The Hope pioneer. [volume] (Hope, N.D.) 1882-1964, 1908-02-06
taught to preach and practice that
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taught to preach and practice that
there is one law for the rich and an
other for the poor. The amount of
money the representatives of certain
great moneyed interests are willing to
spend can be gagged in their recent
publication broadcast throughout the
papers of this country, from the At
lantic to the Pacific, of huge advertise
ments attacking with envenomed bit
terness the administrations policy of
warning against successful dishonesty,
and by their circulation of pamphlets
and books prepared with the same OBJ.
ject; while they likewise push the cir
culation of the writings and speeches
Of men who, whether because they are
misled, or because, seeing the light,
they yet are willing to sin against the
light, serve these their masters of
great wealth to the cost Of the plain
people.
The books and pamphlets, the con-
trolled newspapers, the speeches by
public or private men to which I re-
fer, are usually and especially in the
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of. certain notorious railroad combina-
lions, but they also defend other in
dividuals and corporations of great
wealth that have been guilty of wrong
doing. 1t is only rarely that the men
responsible for the wrongdoing them
selves speak or write. Normally they
hire others to do their bidding, or find
others who will do it without hire.
From the railroad-rate law to the pure
food law, every measure for honesty
in business that has been passed dur
ing the last six years has been opposed
by these men on it's passage and in its
administration with every resource
that bitter and INSCRIPTIONS craft
could suggest and the command Of al
most unlimited money secure. But
for the last year the attack has been
made with most bitterness upon the
actual administration of the law, es-
pecially through the department of
justice, but also through the inter-
state commerce commission and the
bureau Of corporations"
Business" That Is Hurt.
The president at considerable length
defends his administration against the
charge that it's policy was responsible
for the business depression, and says
that the business that is hurt by the
movement for honesty is the kind of
business which, in the long run, it
pays the country to have hurt. He
pays a warm tribute to the judges who
have been fearless in furnishing great
corporations convicted of wrongdoing,
and declares that the laws must con.
tinue to be administered with an even
hand. In conclusion the message
says: g
II do not for a moment believe that
the actions of this administration have
brought on business distress; so far
as this is due to local and not world.
wide causes, and to the actions Of any
particular individuals, it is due to the
speculative folly and fragrant dishon.
esty OF a few men Of great wealth, who
seek to shield themselves from the eff
fects of their own wrongdoing by as.
cribing its results to the actions OF
those who have sought to put a stop
to the wrongdoing. But if it were true
that to cut out rottenness from the
body polite meant a momentary check
to an unhealthy seeming prosperity, ]
should not for one moment hesitate to
put the knife to the corruption. On
behalf of all our people, on behalf nc
less Of the honest man of means than
Of the honest man who earns each
days sweat Of his brow, it is neces
sary to insist upon honesty in business
and politics alike, in all walks of life
in big things and in little things; upon
just and fair dealing as between mar
and man."
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