New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1898-08-03

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4 these corp ATOMS today have 3 Co,
/ trolling hand in all the great bushes
and political affairs Of this nation. E,
cry business enterprise and every cit,
great or small exist at their mercy IN
by their sufferance.
legislators are bought and sold. I'll
vulgar lobbyist controls Legislation, til
lawmakers being but his puppets, fash
ionlng statutes to suit his desires.
s.But the courts remain. All, res
From thelrlwalls look down the seren
j faces Of Kent, oftStorey and Of Marshall
There are the tribunals; there sit til
! judges, successors to an ancestry longe
and prouder than that Of kings. Upol
what scene do they look down2 Til
Judge sits there with the power Of Law
in his hand, and his decision is dictated
in advance by the sutton who enacts
part in his tragic comedy. #
''It is all horrible mockery. a de
frauded creditor brings his writ for re-
lief. A Gould, Fiske, 4 Vanderbilt o.
Jim Hill calls for his judge, as the. pa:
iron of a restaurant calls for waiter
Bring me an injunction hot. Gas in the
Debs's CASEY. It's served in the desired
style and a quietus put on the clamorous
complainant. Great lawyers dedicate
their exquisite tact in making apparently
legitimate|this unl,oly commerce between
justiceEand the corporation
That was several years ago. Today,
Senator Davis IS an altered man. Then
he was but drawing the picture of his
future self. j;
Senator Davis is a lawyer, brilliant,
learned, clever in his manipulation Of
legal technicalities. As such, it is his
privilege to sell his legal services to who
ever is prepared to retain them.
= But Mr.. Davis is also servant of the
people, enjoying the fruits Of salary
paid from the pockets of all alike. AS
such has he any right to defeat as law
yer what he or others may accomplish for
the masses by means Of legislation2 g
And yet that is just what Senator Dav-
is is doing today and has done repeated
ly. -. III !. -. D. -, - -
Every reader of current events recalls
his connection with the consolidation
scheme of Jim Hill in his efforts to OBJ
tain control of the Northern Pacific.
Did he not employ all his profound
knowledge of law to defeat The case of
the state?
Everybody knows too that he was the
picked and skilled retainer of the Rookie
Teller syndicate in their suit against the
Merrltts. Was that the province of
salaried servant of the people? ..
Todayian important trial is being held
before the state railroad commission at
Duluth. The small mine owners of the
state are fighting the outrageous extor-
lions Of the Rockefeller railways of the
iron range. The Rockefeller road earns,
it is claimed, $3.50 per mile as compared
with $3.50 earned in other states, and
Senator Davis is retained to- defend them
in their robbery. .s
Gould he, we ask, in any other way
more completely dedicate his exquisite
tact and learning to making apparently
legitimate this unholy commerce between
justice and the corporations?'' T.
Gould he in any other manner SO thor
oughly ssdebase himself to the capacity
Of slave2''c = IT,
Prince Bismarck, the great German
chancellor, died Saturday night at the
age of eighty three. With him there
passed away the foremost political figure
that Germany, or any other nation for
that matter, has produced. His career
was indeed wonderful. Proud and OBJ
stinate, he nevertheless possessed traits
that evoke the admiration Of all. Hav-
ing once conceived the idea of united
and powerful empire, he proceeded with
Of purpose and by means, /
ruthless and altogether out of harmony
With representative government, to weld
INTO mighty whole the divided princi-
palities Of the Teutonic race. He re-
.lized that il the Germans would
stand as q power among the powers
# Europe, there must be unity, and he
undertook to accomplish by sheer force
md the exercise Of military authority,
What never could have been accomp-
ished by 9 recognition of the rights Of
man. The ideal statesman could never
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