The Montgomery tribune. (Montgomery City, Mo.) 1892-1910, 1908-02-07

the rights of the ma OF wealth ana Iof
the rights OF the worker. We seek
to protect the property of every man VINO
acts honestly. of every corporation tnat
Represents wealth honestly accumulate
wrongdoing, and we desire to punish the
wrong doors only so far as is necessary
to achieve this end.
Campaign of L~aWbreakers
Against Governments Policy
There are ample material rewards I0r
Those who serve with lhehbS hut they are
1 Jssliy Of t,a tY7i gSr BOZ tSe se,' lie who 5Ps e5.
NIT their febTS sentatfves. wfe,,. yer e sp z
where their y6anE, men are tauA one
law for the rich and Grethef for the po..
The amount of money the Representatives
of certain great moneyed interests are
Willing Willing bnn sPend can hr6 be sause thr by g }meif
the papers of this country. from the At
lantfc' to the Pacific, of huge advertise
ments httacking VII envenomed bitter,
n wsfrin the aga aamini suceessfal d RsihiSy o.
and by their circulation of pamphlets and
books tS,s prepared with n,,t the ,b same Object;
of the writings and speeches of men who,
whether because they are mlsled, or be-
cause, seeing the light. they yet are WILL
their masters of great wealth to the cost
of the plain people. The books and
pamphlets; the controlled newspapers. the
which | refer. are usually and ESPECIALLY
in the interest Of the ,standdrd OIL Trust
and of certain notorious railroad COM
dividuals and corporations of great
wealth that have been guilty of wrong
s spShstbf 4 i L only 9ks r a%rShygd iaRt 'f fse %s9 g.
s sPsa % S Se { XE:fts' oid NSfiER955Fiy ana nay Sth hlTs % Sts,
Will DO Il WITHOUT hire: From the rail.
been passed during the last six years has
been opposed by these men on Its pas
sage and in it's administration with every
craft could suggest and the command of
almost UNLIMITED money secure. But for
the last year the attack has been made
wiih mest e't'e or the upon Iaw she a espeeia III,
through the department of Justice, but
also through the Interstate Commerce
commission m me bureau OF copPor ha
ssaults upon our policy contained in
these speeches. editorials. articles, ad-
sertmans ssns and I'd PAM pamphlets sasnt and m ,b the
various ways, give a fairly accurate
measure of the anger and terror which
our public actions have caused the cor
very marrow of their being. The attack
Is sometimes made openly against US for
enforcing the law, and sometimes with a
certain cunning. for not trying to en-
force it in some other way than that
which experience shows to be practical.
ter 1Te class 'u of a asxprite is to attack the ad-
ministration for not procuring the i'm
.prisonment instead of the fine of Offend
ers under these antitrust laws. The man
making this assault is usually either a
prominent lawyer or an editor who takes
his policy from the financiers and his
from their attorneys. II the
former he has defended and advised
many wealthy malefactors. and he Knows
well that. hanks 20 the advice Of lawyers
c corr has BEEN Seefa' turned nsa into anu aan
instrument by which to render it
impossible to get at the head
9aal the most ooTPor rniIPn' at wb see man We ar who abs is
to put the real w~rongdoer in prison. this
is what We strive to do; this is we
wealthy criminals: who. moreover. repre-
scented that most baneful of all alliances,
the alliance between. the corruption of
SIgh ansrc poii! Tnis ana n whale 5he S s%9rr bsHs do0 Of
in the Gaynor and Greene case, in the
case of the nisapplication of funds in
Chicago. in the land-fraud cases, where.
as in other cases likewise, neither The
highest political position nor the possess
:he offe sdIas rom from prison rSs a'a The federal
does scourge sin; 1t does bid
fear; for 1t has put behind the
bars with Impartial severity the powerful
land thief, the rich contractor-all, no
how high their station, against
whom criminal misdeeds can be proved.
All their wealth and power can not pro-
tect them. But 1t often happens that the
effort to imprison a given defendant Is
certain tam b 10 be q f VI s g., While M IL Is possible s $
which he is head; so that, in other words.
the only way of Furnishing the wrong is
finiug the corporation, unless we are
content IN nrnnaaH parSnual1u n pnipcf tho
minor agents The corporation lawyers
to whom ] refer and their employers are
the men mainly responsible for this
shared with all who ingeniously oppose
the passing of Just and effective laws, or
who fail to execute them when they have
been put on the statute books.
Much is said, in these attacks pom
the policy of the present administra-
about the rights Of innocent
not innocent who voluntarily purchases
in a corporation whose methods
and mana cement he knows to be COR
rupt; and stockholders are bound to
try to secure honest management. or
else are estopped from complaining
about the proceedings the government
corporation to obey the law. There has
been in the past grave wrong dom in
nocent stockholders by overcapitaliza
stock manipulation. This we have
ought to prevent. first. by exposing the
thing done and furnishing the offender
any existing law had been vio-
second, by recommending the pas
sage of laws which would make uniaw-
similar practices for the future, |
The public men. lawyers anG editors
who loudly proclaim their sympathy for
the 'innocent stockholders" when a
great law-defying corporation is pun I
tic vehemence against all efforts by |
law to put a stop to the practices which
the real and ultimate sources OF the
damage alike to the stockholders and
the public. The a~pologists Of success
ful dishonesty always declaim against
any effort TO punish or prevent II, on