The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1892-03-17
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Without apparent reason and without Q
pressing popular demand United States Dis
trlct Attorney Alien OF Boston. acting under
instructions from Attorney General Miller
has caused the officers Of the Dlstilling and
Cattle Feeding Company to DO arrested and
placed under bond on indictments found in
the United States Criminal Court In Boston.
The prosecution-or. as We shall pres
emily see. the persecution these men
was started In Massachusetts. one of the
Eastern States. Four Of the Indicted directors
live In Ohio four in Illinois. and one lives in
New York. yet Mr. Allen and his superior. for
reasons OF their own. have seen fit to have
thsse l., residents OF distant states dragged to
and expense: Tia, may be iair play in Gle eyes
Gan people. There Is a tnitei States District
fsSsF Noa sT York. ' %5yele r es
dents vs. 81 these States SUSPECTED Of a violation
81 thG lay should have
T. single the oiiieers ' 81 the tic
subjects u a criminal .prosocution Whit is
hehd these n ;5s What Induced
der this unusual prccedure AZ time When "
there WAS no popular demand for its These
re QUESTIONS rs w nsked everywhere Recent
circumstances attending the issue and service
Of these warrants throw flood OF light on tho
motives 81 the persons responsible for these
=, II is well known that gang Of bear specu.
iat2rs has Tor months been actively at work
secret that the stock gam biers engaged in this
and Pbiadepha What IN cs %sa stropes
would have been for these gamblers to make
!s IN 81 the Limited STATES
proper to note In this connection some pecu.
liar incidents connected with this criminal
the secret nies. aud the strirtest Instructions
fysn ta hf sos q e s the esu IT nSt to
newspni,ers nigh, publish. the fact and the
standing. escape. There was no necessity for
all this secrecy. We. give Mr.. District Attorney
stories.
dinerent aspect when viewed In the light OF u
big stock lobbing scheme engineered with the
ffG sn;EdS gee OF the Ivy department q the
Monday. Fer. 20: Certain PEOPLE in Boston
Ss to d taat t. ar
directors, OF tho company and went short OF
distilefs' stock on account Of 1t, making con.
Chicago Ind the news Of tho contemplated
arrests before anybody else and the United
States Marshal telephoned for President
Greenhut from, swar,z. Dupee & Mefor-
mick,s stock broker office to come over and give
BAH. Secretary Hennessy was also arrested on
message noeSag sont from hrnkers office. Our
these facts and incidents. They place Mr..
Allen and the Attorney General in a peculiar
light.
Why was the DistiilnC and Cattle Feeding
Company selected as an object Of attack from
among all the other combinations to which
the sherman act might be applied. and why
was the unusual method Of n criminal prose-
cution chosen when a test case could Just as
well have been made bya civil suit? District
belong to q class OF officeholders who regard
the manufacture and sale OF Intoxicating
liquors rs wicked enterprise. and those en-
EEaged in it Is persons to be excluded from tho
tice and equity. Men Of this stamp have no
perception OF the current Of modern thought
lican party like barnacles on ship. Their
proper place is in private life. and not in re-
ssponsible position Of trust and power in which
to important commercial and industrial inter-
ests. which are fully recognized by law. and
may seriously iniure the Republican party, to
which they owe their political preferment