Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1908-02-01
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| throw and discredit all who honestly
administer the law, to prevent any
additional legislation which would
check and restrain them, and to Sc.
cure If possible freedom from all
restraint which will permit every un-
scrupulous wrongdoer to do what he
wishes unchecked, provided he has
enough money. The only way to
counterfeit the movement IN which
| these men are engaged is to make
clear to the public just what they
have done in the past and just what
they are seeking to accomplish in
the present.
Protection for Law-Abiding Property.
Under no circumstances would We
countenance attacks upon law-abiding
property, or do aught but condemn
those who hold up rich men as be-
| ing evil men because of their riches.
On the contrary, our whole effort
| is to insist upon conduct, and neither
wealth nor property nor any other
class distinction, as being the proper
standard by which to judge the &C.
lions :3of men. Al For the honest man
Of great wealth we have a hearty
regard, just, as We have a hearty
regard for the honest politician and
honest newspaper. But part Of th
movement to uphold honesty must b,,
| a movement to frown on dishonesty.
We attack only the corrupt men OF
wealth, who find in the purchased
politician the nost efficient instru.
ment of corruption and in the apur
chased newspaper the most efacien!
defender Of corruption. Our main
| quarrel is not with these agents AMI
representatives of the interests
They derive their chief power from
the great sinister offenders who stanf
4 behind them. They are but puppet:
| who move as the strings are pulled
i 1t is not the puppets, but the strong
cunning men and the mighty force
working for evil behind and through
the puppets, with whom we have t.
DEAL We seek to control law-defy
ing wealth; in the first place to pre-
vent it's doing dire evil to the Repu!,
lie, and in the next place to ayoIt
the vindictive and dreadful radical
ism which, if left uncontrolled, it il
certain in the end to arouse.
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:. Sweeping attacks u pom all .
= property, upon all men of means, !
!: without regard as to whether 4
J :. they do well or i'll, would sound 7
! :: the death-knell of the Republic.
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Such attacks become inevitable ]
decent citizens permit those rici
men whose lives are corrupt and evi
| to domineer in swollen pride, un
checked and unhindered, over the des
TIMES of this country. We act in n
vindictive spirit, and we are no r;
specters of persons.
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:. Ir a labor union does wrong, :
:. we oppose it as firmly as we op- .
s. pose corporation which does :
:. wrong; and we stand equally
:. stoutly for the rights of the man :
:. of wealth and for the rights of :
& the wageworker.
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We seek to protect the propert
of every man who acts honestly, {
every corporation that represent
wealth honestly accumulated an
honestly used. We seek to sto
wrongdoing, and we desire to punis
the wrongdoers only so far as
necessary to achieve this end.
The Mammon of Unrighteousness
There are ample material reward
for those who serve with fidelity til
mammon of unrighteousness; bl
hey are dearly paid for by the pc
ole who permit their representative
whether in public life, in the pres
or in the colleges where their youn
men are taught, to preach and
practice that their is one law for tn
Itch and anothers for the poor. TIL
amount of money the representative
# certain great moneyed interes
are willing to spend can, be gauge
5y their recent publication broadca'
throughout the papers of this cou
ry, from the Atlantic to the Pacifi
of huge advertisements attackin
With envenomed bitterness the Admit
istration's policy of warning again.
successful dishonesty, and by the
: cir culation Of pamphlets and book
Q prepared with the same object; viii
i they likewise push the circulation ,
v the writings and speeches Of me
!. who, whether because they are mi