Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1906-12-28
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the families of deceased persons, and
the remainder should be appropriated
in the manner which be has indicated.
His statement in this connection is
also remarkable, that these large for
tunes have been created by the COM
munity, and when the owners are
! through with their wealth, it should
be returned to its original creator.
Under present conditions this policy
would mean that vast fortunes should
be surrendered to the politicians who
represent the government, to dispose
Of "a may suit their needs, which are
generally basely selfish.
1t goes without saying that as gem
eral thing the multi millionaires have
made their vast fortunes ont of the
sweat and toll OF thousands OF men,
women and children, who toiled early
and late, in many cases under unwhlO-
some conditions, to create wealth for
the gie. At financial magnates, already
endowed with many secia! privileges,
prestige, that they and their favoritest
might revel in luxury and ostentatlon.
1t would seem, if thesel aborers created
this wealth, it should have remained
with them; that it is wrong to keep it,,
and when the hour of death arrives to
surrender it to body OF men, who
lent no assistance in creating the for
tunes
Furthermore it will be impossible to
carry out the Carnegie schemes while
the law recognizes the creation of pri-
vate corporations. These bodies never
die. A man who is selfish enough to
hoard up his millions, would with rare
excep tons, be dishonest and keep his
wealth in his family under corporate
makeshifts.
About ten years ago, a prominent
railroad lawyer. in an address read be-
fore bar-meeting, asserted the time
had come to repeal all laws creating
private corporations; that they were
used not only to continue property in
one family but in many families to
the detriment of the public generally.
The jurist, however, admitted public
service corporations ought to be con-
tinued, but should be regulated by
law, for that government ownership
would cucumber the civil service to
such an extent that the welfare of the
nation would tremble in the balance,
and the last state will be worse than
the first.
Besides inheritance tax laws, an
income tax is agitated, and proposed
by some capitalists but the argument
resolves itself into its original ele.
ments. Why enact laws or permit
conditions which will allow one class
to exploit another, and then formulate
expedients to recover back percentage
of the ill.gotten gains? 1t is better to
strike at the tap-root of the injustice,
remove the cause and prevent the i'll
effects. When a man has sufficient
wealth to maintain himself and family
in comfortable circumstances, why
should he, in all reason, desire more?
No state of society should allow him
to crafty his unnatural greed to the
extent which will work injustice to his
fellow-beings. 1.-THE welfare of the
people is the highest law"
BUTCHER SLOANE is FOUND "NoT
GUILTY. Another slip of cog in the
wheels of Justice is noted at Spokane,
in verdict OF mot guilty." that has
been recorded in tho case of Sidney
Sloane, the Is veal. old miscreant son
OF James F. Sloane, who, it 10 clearly
proven, last August murdered his
IA thar hv honmo rs, ha hool I'LL,
Ak. while he was eating his lunch at
night, picked the pockets OF the
corpse, carried it down stairs, placed
it on wheelbarrow, trundled it sew
eral hundred feet to an alley and
dumped it on the ground; then re-
turning to the house, wiped up the
blood from rugs and floor, coolly ate
an apple and went to bed. The only
reason for the verdict is that the
defense seem to have convinced the
jury that such an unparalleled act
could only have been perpetrated BY q
human being bereft OF reason. It is
really what might have been expected
from q class of men generally selected
for an imbecility that shuts them off
from ordinary means of knowledge, or
q mental dearth that prevents them
from passing an opinion upon current
events. While it may be true that to
err on the side Of mercy 10 better than
to condemn where . glimmer of JUST.
ficatiOn remains, it does seem strange
that twelve men could find anything
in such an unparalleled chapter of
h0vvCvc IN srd;aa "a that ho r,~. - .
moral pervert, lost to oil sense of hu.
manity aud actuated solely by the
instincts of the brute creation. That
this is the view taken of the matter is
shown by the disfavor with which the
verdict was received. There was talk
OF tar and feathers for the jury and
Judge Lynch's halter for the murderer,
and it was probable an expectation
OF some such ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
young Sloane arose after the verdict
to leave the room-that no was de.
tanned by his lawyer, who asked that
he be held in custody until a com.
mitment could be obtained for placing
him in the insane asylum.
Rum, ROMANIsM AND REBELLION"
This was the phrase that contributed,
in no small degree, to the election OF
Grover Cleveland President, in 1884.
II was used by Rev. Dr.. Burchard, at
a meeting of clergy of all denomina.
tions, held in the Fifth Avenue Hotel,
New York, near the close of the Presi.
dental campaign, in the interest of
the Republicans. He described the
Democrats, rs party of Rum, Rom
anism and Rebellion" and as Cleve.
land's plurality was but 1.147, in that
pivotal State, it is quite certain that
mistaken partisan zeal and religious
bigotry and intolerance swsyed quite
enough votes to carry the result for
MIR. Cleveland. This memory, is re.
vived, just now, by the fact that the
Republicans OF Rhode Island have
slated son of that political parson
for the Speakership of the Rhode
Island Legislature next month. He
is X. B. Burchard, of Little Campton,
that State. AZ there is q Republican
majority of 70 in the State Legisla.
| ture. on Joint ballot. ont of a total