Bisbee daily review., 1906-07-12
JUDGE PARKER PICKS TO PIECES SPEECH OF SECRETARY
 TAFT.
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 1904. in substance and effect that we have law enough to stop every corpor- ate abuse; that all that is lacking IS an administration disposed Co enforce the law.
 q said that in the letter of accep- tance under the title of "The Trust Remedied," I pointed out in my ear l Her response the remedy which in my | Judgment can effectually be applied against the monoDolists. and assur- ance was given that if existing laws, including both statute and common law, proved inadequate, contrary to my expectations, l favor such further legislation, with constitutional limi- tations as will best promote and safe guard the interests of all people. l emphasized the same thought on other occasions in public speech. l reiter- ated it in my speech on Jefferson Day in 1905, in which 1 said: The plain ruth is that there has been no time during the past eight years since the aluses alleged became fragrant, when they could not have beer eliminated.
 Nothing has been so much needed as rigid, honest, unyielding enforce ment of the law, both civil and crim- iEal. But instead of going on with the enforcement of the law against re- bates by putting the railroad officials responsible for them behind the pris- on bars precisely as we do other malefactors, their misconduct is made an excuse for further concentration of power in the federal government.
 'It is expected by the administra- ton and railroad officials who openly consent to the movement. as we'll as by those who are ostensibly opposed to it. The people, in their just indig- nation at the wrongs done to the many for the benefit of a few, will lcse sight of the danger of so vast ii' centralization of power until it is too late 10 check it. But we should never forget that the safety of our institu- tions is involved in every such move ment and, instead of submitting to it, should insist that when trust or rail road has violated the criminal law the place for their guilty officials is in the jail or penitentiary. Not in the cab iret nor in the board rooms of great railways H# We CO hOb uSlGuu UT rSACuSC wrongs, but we must insist upon the truth of the maxim that two wrongs do not make right
 Until after this late utterance no visible action had been taken by an administration that had been in power for four years to check corpor- ate and trust abuses by an appeal to the criminal courts. If such steps, were taken. and I submit that the result proves the truthfulness of the assertion often made by me, we have an abundance of law to put an end to all offenses against the public by the officers of the trusts and great corpor- ations Of the country.
 ''Tbe administration has now dis covered, not only that there is an en- forceable law against the giving of rebates, each law adequate to check Illegal combinations, but that persons engaged in its violation can be pun ished for it Recent differences of courts, large fines imposed in cases of conviction, threatened proceedings ln every section of the country all de- monstrate that the law is, and long has been, adequate to stop offenses against the public.
 The decisions of the United States courts, both civil and criminal, dur ing the past year are appealed to as decisive of the question as to whether secretary Taft or myself is right"