The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1908-07-02
KEEP UP FIGHT,
SAYS PRESIDENT
Executive Tells Frisco Graft
Prosecutors to Ignore the
SANDER of Enemies.
The White House, Washington, June s
1908

| then you and Mr.. Eeney aud the others
who are associated with You must feel
downhearted when you see men guilty
of atrocious crimes who for some cause
or other succeed In escaping punish
ment, and especially when you see men
of wealth, of high business and, in a
sense, of high social standing, banded
together against you.
My dear sir, | want you TO feel that
your experience is simply the expert
ence of all of us who are engaged in
this fight. There is no form of SANDER
and wicked faisehood which viii not
as matter of course be employed
against all men engaged in such a strug-
gle, and this not only on the part of
men and papers representing the low
est type of demagogy, but. | am sorry
to say, also on the part Of men and
papers representing the interests that
call themselves permanently conserva-
tive, prominently cultured
In such a struggle ii is too often true
that the feeling against those engaged
in it becomes peculiarly bitter, not
merely IN the business houses of the
great fnaneiers who directly profit by
the wrongdoing. bat also in the clubs,
IN certain newspaper offices where b'lsi-
ness interests exercise an unhealthy
ccntrol and, | regret to add, in other
newspaper offices which like to be CON
sidered as IN marked degree the rep
resentatives of the cultivation and high
social standing of the country.
Now, | do hope that you and your
colleagues viii treat all this bitterness
with entire disregard 1t is of small
l.s,
are engaged in this work, whether men
think well or i'll of rs personally; but
it is of very great consequence that
we should do the work without finch
ing, on the one hand, and, on the other
hand, without losing our good hundred
common sense, without becoming anger
ed and iritated to degree that will in
any way cause us to lose our heads.
Therefore, / hope that you and Heney
and your associates will keep reason
ably good natured; but that above ali
things YOU will not lose heart. You
must battle on valiantly, no matter
what the biggest businessmen may say,
no matter what the mob may say, no
matter what may be used by that ele-
ment which may be regarded as socially
the highest element. You must stead
tasty oppose those foolish or wicked
men who would substitute class con-
seriousness and loyalty to class interest
for loyalty TO American citizenship as
q whole, for loyalty TO the immutable
laws of righteousness, of just and fair |
dealing as between man and man.
1t is just as bad TO be ruled by a plu- |
tocracv as by mob. 1t is profoundly /
and, in a social sense, pro-
foundly immoral. to stand for or against +
4 given man. not because he is or is not I
A brave, upright and able man, but be- /
cause he does or does not belong to I
labor union or does or does not repre-
sent the big business interests. In their
essence, down at the foundation of t
-hings. the ties that are all important
ire those that knit honest men, brave
men, square dealing men, together. and
i is mighty poor substitute If we
.eplace these ties by those that bind
men together. whether they are good or
,ad, simply because they follow par
cular business, have a given social
tanding or belong TO a particular or
ganization. II is an evil and dreadful
hing for laboring men to endeavor tol
eeure the political dominance of labor
Unions by conniving at erookedness or
-iolenee. by being "loyal'' to crooked
abor leaders, for to be .'loyai'' to the
ancied interests of the unions when
hey are against the laws of morality
md the interests of the whole people
means ultimately the destruction of the
Inions themselves. as an incident to the
destruction of all good citizenship.
Bat it is. if anything. an even more
vii and dreadful thing TO have the
Merchants. the businessmen, the cap
aims of industry accessories TO crime
nd shielders and supporters of eriml-
als; ii is an even more dreadful thing
o see the power of men high in State
lolitics. high in finance. high in the so
ial life of the rich and fashionable,
nited to stife the prosecution of OF
enders against civic integrity If these
ffenders happen to be their friends and
ssoeiates: and most evil of all rs 1t
rhen we see crooks of a labor party IN
ffensive and defensive alliance with
he crooks of a corporation party. Labor
MONS and corporations alike should be
earthly supported when they do good
york. and fearlessiy opposed when they
tand for what is evil. The best kind
f wage-worker, the best kind of labor
NO man. must stand shoulder to Shout
Ier with the best kind of professional
nan. with the best kind of businessman,
n putting stop to the undermining
II civic deeeney. and this without any
eoard to whether Ii is labor union or
corporation which is undermining II,
without any regard TO whether the OF
ender is a rich man or poor man.
Indeed. If there can be any degrees
ii the eontemptueus adherence with
which right thinking citizens should
egard corruption. il must he felt IN
is most extreme form for the socalled {:
j, best citizens. the men high In bust
less and social life, who by backing up 1
II by preventing the punishment OF
wealthy criminals sat the seal of their
approval on crime and give honor to
ich felans. The most powerful ally ct
awlessness and mob violence Is the man,
whoever he may he, politician ar husI-
lessman, Judge or lawyer. capitalist or
,ditor. who in any way or shape works
% as to shield wealthy and powerful
from the consequences of
heir misconduct.
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