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President Lincoln of the Economic Club in his introductory address stated the conditions which have rendered municipal reform so pressing a need. The government of cities has deteriorated and problems now present themselves which had no importance a generation ago. Every community which has suffered from the dishonest administration of its affairs has a keen interest in municipal reform...
...methods of reform have been proposed: by business, and by labor. The former is absolutely useless, for business is as rotten as politics. There is the same kind of treason in the insurance companies as in the legislature. Labor is equally unfitted for reform; the San Francisco labor government is as corrupt as any business enterprise. The old game of politics, the kind that Mr. Roosevelt plays, is one of compromise. The politician bought his position and kept it. Now the political aspirant should promise to follow out a definite program and make others promise and keep their word...
...Hamlin grouped the issues under five heads: the Philippines, militarism, economy in governmental expenses, encroachment of the executive, and reform of the tariff. In dealing with the first he said that the Philippines were taken unjustly, and were promised freedom in the distant future only through pressure brought to bear by Democrats and the sugar and tobacco trusts...
...Parker discussed the three chief points of the Democratic platform: tariff reform, the guarantee bank deposit, and the legislative control of our courts. He claimed that the first would be changed, as soon as a sufficient need had arisen, by the same party that had instituted it. To force all depositors to pay tithes was an obvious injustice. As for the third contention, any such legislation as Mr. Bryan desired showed a suspicion and doubt on the part of the people, of the integrity of the United States courts. Such a suspicion would be of the greatest injury...
...increase of popular control, we are confronted by the arguments of those who say that universal suffrage is to blame for the great evils in municipal government, in that men have viewed their development with composure and indifference. To this it may be answered that experiments in municipal reform in Massachusetts, Texas and lowa have shown that universal suffrage may choose men of both honesty and ability. There has never been a case of corruption in all the school boards that have been elected by universal suffrage. The working classes do not at present realize the evils existing in American...