The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1908-07-07

stead an idol of favOritiSm and special
privilege it commits a sin that in the
sure passage of time must be eX-
plated at the bar of eternal justice.
1.-The democratic party is not an
enemy of all corporations. 1t recog-
nizes their great value in the Industrial
world Though the agency if incor-
poratiOn. scattered wealth is brOugh
together and given driving force that
it would not otherwise possess, great
enterprises are thereby undertaken and
the undeveloped resources of the coun-
try added to the wealth of the world.
mo rational man can be opposed to
corporations as such, and the asser-
ton that the democratic party is wag
ing an indiscriminate war against this
convenient form of transacting bust
ness has no foundation in fact. 1t is
the abuse, only, OF corporate power
that we seek ito eliminate. In the con-
troll of corporate energy, owing to the
absence of direct personal responsible
lily, there is too frequently dis
regard of those high moral principles
that obtain in the individual transact
tons of life.
The Ethical Sense.
"This depreciation of good morals,
resulting from a new kind of respon-
sibility, is an evil of such widespread
effect that it demands immediate and
earnest attention. 1t is an evil that is
ccrroding the public conscience and de-
teriorating the high character of our
citizenship. Unless it's dangers are
recognized and honestly combatted in
the hearts Of our people and in the
forums of the nation it means that in
America an Incorporated conscience
will gradually destroy the ethical sense
in man which has heretofore assured
a fair measure of justice and right
ecusness in human affairs. Let us
stop just one moment to consider
what is at stake. 1t has required thou
sands of years and millions of lives
to evolve and develop in the human
breast a moral or spiritual force. The
process has been slow and labOrious,
hut in countless acts of human kind
ness, in the knitting together of states
and nations, in the greater love among
the peoples Of the earth and in the
desire for peace instead of
war, we find overwhelming proof that
this moral nature in man is expand
ing day by day. 1t is the ladder by
which mankind is ascending from earth
to heaven, and surely universal hus
manity, with uplifted eyes, will not
permit these steps to be retraced by
the sordid instincts that bid the brute
to enter and drive the angel out.
Viewed in the light of a great
moral uestion, the control Of corpor-
atoms should remain a question of
common concern rather than a politi-
cal one, but the shameful complacencei
Of the republican party in permitting
its forces to be controlled and Operat-
Ell by the most offending corporations
Of the country throws the problem into
the political arena and compels the
public to choose between the demo-
cratic party that will, and the repub-
lican party that will not, place some
on Incorporated greed.
Question of lnjunctions.
''The most palpable instance of the !
Esincerity of the Chicago conventionl
Is found in its declaration respecting
The issuance of injunctions. 1t would /
have been entitled to more respect if
( had omitted ali mention of the sub
ject. At session after session of con-