Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1908-02-13
CRUSADE AGAINST CORPORATIONS
Speaker Asks II Anything Has Hap.
pcned That the sober Anglo. Saxon
Way of Enforcing Law Should be
MISUNDERSTANDING for Us.
(By Associated Press.)

(u' unluui Lincoln l)ay banquet Oh
the Rock Island Club. The affair was
attended by 100 leading business and
professional men
Judge Grosscup spoke MS follows:
Mr. Burk Cochran, in speech in
The house the other day. said that
what the country needs Is n crusade
and n crusader; and the whole house,
without distinction of party, is said
10 have loudly applauded. A crusade
and crusader! Zeal put above judg-
inent. mere vigor Of enthusiasm above
the sober carnestness OF the Ameri-
can commonsense! Have tho people
sono mad?
| A crusade against what? Against
the great new Industrial domain OF
Tho country that Is in corporate form
the great new domain In which the
energies and the fortunes of the
American people are so largely bound
up? Tho American farmer who has
rcaped prosperity out of the marrets
That the great new Incorporated do
main have established, and the Amer
lean working man who knows that In
his domain alone, Ii TO be found his
held of opportunity. will think long
and carefully before they 20 In for
crusade like that.
| A crusade against what Against
those who are said TO be offenders of
the law? Why should not the Offend
era against the law be tried In the
future, as they have been in the past
according to the forms OF the law
To tho executive the duty ana respon-
sibillty of presenting the charge, to
the Judiciary. tho duty and RESPONSE
billy of determining guilt or inno-
cence? Has anything happened that
the sober. Anglo Saxon way of en-
forcing law, should be abandoned?>
Appeal to Common Sense.
crusade TO catch the voter-.to
ob:ain n lease OF political power al
the approaching elections? | am one
of those who believe that an appeal
TO the sober, commonsensc and love
Of justice OF tho american people. Will
be- Infinitely mCi effective than any
attempt To hurry them pcll-mell into
some other strange program that
they do not comprehend. IA states
men, Washington and Lincoln are
still Our eXemplars-Pctcr, the Her
NIT ana Richard the Lion Hearted.
are only traditions.
For two score years and moro, ever
since the close of tho Civil war. n
new great industrial domain has been
building. Through It's channels,
American mqnufactures and COM
merce arc reaching every corner OF
tho earth. Through the markets 1t
established, and tho getting prices
that have made him the money lend
or OF the land. and the American
workingman's wages that has made
him the highest paid worlingman Of
III! hands. But for the rise and growth
of this great domain. We would not
now be In the worlds lead as an in
tdustrial people: we would be back
among the people whose farms har-
vest just enough to keep them alive
from year to year, and whose work
ingmen have no prospect beyond the
bread that is necessary To sustain
life. And this great domain. strange
as IL may seem. in the presence OF
| what Is hcing constantly said against
the American corporation is almost
altogether an Incorporated domain.
Indeed, what government is 10 man
kind politically organized. tho corpor-
alton has become to modern industry
organized.
i thC NSW dNO 1TcdtcT local.
The ideal OF Lincoln was govern
ment of the people. by tho people.
and for the people. Lincoln believed
In the capacity and integrity of
America and tho Amerlcan--Hie
American workingman. American
character. The ideal of Mckinley
was tho prosperity of this country
a prosperity of the people. by the peo-
pic and for the peopie--a prosperity
shared In by every Individual who was
ready with hand or Train to take
part in It; and Mckinley lived long
enough to see, not through any pro-
gram of indiscrimlnate denunciatlon.
but through legislation. both practical
and effective, his Ideal realized.
We have come. believe, TO tfmo
when within the nations heart there
stirs new ideal as deep and true
az LIncoln's-an ideal that will even
tually quicken the now great indus
trial domain into something that will
make that domain also a possession
of the people by the people and for
the people--thc Lincoln ideal enlare-
ed, the Mckinley ideal broadened.
But there will be no real beginning
toward tho realization OF this ideal
until the reformatiye energy Of tho
nation erapplos with the work. not
merely in curbing the corporation as
the corporation Is nov allowed TO
construct itself. or of enforcing the
law as the law now stands. but of so
reconstructing the corporation, from
the ground up. through national aud
state law. that II will become In trnth
and in fact, n trustworthy agent for
the welding OF the nations energy.
and q trustworthy medium through
which 10 work out the American In
Stinct 10 have como individual nro-