The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-09-11
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 Secretary raft" remarks The Pitts- burg Sun. falls to the demasogue's level when he declares this country is tired of the miliionaires. He who'll hy misrpressnts public sentiment in this, and is playing the very game the Rockefeliers and Harrimans want played. It is to their obvious advan- tage to make the attacks directed upon men of their stripe, for their piraticai methods of manipulation and killing of competition appear to be q crusade against all wealth. This country makes no war on wealth as such. It never had more tolerance and respect and confidence for the man who amasses a fortune by approved methods than right now. It is not what e man has. but the means he employed in getting it that are under public inquiry now. It is the wealth amassed by the corrupt privilege af- forded under the policies of Taft's par ty that the country Is tired of. His adroit efforts to protect this by includ- ing all is an insult to the intelligence of the people and unworthy of his high position"
 Mir. Taft is really a big man, not only physically, but intellectually, yet it is plain from some of his recent speeches that he is not above playing to the gallery. In his efforts to please the masses. and to make himself ap- pear in the role of the champion of the peepur' he is not above playing the demagogue. As a general propo- sition a man may be classed as a demagogue who Is always railing against the rich and denouncing the millionaires. The rich, as a class, are not rascais. There are rich men who have amassed their wealth by dishon- est methods. by taking advantage of the needs of others, and by other means that are neither just nor hon est, but that is no foundation for an indictment against all who are so for tunate as to have accumulated more than the average man possesses.
 This is an era of demagogy in all it's forms. It is thought to be sure way of gaining favor with the popu- lace to rail against corporations and deHounce the rich men. Predatory wealth." and 'bIood-sucking corpora tionsa are mouth-ftlling phrases for those who have no sounder arguments to use in their campaigns for political support. corporation may be as lawless as a thief or robber, but on the other hand they may be as hon est in all respects as any individual in all the land, and we are persuaded that a vast majority of them are hon est. Corporate greed is to be deplored. as Is corporate injustice and lawless- ness in dealing with others.
 A corporation cannot be dishonest or grinding unless those who compose 1t are so. Being banded together the or- ganization can do more harm and more evil than its members can do as in- dividuals, but they must be parties to any wrong-doing and must bear an equal share of the guilt. One might as well deela4m against any other body of citizens as against men who have incorporated themselves together to carry on a business. And on the same principle one may as we'll denounce any other class as to rail against the rich and try to create or foster the impression that an honest man cannot amass wealth. MT. Taft is too big a man to descend to the arts of the polit- ical demagogue. He should leave tha; for men who have no other argument