Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1908-01-31
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out hire. From the railroad rate law
to the pure food law. every measure
for honesty in business that has been
passed during the six years has
been opposed by these men on its pas
sage and in its administration vita
every resource that bitter and unscrup-
ulous craft could suggest and the conf
mand of almost unlim ted money Sc
cure. For the last year the attack his
been made with most bitterness upon
the ac'ual ad,nistra ion of the Jaw,
especially through the department of
justice, but also through the inters tat'
commerce commission and the bureau
of corporations. The extraordinary vio-
lence of the assaults upon our policy
contained In these speeC es, edit rails.
articles. advertisements and pamphlets
and the enormous sums of money spent
in these various ways, give fairly
accurate measure of the anger and
terror which our public actions have
caused the corrupt men of vast wealth
to feel in the very marrow of their he
ing, the attack Is sometimes mad
openly against us for enforcing the
law, ANA sometimes with certain cum
ming, FIR not tryin TO enforce 1t IN
some other way than that which ex-
perience shows TO be practical One Of
the favor,tc methods # the latter class
OF assalant Is to attack the admins
tration for not procuring the imprlson-
nient instead of The fine Of offenders
under these antitrust laws. The ma
making this assault is usually either a
prominent lawyer or an editor who
takes his policy from the inanciers
and his arguments from their uttor-
neys. If the former, he has defended
and advised many veal ny malefactors,
and he knows well that, thanks 10 the
advice of lawyers like himself, a GER
tain kind of modern corporation has
boeu turned into an admirable instru-
ment by which 10 render II weIlnigh
impossible 10 get at the head Of the
corporation, at the man who is really
most guilty.
INNOCENT STOCKHOLDERS"
When we are able to put tho real
wrongdoer IN prison, this is what we
strive TO do; this is what we have ac-
tually done with some very wealthy
criminals. who, moreover represented
that most baneful Of all alliances, the
alliance between the corruption of or
ganzed politics and the corruption of
high finance, This IS what we have
done IN the Gaynor and Greene case,
in the case of the misappllcatiou of
funds iu connection with certain great
banks In Chicago, In the land fraud
cases where, as In other cases like
NlNe, utllltl inc highest lulllltW pp-
sitiOn nor the possession OF great
wealth has ayailed 20 save the offend
ers from prison. Tho federal govern
meut does scOurge sin; II does bid sin
uors fear; for II has put behind the
bars with impartial severity the
powerful iinanCier tho powerful poll
tician, the rich land thief the rich cone
| trnctor-all no matter how high their
station, against whom criminal mis-
deeds can bo proved. An their wealth
and power can not protect them, But
n often happens that the ofott tO lm-
prison "a given defendant rs certain 10
be futile, while II h possible 10 nue
him or TO fine the corporation Of which
he Ia head; 30 That, in oJhor words.
the only way of punishus the wrongs
as by nnlng the corporation unless We
are content 10 proceed personally
Eainst the minor agents The corpora
ton lawyers 20 whom I rotor and their
employers are the men mainly rospun-
siblc for this state 1t things, ana
their responsibility o. shared with all
who ingeniously oppose me passing of
Just aud effective ihNH Or who tail "a
execute them when they nave heou
put ON the statute books
Much Is said in these attacks upon
the policy OF the present admnlstra
ton, about the rights OF innocent
stockholders" That stockholder Us not
innocent who voluntarily purchases
stock IN 8 corporation whose methods