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The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-01-17
! J. A!|RGE DEALINGS
START PRICES Up
STOCK MARKET OPENS WITH
STRONG UPWARD TREND.
Proft-Taking Later Causes Irregular
ity, with Reaction in Sugar and
Amalganated Copper Union Pacific
Rise stiffens Prices at the Noon
Hour-Gould Stocks Conspicuous.

New York, Jan. 17.-Opening prices in the
stock market today shot upward on large deal
ings with gains we'll distributed among the
standard stocks and specialties. Reading rose
y. North American 1A, Delaware g. Hudson,
st. Louis Southw estern preferred, National Lead,
Pressed Steel Car and Colorado Fuel "a point
Atlantic Coast line, New York Central, Smelling
Sugar, Brooklyn Transit and United States Steel
preferred, large fractions.
Very large proht-taking made an irregular
movement for time. The general demand was
Of too varied character to be concerned much
with the reaction In Sugar and Amalgamated
Copper to q, fraction below last night. Business
Increased to very large proportions all around
under full swing. That stock sold at 1854:
Other gains OF consequence were Colorado Fuel
4 W with reaction of a2kx Delaware q Hudson
and New York Dock 8, Reading and international
Pump 2, Minneapolis, st. Paul & sault Ste
Marie, Ontario & Western, Wabash preferred
and Great Northern preferred tx, and Smelling,
Wisconsin Central Pacific Coast, Southern Pa
cifc. st. Paul, Missouri Pacific, Canadian Pa
cidc and Kansas City Southern preferred 1@1A
Amalgamated Copper rallied to point over last
night at IL o'clock.
carrying. 1t back to lib and causing some reac-
tons, elsewhere in sympathy. Wabash and
Locomotive had risen /, Linseed preferred and
Steel Foundries preferred / " and United States
Express and Colorado Fuel preferred q Long
Island lost a. Tennessee Coal 2, Great North
ern preferred, Erie second preferred and CONSOLE
dated Gas IL, and Hooking Valley l.. Union
Pacifc's rise to above 159 stiffened prices at
noon - - N.,a. 81. ...-ss.
Bonds were firm at noon.
The Gould securities were conspicuous, Colo
RADIO Fuel being rushed up Az and Denver &
Rio Grande preferred and Wabash preferred gain
Ing l and points respectively. Among the
! industrial specialties movements were rather
Knitted, the feverish fluctuations in Amalgamated
Copper having repressive effect on the deal
ings In these stocks s..y-a.-.z = a.. n
sMELT1NG's NEW RECORD.
The feature of tbs afternoon speculation was
the demonstration in special stocks to support
| the selling elsewhere. Smelling was carried 4
points to a record figure, Of 172a4 and Lead went
! up 31a In sympathy. Northern Pacific fell u
| Stock quotations reported for The Journal BY
| Watson y Co., brokers, Chamber of Commerce
Minneapolis. Closing prices are bid -
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THE FLOUR MARKET
BUSINESS COMING IN ON THE WEAKER

BUSINESS COMING IN ON THE WEAKER
WHEAT MARKETS.
Mllers worked some patents for export and
reported that business is running little better
on the downtown market. Yet sales on the
whole are moderate Best demand is for low
grade -four, and feed Shipments, 47,711 brls
First patents are quotable at 81. 4O@4.5O; Sec
ond patents, $4,000. 40; first clears, $500
$50; second clears, $2.45@2.55.
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HOGS OPEN FIRM
THEN SELL DOWN
RECEIPTS FAIRLY LIBERAL AND
QUALITY SATISFACTORY.
Killing Cattle Generally Steady and
the Quality Of the Receipts Some
what Better Than Yesterday-Stock-
ers and Feeders steady-Milch Cows
and Bulls Steady.

South st. Paul, Mimi, Jan. 17.-Estimated re-
ceipts at the Union stockyards today: Cattle,
SuU calves LOCO; hogs, 0,COO; sheep, SO; horses,
4; cars. 81.
The following table shows the receipts from
Jan. l. 1906 to date. compared with the same
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PROVISIONS
CHICAGO PRnv1sIoN

CHICAGO PROVISIONS, Jan IA SC advance
in the provisions market. Prices showed slight
gains at the opening but because Of selling by
some of the larger packers these advances were
soon lost. May pork unchanged at $1402h
Lard was up 21ac at 81 .e2A. Ribs We're up 2k2c
lat S7!57H. a-..E ,ss.. + ~ <. 49,.
January, $7.45; May, $760@7. 62h; July,
$7.72h. Ribs, January, 81 373a; May, $7.5212 q
7.55; July, $7.65. - -
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OMAHA LIVESTOCK. Jan. 17.-Cattle-Re
ceipts 1000; market slow to shade lower; ma
tive steers, 375M5 co. cows and heifers., 81. 5;
IA Gamers, $1.75@240; stockers and feeders
S. 5O@4.15; calves, $3@6; bulls and stays, $22
sales, s5.27hd5. 32h. Sheep-Receipts. $500
market strong; lambs, s7@7.50; sheep. $475@
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Railroads entering the yards reported receipts
for the day by, loads as follows: Chicago Great
western, 8; Chicago. Milwaukee & St. Paul "A;
Minneapolis s. St. Louis. Is; Chicago, st. PAU.
Wisconsin Central, 2; Northern Pacific, 4; total
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= WHEAT RECEIPTS BY ROADS, JAN. 1e.
Cars-Milwaukee, 43; Omaha ID; st. Louis,
I: Great Northern. 176: Northern Pacific. s;
500 Line. So. . <, s.s
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NOT TO BLAME.

Why are you here, my poor mani 8
asked the prison visitor.
1'Thru no fault of mine, sir, " replied
the convict.
sssNoq''
No; I ain t had a single chance to
break out.
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CHICAGO LIVESTOCK, Jan. 17.-Cattle-Re-
ceipts. $4,000; strong to 10c higher. Beeves,
s3.75@625; cows and heifers, $t5O@4.5o;
stockers and feeders, s24o@450 so; Texans, s.. so
425. Hogs-Receipts, 10000; &c higher; esti-
mated tomorrow IS, 900. Mixed and butchers,
S.. 20M5.5O: good heavy, $5.4O@5.521a; rough
heavy, s5.25 @s.35; light, S525@5.45; pigs.
81 9O@5. 80; bulk Of sales. s5.35Q5.45. Sheep
Receipts, 25.oO0; steady. Sheep, S4@o.so
lambs S4,7507.S 5. -t
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|. LIVERPOOL GRAIN, Jan. 17.-wheat spot,
steady; No. 2 red western winter, Is I'd;
futures, quiet; March, is Nd, May IS 1olhd.
3hd; American mixed. old, As sgd; futures,
quiet; January, 4s 2hd March. As 2Ad
May, Is 3Md. -... .-.s.. a.
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NEW YORK PROVISIONS, Jan. .17.-Beef
steady. Pork, steady. Lard, steady; prime
western steam, $7S5 100 .5..-.
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CHICAGO PRODUCE, Jan. 17.-Butter firm;
creameries, 1s@27c; diaries, 19@24c. Eggs
firm at mark, cases included. 17@1sc. Cheese
firm; daisies, 13c; twins, 111a@11Ac; Young
Americas, 19c. Poultry-Live, frmer; turkeys
14c chickens, lie; springs, Zoe. Potatoes
steady; Burbanks, 60@61c; rurals, 81 @e2c; red
stock, 59@62c. Veal steady; 80 to COLL
weights, 6@614c; Go to 75-lb weights, 61a@sAc
IS to 11O-lb weights, &c. / ."'
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RANGE OF WHEAT PRICE IN MINNEAPOLIS
THE DAYS REPORTS
CLOSING CASH PRICES


to
No. 3yenow cons s&
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CHICAGO SEEDS AND COARSE GRAIN, Jan.
17.-Rye cash, 6s@7Oc; May, 70@71c. Flax,
cash. northwestern, $1.20; southwestern,
112h; May, S1.22. Timothy, March, $3.45.
Clover cash. $13.25. Barley, cash, 3s@54c. :
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NEW YORK SUGAR AND COFFEE Jan. II.
trifugal, SO test 39sc; molasses sugar, 2Tsc; re-
fined, quiet; crushed, 5.40c: powdered. 4:s0c
granulated, 47Oc Coffee, quiet; No. Z Rio SIS c.
Molasses, firm; New Orleans. 30@3Sc.
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NEW YORK OIL, Jan. 17.-Petroleum stead
refined, all ports, 1897 .60c. e-.E

NEW YORK METALS, Jan. 17.-Iead ant
copper, quiet and unchanged.
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: KANSAS CITY GRAIN, JAN 17.-Close-
Wheat lower, May, sohe July, 95hs; septe en-
5, 10 oslo; No. ? red, s2@ssc; No. 5. s5@9ic.
Corn steady; May, 4O1ac; July, 40Ac; Cash,
No. 2, 39A @40c; No: 2 white, 41c; No. 3.
39&c. Oats steady; No. white, 32c; No.
mixed Bic, - 's'. - .s - =. , ~
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Chicago Options.
PUTS AND CALLS.

No grade durum wheat, 1 car ............ .64
No. durum wheat, cars ............. .66
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Hog prices opened SC higher and closed SC to
1oc lower Receipts fairly liberal: Quality
sSi5 ss sre
market.
gs 49, sss5 lbs ios So u.s. go es 49,
ss ST. 81 Isl lb 5so sl ?0sS 1s4 lbs s5se
f. is es so bs &c. SIS SoS s. Isl lbs 81
Pigs, Rsughs and Underweights- 81 lbs, S..
Stays and Boars-1, 40 lbs, $40.
ing cattle generally steady quality shows little
Improvement over Yesterday, but bulk generally
short-fed and medium stoekers and d. feeders Ier
Bulls generally steady, mich cows steady. Sales:
Butcher Steers. 1870 lbs. $3.50; 1, 1,o2o
Rs;sAfs rs SD Hs!ts': $50 f Is r.
u.s. 1: 5s iSss s ss es ssf 81; go
8. 81 ees lbs. S2.4c - 80 > - -
Cutters and Gamers, 1,o4o lbs, s225; 2
$l75; 500 lbs, s1.75; 1, $50 lbs, $3.50; l.
s55 i5s sS lbs iS 5 1ssS lbs
s5 Veal g &C. Sal 1Ss, s. los lbs $780, H. los lbs
u.s. s i.1e2 I lbs, $40; Is, 1901 lbs, s.: 80; Z
s02 Ad5 lbs is sass sss lbs lbs S. 500 lbs So
72o ' lbs. s2.aS. @l' ''e - wv
st tel q; and E ssedins Bulls 1'54o lbs $3.50
4 Mich Cows and Springers-1 cow and l. calf
/ $34; cow and 1 calf, S34: cow, $50.
| SHEEP-Receipts very light today. Prices
1 chiefly steady. : String Of choice lambs from
feed lots at 81. Sales:
Killing Sheep and Lambs-296 lambs, 70 lbs
ST.; 8 lambs, 100 lbs, $3.50.
Among the shippers on the market We're
NJ F. johnson, Saltwater; A. B. Bjudstad
Mayville. N. D.; W. Eddie, Northwood, n; D..
| C. w. Pollum. Milton, N. D.; W. A. Addison
| Magora; A. II. Rosenqust, Raymond; NJ.
Raymond; NJ. Condor, Clara City; ". John
son, Battle Lake; A. Homer, Mooreton; n
| N. Nelson, Wyndmere; ]. X. North, Ellsworth
! Wis: H. H. Hofer, Nora, Iowa; O. H. Malm
Raetison; G. T. Haug, Hancock; D. Thomp
| son, Bancroft, s. D.
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SIOUX CITY LIVESTOCK, Jan. 17.-Hogs-

SIOUX CITY LIVESTOCK, Jan. 17.-Hogs-
Receipts, 1900; steady. Sales: s.. 1877 lbs,
s5.l5; 70, 2es lbs, s5.221A; g. 2so lbs 500:
Cattle-Receipts, 1900; market, steady Sales:
Beeves: 16, 1910 lbs, $3.50; 8, 1,1s9 lbs,
81. IS; 49, 1920 lbs. 1918. Cows and Heifers:
10, 100 lbs, $3.50; 8, 800 lbs, $3.15; 10; 1,ll
lbs, $3.S5. Stockers and feeders 9, 7o0 ~,
So; ID, $40 lbs, So 25; IA, $50 lbs, 81 QaI:es
and yearlngs: 10, 40 lbs, $3.50; 10, 54t
lbs 1925; 10, 61o lbs, $3.50. sheep-Re
GENTS 200: strong.
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KANSAS CITY LIVESTOCK, Jan. 17-Cattle
-Receipts. 1000 including 400 southerners;
market steady to iOc higher; native steers, 4@
$780, southern steers, $s@475; southes1 1 eoW VS.
stockers and feeders, $S@4.50; bulls, $2.35q
$50; calves $s@7 western fed steers. $S;5oa
40 Hogs-Receipts, 1900; market steady o e
$50; packers, $5.35d545; pigs and lights, S5g
S. 40. sheep-Receipts, 5000; market steady
muttons, $4.50@5.9O; lambs $5.5o@I 20; range
Wethers S5.5O@6.25; fed ewes, $4.5O@5.5O
ST. LOUIS LIVESTOCK, Jan. 17.-Cattle-
Receipts, $500, including 300 Texans; market
and feeders, S. 5o@s.so; cows and heifers. s2.eC
@3.7O; Texas steers. $2.eo@4 30; cows ant
steady to Sc higher; pigs and lights, $4.75@
$40; packers, $5@$5.5O; butchers and best
| heavy, $5.35@5.50. Sheep-Receipts, 5000
market steady; natives, $500; lambs, $o.5O@
ITO; Texans 1894.
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DAILY WHEAT MOVEMENT.

The following are the receipts and shipments
at the principal. primary wheat markets:
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OTHER GRAIN MARKETS

DULUTH GRAIN, Jan. 17.-Flax had ex-
citing day and heavy business. The decline
started at opening, which was ac off at 81 2s1s
The closing rally took 1t to 3Nc. Futures SUI
fered correspondingly. Wheat lost Nc in a dull
and draggy market
Receipts-Wheat. lis cars; fax, II; oats, II;
barley, 20. Shipments Wheat, $3.50 bu; oats,
1854. 80
Close-wheat, cashs, No. northern, ssAc:
No. northern, 81c May, $3.50: July, S6%c;
durum, unchanged; fax, cash, $1.1SM; May,
1.221a; July, $1,23a; September. 81 .221a; De-
tober. $1.20; oats. z919c; rye, Coo.
NEW YORK FLOUR AND GRAIN, JAM IL
Flour. receipts, 16.509; sales, 9o0:. steady but
quiet. Wheat receipts, 10000: sales. $50, 900;
reports of more settled weather in the Argentine,
lower cables and warlne: weather vest ex-
planned the forenoon depression In wheat today,
925sc; July, 80 1-16@s0Mc. Rye, nominal; No
western. 74c. Buffalo. Corn. receipts,
1O3.200; sales, 5000; steady on prospects OF
lain ard local covering: January, 55c.
WINNIPEG GRAIN, Jan. 17.-January wheat
opened at 761ac. closed at 761a February
opened at tic, closed at TIC; May opened at
closed at size. Cash close No. 1 northern,
1890; No, 2 northern, 74Ac No. northern.
72Ac; No. white oats, 31Ac; No. bar
ley, 36c; No. fax, Sill. Receipts, wheat,
90 cars; last year. 4S.
Omaha daily bee., 1906-12-29

conviction OF n coterie of railroad operators
and coal men who are believed to havc
stolen practically all the undeveloped
coal territory on the western plains. Two
United States senators are said to be i'm
plicated in their operations.
This thieving is particularly mean. The
lands held for homestead purposes are for
the benefit Of the plain people. They af-
ford those who wish to avail themselves
Of It the opportunity to become the owners
of modest farms. The policy involved Is a
broad one, affecting the general welfare,
Small property-owners are the salt OF every
nation. The government Of the United
States has always sought TO encourage
them and increase their number. Actual
settlement on the western homestead lands
means an increase in the thrifty citizenship
Of the nation and OF the undeveloped west
The men who steal this land in O. der
that they may obtain by fraud immense
grain or stock farms are not only criminals
but they are traitors TO the interests OF the
United States and foes % the communities
in which they live.
Omaha daily bee., 1906-12-29
The family lar waxed mercer.
SONG OF TWILIGHT.
Scribner's Magazine.

Scribner's Magazine
Oh, to come home once more, when the
dusk is falling,
To see the nursery lighted and the chill
dren's table spread;
Mother, mother, mother" the eager voices
"The baby was SO sleepy that he had to
go to bed"
Oh, to come home once more and see the
smiling faces
Dark head, bright head, clustered at the
pane;
Much the years have taken. when the heart
its path retraces,
But until time is not for me that image
will remain.
Men and women now they are. standing
straight and steady,
Grave heart, gay heart. Mt for lies en-
prise;
Shoulder set to shoulder. how should they
be but ready;
The future shines before them with the
light Of their own eyes.
Still each answers to my CALI no good has
been denied me;
MY burdens have been fitted to the little
strength that's mine.
Beauty, pride and peace have walked By
day beside me,
The evening closes gently in, and how
can l Tepine?
But, oh, TO see once more, when the early
dusk is falling
The nursery windows glowing and tha
children's table spread:
Mother, mother. mother" the high child
voices calling,
HE couldn't stay awake for you; he had
to go TO bed"
Omaha daily bee., 1906-12-29
a CALL RATE REMEDY.

If congress refuses at this session to
enact currency legislation, as 1t prob
ably will, at least one beneficial effect
of present agitation may be to stir
financial New York to attempt to do
for itself what it should long ago
have done. In fact the congressional
outlook is, indeed, already tending
toward this effect along the line of
Jacob H. Schiff's recent suggestion re-
garding what he justly termed the
disgraceful situation of the call rate
of interest" The leading members of
the Chamber of Commerce and clear
ing house are credibly reported to have
gotten far along with scheme for Sc
curing greater stability of the rates
by agreement of the banks and trust
companies, whereby a representative
committee shall from day to day fix
and announce the figure at which ac-
commodations shall be extended at
least so far as the most of the large
institutions are concerned.
Theoretically New York is the one
place in the country where money is
dealt in. like cotton, grain or any
other commodity, ip a competitive
market, but practically the call rate,
which frequently fuctuates between 5
and 80 per cent within day, does not
represent, although IL seriously at
fects, the money market For II is
notorious that the bulk OF transactions
in call money is conducted on far diff
ferent rates from the quoted rates, the
fluctuation in the former being vastly
smaller than in the latter But the
impression of instability is seriously
adverse to our prestige in the world
of finance. and lends itself perfectly
for mischief in speculative manipula-
ton. II is unfortunate that so many
of the great banks and trust companies
have been under suspicion of being
implicated in extensive speculative in
terests and thus largely responsible
| for the very evil these institutions
should be foremost in preventing and
correcting.
( To be sure, no agreement or regula-
tons that are likely to be made will
altogether do away with violent oscil-
lations in the call rate. due to specu-
latiye excuses, in New York any more
than In London, but concerted action
by conservative institutions can here,
as there. greatly moderate them and
what is more important, warn the pub
Omaha daily bee., 1906-12-29
TIE Treaty POWER.

The case now made up in California
under the japanese school exclusion
state law will necessarily elicit a
judicial decision of the meaning of the
treaty making power under the United
States constitution, which provides
that treaties made under the author
ity of the United States shall be the
supreme law of the land" and that
"the president shall have power, by
and with the advice and consent of the
senate, to make treaties, provided two
thirds of the senators present concur. "
The meaning has not been fully de-
fined by the supreme court in the vital
point of the extent to which state
authority can be overridden by treaty
provisions.
The main question arises under the
Tenth amendment, by which 1.-The
powers not delegated to the United
States by the constitution, nor pro-
hibited by 1t to the states. are reserved
to the states, respectively, or to the
people" During the first half of our
national history, when stress was put
on the states rights doctrine, there
was a disposition to assume that such
laws as the California statute, regu-
lating admission to public schools,
we're exclusively within the powers re-
served to the states, but the tendency
since the civil war, and especially the
last two decades, has been distinctly
in the opposite direction. During this
period a line of notable adjudications,
beginning with the series of legal ten
der decisions, has enormously magni-
fed the national authority to CORE
spond with the progress of economic
and commercial changes, thus paving
the way for a national Interpretation
of the treaty power meeting the neces-
stiles arising out of the rapid advance
of the United States in world affairs.
But the settlement of the question, to
whichever view of the constitution II
may lean, will be better than the pres
ent uncertainty, which is a constant
and growing source of irritation and
even of peril in our foreign relations
A court determination will make DOS
sible satisfactory composition of such
difficulties as exist with Japan and
have frequently occurred with other
nations, and would otherwise certainly
occur again.
Omaha daily bee., 1906-12-29
COLONEL BRrASs CANDIDACY.

COLONEL BRIAN CaNDlDAIls
The interview given out by Colonel
Bryan at Topeka, which is a virtual
announcement Of his candidacy for the
democratic presidential nomination in
1908, only illustrates the old adage
that the unexpected does not often
happen. While a formal announce
ment may reasonably be looked for at
some time in the not far distant
future, the logic Of events for some
time past has conspired to project Mr.
Bryan again as an aspirant for presi-
Dental honors. Whether he has or has
not made mistakes or whether he has or
has not gone about Il in the way best
calculated to promote his own political
interests, It has been evident ever since
his Homecoming reception, after land
ing in New York from his around-the-
world tour, that his goal is still the
White House.
Even now he is quoted as saying that
while he has mot yet" announced
that he would be q candidate, he has
not stated that he would not be a can
didate, and does not intend to do so.
BY a double negation, therefore, he
gives notice that he is ready to serve
his party whenever conditions war
rant. This will doubtless be notice
enough to his ardent admirers and
foremost partisans to get busy with
the preliminaries and take the initia-
tive before the resolutions adopted last
fall by 30 many democratic state con-
ventions grow cold. That Mr.. Bryan
will be an active factor and formidable
candidate before the next democratic
national convention goes without say
ing, although more than a year is to
elapse before that crucial point for him
is reached. The early activity of the
Bryan element may, therefore, serve
somewhat to redeem the democratic
situation for a while from the indiffer-
ence and desuetude into which 1t has
lately fallen.
Omaha daily bee., 1906-12-29
BOOSTING THE SQUARE DEAL.

Kansas City Star.

hhhHdS NlAg HAals
The field Of Investigations and probable
exposures" which the Interstate Com
merce commission has outlined for its
work in 1907 should be profitable to the
movement for a square deal, Yet 1t de-
tracts nothing from the support which
this inquiring spirit should receive 10
urge that 1t is past time for more punitive
results from the disclosures of graft and
grab that have already been made.
The greatest remedial force is unques-
tionably public opinion. The more that is
known Of such iniquities as the misuse Of
Insurance moneys. the outrageous Oppres-
sion of Standard on, the grant OF rebates,
the theft OF public lands and like forms
Of plumber the less immunity from moles-
tation such practices will secure But that
Is not all that should follow, and more
efhcacious results will not be assured un-
less there is a public humiliation of the
wrong doors and, where possible, the
restitution of Illicit gains.
la other words, II system Of laws and
government could be devised which would
make II impossible for men or corporations
20 steal or take undue advantage OF others
questions of penalty would be OF trivial OF
no importance. But such an ideal social
condition is not possible. and, while It IL
the duty and the purpose OF the American
people 10 approach II as nearly as they
can, still IL is an essential part OF remedial
progress 10 prove the danger and the
probability OF reckoning for those VINO In
wade the rights Of other individuals and OF
the state.