Clarke courier. [volume] (Berryville, Va.) 1869-1997, 1905-10-11


him hooked. | wouldn't be sur
prised if Teddy should order his
loccl representative there TO help
out Armour. Dawes, Swift, Morris.
Cudahy and the rest of the bunch
of big rebaters, just as he helped
Paul Morton when the rebate BUSH
ness was fixed on him, and big
fine or long term of impriSon-
ment stared him in the face. Teddy
is pretty good to his friends who,
come to the front with contribu-
tons as did the managers of the
three big New York life insurance
companies and the members of the
Beef Trust. These fellows who
were fined out in Chicago were not
on the list of campaign contribu-
tors though their principals were.
| think that the Republicans are
using this incident for all it is
worth to show what a mighty good
and law obeying party they are.
Along last summer | wrote that
If Roosevelt was really in earnest
in his desire 10 have the law against
rebates enforced, he had all the
law he needed on the statute books
to punish the offenders. He got
little more of it than he wanted in
the Morton case, and then decided
1t was against corporations and not
persons that he wished To act.
wonder If he thinks the public is
going to be satisfied when he has
the charters of the AtchisOn, Tope-
ka K Santa Fe, of the Armour
Packing Company and of the
Hutchinson Salt Company sent to
states prison for as long as the
parchment on which they are writ
ten lasts. That would seem TO be
the only possible outcome of the
position he takes that YOU can't
prosecute men who make political
contributions and must confine
yourself TO noncorporeal bodies.
They don't amount to much more
than the paper on which their
charters are written. If he would
get hustle ON and have few of
the men who ovn these charters
fined as the law provides, | think
he would make a greater hit with
the common run of people and
prove his sincerity. The chances
are, however, that the men who
might be punished, but who made
contributions to the campaign fund,
will be white-washed Just As Morton
was, while the Republican National
Committee will continue to hold
up the railroads and trusts for
political contributions and black
mail.
| wonder if it was was because
the big railroad corporations re-
fused to be held up by the Repub-
lican National Committee for con-
trlbutions TO the Roosevelt cam
paign fund at the last election. that
our estimable President is so very
hot after railroad rate regulation
by political commission. Certain
things that have happened lately
would suggest that there is good
deal more than probability that
this is a fact, and that his posing
as friend of thu" dear people" is
all RoOseveltian bluff.
At the insurance Investigations
now in progress in New York, it
has already been brought out in
sworn testimony that the New
York Life Insurance Company
paid $4,000 to his compaign fund.
and IN two years had paid similar
amounts to the Republican National
Committee. This is admittedly
the result of merely scraping the
surface. 1t is certain to be de-
veloped that the Mutual Life and
Equitable Life contributed at least
as much and possibly more to the
same fund from the savings of the
policy holders for the benefit of
their widows and orphans.
Perhaps you remember that when
the Equitable scandal was first un-
earthed an appeal was made to Mr..
Roosevelt to step in and protect
the policy holders of the company.
You may remember too that ROose-
welt absolutely refused to Interfere
and allowed things to take their
course. Any reason for thisl 1t.
looks to man mp 4 tree as if there
was a mighty good reason for it.
and that reason lay in the liberal
contributions of money to the cam
paign managers that succeeded in
electing Roosevelt.
IA