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Conspiracy Nation -- Vol. 6 Num. 96
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("Quid coniuratio est?")
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HARBURGER CHARGES BRIBERY
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Says the Gas Companies Control Legislation
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at Albany and Throttle Relief Bills
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[New York Times, February 3, 1904]
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Julius Harburger, Under Sheriff and Tammany leader in the Tenth
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District, declared that the gas companies control legislation and
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throttle relief bills, in a speech which he made last evening at
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a meeting of the Tammany Club of the Tenth District at 42 Second
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Avenue. Sheriff Erlanger(?) was another speaker at the meeting
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over which Judge Boesch presided.
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Mr. Harburger said that while a member of the State Legislature,
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from 1898 to 1901, he introduced bills for the reduction of the
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price of gas and also to compel companies to give better and
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purer gas. None of the measures was passed because the Gas
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Committees of the Legislature were packed by members supposed to
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be in the pay of the corporations, while a horde of lobbyists
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thronged the chamber, reinforced by the best legal talent which
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the companies could employ.
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"Some members of the Legislature," declared Mr. Harburger, "are
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nominated and elected for the especial purpose of protecting the
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interests of the corporations in whose pay they are."
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+ + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + +
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THE LIGHTING MONOPOLY
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To the Editor of The New York Times:
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[February 4, 1904]
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Commenting on the remarks made by John De Witt Warner before the
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Acorn(?) Club concerning home rule for the city, published in
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your edition of the 1st inst., in alluding to the matter of gas
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and electricity, "that it was only a matter of time when all the
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companies serving the city would be in one vast combination
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unless the citizens of New York stepped in and demanded the
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control of their own affairs in their own way." It is a singular
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fact that a gentleman so well versed in matters pertaining to
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this city should not be better informed as to its gas and
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electric lighting.
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As a matter of fact, for several years the Consolidated Gas
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Company has practically owned and now controls every gas and
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electric light company of Manhattan. A more outrageous monopoly
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never existed. There is scarcely a consumer that cannot bear
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witness to the imposition practiced upon the patrons of gas and
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electricity by this octopus and the impossibility of obtaining
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redress, however obvious the imposition is. If their demands are
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not complied with, a threat is made to cut the lighting off, in
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which case the sufferer must either go back to kerosene and dips
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or submit.
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It seems impossible that an intelligent community permits this
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wrong to exist. The Legislature during its present session, it is
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hoped, will come to the relief of the people; if not, the subject
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promises to be made a leading one at the next election of
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representatives to Albany. No longer will they submit to the
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arbitrary action of this gigantic lighting monopoly.
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PRO BONO PUBLICO
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New York, Feb. 1, 1904
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