Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1906-06-14
Justice of Wisconsin Supreme
Court Would Keep Million
aires Out of Senate
sIzE OF FORTUNES LIMITED
Think Law Should Make 1t Impossi-
BILE to Accumulate Money Beyond
Certain Lmt-Courts Should be
Taught That MiIIionaires Can be
imprisoned.

Rpon, Wis, June IA millionaire
must be prohibited by law from hold
ing a seat in the United States sem
ate.
The size of mans fortune must be
restricted by law.
Courts must be taught that it is nor
sacrlege TO imprison a millionaire who
violates the law.
Such We're the startling declarations
made by William II. Timln. justice
eject to the Wisconsin supreme court,
In his commencement address before
the students OF Ripon College.
Mr.. Timlin's address created a mark
because he is soon to take his seat on
the supreme bench of the state and is
in no sense an alarmist or an agitator.
Danger in Socialism, Too.
While warning against the abuses %
corporate capital, Mr., Timlin was
careful to sound an equally grave
warning against the grave menace Of
socialism.
1t will never do he declared ito
inaugurate socialistic regime with
the idle dream of having majority in
numbers but minority In strength and
skill hold down all others to Il dead
level of endeavor and reward
Some Grave Problems.
Mr.. Timin believed the problems
facing the people can be solved by the
npni,la without tp fha DANGER,
Gus principles of socialism. He said in
part:
When we consider the magnitude of
these problems and the blunders which
might be made in solving them it be-
hooves us to hasten slowly and to hear
what every one has to say. Some we'll
thinking persons think we could get
rid of the whole scandal by keeping
quiet about it. These are persons who
make much OF the term muck rak-
ers" and who unthinkingly are the in
struments of the proprietor of the
muck heap. who objects to its being
raided. Still others no remedy for
this but to shut out immigration.
Nov, every one ought to concede
that it is Impossible to increase the
population without increasing the
number of defauiters and criminals:
so it is impossible to multiply the
number of business transactions with
out increasing the number of shady
or crooked transactions.
This matter of proportion must ac-
count for some part of the recent
startling revelations. Take the case
of the Standard Oil company. | can
see little or nothing in the charges
against this institution and its Off
GERS beyond the question of proper
ton, and the effects of the old human
vices and Weaknesses upon new con-
dtions."
Mistakes of Early Years.
AS corporations were given liberal
grants in the early days so the laws
were made as liberal, said Mr.. Tim
lin AS monument to this early sem
timent he said there is upon the stat
ute books of Wisconsin a law providing
in substance that If a corporation
commits wrong no one can call it to
account except the attorney general
of the state, and he only after leave
has been granted by the supreme
court. With this statute on the books.
Mr. Timlin said, it was not surprising
that it was difficult to curb lawless-
ness of corporations in Wisconsin.
Mr. Timlin then took up the dis
examinations of railroads in granting
rebates and special privileges to Ger
tain localities and the manipulation
of stocks. Here, indeed, he said, was
an extraordinary condition, calling for
extraordinary remedies
Must Limit Wealth.
Zone of the first things that we must
give up" he said. sis the notion that
an individual or corporation has tn"
right to get, hold or own as much
money or property of the country as he
or it can acquire. There should be
limitation written into the constitution
of the United States where the forces
of repeal. which are sure to arise, can
not easily reach it, providing the max
imum amount of money and property
which can be held by any one person,
natural or artificial. / grant there is
some danger in this but is there not
some danger in the present conditions !?
Then again, multi mllllonalre
should not be eligible to seat in the
United States senate. See to what pitch
the vulgar rich have brought this body
which promised in it's inception to be-
the grandest legislative body in all the