Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1908-02-07

in the first place to prevent it's doing dire
evil to the republic, and in the next place
fcalism which, if left uncontrolled, it is
certain in the end to arouse. Sweeping
Of means, without regard to whether they
do well or i'll. would sound the death
Become inevitable if decent Citizens per.
init those rich men whose lives are cor
T prEae. a nnch eecl % and nGm nn6inde en- iwe oven
the destinies of this country. We act in
no vindictive spirit. and we are no re
wrong, we oppose it as firmly as we OPP
pose a corporation which does wrong; and
of the man of wealth and for the rights
of the wageworker. We seek to protect
estly. Of every corporation tina represents
wealth honestly accumulated and honest
az uS we desire sire s to pu nj het tie W~ %Wrongsdoergs;
only so far as is necessary to achieve this
One Law for All.
There are ample material rewards for
those who serve with fidelity the mammon
OF unrighteousness; but they are dearly
paid for by the people who permit their
the press. or in the colleges Where their
young men are taught, to preach and to
r ptae'i and 'i another her! for the poor rao iof the
amount of money the representatives of
certain great moneyed interests are will
cent publication broadcast throughout the
papers of this country. from the Atlantic
lacking with envenomed bitter the admin
istration's policy of warning against sue
fion Of o pa@phiess a ana D BOOKS eRs'r p fersutsi
with the same object; while they likewise
speeches Of men who, whether because
they are misled, or because, seeing the
ight; hey sS yet are tbe Willi fbsi to m sin against af
great wealth to the cost of the plain peo-
pie, The books and pamphlets, the
which l refer. are usually and especially
and of certain notorious railroad combina-
tons. but they also defend other indi-
yiduals and orporaatio a. Of great wealth h
for the wrongdoing themselves speak or
their bidding, or find others who viii do
it without hire. From the railroad rate
law to the pure food law. every measure
passed during the last six years has been
opposed by these men on its passage and
that bitter and ~unscrupulous craft could
suggest and the command of almost un-
LIMITED Rns for m fbs last seS yenr the attack has been
made with most bitterness upon the actual
administration Of the law, especially
also through the Interstate Commerce
commission and the bureau of corpora
TONS. Inc extraordinary violence or the
assaults upon our policy contained in these
speeches., editorials, articles, advertise
ments, and pamphlets, and the enormous
sums of money spent in these various
ways give a fairly accurate measure OF
the anger and terror which our public
vast wealth to feel in the very marrow
OF their being. TIL attack is sometimes
made openly against US for enforcing the
law, and sometimes with a certain cum
ming, for not trying to enforce it in some
other way than that which experience
methods of the latter class of assailant
is to attack the administration for MOI
procuring the imprisonment instead Of the
fine Of offenders under these antitrust
laws: The man making this assault Is
usually either a prominent lawyer or ar
editor who takes his policy from the fnan-
ciers and his from their attor.
neys. If the former, he has defended anC
advised many wealthy malefactors, and he
knows well that, thanks to the advice OF
modern corporation has been turned into
an admirable instrument by which tc
render it well nigh impossible to get al
the head of the corpora ton, at the mar
who is really most guilty. When we are
able to put the real w~rongdoer in prison
this is what we strive to do; this is what
we nave actually done with some very
wealthy criminals, who. moreover, repre-
sented that most baneful of all alliances
the ALLAH ce between the corruption of or
ganized politics and the corruption of higf
, finance. This is what we have done il
the Gaynor and Greene case, in the cas'
Of the misapplication of funds in con
nection with certain great banks in Chi
: cago, in the land fraud cases, where, a.
in other cases likewise, neither the high
est political position nor the possession
E Of great wealth has availed to save tn,
offenders from prison. ..