The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1907-10-24

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Inter Ocean:
And, finally, is this nation fallen in
to that condition of chaos, has the ma
chinery of our courts become so weak
and worthless, have the laws of the
United States become so inadequate
and impotent that justice cannot be
administered in this republic, that the
guilty cannot be punished. that the in
nocent cannot be protected without
the flinging of thunderbolts and the
shattering of skies from the White
House. without the prostration of in
dustry. the desolation of finance. and
the devastation of the fortunes Of mil
lions of citizens who have sinned neith-
er under nor against the law
I'VE believe not" is the answer of
the Inter Ocean. President Roosevelt,
however believed it was So or he
would never have been compelled to go
to the people for support instead of to
the courts. And we believe like Pres.
ident Roosevelt. In support of that
belief can anyone now living recall
the time when our courts were so
strong or so worthy that they ever at
tempted to do what President Roose-
welt has done: Did any court ever
put an effective stop to Relating? Did
any court ever prosecute the Beef trust
and put effective barriers around it to
stop it from selling diseased meat?
Furthermore. did any court ever re-es-
tablish the right Of the United States
government to rule this country in
stead of a precious lot Of bribe-giving.
watered stock makers, such as our
frenzied financiers OF Wall street are:
You can bet your bottom dollar the an
swer is NO. Only through the pub
licity President Roosevelt has given
his campaign to make our government
the real government, has he been able
to establish his point. The paid
newspapers of New York's frenzied
fiRancier5 had always taken great
pains to spread broadcast over the
country the opinion that those ilsn
could do no wrong. And they pub
lished this so often and so forcibly that
those men believed it and went ahead
with their transactions regardless of
how they affected the welfare of the
country, regardless of how they in
fringed on our personal liberties until
they were the government and the pres
ident and congress merely set of fig
ureheads, whose main object in life
was to carry out the wishes of our
money kings
President Roosevelt, by his cam
paign of publicity, has upset this little
government of the financiers, for the
financiers and by the financiers, and
has earned their undying hatred and
the undying hatred of their hireling
press. If the present panic in Wall
street has not come about through
natural causes. then it has been
brought about by those same fren-
Zied financiers who are now trying
their last resort. to destroy the con-
fidence of the people in President
Roosevelt by destroying their belief
that his policies are good for their
pocket books. That is, if the finan-
ciers are able. through their Wall
street panic, to affect the rest of the
country. to throw men out of work.
they will have struck at the great ally
of President Roosevelt, the American
people. and will try to convince them
that it is due to the Roosevelt policies
alone that they are out of work. That
they are desperate enough to do this.
no one doubts for minute The
black sway they have maintained over
this country for over a quarter of p
century, and which has made them all
multi-millionaires. is seriously threat
ened by President Roosevelt. In fact.
II he continues in power he will de-
stroy this financial ring of wealthy
blacklegs. They are fighting for the
existence of their power, the power
that enables them to get rich unlawful
ly. and they will not hesitate to plunge
the country into panic if by that
means they can undo all that Presi-
dent Roosevelt has done. For once
again in unquestioned power. the pam
ic which they had manufactured.
would soon be stopped and they would
go right ahead Fleeing the American
people with no one to say them nay.
This fight that President Roosevelt
started to regain our personal liberties
had to come some time. If it hadn't
come two years ago it would have had
to come later on. The exactions the
gamblers of Wall street were placing
on the country were becoming unbear-
able, and if it hadn't been for President