The Brunswick news. [volume] (Brunswick, Ga.) 1906-2016, 1908-10-01
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The presidents exculpation of Morton
and his refusal to warrant even an
inquiry into his connection with the
rebate practices of the Santa Fe road,
of which Mr. Morton was the traffic
manager, constitute very complete
budget of evidence against Mr. Roose-
! yelt's claim to square dealing" Here
I was an instance of the most pronounce
ed favoritism to save one of his as
sociates and friends from the conse-
quences of violating law which the
president had declared especial anx-
iety to enforce.
Mr.. Morton had admitted that he
had practised rebatng; the record Of
his practice was obtainable and could
have been used as evidence in court;
the special attorneys appointed by the
president to probe the matter had rec
commended proceedings against the Of
fcials of the road, Mr. Morton among
them, holding that respect for the law
could be established only by enforce
ment of personal responsibility, the
only true and sound principle in all
these dealings. But the president
would have no such proceeding. He
wanted the corporation held but not
the officials of the corporation. In a
letter to the attorney general, iE-
structing that official not to permit
the case to proceed against Mr.. Nor
ton, the president said I'VE have
not proceeded personally against any
of the officers unless there was legal
evidence showing that their conduct
has been wilfully of such a nature as
to render it our duty to punish them
personally no less than to try to put
an end to the Objectionable practices"
This was the whole scheme of the
administration policy against the
trusts. Let every guilty man escape,
but put the law on the corporations
Now that is exactly the course that
has been taken by Mr.. Roosevelt's
| representatives in every proceeding
| under the anti-trus law. There has
| been lot Of buster and threat, dire
| full promise of what was going to
happen to "malefactors Of great
wealth." some sort of proceedings In
! the courts against a corporation. and
| an endless litigation, with nobody
punished, the activities of the corpor-
alton unrestricted, and the evils IN
corrected. The Standard Oil company
has been mathematical by Mr. Roos-
evelt ever since it refused to put
up twice for his election, and II has
been prosecuted in the courts several
times. But it hasn't paid cent OF
/ money into the governments treasury
In fines and not one of its officers
has been so much as indicted, much
/ less brought to trial and convicted of
| any wrong doing. And it is operating
| as freely and monopolizing as com
pletely as it ever did. and its Shiny
trail is over all the land Now. II Mr.
| Roosevelts policy toward the trusts
| had been such as was recommended
| to him by Messrs. Judsen and Harmon
in the Santa Fe case, there would
have been some effective procedure
| against these great aggregations of
capital, because the men who direst
them would have been brought into
court to justify themselves or take
punishment
All oft this Mr.. Bryan could and
should have exploited in his reply to
| the president. Indeed there is mass
of material to the hand OF the demo,
| cratic candidate wherewith to smear
the ADMINISTRATORS record, held by
I its author to be so immaculate. But
Mr.. Bryan is under the spell of the
Roosevelt legend. or, more likely. he
Is under the terror of offending the
people of his own wild west by seem
ing to question its integrity. - Tx
4 change.
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