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Revelations of New York Street
Railway Investigation.
BECOME A NATIONAL ISSUE.
Corporation Contribution to Campaign
Funds an Abui to Bo Corroetod A
Plan to End th Evil Mr. Bryan on
tho Influence of the Country Presi.
By W1LLU J. ABBOT.
The public service corporations of
the city of New York are having trou
bles of their own. I use the word
troubles In tbe plural purposely. Tho
unfortunate stockholders In tbe Met
ropolitan Traction company and In tbe
Metropolitan Securities company are
troubled because they found tbe man
agers of their properties becoming in
credibly rich while the dividends van
ished. The other trouble seems to bo
coming to eminent defenders of tbe
national honor and bitter opponents of
Democratic success In either state or
cation. The investigation shows Mr.
Thomas F. Ryan, who used to think
he'd like to be a Democratic candidate
for tbe presidency jar for tbe senator
chip from Virginia, hand In glove with
Mr. Qulgg, a former Republican con
gressman, later the chairman of the
Republican county committee and now
a lobbyist Mr. Qulgg, who used to
be a newspaper reporter, received In
(our years $271,000 from the traction
company.
Now, let us be fair. One of the most
successful jugglers of Metropolitan
Traction was William C. Whitney,
Grover Cleveland s sponsor and man
ager In politics and President Cleve
land's secretary of the uavy. Mr.
Whitney engineered tbe nomination
Of Cleveland in 1802. He did It with
a strong hand and a heavy purse, and
the demands he or the people back of
him made upon the Cleveland admlnla
t ration wrecked tbe Democratic party
for many years. Bryan made It a
fighting organization, but even his
wide popularity and vigorous leader
ehlp were not able to overcome tbe
burden of Clevelandlsm.
Mr. Whitney was strong for national
honor In .1890, and yet at that very
time be was doing things In connection
with a corporation that he controlled
amounting to personal dishonor. It
may be urged that one should say
nothing but good of tbe dead. Person
ally I think the maxim should be
changed. When the dead has done
much to debauch the government of
the country, to encourage tbe Idea that
tbe mere lavish use of money can
make a president and that then tbe
power thus obtained can be used to
enrich those engaged In the job, It Is
time that truth was told. Today the
name of William C. Whitney, whom
I I'tioiv o ml iVin n-na naponnAllir (I 1 m -
able man, figures In every dubious op
eration of the Metropolitan company
up to the time of bis death. He was
the shrewd schemer, and perhaps to
htm tbe distinguished secretary of
state, Eliliu Root, was nest.
Secretary Root has the excuse that
all lawyers use namely, that he acted
only as attorney. Some day tbe peo
ple In this country, who In tbe end are
Its lawmaking authority, will enact
some sort of legislation to prevent this
.subterfuge.
'Why This ts a National Issue.
The mere fact of the overcapitaliza
tion and tbe Impending bankruptcy of
4 New York traction companies
-ild not be a matter of national con
cei. except for the truth that a good
deal of the money which has reduced
these corporations to the pout at
which they are unable to pay even the
interest of their bonds has gone to
hungry politicians in practically ev
ery case very prominent politicians al
lied with tbe Republican organization.
There Is a mysterious check for $250,
000, drawn in the campaign year of
1000, which nobody connected with
Metropolitan Traction either can . or
will explain. Mr. William M. Ivlns,
'who is Investigating the matter, makes
no bones about asserting that It went
to the Republican national committee.
Then there was the $260,000 fund raised
ky Mr. Harriman, largely from men
who were Interested In tbe local street
railways, and turned over to Mr. Cor
nelius N. Bliss, treasurer of the Repub
lican national committee, and by him
to the preseut secretary of the treas
ury, George B. Cortelyou. Much of
tbe money raised by Mr. Ilarrlman
came from life Insurance companies,
some from tbe street railways.
If national political committees are
going to be permitted to raise cam
paign funds In enormous figures from
the street railways of any city. It be
comes Immediately apparent that these
corporations are Interfering In national
affairs and therefore subject to nation
al attention. Nobody believes that tbe
United States government should in
terfere wltb the collapse of the various
traction companies In New York. But
If a Whitney on the bygone Democrat
ic side, or a Quigg on the present Re
publican side, or a Harriman. or a Cor
telyou. or a Ryan, or a Bliss can use the
treasuries of these companies to pro
cure funds to debauch tbe electoral
aincbtnery of state or nation It Is about
time that either state or nation took
'Cognizance of what Is doing. When
the Investigation now being made by
the public service commission of New
Tork Is finished, there will be many
great financial and political reputations
ruined. There may not be a ierfectly
clear and plain pan toward tbe ending
f such evils suggested, but enough
will have been done to show that a
vtder system of national and statf
publicity for all contributions made by
I corporation for political purposes
will do much to finally correct this
ibuse.
City and Country Newspapers.
A New York newspaper, the World,
k very much distressed or possibly
very Indignant because, according to
Its assertion. Mr Bryan said t Rich
mood that "tbe great metropolltac
lailies are controlled by tbe trusts
nd their coluruus ire ipen to th.
highest bidder." The World's quota
tion Is not sccurate. t heard Mr. Bry
an's speech and recall that he said,
is he has telegraphed to the World,
'maur great metropolitan tallies."
Nobody who knows anything of lther
Xew Vork w Chicago Journalism will
luestloo the Justice if tbe statement
o qualified. The World, which show
ed the utmost Irritation tbout it nas
lone great work In exposing certain
trusts. It has (ought bard and well
tgnlnst '.he Insurance infamies, the
Harriman methods of anance nd 'b
Metropolitan Traction. But. ifter Ul.
when an antlmonopoly and antitrust
candidate appears In either the Dem
ocratic or the Republican party we do
not find th9 World enthusiastic t
even friendly. For Mr. Bryan It hai
nothing but ridicule and malice; -tor
President Roosevelt, who baa don
much and tried to do more, nothing
but hostility; for Senator La Follette
who on tbe Republican side li em
phatically antitrust, tbt World has
little except silence or a semloccaslona
sneer.
Now. what Mr. Bryan really said tt
Richmond was of more Importance 'a
tbe part not quoted by the metropol
itan papers than that wblcb they at
tack. He said that the fight tor real
popular government, for tho represen
tation of tbe people In both the state
and the national government, must be
and would be taken up by tbe coun
try papers. He believed that tbe coun
try press was free from tbe Influences,
which affect, sometimes Insensibly,'
many great metropolitan papers. Tbe
country editor, It Is safe to say, does
not live In Paris and edit his New
York newspaper alternately from
Monte Carlo and from his yacht. He
does not hold the most honorable posi
tion of ambassador to England or to
St. Petersburg and conduct bis New
York or Chicago paper from either
point, so far removed from any toucb
with tbe feeling of the common people
of the United States.
Tho great papers do a great work.
Of that there is no doubt. But tbey
are not wholly free from the charge
of constituting In themselves a trust,
and, as It now has come to pass that
their owners are multimillionaires and
must hold Investments In trust se
curities, so beyond doubt tbey are In
sensibly Influenced by tbe trust senti
ment. Mr. Bryan was not first to say
that the couutry press was the one to
which representatives of the common
people must look for aid. The rage
and Indignation of the metropolitan
press over his statement go far to
prove Its truth.
The Trusts Against tho Trusts.
There are some students of public
affairs, some public men and econo
mists who hold that tbe operation of
natural law will ultimately destroy
monopolies and by so doing break
down tbe conditions which have cre
ated the swollen fortunes which both
President Roosevelt and tbe leader of
the Democratic party regard as a
menace to the continued well being of
the republic. I am frank to confess
that I have not agreed with this view.
It seems to me tbat legislation by
both state and nation, and very drastic
legislation at tbat, Is necessary. As
the president himself said In effect,
one of these millionaire monopolists
and stock jugglers in jail would be
worth a hundred fines Imposed upon
the corporation.
Yet tt Is worth while considering
whether the trusts are not going to
break themselves or, rather, whether
the men who have got control of
them, In their eagerness to get rich
and their personal jealousies, will not
bring down the whole artificial fabric
In one grand crash upon their own
heads. All of the men concerned In
the traction trust of New York city
have turned against each other, and
the revelations that tbey make about
each other have made tbe stock practi
cally unsalable and promise to engage
the attention of tbe courts for a decade
at least. Only last week tbe effort of
one magnate of a copper trust to beat
bis rivals In Wall street resulted In
bis being driven out of the banks be
controlled and - bis practical, though
possibly temporary, elimination from
tbe ranks of trust promotors. Tbe
I fall of Helnze carried with him to a
I certain extent Charles W. Morse, who
promoted and Controls the Ice trust
I and the steamship trust. He. too. has
( been forced to resign from the direct-
orate of every bank and trust com
, pany with which he was connected.
E. R. Thomas; also widely, engaged In
schemes for monopolizing different In
i dustrles, 1ms likewise been driven from
any connection with the string of
banks that he controls Fish anil Har
riman are now emulating the Kilkenny
cats at Chicago. Terhaps If I irno
that as these men go others ult ns
eager for power and for pelf " H' re
place them. Put there is vin o' ,nv
erb os to what happens we i mis
of a certain class fall out nnmra I'lfii
sclves The matters to consider In !'u- I'n in
clal revelations of recen ; v.
first, that the men whose ft.; 're
swolleu beyond nny rensct ,. i .
have secured them by the ' 'i.
small saving of the peop''
savings bancs and Inwur t :
nles; secoii.t. that at no li ; :
hesitated to evai'e or to ;:,;- t'u -
for their own profit: thl ' ';
thought wa" never for ! i " k
holders, but n'vu.vs for th ;n-. I ,
i Washinirto.v I. C.
II SUiKHOOL,
Lesson VI. Fourth Quarter, For
Nov. 10, 1907.
THE INTERNATIONAL SERIES.
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Text of the Lesson, Josh, xxiv, 14-28.
Memory Verses, 22-24 Golden Text,
Josh, xxiv, 15 Commentary Pre
pared by Rev. D. M. Stearns.
Copyright, 1007, by American PreM Anoclitlon.l
The Lord had given rest unto Israel
from all their enemies (xxill, 1); the
tabernacle bad been set up at Suiloh
and was still there when Samuel, was
brought as a little lad to minister to
the Lord In the days of Kit (xvlil, 1;
xls, SI; I Sam. 1, 3, 24); Joshua was
old and felt that bis sojourn on earth
would soon be over, so he called to
gether the elders and officers of Israel
and rehearsed to them all that the
Lord their God bad done for them and
how He hud fought for them as He
had promised, bringing the record
down from the days of Abraham to
the time when be was speaking. He
reminded them that It was "the Lord
their God" who had done It all, using
that particular phrase about fourteen
times In chapter xxill, and In chapter
xxiv, 1-13, the Lord nimself, through
Joshua, spoke of more than twenty
things be had done for them. Joshua
testified to the faithfulness of God In
these words: "Not one thing hath
failed of all the good things which
the Lord your God spake concerning
you. All are come to pass unto you,
and not one thlug bath failed thereof'
(xxill, 14). Solomon at the dedication
of the temple used almost identical
words (I Kings vIlL 56), and it Is our
privilege to this day and always to
live in the faithfulness of God, re
membering such assurances as I Cor.
1-0; x, 13; II Tbess. ill, 3. Now, In our
lesson we have the burden of Joshua's
heart for this people whom be was
about to leave, "Fear the Lord and
serve Him In sincerity and truth"
(verse 14), and three times the people
reply that they will serve the Lord
(verses 18, 21, 24), emphasizing It la
verse 24 la these words: "The Lord
our God will we serve, and nis voice
will we obey." Joshua's declared de
termination, "As for me and my
house, we will serve the Lord" (verse
15), and his very strong plea had a
grand result, for we read that "Israel
served the Lord all the days of Jobhua
and all the days of the elders that
overlived Joshua, which had known
all the works of the Lord that He had
done for Israel (verse 31). The people
considered the Lord's mercies to them,
saying, "The Lord our God brought us
up out of tbe land of Egypt and did
those great signs and preserved us In
all tbe wny and drave out from before
us ail the people; therefore will we
also serve the Lord, for He Is our God"
(verses 17, 18).
Joshua warned them that the Lord
Is holy and jealous (verse 19), that
He will not tolerate other gods, but
the people insisted that they would
serve IHm. Note the other six places
where ho Is called Jealous In Ex. xx,
5; xxxlv, 14; Deut. iv, 24; v, 0; vl. 15;
Nan. I, 2 indicating that He will
zealously care for and defend His
own, but He covets His own all for
Himself tbat He may do His utmost
for them. In verse 22 we learn that
to serve the Lord means a very de
cided stand against ourselves, a de
nial and renunciation of self (Matt
xvl, 24; Phil, ill, 3), knowing that in
us that Is. in our flesh there dwelleth
no good thing (Rom. vli, 18). As was
the custom, a stone was set up for a
witness, as If it had heard all the
words (verses 26, 27). See also xxll,
26, 27; Gen. xxvUl. 18, 22; xxxl, 43-49.
May it not suggest to us that "the
stone of Israel" (Gen. xllx,. 24), "the
tried stone, the sure foundation, the
precious cornerstone" (Isa. xxvlil, 16)
is a witness always to every word and
act and thought of ours? May we lay
It to heart that our God Is a Jealous
God and that we cannot serve God
and Mammon (Luke xvl, 13).
Israel was redeemed from the bond
age of Egypt that they might serve
the Lord who redeemed them (Ex.
lv, 23; x, 26), and to do this they
needed all that they possessed. Not
a hoof was to be left behind. Sam
uel's great plea was, "Only fear the
Lord and serve Him in truth with all
your heart, for consider how great
things ne hath done for you" (I Sam.
ill. 24). One of our Lord's replies
to the devil was, "Thou eholt worship
tbe Lord thy God, and Him only Shalt
thou serve" (Matt. Iv, 10). The height
of future bliss for many is described
In the words, "The throne of God and
of the Lamb shall be' In It, and His
servants shall serve Him, and they
shall see His face, and His name shall
bo in their foreheads" (Rev. xxll. 3, 4).
Paul, who testified of his relation to
the Lord Jesus In these words,
"Whose I am und whom I serve." and
who dellghlcd to call himself a bond
slave of Jesus Christ, wr :e to tho
TlieFK:ilo:iIaus, "Ve turned to God
from idols to srrve the living tJod and
to wait fc: IMs Son from heaven"
(Acts xxvli. 2.T: I Thess. 1. 0, 10). Of
'I a?e!f he raid elsewhere, "Serving
''). Lord wit'j nil humility of mind
v wi:'.i nii;v tears and temptations
' ' 'i iiefe'l me by the lying In wait
' the .lev-?" (Acts xx. 19). If the
"(Vl rf f"':i'" i was constrained to say
S- !'".!!m"s wviu-ts. "Happy ore
i, thy j.'-vnn' ' which stand con
' ''iee and henr thy
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