Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1908-01-31

same evil eminence of infamy. so the
man who makes an enormous fortune
by corruptlng legislatures and NUM-
CAPABILITIES and tleecing his stockholders
and the public, stands on the same
moral level with the creature who fat
tens on the blood money of the gamb-
ling house and the saloon. Moreover,
in the last analysis, both kinds of cor
rupton are far more intimately con-
nected than would at first sight APP
pear; the wrongdoing is AT bottom the
same. Corrupt business and corrupt
politics act and react with every In
Creaslng debasement, one on the 9TH
er; the corrupt head of q corporation
and the corrupt labor leader are both
in the same degree the enemies Of
honest corporations and honest labor
unions: the rebate taker the franchise
trancker, the manipulation of sec uri-
ties, the purveyor and protector of
vice, the Matchmaking ward boss, the
ballot box suffer, the demagogue. The
mob leader the hired bully, and man
killer-all alike work at the same web
of corruption, and all alike should be
abhorred By honest men.
"BUsINEss" THAT is HURT.
The business which is hurt by the
movement for honesty Is the kind of
business which, in the long run, IT.
pays the country to have hurt. 1t Is the
klllt Oh UAGll'fHN W ilAEll mas ltNQtl 10
make the very name high finance" a
term of scandal to which all honest
American men OF business should join
to putting an end TO- The special plead
ers for business dishonesty. In de-
nounclng the present administration for
enforcing the law against the huge
and corrupt corporations which have
defied the law, also denounce II for
endenvUring to secure sadly needed
labor legislation, such as a far reach
ing law making employers liable for in
juries TO their employees. II Is meet and
tit that the apulogists for corrupt
wealth should oppose every effort to re-
lieve weak and helpless people from
crushing misfortune brought upon them
by injury in the business from which
they gain "a bare livelihood, The bur-
den should be distributed 1t is hypo-
critical baseness to speak of a girl
who works IN factory where tho dam
having the fright" freely to contract
TO expose herself 10 dangers 70 life
and limb, She has no alternative but
To suffer want or else 10 expose herself
10 such dangers and when she loses n
hand or rs otherwise manned or dis
figured for life, IL ia moral wrong that
the whole burden OF the risk neces-
sArlly incidental 10 the business should
be placed with crushing weight upon
her weak shoulders. and all who profit
hN her work escape scot-free, This w
what opponents OF a just employers
liability law advocate; and IL is consist
cut that they should usually also advo-
cate immunity for those most danger
Gus members Of tho criminal class
the criminals OF great wealth
OFFICE OF THE JUDGE.
our opponents have recently been
bitterly cTucizlng the two Judges re-
ferrod 10 In the accompanying commu-
ulcatlous from the Standard on com
pany and the Santa Re railroad for
having Imposed heavy fines on these
two corporations; and yet these same
critics Of these two Judges exhaust
themselves IN denouncing the most re-
spcctful and cautious discussion OF the
official action OF a Judge which results
in immunity 20 wealth ana powerful
Wlong-doers. TOR which renders uuga-
tory n temperate EFFORT TO better the
conditions TO lie and work among
those OF our countrymen whose need
is greater" Most certainly II be-
hooves us an TO treat Win the utmost
rospeot the high office ~ Judge and our
ludges as whole are brave ana up
right men. Respect FOR the law must 90
hand In hand with respect Tor me
Judges. and, as q whole. II Is true now
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