangerous dominion he already has? Yet this is the remedy actually proposed by woll-meantng theorists and il-moaning demae i } | ROGUES. When— When New York {# not governed in the intere ests of a Murphy Trucking and Contracting Come pany; when the actual dictator and boss of the! city government will not work for his own pocket all the time; when Tweeds and Crokers and | Murphys are forever impossible and the police ara | not compelled by their borses to levy blackmail | upon erime; when disinterested citizens Instead of | tax-eaters and office-holders carry on the govern= ment; when decent Aldermen and legislators cam | be selected and the Congressmen are not ciphers; | when the city can clean Its streets and secure ita ‘people in their lives, homes and property and 48 municipal ownership there would be no quarrel Ha a ny i ‘ean safeguard the public health—-then there W’ Crok no! Murphy would t 7 . , i Everybody knows what the Park De- | about them, Municipal operation would keep by Gea somite Mie ateutenoranus cateouen roker nor a Murphy would be bos-| Jennings Bryan came into the enemy's country It would more than double the city taxes on real partment was under Pallas. Yet these men are|Tammany in power for 150 years, as Timothy D. | of the principle of muntelpal operation and of the boss, TEETH wiTwqut PLATES: Hayes Dental ces OTHING leaves our workshops without the most careful scrutiny. Skilled worsmanship and years of experience enable us to give LENTAL VALUES not usually secured, Positive y Paini Best Teeth. . Fillings from Gald Crowns (87 gold) hoo. Beautiful Rose Pearl Plates | : 115,00 9 Extraction: $8.00 0 11 operationmore corruption |#r@ to serve the people, It ought not ‘oho pode. § , 5 T ' . f | i Offi QO 22k. returne the for nineteen of his mine ‘ector of St and Grove until he was Hook, N, Y. i, of Prayer, Waterproof Shoe A shoe that not only affords all ordinary protection, but thatkeeps the foot warm and dry on gold and stormy days is the Coward Waterproof Shoe. Trim in fit, easy in use and durable in wear, it embodies usefulness mevet equaled in any other make, SOLD NOWHERE ELSE, JAMES S. COWARD, 208-274 Greenwich St., N, Vy (NTAR WARDEN ATRERT, ) Mall Orders Pitled, Send tor atalagne | sunday Wants ~ Monda} Morning Unions ig. New Bryan's programme of | stble for a man like Murphy to control the polioa ‘