RIDICULE FOR THE PEOPLE.

New York, 1895

Boss Youngs Make a Sneering Remark About Them.

(Long Island City Herald, Republican.):

A few days ago a representative of the Herald encountered Mr. Youngs in a smoking car on the Long Island railroad. After clearing his throat by indulging in some unnecessary profanity, Mr. Youngs tried to justify his "pernicious activity" at Albany in endeavoring to get the Commissioner of Jurors bill through the Senate by making the sneering remark that "the people didn't know what they wanted." Until the Oyster Bay statesman made this observation we were always of the opinion that the government of this country was "for the people and by the people," but it now appears that they are incapable of self-government and that Mr. Youngs has taken it upon himself to attend to such legislation as they, in his judgment, require, and it is a matter of no consequence to him whether they like or do not like the kind of legislation he deals out to them.

—Reprinted in The Long Island Farmer, Jamaica, NY, May 31, 1895, p. 4.