The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1892-07-02

| n man in Congress or out OF it who wouldn't
| be glad to own stock In these great corpora
| lions or combinations: not man who ISM
eager to 10 q capitalist himself, not law
yer who wouldn't like such clients. Tho
| principle OF combination Is we'll established
for labor and for capital, and to kick against
1t Is Just as wiso and foolish as to kick
against tho law OF gravitation or the multi
rlication table. Yet there are humbug news
papers and idiotic folk In Congress that be-
lieve there are votes to DO made by hitting
common sense under tho belt. and pretend
ing that poor men who have got rich should
be treated as sort OF outlawed or inferior
class, Ineligible to tho Offices Of tho State.
and that poor men who are still poor are
consoled and flattcred by this sort OF thing.
1t seems to us high timo for q new decla-
ration OF independence to be made. At
present. II wo believe the windy harangues
Of gentlemen on both sides who seem to
believe that both tho Republican and
the Democratic party have got down to
tho intellectual level OF the Peo-
pies party. q corporation lawyer. man
engaged In great and far-reaching Indus
trial or commercial enterprises. manager
OF many lines OF railroads. is n person to be
regarded with distrust and dislike. to be
denounced by stump speakers and the
makers Of party platforms; and from the
mere fact OF his business and profess
sion ineligible to high political dis
tinction. The Stiffness OF the defamation
against corporations and combinations is
only equalled by its hypocrisy. A man
may sand sugar in q country store. md
accumulate q competency by short weight
and petty chousing. and yet no may rise
from Hog Reeve to the Presidency. while
man like Mr.. DErEw or Mr.. WHITNEY. with
every intellectual qualification for the
Presidency, must DO declared Ineligible
simply because no has conducted great en-
terprises with consummate skill and pru-
dcncc. has worked In larger field and with
moro generous methods and greater sue
cess than their fortune or their talents give
to most men.
II there Is any considerable number Of
sane American citizons who desire to go
back to acorns Us an article OF food. 1t is
their privilege. We take 1t that the majority
OF Americans want the best there Is. and
mean to have it II they can: and are too busy
and too sensible to snarl ut men whose
qualities successfully exhibited In great
enterprises are tho qualities which they
themselves most admire, arc. in fact. only
their own qualities magnlfled. The Amer
lean people are not going back to tho times
Of. PETER and the acorn Gators. They
have no taste for acorns. and We fancy
that they must be fairly weary OF the
chestnuts about tho wickedness OF corpora
tons and tho RIGHTEOUSNESS Of plutocrats.
Wo would all like to be plutocrats. and are
plutocratizing ourselves rs fast as we con.
TITS an honest desire. and there Is no need
to sneak about it. or to abuse In other peo-
pie what We want ourselves. Let us try to
remember that a rich man. as long as he
behaves himself, is as good as man not as
rich; that rich men have rs much right to
assemble and meet together in corporations
and other combinations as those OF US who
are poorer: that lawyers may be depended
upon to do their legal part in looking out for
wealthy clients. The Society for Stran-
Cling Idiots and all individual Fool Killers
will circulate this information In tract form.