The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1908-02-05

pamphlet the defense by ,y'' m MIST. e.
ments of what they have done: and
yet when public servants correct their
declaim against them for breaking
silence. lest values be deprecated"
They have hurt honest business men,
honest working men honest farmers:
AND now they clamor against the truth
being told.
The keynote of all these attacks
business and in politics is we'll eN-
pressed in brazen protests against any
effort for the moral regeneration of the
business world. on the ground that it is
uhaaturai unwarrantetd and injurious.
and that business panic is the neces-
sary penalty for such effort to secure
such plea is precisely as great as if
made on behalf of the men caught in
gambling establishment when that
The police If such Words mean any
thing they mean that those whose SEN
timenss they represent stand against
generation of business. which will pre-
Vent a repetition of the insurance.
banking and street railroad scandals in
New York; a repetition of the Chicago
4. Alton deal; repetition of the COM
bination between certain professional
politicians certain professional labor
from the disgrace of which San Fran
cisco has just been rescued: Il repeti-
ton OF the successful effort by the
Standard Oil people to crush out every
competitor. to overawe the common
carriers. and to establish IA monopoly
which treats the public with con-
long as it permits men OF such prin
ciplcs and sentiments to avow and act
on them with impunity. The cutlery
against stopping dishonest practices
wealthy is precisely similar to the out
cry raised against every effort for
b sna asee"sy in city %
hurt business. The same outcry is
made against the department. of jus
tice for prosecuting the heads of colos-
sal corporations that has been made
against the men who in San Francisco
have prosecuted with impartial sever
NY the wrongdoers among business
alike. The principle is the same i'm
the two cases. just as the blackmail-
err and bride giver stand on the same
who makes an enormous fortune by
ccorrupting legislatures and municipal
tiles and fleeing his stockholders and
the PUBLIC stands on the same moral
level with the creature who fattens on
the blood money of the gambling house
and the saloon. Moreover. in the last
far more intimately connected than
would at first sight appear; the wrong
doing is at bottom the same. Corrupt
business and corrupt politics act and
ment. one on the other: the corrupt
head of a corporation and the corrupt
labor leader are both in the same de-
gree the enemies of honest corpora
tions and honest labor unions: the re-
bate taker,, the franchise tratficker.
the manipulation of securities the pur-
veyor and protector of vice. the black
mailing ward boss. the ballot box stuff
er. the demagogue. the mob leader. the
hired bully. and man-killer-all alike
work at the same web of corruption,
and all alike should be abhorred by
honest men.
The business which is hurt by the
movement for honesty is the kind of
business which. in the long run. it
pays the country to have hurt 1t is
the kind of business which has tended
to make the very name high finance" a
term of scandal to which all honest
American men of business should join
in putting an end The special plead
ers for business dishonesty in denoi,nc-
ing the present administration for en-
forcing the law against the huge and
corrupt corporations which have defied
the law. also denounce it for endeavor-
ing to secure sadly needed labor legis-
latlon. such as a far-reaching law MAX
ing employers liable for injuries to
their employees.