Arizona republican., 1908-02-01

upon efforts to secure honesty m buS- mess and in politics is well expressed in braZen protests against any effort for the moral regeneration of the bus mess world, on the ground that it is unnatural, unwarranted, and injurious
 and that business panic is the neces- sary penalty for such efforts to se-
 cure business honesty.
 Our opponents have recently been bitterly criticising the two judges re- | ferred to in the accompanying commu-
 nications from the Standard Oil com pany, and the Santa Fe railroad for having imposed heavy fines in these two corporations. and yet the same critics of these two judges exhaust | themselves in denOuncing the most re- ! spectful and cautious discussion of the official action of a judge which results , in immunity to wealth and to powerful wrongdOerS Most certainly it be- | hOoVes us all to treat with the utmost respect the high office of judge, and
 our judges. as a wkole. are brave and upright men, respect for the law
 must go hand in hand with respect for the judge. And ,as a whole. it is true now as in the past. that the judges stand in character and service above all other men in their fellow servants { for the public. There is all the greater need that the few who fail in this great office. who follow d high standard of
 integrity. of wisdom. of sympathetic
 understanding and of courage. should have their eyes opened to the needs of their countrymen.
 T ( ls,,rr against popular folly. and above alk for standing against mob violence. an honorable men should rally instantly ' to his support. Nevertheless. if he clearly fails to do his duty by the public in dealing with aw-breaking corporations, law breaking men of wealth. he must expect to feel the weight Of public opinion. and this is but right. for except in extreme cases i this is the only way in which he can be reached at all. No servant of the people has a right to expect to be free ] from just and honest criticism.
 The opponents of the measures we champion. single ont now one measure for especial attack. and speak as if the movement in which we are engaged ] was purely economic. It has large economic side. but it is fundamentally an ethical movement. It is not a movement to be completed in one year, or two or three years; it is a move ment which must be persevered in un- til the spirit which lies behind il sinks deep into the heart and the conscience of the whole people. It is always i'm portant to choose the right means to achieve our purpose, but it is even more important to keep this purpose clear before us. and this purpose is to secure honesty in business and poli- tics. We do not subscribe to the cynical belief that dishonesty and unfair deal- ing are essential to business success. and are to be condOned when the sue cess is moderate and applauded when
 the success is great. The methods by which the Standard Oil people and those engaged in the other combina- tions Of which I have spoken above have achieved great fortunes, can only
 be justified by the advocacy of a sys- tenn of morality which would also jus tify every form of criminality on the part O. g labor union, and every form
 of violence. corruption. and fraud. from murder to briber.-, and ballot box stuff | fling !2 politics."
 Of the financial depression it's causes and the future, the president said: We have just passed through two months os acute financial stress. At any such time it.s a sad fact that en- tirely innocent people suffer from no | fault Of their own, and everyone must ! feel the keenest sympathy for the large hOdy of honest business men, of hon. est investors. O. honest wage workers ] who suffer because involved in a i crash for which they are in no way re- ! sponsible. At such a time there is a
 natural tendency on the part of many men to feel gloomy and frightened at ! the outlook; but there is no justifica-
 tiOn for this feeling. There is no na- tion so absolutely sure of ultimate
 success as ours. Of course we shall
 succeed. Ours is nation of master ] ful energy, with a continent for it's