The Bon Homme County independent. [volume] (Tabor, S.D.) 1904-1913, 1908-02-06


We seek to control law-defyIng wealth;
in the first place to prevent its doing dire
evil to the republic, and In the next place
to avoid the vindictive and dreadful rad
icalism which, II left uncontrolled II Is
certain in the end to arouse Sweeping
attacks upon all property, upon all men
Of means, without regard to whether they
kneli OF the, republic: and such attacks
become inevitable II decent citizens per-
NIT those rich men whose lives are cor
pride, unchecked and u~nhindered, over
he destinies of this country. We act in
no vindictive spirit, and we are no re-
wrong, we oppose it as firmly as we on.
pose a corporation which does wrong; and
we stand equally stoutly for the rights
Of the wageworker. We seek to protect
the property OF every man who acts hon
estly, of every corporation that represents
wealth honestly accumulated and honest
ly used. We seek to stop wrongdoing,
and we desire to punish the wrongdoers
only so far as Is necessary to achieve this
end
Ono Law for All.
There are ample material rewards for
those who serve with fidelity the mammon
Of unrighteousness; but they are dearly
paid for by the PEOPLE who permit their
representatives, whether in public life, in
young men are taught, to preach and to
practice that there Is one law for the
rich and another for the poor. The
certain great .moneyed interests are will
Ing to spend can be gaugei by their re-
cent publication broadcast throughout the
to the Pacific, Of huge advertisements at
lacking with envenomed bitter the admin
istra toms policy of warning against sue
ton of pamphlets and books prepared
with the same object; while they likewise
push the circulation of the writings and
-AA1hA ~ WAN urhN
they are misled, or because, seeing the
light, they yet are willing to sin against
the light, serve these their masters of
pie. The books and pamphlets. the
Controlled newspapers, the speeches
by public or private men to
in the interest Of the Standard OH trust
and Of certain notorious railroad combina-
tons, but they also defend other indi-
xbat" nave SHf been eD' guilty Of W%rensdoin mai1 Il
Is only rarely that the men responsible
for the wrongdoing themselves speak or
write. Normally they hire others to do
It without hire. From the railroad rate
law to the pure food law, every measure
for honesty in business that has been
opposed by these men on It's passage and
In It's administrator with every resource
that bitter and INSCRIPTIONS craft could
suggest and the command OF almost un-
limited money secure.
But for the last year the attack a been
made with most bitterness upon the actual
administration OF the law, especially
through the department of justice, but
also through the Interstate Commerce
commission and the bureau Of corpora
tons. The extraordinary violence OF the
assaults upon our policy contained in these
speeches, editorials. articles, advertise
ments, and pamphlets, and the enormou
sums of money spent in these various
ways give a fairly accurate measure Of
thn nRrn ard AGRA ANAA @a. -IIA
actions nave caused the corrupt men OF
vast wealth to feel In the very marrow
of their being. The attack is sometimes
made openly against us for enforcing the
ming, for not trying to enforce 1t in some
other way than that which experience
shows to be practical. One of the favorite
methods of the latter class of assailant
is to attack the administration for not
procuring the imprisonment instead Of the
fine OF Offenders under these antitrust
laws. The man making this assault is
usually either a prominent lawyer or an
editor who takes his policy from the hnan-
ciers and his arguments from their attor-
neys. If the former, he has defended and
advised many wealthy malefactors, and he
knows we'll that, n to the advice Of
lawyers like himself, a certain kind of
modern corporation has been turned into
an admirable instrument by which to
render 1t we'll nigh impossible to get at
the mead of the corporation, at the man
who Is really most guilty. When we are
! able 10 put the real WrOnBuOer IN prison
this Is what we strive TO do; this is what
we AVE actually lone with some very
wealthy criminals, who, moreover, repre-
sented that most baneful OF all alliances,
| the alliance etween the corruption of or
| ganized politics and the corruption of high
finance. This Is what we have done in
the Gaynor and Greene case, In the case
OF the misapplication Of funds In con-
nection with certain great banks in Chi
cago, In the land fraud cases. where, as
in other cases likewise, neither the high