The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1907-08-13

is there any statesmanshfp. I ask
you, in the conduct OF this trust tssua
in the political platform-for it is moth
ing else?" asks the chancellor. with
the simplicity OF a college professor
who knows more than he ought to.
What is this crime with which Stand
ard oil is chargedg"
Merely this with shipping over one
railroad instead Of over two or three,
at the six cent tariff rate arranged by
law. | don't believe that the Standard
OIL officials knew that IN doing this
they We're disturbing any ordinary rules
or human conscience. But II seems
there is only one set Of rules for moral
and business standards to which we
must bow according TO their given
limitations by the arbiter OF our citizen
beings.
The number Of persons in each fam
ily' the amount of money we can make.
the bank account we may have. the
hours of labor and OF pleasure. OF
sleep even, are to be made for US under
penalty OF personal disaster"
You find no redeeming feature In
controlling hand over the trustinca-
ton OF business interests?"
"A corporation is the legitimate wis
dom Of business conditions. II YOU
limit the business mans Intelligence
IN the conduct Of his affairs you insult
1t.
And yet, If the interests of the peo-
pie are threatened by the absorption
OF corporate money power? Was there
ever time Of greater prosperity than
the present-and more tremendous cor
porations?
"All this talk about the private. greed
iaf
law-making. their heartless disregard
: of the dear people-as the revolution
lists in France used to say In Robes-
,, pierre's time-is just your political
bunkum. catchpenny phrases of the
spellbinder.
. The Standard Oil is in no greater
: danger Of demolition than / am for
: buying fifty acres OF land aud living
on it. II the present judges of the
. supreme court are in Office when the
! appeal comes up, / have confidence in
their decision TO establish this political
scheme. which has involved judges and
Juries, In its true proportion before the
people.
"of course, there is always the means
OF congress to count upon. and the
! political influence that turns its high
purposes into useful machine that
can make and unmake laws. But there
are some american people, surely, left
in this broad land OF alien instincts
who can be relied upon TO wake UP, TO
q rub their eyes. and finally rout out a
o political despotism that has never been
. equaled in history before"
n "Suposing the supreme court sus-
tains Judge Landis?"
"A great deal hangs upon the decis-
! ion of that highest court I believe
n that no one desires more ardentIy a
8 final judgment that the Standard OIL
e themselves-let it come. the sooner the
better, and when II does come. it will
s be another judgment day for the Ameri-
q can constitution"
t Dangerous Crisis in America
+ Attorney General Bonaparte advises
IS jail sentences for the trust officials
n and when Chancellor Day was shown
n the recent interview with him in the
Times this last week he said grimly:
1t Good let him do it. These are the
: methods advocate in those interesting
times in France. In which his imperial
n ancestors figured so conspicuously.
lie Those were the extreme moments, the
y apex of unconstitutional mobs that set
i the country afame with the torch OF
e men, women and children.
> I'VE are in a dangerous position, a
st critical one. Standard oil may go
s, down into history as the barricade that
y stood between American independence
h and American politics, and the issue
3. cannot come too soon.
lie I'VE need an illustration of American
Al law OF some kind that will verify us as
sane people or disgrace us forever
/ as a huge political machine, and ]
ls hope, believe, that the supreme court
of the United States will enlighten US
p on the Standard Oil appeal"
The chancellor did not wish to be
: quoted as plainly as he talked, but il
!. was quite clear that IN his opinion the
battle between Standard OIL and the
court is not what it is made to appear
but Il is q bitter conflict of political
capital against invested capital-a fight
by Mr.. Roosevelt as the republican
leader for the universally excited vote
L why was this case taken to Mis-.
souri,? Just answer that reasonably
or When we know that the main office,
It OF Standard Oil are IN New York;
/ asked the chancellor: then, after {
y. pause. with a gasp that suppressed in
i formation that was on the tip of hi
to tongue. he concluded:
n "Ah. WELL" he said. lets have .
= real trust in politics, while we ar
= about tia cabinet with Lands 70
attorney general, Hearst for secretar.
- OF war. Bryan for secretary Of state
- and Roosevelt again for president, an
: then-and MISREPRESENTATION.
- There was never a more absurd con
7A fusion of ethical standards than tina
which we have reached today in thi
- country, and I am afraid the worst i
not yet
- "Oh. for great American. who. Dor
- a statesman, can weed out this crop G
- plethoric politicians."-New Yor
Times.
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