Los Angeles herald., 1906-07-20
PUNISH TRUSTS,
SAYS HAOLEY
COMBINES ARE ROBBERS, HE
DECLARES
Mlssouri's Attorney General Enter
talns With Foreeful Speech Three
Thousand People at Long
Beach chautauqua
Special to The Herald.

| Special to The Herald
| LONG BEACH, July 19.--"The Ameri-
can people, | believe, have reached a
determination that there shall be placed
upon the statute books, and enforced in
| all the states of the Union. laws which
| VIII result in the same punishment be-
ing lneted out to such men as is meted
out to the common burglar, the high
way robber or the thief"
| This and other equally emphatic
| statements of a like charac cter delivered
In quiet but forceful manner by Her.
bert 5. Hadley, the trust fighting at
torney general of Missouri, were APP
plauded by three thousand people as
| sembled at the auditorium to listen to
the principal address of the Chautau-
qua. Mr. Hadley talked about the
standard Oil, with which trust he en-
gagged in great fight. He said:
'The significant fact incident to this
great consolidation of money and of
power is that It had been accom-
plished openly, and the men who had
| erected 1t were given great honor, re-
spected by their fellows, held up as
examples to the rising generation and
called captains of industry. The peo-
| pie apparently never stop to consider
| that that which these men did was a
violation of the criminal statutes of
the nation and of most of the states
in which they transacted their bust
ness. The people apparently never
stop to consided that if all the 'swag'
| OF all the grand and petty larceny
thieves, all the burglars and footpads,
of all the forgers and confidence men,
| of all criminals, big and little, was
joined together in one composite mass
1t would be but a pittance to the sum
that these illegal combinations have
| plundered from the American people
during the course of the past ten
years.
Awakening Comes
THE last few years have witnessed
the awakening of the national con-
science in reference to the moral prin-
ciple involved in these great combna-
tions, which have fixed the price both
to the consumer and the producer of
the necessities of life and have repealed
the law of supply and demand.
when they come, as in the last few
years they have come, to investigate
the different evils and abuses in the
administration of public affairs and in
our industrial system, they have found
that in the great majority of cases the
original source or cause of such evil
was q business enterprise, illegal in it's
plan of organization or unlawful in it's
business methods.
The explanation of the unfair rail-
road rate, the midnight tariff the
drawback and rebate came to be known
as the result of the efforts of some COM
mercial enterprise which was strong
enough to demand and to secure such
unlawful privileges. Not only did the
people come to realize and know that
those evils and abuses were the legiti-
mate and natural product of the unlaw-
full, unfair and illegal business combi-
nations, but they also came to realize
hn Ian roznr f,I,
prises were conducted was undermining
the characters Of the men who were
connected with them.
Principle at Stake
THE moral training from employ
ment in the services of a business en- |
terprise whose affairs had to be con-
Quoted by stealth whose code Of morals |
had to be conducted and the violation |
of every principle of honor and fair |
ness, was giving to the people the idea |
that there was no standard except that |
of success and that the methods by |
which that result yaS obtained was a !
matter of indifference.
1T was when this realization came to |
the American people that they demon
strated again their devotion to an idea |
and a principle; 1t was when they came |
to realize that our national life and |
character were being undermined and |
weakened by the existence and ope- |
ration of these combinations in re- |
straint of trade. that the people re-
solved to demand return to the prin- |
ciples of common honesty in our indus
trial system and in the administration |
of our public affairs.
1.-The people of this country have |
come to a realization of the fact that |
when any individuals or corporations. |
by a combination and organization of |
business interests which is unlawful |
and unfair, takes from an American |
citizen, by such illegal means. his
money or property, either by giving |
him less than he should receive for
that which he sells. or by charging
him more than he should pay for that
which he buys, that such men or cor
porations are just as clearly violators
of the law, that they are just as clear
ly committing the offenSe of larceny as
the burglar who enters your house or
the pickpocket who takes your purse.
Stringent Laws Necessary
1.-THE American people, I believe,
have reached a determination that
there shall be placed upon the statute
books and enforced in all the states
of the Union, laws which will result
in the same punishment being meted
out to such men as is meted out to the
burglar, the highway robber
or the thief. l do not believe that the
that exist today in our ma
tional life can continue; l do not be-
lieVe that our Industrial or cOmmer-d
cial system will be overthrow or de-
stroyed; 1 do not believe that Social
ism or government ownership offers
a solution or a remedy. But l do be-
ieVe that our Industrial system cam
not continue to exist half lawful, half
/ believe that the Ameri-
can people with that capacity of aris-
ing equal to every emergency that
hey have displayed in the past will
see to it that the unlaw wful shall cease
md conform to the laws which repre-
sent the experience of centuries and
he moral judgment of S0,00O0O0 people.
Believes In the People
"I believe this will be accomplished
rs the result of an aroused public
sentiment and conscience which will
equire that the old-fashioned princi-
)les of common honesty apply to the ]
world of trade and commerce and j
which viii require that men who
would be regarded as respectable must I
)e honest; that those who would be
by others must respect the .
lights of others; which will require
hat LAWYERS cease TO be accessories