The diamond drill. (Crystal Falls, Iron County, Mich.) 1887-1996, 1908-02-08

cation OF luuut IN connection Win Ger
tain great banks in Chicago, in the land
fraud cases, where, as in other cases
likewise, neither the highest political
position nor the possession Of great
wealth has availed TO save the offenders
from prison.
''The federal government does
scourge sin; il does bid sinners fear; for
IL has put behind the bars with impair
tial severity the powerful fnaneier, the
powerful politician, the rich land thief,
the rich contractor--all, no matter how
high their station, against whom erimi-
nal misdeeds can be proved.
Does 1t Hurt Business7''
"The keynote Of all tho attacks Up.
on the effort 60 secure honesty in bust.
ness and in politics is well expressed
in brazen protests against any effort
for the moral regeneration of the bust.
ness world, on the ground that IL is un-
natural, unwarranted and injurious, and
that business panic is the necessary
penalty for such effort to secure business
honesty. The morality Of snch n plea is
precisely as great as IL made on behalf
Of the men caught in a gambling estab-
lishment when that gamblingSb stablish.
ment is raided by the police. II such
words mean anything they mean that
those whose sentiments they represent
stand against the effort 90 bring about
a moral regeneration Of business which
will prevent repetition OF the insur-
ance, banking and street railroad sean.
dals in New York; "A repetition Of the
Chicago & Alton deal; repetition Of
the combination between certain profess
sional politicians, certain professional
labor leaders and certain big flnanciers,
from the disgrace of which San Fran
cisco has just been rescued; a repetition
Of tho successful effort by the Standard
Oil people 10 crush out every competitor,
to overawe the common carrier and 20
establish monopoly which treats the
public with contempt which the pub
lie deserves so long as IL permits men
Of such principles and such sentiments
90 avow and act on them with impu.
nifty. The cutlery against stopping dis
honest practices arfong wrongdoers who
happen 20 be wealthy is precisely sim
liar 10 the cutlery raised against every
effort for cleanliness and dccency in
city government, because, forsooth, it
will hurt business
movement for honesty Is the kind Of
business which. in the long run. il pays
the country 10 have hurt. II is the kind
Of business which has tended 20 make
the very name high finance a torn
OF scandal 10 which All honest Ameri-
can men Of business should join in put.
ting an end. The special plcaders for
business dishonesty IN denouncing the
present administration for enforcing the
law against the huge aud corrupt cor.
porations which have deGed the law
also denounce it for cndeayorng to Sc
cure sadly needed labor legislation,
such ms n far reaching law making EN-.
ploycrs liable for injuries 60 their EN-.
ploycs. Ii is meet aud tit that the
apologists for corrupt wealth should OPP.
pose every effort 20 relieve weak and
helpless people from crushing misfor-
tune brought upon them by injury in
the business from which they gain
bare livelihood. The burden should be
distributed. II is hypocritical baseness
TO speak of a girl who works in a fac.
tory whore the dangerous machinery is
unprotected as having the right free
~ 60 contract 90 expose herself 20 dan
gers TO life and limb. She has no alter.
native but 60 suffer want or else 20 ex-
pose herself 10 such dangers, and when
she loses a hand or is otherwise manned
or disfgured for life, il is moral
wrong that the whole burden Of the r <
necessarily incidental 90 the business
should be placed with crushing weight
upon her weak shoulders. and all who
profit by her work escape scot free. This
Is what opponents Of just employers
liability law advocate; aud IL is consist.
ent that they should usually also advo-
cate immunity for those most danger
Gus members OF the criminal class-the
criminals Of great wealth
Says Judges Must Be Just
"Om opponents have recently been
bitterly crticising the two judges re.
fcrred TO in the accompanying eommuni,
cations from the Standard OIL COMPANY
and the Santa Re railroad FOR having
imposed heavy fines on those two ear
poraii0ns; and yet these same cfit.ts
of these two judges exhaust themselves
in denouncug the most respectful and
cuutious discussion of ihc official action
of Judge which results IN Immunity
to wealthy and powerful wrongdoers,
or which renders nugutory . temperate
effort "a bettcr tho conditions 20 lie
and work among those Of cur fellow
countrymon whose need Is greater
% Most certainly it behoovcs us all 20
treat with the utmost respect the high
Office Of Judge; and our Judges, as
whole, are brave and upright mon
A Judge who on the bench either
truckles Be- the mob aud shrnks from
sternly requesting violence and disorder,
or bows down before operations who
fails 10 stand ZIP ylIahtly for the rights
Of property ~ tht ore hand, or on the
Other BY misuse of tha process ~ IN
junction or by his attitude toward al
measures fcr the bctterment Of the con
dition Of labor, makes the wagoworkeI
feel with bitterness that the courts are
hostile 90 him; or who fails 10 realize
that all public servants IN their several
stations must strive 70 stop the abuses
Of the criminal rich--such man per
forms an even worse service 20 the body
polite than the legislator or executive
who goes wrong.