Weekly Arizona journal-miner., 1908-02-05
PRESIDENTS SPECIAL | MESSAGE T0C0NCRESS
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\ movement to frUwn on 'lisli"hcsty. Nye attack only the corrupt ncn of Mealth. wto find in the purchased politician the most efficient instru- Sment of corruption and in the pur. khasel newspaper the most ellit ant hefender of corruption. Our main buarrei is not with the agents and fopresrntetives of ths in rests. They berive their chief DuV'r fror the kreat sinister isssud,'rs Au, stand bchini hem IT. are but puppets kho move as the strings are pulled. lt is not the puppets. but the strong Running men and the mighty forces korking for evil behind and through Ehe puppets, with whom we have to heal. We seek to control law-defying wealth: in the first place to prevent ts doing dire evil to the republic, and n the next place to avoid the win. >ictive and dreadful radlcalism shich. if left uncontrolled, 1t Is cer. hin in the end to arouse. Sweeping ttacks upon al property, upon all hen of means. without regard to hether they do well or i'll. would pund the death knell of the repub- c: but such attacks become inevit. Dlt IT utttut CItistub DtTItllt tntSt igh men, whose lives are corrupt, nd evil to domineer in swollen pride, nchecked. unhindered, over the des. nies of this country. We act in no indlctiye spirit, and we are no re- pector of persons. If a labor union oes wrong. we oppose 1t as firmly as (e oppose corporation which does Frong; and we stand equally stoutly pr the rights of the man of wealth md for the rights of the wage work r We seek to protect the property f every man who acts honestly. of very corporation that represents eath honestly accumulated and hon stly used. We seek to stop wrong oing. and we desire to punish the rongdoers only so far as is neces. nry to achieve this end.
 There are ample material rewards br those who serve with fidelity the pammon of unrighteousness: but hey are dearly paid for by the peo- le who permit their representatives, Thether in public life. or in the col fges. where young men are taught to reach and to practice that there is )ne law for the rich and another for he poor. The amount of money the Representatives of certain great mon ved interests are willing to spend can gauged by their recent publica' on broadcast throughout the papers this country. from the Atlantic to De Pacific, of huge advertisements, ltacking. with envenomed bitterness De administration policy of warning gainst successful dishonesty. and by heir circulation of pamphlets and Doks. prepared with the same object nile they likewise push the circula on of the writings and speeches oi len. whether they are misled. oI neither. because. seeing the light bey yet are waiting to sin against be light. serve their masters of great edith to the cost of the pain peo Q. The books and pamphlets, the pwspapers, the speeches by publi,
 private men, to which l refer. art sually and especially in the interests the Standard oil trust. and of cer in notorious railroad combinations pt they also defend other individuals bd corporations of great wealth tha Ave been guilty of wrongdoing. It |, ply rarely that the men responsib'' |r the wrongdoing themselves speal
 write. Normally they hire others
 do their bidding or find others ho will do 1t without hire. Fron e railroad rate law to the pure foot Wv, every measure for dishonesty h psiness that has been passed durin, e last six years has been opposed
 these men on its passage by thi
 ministration, with every resourc' n hittar and nnorrunnlnuo rra f puld suggest. and at command of un mited money secure. But for tn st year the attack has been mad ith most bitterness upon the actua iministration of the law. especiall
 rough the department of justice, bu 50 through the Interstate Commerc
 mmisslon and the Bureau of Con PratiOns. The extraordinary vic hce of the assaults upon our polio (ntained in these speeches. editor ls, articles. advertisements an lmphlets, and the enormous sums Q oney spent in these various ways ve fairly accurate measure of tn bger and terror which our public as bns have caused the corrupt fnen 2 bst wealth to feel in the very maj w of their being. The attack Pmetimes made openly against us fo bforcing the law, and sometimes wit
 certain cunning, for not trying { hforce 1t in some other way than tha
 which experience shows 1t to b facticable. One of the favorabl ethods of the later c.ass of assai hts is to attack the administratio r not procuring the imprisonmer stead of the fine of offenders unde e antitrust laws. The man makin Is assault is usually either pron ent lawyer. or an editor who take s policy from the financiers and hl guments from the attorneys. If tn rmer, he has defended and advise any wealthy malefactors, and Il nows well that, thanks to the advlc
 lawyers like himself. certain kin
 modern corporation has been turl
 into an admirable instrument b hich to render it well nigh impo be to get at the head of the co Pration. at the man who Is real ost guilty.
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