New-York tribune., 1907-03-02
+" SOCIALISM A SORE"
PUBLIC OPINIONS POWER.
Henry Cle7cs Says Country Ca"
attend to AbuSes.

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He said there call for socialistic agitation
in country like America. where public opinion
virtually rules and all necessary desirable social
and political reforms be accomplished by the
force of public opinion" Continuing, he said:
That public sentiment in the United States is a
powerful factor in the government OF the country
Evidence in AMI All or bsioTy from the time the
Boston Tea Party started the War of the Revolu-
and eyentful days in which we live.
But more conspcuously and forcibly than eyer
before in times. has this all pervadng IN
hUence. this far reaching and compelling puDEc
since the creation of the great corporations. or
trusts began TO put new wine into old bottles, oy
Yet more particularly has this been the case since
g otger peoBe monev made b the New YORK
Legislatures life insurance investigation, aston
demanded that crooked ways should be made
This storm of public indignation swept from
Maine to California, and made itself felt with ire
we'll I'm every state Legislature. and with it went
cry for reform and for new laws to Correct tf9
storm of righteous indignation Public opln-
O incidentally. it led @ to the election Of Mr. Hughes
the counsel Of the life insurance INVESTIGATORS as as
ny ms & oS 5r ~ Is a b95 dn5 IN bebaf of reform
by exposing the abuse OF power. the wrongdoing OF
the too high saaried officers OF the large Insurance
We saw in the votes of the people the power OF
public sentiment.
He said public opinion had made for the correc-
lOn "a CpIpU!dNe diU olict dpuatS anu Nilt 6ItitA
had come so stronglJ under the public ban that it
was rapidly being eliminated from public enter
prises OF President Roosevelts work along this
line he said:
But above all they moved President & Roqsevei: } ;a
vestigating them and sweeping them away with the
prooIn OF destructlon as IN me case o Iilf OnCdko
mitted. and by recommending new laws where the
old were found Insufficient
he ne had dd TN S a99y even o R a3 ons
splendid
ny passing such laws as he outlined for this pur-
nopoly railway rebatng. the greatest niquity ever
perpetrated against the business interests OF ndl-
viduals and the public by carrying corporations or
any any others But heavy ages and INN imRrisonment
ing companies are now the penalty of rebating.
and lei us hope II has been eLectually ana nnaily
force of public opinion.
Mr.. Clews said that there was no danger in tho
modern development of national. industrial and in
divldual wealth. The real danger. he said lies in
the work done by some persons 10 picture imagi-
nary dangers of great wealth in few corporate
and individual hands" Continuing he sad
Socialism can never succeed here while the re
public lasts @ ana IL Is to be de[GIty wished that
free government, give the people equality and:
It's doctrines more than am iRose Of any Other nation l
We are re- , and ac n @ & PeoPiS Me
deECe. and have no law of entail to build up and
people but Few FAMILIES With us also it is to
a greater extent than in any other nation easy
come, easy go regards the making and spending
and general disposition of wealth. When "A ricR
man dies his Accommodations soon scattered.
The mere possession OF immense wealth and it's
CONSEQUENT power Is no more a souree Of danger than
Treasury and sub-treasuries if thai power is not
abused, and there hardly be any abuse Of II thst
Is not severely punishable by law. 50 | think tie
country is safe this We must also bear in
only proiitabe way to use it by either coIporiion
or individuals. and as capital is timid it naturally
Socialism in this country is a social excrescence
that never take deep root. The fact that II Is
sought To he introduced here mostly by dis
contented and ignorant aliens many of whom are
revolutionsts and outcasts from Russia and SOUTH
Europe. where many of them we're doWntrodden
and oppressed by despouc governments. shows how
old World have a false idea that what would or
might tend to remedy evils there would have a
similar effect here where the political and social
conditions are entirely different.
The government should neither onpress nor yyro,,
railways or other corporations. nor allow them 10
opprcss or wrong the people and corporations that
assent to this Our federal ana STATE e9v@rn1,e
are now dong good service TO the people in super
vising corporations, and, in the future in the or
ganization Of new companies. it would be well to
capitalizations. which have in many cases In The
past. involved gross misrepresentations, and been
tion and commodities, 10 the people, and much
capitalized companies. Conservative capitalists or
ganizng new companies with honest intentions
would not object 70 such restrictions upon capt
The Interstate commission investigatlons that
have been and are still being made have not only
corrected great abrses, including railway Relating
Dut eXeFled a SalutarN ana SODeTinB effect
managers of all large corporations ana not merely
those of carrying companies. As its good and
wholesome work Will continue a permanent mart
OF the government. relapse will DO permitted
into unlawful and reprehensble ways Of getting
and giving business 'e
To criticise President Roosevelt for the work he
has done In purifying and regulating corDOrafe
management. and especially in killing the out
rageous railway rebate system, and to denounce
his interference in these matters, as n few t0o
friendly to wrongdong corporations have done Is
ton. '''''
The President deserves, and has received the
gratitude OF the country for what he has done
ana is sun doing TO make the railways and other
corporations as far possible all that they
should be. There is justice the people i'm this
and no injustice TO the corporations
70 prove, by way Of Illustration that large in
dlVlduai fortunes are no menace to our Republican
institutions or TO American society. in any re-
spect dangerous but the contrary a nIibIic
benefit hdve only TO mention two names among
the living and the dead-AndTew Carnegie and RUS
sell sage But socialism that would disturb and
destroy the existing order of things in this coun-
try IS a very serious menace. against which we
which is the price of liberty. e