Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1905-06-28

most sacred form of investment. are
as We all know now, conduits through
which the savings OF the policy.hold.
ers are steered into operations for
speculative purposes.
Credit and good faith. not money.
are the basis OF business. Good or
bal, u modern prosperity Is founded
on public confidence. Take that away
and the whole fabric falls.
1.-THE fact Is that unprecedented ma.
terial growth OF the country. the ~.
sulting creation Of immense private
fortunes. the bringing together of
great aggregations Of corporate zap.
tai, industrial combinations AM rail-.
road mergers, all have tended 10 cen.
ter the attention OF the people upon
great financial deeds and to rank
men accordingly, causing the people
TO forget elementary virtues Of private
individual life"
Continuing. Mr.. Dill said that tie
desire to ecure unearned wealth was
~sidetracking educated men and women
from their real careers, saying that
the essential element Of graft" was
a breach Of trust.
Mr.. Dill added:
Graft Is the advanced stage Of
the craze for unearned money.
1T Is not only the desire to get
something for nothing. but II is an
attempt to get something for the
CRATER In consideration Of his parting
with something that does not belong
to him.
1T is a wrong greater than that Of
1.-THE counterfeiter, who merely makes
and passes counterfeit coin. The
CRATER Is a man who robs the ooGn.
terfeiter, who made the coin; the
grafter then passes the spurious coin
ito tie public rs genuine.
Another graft is that of the bank
Official. WHO Is influenced in The use
cf his .rHaitution's funds by III rca-
son o.her than the good of the ins'i.
%tatiop. Such a man is dangerous to
the community. His position is 81
high, his form OF graft Is so insid.
ious that its existence Ofttimes Is n )t
! suspected until the explosion result
ing from his grating has injured TIE
community and made the mai and
his practices notorious; but too late
then ~
THE director Of a corporate IN who
directs the affairs Of Al company from
the viewpoint of his, ,own pocket rath'
err than from the standpoint OF the
stockholders interest. although he
may not be indicted by a grand jury
is none the less a social highway
man."
AS 10 the mu~ch-talked-of abuse Of
"dummy directors" Mr.. Dill said:
THE dummy director OF a great
company who dumEiyizes himself for
pay, whether by the year or by the
Job. who uses his position to contro'
the use and disposition Of other PEG
pies money for personal gain, is IN
no position to criticise the clerk VINO
falsifies his accounts, or the EN-
ploye who embezzles. Yet we at
know of instances where men who
have stolen a million have sent 70
iail EMPLOYEES who took only hun
dreds or thousands Of dollars.
">ow whose fault Is this9 II Il '.rs
In II the fault Il public opinion, and
,,.f,,t opinion Is II ODinloh, Sn'tfs
land mipe-yOurs of me, mine OF you
ours OF all the rest We have to learn
ITO recognize the graft and the CRATER
however respectable their disguise
land to punish them. not alone BY i'm
prisonment and fine. but with all the
might Of the terrible scorn OF society
we have TO recognize that the seeds
|of socialism, anarchy and revolution
! are sown by the man OF our " class
and kind who pretends to be what ne
is not; these seeds are cultivated by
the bank and the insurance officer,
by the man In power In financial or
CARNATIONS. in short. by any CRATER
who In his dealings with the public
departs openly or secretly from old
fashioned Ten.Commandment homes
Itv. rf
"Manv men Of education. of power.
financial and political. q to de
velop a two.faced conscience. n for
business rise and another for the in
! dividusl life. This Is fraud"
In closing. Mr.. Dill reiterated his
belief in the thorough-going honesty
of the common people and declared
himself an optimist on the outlook,
Don't chase the easy dollar. Mo-
nev Is good. but money Will come II
Won do your work well. Give the world
full value. and the world will prize
| and pay YOU for the character your
| honest efforts will have developed,
And even the bad world appreciates
character.
did you no, notice a few weeks
ago. one Of the great financial insti-
| tutions, under charges OF financial
graft seached this country 10 find A
national reputation and Of shining
purity Of character?
III at | NAV not In any wise be mis-
tndei stood | say to Won AGAR thai
lthis Indictment Of orr business life
y not based upon an inherent. incura.
bic defect In our American character.
hut. on fhe contrary. these evils are
an outgrowth of orr American siren
uositv IN the riotous a C for the
easv dollar and the many dollars 7
wish 10 distinctly avoid leaving The
~impression upon vour minds that IN
unduly large proportion Of the Ameri-
can people are Of the class which I
have sought 10 call to account Rather
let me. in conclusion, emphasize the
fact that in the hearts of the genuine
men and women Of our COUNTRY. there