The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1907-09-22

ment of the majority which makes the
laws, II is the duty of the minority to
acquiesce until it can secure a ma
jority or it's side and cause the repeal
of the law. In order that the individ-
ual liberty of the majority to make
laws may be effective, those laws must
be respected.
of the individual is privilege-the priv
ilege OF lawlessness, the privilege con-
ferred by law and the privilege of mo-
nopoly. There has been a great awak-
ening of the public conscience during
the past few years as to the privilege
of lawlessness. This public conscience
goes marching on day by day correct
ing some evil: day after day remedy
ing some wrong.
There are some who see danger to
our institutions in the agitation result
ing from the exposures of wrong-doing
in official and business life. To my
mind, the hope for the perpetuity OF
this government by the people was
never brighter than now. This awak-
ening of the public conscience does not
proceed from a spirit of discomfort, but
comes from the Quickening Of the
moral sense of the average individual.
1t is simply a determination to stamp
out the stains of dishonor in public life
and the things that Cypress In private
life; a firm resolve that the govern
ment shall be representative of the
liberty of the people, not of the priv
ilege of special interests The great
combinations Of capital that have
grown up in the past few years re-
quire stricter rules of regulation as to
their conduct than were needed in
years gone by in relation to individual
action. In exposing and prosecuting
the wrongdoing of these aggregations
Of wealth the liberty of the average in
dividual is being protected. The at
tack on corporate wrongdoing is not
an assault on legitimate industry. The
man who would retard legitimate in
dustrial development is as much q
public enemy as he who would crush
the people beneath the heel of monop-
oily. No man or corporation doing an
honest business need fear the arous-
ing OF the conscience of the people
against wrongdoing.
No Right to Complain.
"Those whose business methods will
not stand the light of publicity have
no right to complain. If they persist
in wrongdoing and are hurt, they are
rot injured by the people. but by the
wrong which they do. / do not believe
lllGAO II any CAltilAtg III llls
country to legitimate industry. It is
not railroads nor insurance companies
the people complain of, but the
breaches of trust on the part of those
running railroads or insurance COM
panies. While some railroad men and
some insurance men are crooked, Just
as some public officials are crooked, II
does not follow that all railroad men
or all insurance men or all public Off
Gals are without honor. The eradica-
ton of lawless privilege from business
helps rather than hurts legitimate in
dustry. Insurance policies are more
valuable today by reason of the elm
ination of grating on the part of some
insurance officials. We can eat ouI
meat with more satisfaction since
abuses in the beef packing business
were stopped. When railroads and
other special interests are compelled to
obey the law, it will not retard their
development nor injure their real prog
ress, but will put them on a more Sc
cure and substantial basis.
States Can Be Trusted.
in the fight against the privilege Of
| lawnessness there have arisen ques.
tions between the federal and state