The L'Anse sentinel., 1908-02-08

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ments Of what they have done; snd
yst when public servants correct their
! decleim against them for breaking
silsnce. lest values be deprecated" !"
They have burt honest Dusn9 business g men men:
and now they ciamor against the truth
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business and In politics IL well ex-
| pressed in braxen protests against any
business @ world. @ % on the ground % that < It is is
and that business panic Is the neces-
business honesty. The morality of
such a plea Is precisely as great as II
made on behalf OF the men caught in
gambling establishment is raided by
the police. II such words mean any
thing they mean that those whose SEN
the effort to bring about moral re-
generation OF business. which will pre-
vent q repetition Of the insurance
New York; repetition of the Chicago
a. Alton deal: repetition of the COM
bination between certain professional
politicians certain professional labor
| leaders. and certain big financiers,
from the disgrace of which San Fran
cisco has Just been. rescued; a repeti-
Standard Oil people to crush out every
| competitor. to overawe the common
carriers and TO establish a monopoly
which treats the public with con-
tempt which the public deserves so
long as II permits men of such prin-
ciples and sentiments to avow and act
| on them with impunity. The outcry
against stopping dishonest practices
| among wrongdoers who happen to be
wealthy is precisely similar to che out
| cleanliness and decency in city gov
eernment. because. forsooth, II will
hurt hurt business" The same outery is
| tice for prosecuting the heads of colos-
sal corporations that has been made
against the men who in San Francisco
/ ity the wrongdoers among business
| men. public officials and labor leaders
alike. The principle is the same in
/ er and bribe giver stand on the same
evil eminence OF infamy, SO the man
| who makes an enormous fortune by
| corrupting legislatures and municipal
| tiles and fleeing his stockholders and
| the public. stands on the same moral
level with the creature who fattens on
the blood money of the gambling house
and the saloon. Moreover, in the last
analysis. both kinds of corruption are
far more intimately connected than
would at first sight appear; the wrong
doing is at bottom the same. Corrupt
business and corrupt politics act and
react with ever Increasing debase-
ment. one on the other. the corrupt
head of a corporation and the corrupt
| labor leader are both in the same de-
gree the enemies Of honest corpora
bate taker, the franchise traficker.
the manipulation of securities. the pur-
veyor and protector Of vice, the black
mailing ward boss. the ballot box stuff
er. the demagogue, the mob leader, the
hired bully, and man-killer-all alike
work at the same web of corruption.
and all alike should be abhorred by
honest men.
The business which is hurt by the
movement for honesty is the kind of
pays the country to have hurt. 1t is
| the kind of business which has tended
to make the very name high finance"
American men of business should join
in putting an end. The special plead
ers for business dishonesty, in denounc-
ing the present administration for en-
forcing the law against the huge and
corrupt corporations which have defied
the law. also denounce 1t for endeavor-
Ing TO secure sadly needed labor legis-
lation. such as far-reaching law maxi
ing employers liable for injuries to
their employees.
Business" Hurt by Movement
for Honesty Should Be Crushed
It is meet and fit that the apoiogists
for corrupt wealth should oppose every
effort to relieve weak and helpless peo-
pie from crushing misfortune brought
from which they gain bare livelihood.
The burden should be distributed. 1t
Is hypocritical baseness to speak of a
girl who works In factory where the
dangerous machinery is unprotected as
having the right freely to contract
to expose herself to dangers to life and
limb. She has no alternative but to
suffer want or else to expose herself to
such dangers. and when she loses a
hand or Is otherwise manned or disfig-
ured for life. IL is n moral wrong that
the whole burden of the risk necessarily
incidental to the business should be
placed with crushing weight upon her
weak shoulders. and all who profit by
her work escape scot-free This is
what opponents of just employers
liability law advocate; and it is con-
| sistent that they should usually also
advocate immunity for those most dan
gerous members of the criminal class
the criminals of great wealth.
Our opponents have recently been
bitterly criticising the two judges re-
ferred to in the accompanying commu-
nications from the standard OIL Com
ing imposed heavy fines on these two
corporations: and yet these same crit
les OF these two judges exhaust them
spectful and cautious discussion Of
the Official action of Judge which re-
fu Sr 10 %bea ea1e renaeqI anq powea
| tory a temperate effort to better the
conditions of life and work among
neeG ese is greatest % MOST ceryalniy hSse See
hooves us all to treat with the utmost
respect the high ONCE of Judge; and
our judges. as a whole, are brave and
upright men. Respect for the law
must go hand in hand with respect for
the judges: and. as a whole. IL Is true
now as in the past, that the judges
stand in character and service above
| all other men among their fellow
servants. of the public. There is all
the greater need that the few who fail
in this great office who fall below this
high standard of integrity, of wisdom
of sympathetic understanding and OF
courage. should have their eyes opened
to the needs of their countrymen A
Judge who on the bench either truckles
to the mob and shrinks from sternly
| REFRESHING violence and disorder, or
bows down before corporations; who
| falls to stand up valiantly for the
rights of property on the one hand or
| on the other by misuse of the process
of injunction or by his attitude toward
all measures for the betterment of the
conditions OF labor, makes the wage
worker feel with bitterness that the
| courts are hostile to him; or who fails
| to realize that all public servants In
| their several stations must strive to
| stop the abuses of the criminal rich
such man performs an even worse
| service to the body polite than the
| legislator or executive who goes wrong
| The Judge who does his full duty well
stands higher. and renders a better
| service to the people. than any other
| public servant; he Is entitled to great
| er respect; and IL he is a true servant
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