The Marlboro democrat. [volume] (Bennettsville, S.C.) 1882-1908, 1905-10-13
WORDS OF WARNING
The President Of a New York Bank
Talks cut
gT;ae zsie sosy OF the Roman Ytopaniii
MAY 30 Repeated Unless Graft
ors Are Checked.

4 S 80 SsopSstOU OhhUop
ors Arc Checked.
Dishonesty In high places In the
State, the judiciary and great tlDan.
cial institutions and.corporations and
palliation Of suoh by the masses grave.
ly threaten the future of the country,
according TO views expressed Thurs
day by J. Edward Simmons, presidents
Of the Fourth National bank Of Now
York, In an address before the Mary
land Bankers Association at Aunop.
oils, Md. He pointed to the lessons
taught by the fall Of the ancient Ro
man republic, the reign Of terror In
Franco and the disasters which hefell
Russian arms In the recent confot In
the far east, all Of which, he said,
were due to pailiated dishonesty. II
hear voices from the east and voices
from the west," said he, III boiling
voices, from the pulpit and the divine,
voices from the college aud the educa,
tor, voic:s from the bench and the
bar, voices from the press and It's sag.
es, the voice Of the president him.
self, %denouncing In ringing tones and
%deploring the universal spread OF
selfishness in its meanest aud most re.
pulslve fOrm-the form Of dishonesty
They bewall one universal carnival of
dishonesty. Alas, these voices are not
unconirmed."
He deplGred the conditions which
have led men to tolerate the terms
graft" and "grafters" and said he
feared the very use Of the words was
an indication Of mems tolerance Of a
thief and bis trade. He called upon
the members Of the association to give
their assistance In %remedying a condi
tion which makes it possible FOR men
who pose as the salt Of the earGh and
who condemn, Without reserve, those
who steal fifty dollars or forge q check
for q hurdted dollars, or accept q
bride, to themselves make millions by
lying, by misrepresentation, by fraud
and by bribery, without receiving
punishment or ever criticism, while
the man who steals the paltry sum Is
sent to all. He denounced the man
of stainless private Life, who, lin the
interest Of corporations. Of the trust,
Of the gas company, Of the railroad
company, Of the Insurance. company,
have recon- s. to every Villiany damned
in the decalcgua; who does the deed
of a highwayman with air OF a saint"
Mr.. Simmons said that the work
ings and dangers Of great corporations
and multi millionaire enterprise have
not been and are not as fully under
stood as their al. lntages. He beliey
ed that their d irk side should be In.
v%estigated and set out as lUc!dly and
forcibly as their bright side. He re-
ferred to the growth Of the Socialist
movement, as shown by the last pres.
identlal elections, as due largely +.
the fact, he said, that the masses se>
great fortunes accu nulated by dis.
honest means and when 80 accunuia-
ted. combined to some other indy du.
al enterprise. He believed, however,
that the situltion was not witht UT
hope, as the very fact that the c,un
try has awakened to tho conditions,
and that fearless and able men are or
ganizing and leading a campaign
against dishonesty ale grounds fol
hope that a a preaching remedial pro.
cess has already begun.