New-York tribune., 1905-06-29
DILL REBUKES" "GRAFTERS"
DenOunces Mem Who Use PubEo
Position for Personal Gain.

oberlin Ohio June 2s-James B. Dill. OF New
York. in the course of an address to the grad
uating class of Oberlin College yesterday 5s
Iivered scathing rebuke to who misuse
positions of honor and trust for purposes Of
personal gain In urging his hearers to 20
back to beginnings" Mr.. Dill contended that
grating" which is foreign TO the true Amer
lean character. had been developed by the mad
rush for wealth and the recognition Of false
standards by educated men in the competitivs
struggle for business power and social promi-
Hence.
Mr.. Dill said in part:
The crisis is acute feeling q distr,lst is sro.
financial business have been IN one way or another
taken possession OF by the interruptions for ths
Trust companies have been made the mediums OF
the fotaton OF specious and fraudulent promo
Some companies in the field Of life insurance., the
are as we ali know now conduits through which
the savings of the pohcyhoiders are diverted into
Credit and good faith. not money, are the basis
of business Good or bad. our modern prosperity
S snd fogpdea fhe %hoIe OH PaRHe PRrc feIs ~
Well we have been taking il away
TIE early temptation which comes 70 an edu-
Gated man or woman is 10 seem rather taan 70 6e.
poser is an incipient fraud lie IS passing human
Neither men en- nor women can persist and continus
in an attempt to mislead the pubic without mis-
the D6weT to duli their sensibties TO stiae their
cOnsciences by assuming. and finally persuadlng
themselves into believing that they are Wnat they
are not they have practically accomplished their
self strucon by passing couhtefIetS upon tneIn-
If IS the desire for unearned wealth which side
tracks educated men and women from their real
careers rhe man who gets dollar unfairly.
without earning IT, does himself an INJURY and
craft is the advanced stage of the craze FOR un-
earned money Primarily it IS not so muGn i the
desire to geI desre 70 get something for nothing
hut il is attempt to get something IN consleF-
alton of the grafter's parting with something tnat
really does not belong to him
The essential element OF Sraft is q oFeach OF
trust. ., W. r,aa+ :. :, ,,z
various forms everywhere. It's most common form.
however is in the Illicit Of power or authority.
The legislator who is Influenced by the argument
1rt5ct e51raajs to his pocket rather than 20 his
sense civic obligation pT;tctlses = Ioril OF sIit
which is dangerous to the conInInltyi e,,
Another graft that of the officer IN flndnciai
iretitution who is Influenced in the use OF the
funds of the institution by any consdeTton olner
than the good Of the lnsututiod ,s Seer a man s ,t Is
political grafter-but we do noJ 5i"sSs IetosISe
him His position is so high and ms 12rI oI graIt
is 50 insidious that its existence oIttles IS n9t
eueDeoted until the explosion resulting froIn MS
arSftjng mas injured the community and made the
,71an and his practices notorious: but too late
iii9 co-7Or5tioD who directs its
ffairs from the viewpoint OF his own pochet rlcF
than from the standpoint or tne StocKIoIueIs s N
f,lrv is none the less a social highwaynan, ..
Many men of education. of power Lnsnclai anu
,CItirS1 seem to develop a two faced conScl9hCe,
80, fCr business use and another for the tndt-
Vidii9f life. This is fraud =. I-..
sav that The who attempts 10 90 pusi1es5
l1n0u one sis Of morals ana I'VE ds d4i
1Ip0n another basis is a fraud , -
No man have two Staucirc,S OF ILlOEsIs ne
for his individual life. and the other for his ousi-
,ass life without the inevitable result, that tne
baser standard will prevail AS man Is IN ,i1 Is