Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1908-02-06

WIN MHuh We nave w ueai' seen W
control law-defylng wealth; in the nrst
place 10 prevent IT'S doing dlre evll 10
the republic, and IN the next pace 70
AVOID the NindleCNe ana ureadIui radi-
callsra when, II LETT uncontrolled, 1t is
certain IN the END 10 arouse. sweeping
attacks upon all property, upon all men
OF means, without regard to whether they
DO Well or I'll. would sound the death
kneI OF the republlc; ana such attacks
become inevitable II decent citizens per-
init those rich men whose lives are cor
rupt ana evil to dolnineer in sWolIen
pride. unchecked. ana u~nhlndered, over
the desllnles OF TINS country. we act III
no vindictive spirit, ana we are no re-
specters of persons. If a labor union
does wrong, we oppose 1t as hfmly as
we oppose a corporation which does
wrong; and we tand equally stoutly foT
the rights OF the man OF wealth ana TOT
the rights of the wage-worker, We seek
10 protect inc property OF every man VINO
acts honestly, Of every corporation that
represents wealth honestly accumulatea
ana honestly used we seek 70 Sup
WrongdolnS, and we desire 10 PUNISH the
wrong doors only so far as Is necessary
to achieve this end.
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VI ~o"NeS
AGAINST Governments Policy
There are ample material rewards for
those who serve with fidelity the mann
mon of righteousness; but they are
dearly nHlu Tor DIV the people WHO per-
nit their representatives, whether in pub
lie life, in the press, or in the colleges
where their young men are taught, to
preach and to practice tina there is one
law for the rich and another for the poor
The amount of money the representatives
of certain great moneyed interests are
willing to spend can bc gagged by their
recent publication broadcast throughout
the papers of this country, from the At
lantic to the Pacific. OF huge advertise
ments attacking with envenomed bitter
ness the administrations policy of
warning against successful dishonesty,
and by their circulation of pamphlets and
books prepared with the same object;
while they likewise push the circulation
of the writings and speeches of men who,
whether because they are misled, or be
cause, seeing the light, they yet are will
ing to sin against the light, serve these
their masters of great wealth to the cost
of the plain people. The books and
pamphlets, the controlled newspapers the
speeches by public or private men to
which I refer, are usually and especially
and of certain notorious railroad COM
binations, but they also defend other in
dividuals and corporations of great
wealth thai have been guilty of wrong
doing. 1t is only rarely that the men re-
sponsible for the wrongdoing themselves
speak or write, Normally they hire 9TH
ers to do their bidding, or find others who
will do 1t without hire. From the rail-
IOdu-TdIe law 10 lllt DuIe-lUUu Id W., tNelH
measure for honesty in business that has
been passed during the last six years has
been opposed by these men on its pas
sage and in its administration with every
craft could suggest and the command of
almost unlimited money secure. But for
the last year the attack has been made
with most bitterness upon the actual ad-
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, ad-
vertisements, and pamphlets, and the
enormous sums of money spent in these
various ways, give a fairly accurate
measure Of the anger and terror which
our public actions have caused the cor
rupt men of vast wealth to feel in the
very marrow of their being. The attack
is sometimes made openly against US for
enforcing the law, and sometimes with a
| certain cunning, for not trying to en-
force it in some other way than that
which experience shows to be practical.
One of the %favorite methods of the lat
ter class of assailant is to attack the adj
ministration for not procuring the, i'm
ers under these antitrust laws. The man
making this assault is usually either a
prominent lawyer or an editor who takes
his policy from the fnanciers and his
ARGUMENTS HUH lltlI LII ltNS D. IL tit
former, he has defended and advised
many wealthy ~malefactors. and he knows
we'll that, thanks to the advice of lawyers
like himself, a certain kind of modeSn
mirable instrument by which to render it
well-nigh impossible to get at the head
of the corporation, at the man who is
really most guilty. When we are able
to put the real ~Wrongdoer in prison, this
is what we strive to do; this is what we
have actually done with some very
wealthy criminals, who, moreover, repre-
scented that most baneful of all alliances,
the the. ALA alIianG %no,, 9 ; aGd the he %c corr1Dtion q
high finance. This is what we have done
In the Gaynor and Greene case, in the
case of the misapplication of funds in
connection with certain great banks In
Chicago, in the land-fraud cases, where
as in other cases likewise, neither the
highest political position nor the posses
sion of great wealth, has awaited to save
the offenders from prison. TIL federal
government does scourge sin; 1t does bid
bars with impartial severity, the powerful
flnancier, the powerful politician, the rich
land thief, the rich contractor-all, nc
matter how high their station, against
whom criminal mlsdeeds can be proved.
All their wealth and power can not pro
tect them. But it often happens that the
effort to imprison a given defendant Is
certain to be futile, while 1t is possible
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which he is head; so that, in other words,
the only way of furnishing the wrong is
by filming the corporation, unless we are
content to proceed personally against the
minor agents. The corporation lawyers
to whom l refer and their employers are
the men mainly responsible for this
state of things, and their responsibility is
shared with all who ingeniously oppose
the passing of just and effective laws, OF
who fail to execute them when they have
been put on the statute books.
Much is said, in these attacks upon
the policy of the present administra-
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