The Jersey City news., 1906-05-03
THURSDAY, MAY 8, 1906.

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kEAcn't waste your time denouneing cor
p5Sa tiens - corporation can only act
shpeugh it's president and board of di-
rectors. To attack corporation is but
waste of breath, but the officials and di-
rectors are the ones that are subject to
the penalties of the law and to the great
moral force of public opinion. The Coal
Itlst is ssollless. Brother Baer and
9ha directors of the railroads and coal
e9mlgnies who are Illegally combined
Highlander the public and prey on the
R;Gers can be reached by the law and
ieasE ssally viii be Although trust
n9gastes' skins are thick. yet they are
ansssasle to public contempt. which is
weaGssnally sharp weapon. Back of the
eSas trust and the steel trust is ]. P.
y srgtu hurl your shafts at him.
Is Fasastandard Oil corporate is really
tae RoekefeHers' and Rogers. The
Sd. Trust is Havemeyer. The n. 7.
fCea-ral railroad is the vanderbilts. The
Pennsylvania and Baltimore and Ohio
railroads are entirely controlled by Cas-
sat:; the Great Northern. the Northern.
Nacide and the Burlington by Hill, the
Scutliern Railway by Morgan; the South
western railroads by Hartman, and so it
Is n;.h the other systems. The indus
;.el trusts are likewise mostly controlled
PRESIDENT Roosevelt speaks of good
ard bad trusts, but the trusts and cor
pose ticus are only what their managers
make them and the honest or dishonest
directors, or managers, should be praised
or blamed
How powerful public opinion Is on
these corporation officials who have sim
ned is shown by the self-banishment of
RQdl1efeller TO avoid appearing as wit
dess and the fitting Of the insurance
Rsstese Tae corporation cannotibe pun
eksd. If YOU fne it. the money comes
out Of tHe pockets Of the shareholders.
90 that ssathematfzing corporations is so.
mitch vaaaisy. That Is where the efforts
of aiaent Roosevelt against the
SSsye MiTea Ss accomplishment.
Re csse1 against 'the eeNorehern Securities
0@SafE, which resulted in its virtual
ssolatiSn, has had no effect. but if The
iw hads been brought 10 bear on Presi-
dent Hin arb ssoufa urobably have been
glad to see sompetitSon resumed between
Sthe Great Northernand Northern Pacific
railsOads. Il
" The sAafninistratfor1 -eas utterly failed
in all sits antitrust contests. Every
trust, feonhsine, on corporation is stiIb a
4onopoIy, as far asst can be. and con-
ftinuesfto pit1nder the people as much as
the business gagacity of the managers
considers desirable. VIII the voters, whc
are the victims Of trust and corporation
>apacity. endorse thefeeble efforts of the
Administration az frnsb5usting? a true
<eformer. with an Che great power of
the govarnmenf sc his eosumand, should
dave been able to putsthe bodies Of some
vrzEt nasgnates at hazard IN the courts.
kus net trust naasaate has been con- IL.
weed. d B
Ru8sle opinion, with its moral force
=iane. has done mors to cusb the trust
ssnates and IL she contenpt Of fhe
: Ople zs centred on the psrsons and not
me inpersonal cespcsation. it win
uape. stia greater effsef.
Unkaerneath az this. however, is the
sause thai has fostered fhs tzusts and
eaa eaa snly be rems,~d BY The aaop-
tian Of tae good ola Democratic doctrine
81 Eiflnal rights % ali and special privi-
eaes to aisae.''