The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1907-05-22
HIGHER STANDARD
OF FJUST|CERULtS
TODAY SAYS ROOT
So-cALLED EVILS OF THE PRES.
ENT WENT uNMoTicED IN
PAST KE DECLARES.
GROWTH CHANGES IDEAS
And Rebates, Land Probes, Unions
and Stock Juggling Are Rut In
cidents IN Adjustment Of
Our New Wealth,

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NV Haven, Conn, May II. Sec
.retary Of SAFE Root taking as his
I specific topic "The Deadlock" deliv-
cred the last in the series OF the
Dodge lectures All Vale teniglt on
1.-THE Responsibility i Of citizenship
Root said In part
4 Objectionable railroad practices
.inow SO widely and justly condemned
land VII ch furnish 50 fertile soace
lol political discussion, are not new
/ prac ices; they are old practices,
which formerly passed subsilencio.
! Railroad II bates now forbidden hv
llaw, and for which great corporations
are being indicted and convicted are
merely form OF discriminatory rates
which once prevailed without objec-
ton. 1t was by giving special rates
ltha railroad companies inducsd peo-
tple ta build factories and packing
houses and elevators and great var
sety Of other business establishments
lalong line Of their roads; that was
the way they built up their business
Ideas Changed In Htcent Years.
In recent years, however, people
have come to the apprecia ion OF the
idea that these great public agencies
capnot Civ. special rates 10 some men
without doing injustice to others. and
that the common right Of people de
mand equality Of facility and of the
cost in transportation which railroads
are bound to furnish and condemns
special privileges 10 one as against
another. Least of all this, Is that
the prosecutions aud convictions for
Violate ii Of anti-rebafs laws are n0s
leyidence that we are growing worse
but evidence that we are CROWNS
better; that our government w apply
ing higher standard ON justice IN
control Of public utilities
tTh1 same Ii true Of the manage
ment of corporations and manipula. |
ton of securt es 10 which attention
has been called sharply by testint ny /
before the Chicago and Alton railroad |
haering. Thirty or forty years ago,
when the management Of the Erie
railroad and Atlantic and Gn at West
ern and Union Pacific railroad attract
cd much attention to the things done
by corporate managers II was 50
much worse, that the Chicago and Al
ton affair would not have received 1
any notice ut all The railroad wreck
er was the common type Of railroad
Since then a higher stand.
ard Is asserting itself. II is perfectly
safe to assert that the standard Of
probity and fidelity among corpora
ton managers of the cogntry Is high
er now than it has ever been before
Locked Like crutl Unjust &C.
"Prr rsecuiion against land thieves N
the west have awakened intense indig
nation among the defendants and their
friends. because tn wrong was 50
inveterale they had come to look upon
Il as right. When officers OF the law
presented aud effected novel idea
that /: wss IS honest to deprive the
government Of its land Illegally as to
deprive an individual cf bis land g.
gally. it seemed cruel injustice
There was simply little advance cf
moral Standard which gave life TO
laws that had been dead before.
Facilities OF transportation ami
which enable modern |
business to spread over a gr at ex-
panse OF territory have made it pos
sible for so-called trusts and combina-
ons t. be made for the purpose OF
driving out competitors. restricting
and Increasing prices.
Public Opinion Awakening.
"On tn other hani labor organiza' !
lions designed for the just purpose
IF scoring far treatment as to en-
oloyment. wages and hours an1 con
fitions cf work. are on their part en-
to put uD prices, restrict |
production and drive out competition
BIZ string MT rules which prohibit ans
member from doing more than a
specified amont of wofk each day
lnder penalty Of expuis on and which
prohibit the employment ~ any one
iot a n1ember Of the union Under pen-
iliy ~ strike
"Aii nf ihes things are hui incl /
'ents Of tie proccss of adjsstmcut in F,
ne division of the neE wealth. Our =
,opniar government is dealing with
hem assiduously by awakened public !
,pinioo. gradually crys alizing In o D
avs adapted TO mc rev coudi- q
tons c