Weekly Arizona journal-miner., 1908-02-05

makes an enormous fortune by cor rupting legislatures and municipali- ties and fleecing 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 analysis, both kinds of cor. | ruption are far more intimately con
 nected than would at first sight ap- pear; the wrong doing is at the bot
 tom of the same. Corrupt business
 and corrupt politics act and react
 with every increasing debasement,
 one on the other; the corrupt head of
 a corporation, and the corrupt labor
 leader, are both fin the same degree the enemies of honest corporations
 and honest labor organizations; the
 rebate giver the franchise trafIlcker,
 the manipulator of securities, the pur- veyor and protector of vice. the black
 mailing ward boss. the ballot box
 suffer, the demagogue. the mob lead.
 CT, the hired bully, and man-killer -
 all alike work at the same web of
 corruption, and all alike should oe
 abhorred by honest men.
 The business" which Is hurt by the
 movement for honesty is the kind of business which, in the long run. 1t pays the country to have hurt. It Is the kind of business which has tended to make the very name high finance"
 a term for scandal, to which all hon. est American men of business hon. lesty, in denouncing the present ad. | t,,la tA.. E.u cal hn l.x .xrf against the huge and corrupt corpor. ations which have relied the law, also denounce 1t for endeavoriDg 70
 secure sadly needed labor legisla- ton, such as far-reaching law mak.
 ing employers liable for injuries to their employees. 1t is meet and it
 that the apologists for corrupt wealth
 should oppose every effort to relieve
 weak and hepless people from crush ing misfortune brought upon them by injury in the business from which
 they gain a bare livelihood. The bur
 den should be distributed as it is hy- pocriticial business to speak of a girl who works in a factory when the
 dangerous machinery Is unprotected.
 as having the right" freely to con tract herself to dangers to life and
 limb. She has no alternative but @
 suffer want or else to expose herself
 to such dangers. and when she loses
 a hand or is otherwise maimed, pr
 disfigured for life. it Is moral wrong
 that the whole burden of the risk nee
 essarky incidental to the business
 should be placed with crushing
 weight upon her weak shoulders. and
 all who profit by her work escape scot
 free. This is what opponents of a
 just employers liability law advocate !;
 and it is consistent that they should
 usually also advocate immunity for
 those most dangerous members of the
 criminal class-the criminals of great wealth.
 Our opponents have recently been bitterly criticising the two judges re- ferred to in the accompanying com
 munications from the Standard oil company, and the Santa Fe railroad . for having imposed heavy fines on
 these two corporations, and yet the
 same critics of these two judges ex
 haust themselves in denouncing the
 most respectful and cautious discus
 sion of the official action of a judge which results in immunity to wealth and to powerful wrongdoers. Most , certainly 1t behooves us all to Urea,
 with the utmost respect the high of , flee of judge, and our judges. as a , whole, are brave and upright men, re , spect for the laws must go hand ir i hand with respect for the judge; and as a whole, 1t is true now as in th, |, past, that the judges stand in char , acter and service above all other mcr in the fellow servants for the pub lie. There Is all the greater need tha , the few who fail in this great office who follow high standard of integ rity, of wisdom. of sympathetic under standing and of courage. should have , their eyes opened to the needs O their countrymen A judge who. oI !, the bench. either truckles to the mol !, and shrinks from sternly repressinl , violence and disorder, or bows dOwI 2 before corporation. who fails {, |, stand up valiantly for the rights 0 , property on the one hand. or on thu other by misuse of the process of in
 junction or by his attitude toward al s measures for the betterment of tn Il conditions of labor. makes the way' : worker feel with bitterness that th courts are hostile to him. or who fail . to realize that all public servants |, U their several stations must strive L stop the abuses of the criminal rich 5 such man performs an even wors l. service to the body polite than tn
 legislator or executive who zoe ], wrong. The judge who does his fu II duty vel stands higher and render $ a better Service to the people tha IL any other public servant; he is CT s titled to greater respect; and If he C true servant of the people, If he ', upright and fearless, he will unhei IL itatingly disregard even the wishe s of the people if they conflict with tn e internal principles of right as agains T. wrong. He must serve the people c but he must serve his own conscienc 'i first. All honor to such a judge; an n all honor cannot be rendered him D 1t is rendered equally to his brett II ren who fall immeasurably below tn II high ideals for which he stands. U' truthful criticism is wicked, at n u times, whoever may be the Ol