Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1908-02-01

cutting the heads of colossal corpora
tions that has been made against
the men who in san Francisco have
prosecuted with impartial severity
the wrongdoers among business men.
public officials, and labor leaders
alike. The principle is the same in
the two cases.
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: Just as the blackmailer and ::
: bride giver stand on the same (:
I: evil eminence of infamy. so the I:
{! man who makes an enormous !:
: fortune by corupting legislatures :
: and municipalities and fleeing ::
: his stockholders and the public, =
g stands on the same moral level !:
$ with the creature who fattens on !:
g the blood money OF the gambling ::
s house and the saloon. !:
Moreover, in the last analysis, both
kinds of corruption are far more in
tin.ately connected than would at first
sight apear; the wrongdoing is at
bottom the same.
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= Corrupt business and corrupt :.
- politics act and react with ever :
| q increasing debasement,s one on !:
= the other; the corrupt head OF a 4
4 = corporation and the corrupt labor &
q leader are both, in the sameade- !.
| 4 gree the enemies of honest COR &
= porationsi and honest labor nm ::
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\ The rebate taker, the franchise
trafficker, the manipulation of securi
i ties, the purveypre and sproteetor. eol
4 vice, the Matchmaking ward boss. the
4 baliot.box suffer, the demagogue, The
3, mob leader. the hired bully, and man
killeruall alike week at the same vel
of corruption, and al, alike should b.
a abhorred by honest men. s.g..zttsr
Il Business" That Should Be Hurt
q The Business which Is hurt b.
the movement for honesty is the --.n,
. Of business which, in. the Hong run
, 1t pays the country to hare hurt. l
. is the kind OF business which has tend
ed to make the very name nigh f
! nance term. Of scandal to Whicl
. all honest American men Of bushes
should join in putting an end. tn
: special pleaders for business dishor
. esty, in denouncfng tie present ad
: ministration Tor enforcing the Law
!. against the huge and corrupt corpora
!: lions which have defied the law. ais
!: denounce it for endeavoring to ST
: cure sadly needed labor Legislation
!. such as a far-reaching law maxim
: employers liable for injuries to thei
e employees. It is meet and fit that tn
i apologists for corrupt wealth shout
y oppose, every effort to relieve wea
); and helpless people from crushin
y misfortune brought upon them by il
| jury in the business from which the
|, gain bare livelihood. The burde
y should be distributed.
e Something About Judicial Integrity
Our opponents have recently bee
|. bitterly criticisiing the two judges
It the Standard Oil company and tn
| Santa Fe railroad cases for havin
t imposed heavy fines on these two CO
{ porations; and yet these same critic
!" of these two judges exhaust then
e selves in denouncing the most r
spectful and cautious discussion {
the official action Of a Judge whic
s results in immunity to wealthy an
n powerful wrongdoers, or which rem
& ers nugatory temperate effort
It better the conditions to life and wor
n among those of our fellow countr
d men whose need is greater. Mo:
d certainly it Dehooves US all to tree
S with the utmost respect the high o
Il ICo VI JuuSe, duu our Judges, as
whole, are brave and upright men.
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!: : Respect for the law must go
!: :. hand in hand with respect for
J: :. the judges; and, as a whole, it
J: : is true now as in the past that
!: : the judges stand in character
]: : and service above all other men
!. :. among their fellow-servants of
: the public.
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f. There is all the greater need thu
r the few who fail in this great offic,
it who fall below this high standard {
( integrity, of wisdom, of sympatheti
n understanding and of courage, shout
l. have their eyes opened to the need
If of their countrymen. A judge VIII
, on the bench either truckles to th
J, mob and shrinks from sternly RI
g pressing violence and disorder, c
h bows down before corporation; VIII
(; fails to stand up valiantly for tn
t rights of property on the one hant