New-York tribune., 1907-09-04
TIVE LATEST CONSERVATIVE.

There is an old adage about the sobering ef-
feet of being in office. No doubt II Is true ana
has received host of illustrations. But how
about the SOLDERING effect of being ont OF ofhceE
Has that ever met with due consideration!
Here is a case In point: We had candidate
for Governor in this State last fall who ran as
the enemy of corporations The mere fact
that his opponent in the course of his service
at the bar had accepted retainers from certain
cornorations made him corporation lawyer.
and that damned him He was the hireling of
the peoples enemies. In the campaign the
chiefs of all the leading corporations were plct-
ured as members of the "Plunderbund, an
order that preyed upon society The common
neople" were represented as a class that must
protect itself from the rich and privileged. Its
volunteer candidate presented himself as the
champion of the downtrOdden masses and no
doubt was accepted in good faith as their de-
liverer by many who attributed their hard
case, not TO their own shortcomings or TO their
stars but to the economic organization of So
cietv, which placed them in fixed class apart.
unable 10 rise above their humble circumstances
despite their individual merits: bound TO pow
ertv hv sort of inelucJable serfdom the vic
dims of the powerful few who had twisted our
free institutions TO their own selfish purposes.
They were ready TO be told that they We're a
class with that insurmountable barrier before
them that q class organization OF society i'm
poses.
Now the same candidate for Governor blandly
says
have no patience with the prejudces which
exist between alleged classes when the classes
themselves do not really exist There is no rea-
son for hostility between employer and en-
ploye between apitalist and wage Garner
And how about corporations which last year
it damned a man to serve as an attorney?
Organization in unions. organization of capt.
tai. all organizations which tend to make human
effort more effective. to increase and not to cur
tail the production of wealth are OF advantage
m rnankind The legitimate object Of
honest combinations of capital Is to unite the
wealth Of many individuals in one great enter
prise and 10 distribute the profits of the enter
prise among the many investors BY means OF
such combinations operations are conducted on
a scale that would be beyond the power OF any
single Individual
And the great business men, the heads OF the
combinations of capital. the erstwhie wicked
corporations and trusts:
The great financial promoters. organizers. ex-
ecutives OF America are worthy of recognition
80 razrard Let them have liberal
share of that wealth long as that Is the in
centive which stimulates them TO useful activi-
ties.
In the next series of pictures the common
people" will occupy the seat Of honor at the
right hand of the chief of the "Plunderbund.'
They are friends and brothers. There Is no
class hatred. Envy is dead, slain by Mr.
Hearst. If Mr.. William f. Sheehan as chair
man and Mr.. August Belmont as vice-chairman
of the Democratic National Committees execu-
five committee could only see their way clear
10 take up Mr.. Hearst for President we should
have real 'era of good feeling in the Demo
cratic marty Even more than being in office,
being out of Office makes a man safe and
sane" Mr.. Hearst is now as innocuous as
Judge Parker