The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1906-03-01
READY TO FIGHT FOR RIGHT.

organized, predatory wealth mas come
a new courage. Men are boldly en-.
tering the fight who heretofore have
been held back by fear of being crush
ed
Attorney General Hadley, Of Mis-
souri,, announces that he has obtained
all the evidence he needs to make a
complete case against the STANDARD
Oil Company in his State. He had
surprisingly little trouble in getting
It. He found men who knew some.
thing Of the Standard Oil Company
affairs and were not afraid to tell
about them. Almost without eXcep.
tion these men are actively engaged
in business and are not powerful in
the financial world.
Two or three years ago 1t would
not have been easy to obtain such
testimony. The fear Of the Standard
was on nearly every business man
With their millions the men who di.
rected it's operations had a grip on
financial affairs which they could
make felt in many avenues of trade
and industry. They had the reputa-
ton of using their power remorseless-
ly against anyone who sought to
,njure the oil monopoly. 1t might
well happen that a business man
openly hostile to the trust would soon
ind himself crippled, ii not ruined, by
the withdrawal of the accomnoda-
tions essential in trade.
The power of the Standard oil men
in the business world is greater than
it ever was, but business men now are
apparently willing to brave it in a
just cause. There has been revival
of American patriotism and courage
to work for regeneration in busi-
ness aud politics.
NATIONAL DIVORCE LAW.
New York Globe: Whatever ones
views may be as to permissible causes
for divorce, there can be no question
as to the urgent necessity for uni
formity in the law. The present
muddle of state laws, ranging from
no divorce for any cause to one be-
cause of incompatibility, is not only
demoralizing and immoral, but a
direct Incentive TO marital incon-
stancy.
The Washington congress to pro-
mote a uniform divorce law through
out the United states WILL it is to be
hoped, concentrate its efforts on the
broad question of uniformity rather
than on details as to legal causes for
separation of husband and wife. Gov.
ernor Pennypacker, president of the
congress, stated that there were more
divorces granted in the United States
every year than In any other country
except Japan. The recorded divorces
during one year 1903 we're 10000,
and in 1900 nearly 100000 divorced
persons were living in the United
states.
These figures speak for themselves,
and when 1t Is remembered that many
of the people in question are breaking
the law in one state while quite inno-
cent in the next are illegally married
II they have married again, in one
state and entirely within the law just
across an imaginary border line, the
absurdity of present conditions is
manifest.
FORCES FOR GOOD.
Brooklyn Eagle: "We are living,
we are moving in grand and awful
time" The time is grand because it
contemplates the business federation
of the world. The time Is awful be-
cause of the marvels in the field of
commerce and transportation. The
civilization, which the superficial
may say Is bOttomed on materialism,
is really inspired by the forces which
make for peace, for commerce, for
communication and for interchange.
Those forces make for brotherhood.
for fellowship and for friendship
they are essentially spiritualizlng
forces, wor.d.knitting forces, war.
stopping forces and unifying forces
on behalf of all that can be said o
make for the kingdom OF God on the
earth and IN the hearts of men.
FATEFUL WORDS.
Washington Post; President Cas-
satt, OF the Pennsylvania company, Is
reported TO have said relative 20 the
investigation. "Tne com.
Dany courts the fullest inquiry"
Fatcful words So said President
Mccall, of the New York Life ; thus
'poke President McCurdy, Of the Mu-
-ual these were the words Of Perkins,
# Alexander, OF Hyde; and how dire
ul the results 10 each and TO their
"Paths Of glory lead but to the
yrave."
Brayado and high finance seem to
cad to grand juries, sanitarlums,
Paris, and always to dshonor THE |
courts the fullest inquiry"
Of disaster IL reads ike
IN ep!taph ! Itsounds like dirge (.
ROUGH ON THE GENERAL
New York Evening Post; General
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