The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-09-10
FRON OTHER PENS
LAWYERS FOR THE PEOPLE.


Attorney General Bonaparte is
working out a plan for the enlarge
ment and reorganization of the feder-
al department of justice, as was told
the other day by the Washington cor
respondent of the Daily News. That
a federal administration finds itself in
need of the services of a larger and
better organized force of lawyers than
it now has is a sign of. the transtor-
nation which has come about OF late
years in the relations of corporations
to the government. In days not very
remote the corporations controlled the
government in their own interests. In
these present days the government
aims to control the corporations: &C
cording to law, in the interests of the
people. This requires an efficient and
resourceful department of Justice,
since the prosecution of lawbreaking
corporations must be carried on with
promptness and vigor to be effective.
Prior to the Roosevelt era OF regu-
lative legislation and aggressive and
impartial enforcement of law the cor
porations. in return for their cam
paign contributions to both political
parties, exercised a considera bic de-
gree of control over the lawmaking
branch and the executive branch of
the government. The CONSTITUTION
gives the president two sets of duties.
One is to recommend to congress
such measures as he shall deem nee
essary or expedient" and the other is
to take care that the laws be faith
fully executed" President Roosevelt
led in the movement to secure the
amended interstate-cOmmerce act of
1906. But the enactment of good laws
amounts to nothing unless they be
Faithfully executed" By causing the
many prosecutions under the inter-
state-commerce and antitrust acts
which have been carried forward of
late the president and his attorney
general have awakened the country TO
a new sense of the importance or en-
forcing good laws without fear or Ia
vor-
The many prosecutions now in mo-
ton require an immense amount OF
work by' the government lawyers.
The regular force in the oepartnent
than the staff of the chief counsel of
a corporation of the first rank. Such
corporation sometimes mas more
local attorneys throughout the coun-
try than the United States has in It's
eighty-eight district attorneys The
department of justice has had TO en-
gage special counsel in many instances
and still it is swamped with work II
the plan for charging the force OF
the department which will be laid be-
fore congress is well conceived lts
adoption will be a logical outcome or
the new conditions-Chicago News.
THE NATURE TAKERS.
big stick at the nature faker general
ly. He has intimated that they IN
dulge in undiluted prevarications, ana
he has picked out several gentlemen
whom he has elected to place IN
class for special chastisement. 1t has
been an interesting spectacle, ana
while some of our cherished bellers
have been rudely shaken-for IN
stance. it will be impossible to ever
again enjoy the story of the Cow that
jumped over the MOON and the Tit
tie dog" that laughed-there is no
doubt that the quarrel has been really
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. American
THE SAME BRAND.
The bears and bulls are alike in one
respect Both predict a panic when they
Globe-Democrat
BAD TASTE.
cologne is to be sprinkled on the
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